Aandishah is a Ph.D. student at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in the City of New York. She is co-advised by Jason Smerdon and Richard Seager.
Aandishah earned her B.A. in Earth System Science and M.S. in Geographical Information Systems at Clark University. A geographer at heart, she used remote sensing data to analyze the negative correlation between sea ice and cloud cover in the Pacific Arctic using time series analysis. Her M.S thesis, “Understanding spatial changes in vertical atmospheric structure and sea ice in the Pacific Arctic from 1979 to 2020 using NARR reanalysis data”, was co-advised by Karen Frey and Abby Frazier. Aandishah’ s main research interests include climate change, ocean-atmosphere interactions, and applications of remote sensing. In particular, she is fascinated by the impacts of climate change on the interactions between the atmosphere and hydrosphere, and the implications for future climate risks and impacts.
Born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she is also interested in the impacts of climate change on people, especially minority communities.