What we do

Caroline Ummenhofer’s lab works all over the world, including Australia, East Africa, India, Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific and North Atlantic region, as well as the Southern Hemisphere extratropics. We primarily address climate variability and change in the hydrological cycle with an eye towards extreme events, such as floods and droughts, and their impacts on human and natural systems. The Indian Ocean and monsoon dynamics, impacts of climate on agriculture, and biological-physical interactions, for example for marine heatwaves, are other focus areas.