Every degraded landscape contains the map of its own recovery.
The coupling that drove collapse is the same coupling that carries restoration. The question was never whether recovery is possible — it was always: where do you start?
An independent climate scientist working where theory meets the field.
My work sits at the coupling of land, atmosphere, and water — the mechanisms by which living landscapes regulate rainfall, temperature, and the movement of moisture across continents. It runs from first-principles theory (the biotic pump, biome radiative forcing, boundary-layer physics) through observational attribution, and out into restoration projects on the ground.
Everything is built to be reproducible: code, data, and methodology open by default. The theory earns its keep only when it tells a restoration team where to start — which corridor to replant, which watershed to reconnect, which driver is modifiable and which is fate. The ventures below are the vehicles that carry this work from the paper into the watershed.
On the ground — active field & research sites.
Not only published — actively deployed. Live restoration engagements and ongoing field research across four countries, where the coupled-systems methodology is tested and refined.
Buturama Creek
Scientific advisory on a 7,238-ha watershed restoration — riparian corridors and high-Andean forest replanted to recover water regulation for 128,000 people. Land–water coupling applied at basin scale.
Ten Lives
Head Scientist for a rewilding-and-restoration programme in the Iberian schist highlands — translating ecohydrology and land-surface science into on-the-ground recovery design.
HOPE
Consulting on Mediterranean water-cycle and restoration design across the Maestrazgo — karst hydrology, vegetation–rainfall feedbacks, and the recovery of degraded upland catchments.
Alberta
Active field research in applied ecohydrology and land–atmosphere coupling — community-scale restoration and boundary-layer observation, where the ideas get field-tested with practitioners.
New Jersey
Ongoing research on invasive-species dynamics and land-surface change — how shifting vegetation cover alters local hydrology and the surface energy balance.
Process-based work on land–atmosphere coupling.
Nineteen works and counting — biotic-pump theory, biome radiative forcing, water and orographic systems, freshwater forcing, and aerosol–rainfall physics. Code, data, and methodology open-source on GitHub; reproducibility is the standard. Full record: ORCID 0009-0003-9709-4241 ↗.
Peer-reviewed & published
/ 3The cooling service of living systems
/ 5Biotic pump & continental moisture
/ 3Water, orography & drought
/ 4Freshwater forcing & the cryosphere
/ 3Aerosol–rainfall & urban land-surface
/ 1The vehicles — work carried into the world.
One thesis, four vehicles: the commercial, research, practice, and capital instruments that move coupled-systems science from the paper into the watershed.
LandIQ
Landscape intelligence for Pakistan. Water, carbon, energy, and air read as one coupled system at district resolution. Co-founded with Khurram Irshad.
landiq-go.pages.dev ↗PSKL
Earth Systems Intelligence. Global scope. The research vehicle for biotic-pump, boundary-layer, and biome-forcing work that informs the other three.
site forthcomingPrecision Ecohydrology
Canada. Teaching, applied ecohydrology, and community-scale restoration — where the ideas get field-tested with practitioners.
site forthcomingIndus Climate Fund
The financing vehicle — structuring capital for restoration and climate-resilience work where the science identifies the highest-leverage watersheds.
indusclimatefund.org ↗Advisory — independent roles across the restoration community.
Scientific and advisory partnerships spanning Europe, North Africa, South America, and South Asia. Each engagement informs the next — methodology developed in one context, tested in another.
Writing — two voices, two audiences.
Longer-form writing across science, restoration, and belonging — different registers for different rooms.
Regenesis
Essays, field notes, and published-research commentary on land–atmosphere coupling, the biotic pump, and the physics of recovery.
r3genesis.substack.com ↗Ehadnameh
A parallel current — cultural, civic, personal. Urdu for covenant. Writing on place, people, and the civic weather that surrounds restoration.
ehadnameh.substack.com ↗Contact
For research collaboration, commissioned work, advisory, speaking, or teaching — get in touch directly.