Sediment Stories 11 - with Suraj R. Nair

​Sediment Stories is a series of conversations about sediments - from creation to extraction.

​Join us for the 11th conversation in this series, where we will be talking to Suraj R. Nair.

​Suraj is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Social Sciences at Stanford University, where he uses computational & quantitative methods to study economic development and environmental change.

​While at the Berkeley School of Information, Suraj, along with Ando Shah, created Sand Mining Watch - is a set of open-source tools which enables the production of high-resolution, real-time maps of sand mining activity in river basins across the world. Their predictive AIML model uses knowledge & data from India Sand Watch and we are collaboratively piloting and evaluating results from their model for India. Check it out here!

​Suraj's current research focuses on the tensions between economic growth & its environmental consequences, including in sand mining - which is one of the defining challenges facing Indian society today.

​Suraj will be talking about how an interdisciplinary perspective of social science & data science (machine learning) can help us better understand & manage these challenges, which will be central to environmental governance in the coming years.

​Learn more about Sediment Stories here: veditum.org/sedimentstories