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Meha Jain

Assistant Professor Dr. Meha Jain during Fast Food for Thought presentation
Assistant Professor
Geospatial Data Sciences
Sustainability and Development
Food Systems
mehajain@umich.edu
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About

Assistant Professor Jain's research examines the impacts of environmental change on agricultural production, and strategies that farmers may adopt to reduce negative impacts. She does this by combining remote sensing and geospatial analyses with household-level and census datasets to examine farmer decision-making and behavior across large spatial and temporal scales. To date her work has focused on the impacts of weather variability and groundwater depletion on agricultural production in India, and whether farmers are able to adapt their cropping practices to mitigate these impacts.

Publications

Jain, M., R. Fishman, P. Mondal, G.L. Galford, N. Bhattarai, S. Naeem, U. Lall, B. Singh, R.S. DeFries (2021). Groundwater depletion will reduce cropping intensity in India. Science Advances. 7 (9): eabd2849

Ricciardi, V., A. Wane, B.S. Sidhu, C. Goode, D. Solomon, E. McCullough, F. Diekmann, J. Porciello, M. Jain, N. Randall, Z. Mehrabi (2020). A scoping review of research funding for small-scale farmers in water scarce regions. Nature Sustainability. 3: 836-844.

Jain, M., D. Solomon, H. Capnerhurst, A. Arnold, A. Elliott, A. Kinzer, C. Knauss, M. Peters, B. Rolf, A. Weil, C. Weinstein (2020). How much can sustainable intensification increase yields across South Asia? A systematic review of the evidence. Environmental Research Letters. 15: 083004

Jain, M. (2020). The Benefits and Pitfalls of Using Satellite Data for Causal Inference. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 14(1). 157-169.

Jain, M., B. Singh, P. Rao, A.K. Srivastava, S. Poonia, J. Blesh, G. Azzari, A.J. McDonald, D.B. Lobell (2019). The impacts of agricultural interventions can be doubled by using satellite data. Nature Sustainability. 2, 931-934.

Read more publications here.

Research
  • 2021-23: (PI) NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Analysis Program ($183,278)
  • 2021-24: (PI) NASA Land Use Land Cover Change (LCLUC) Program ($448,693)
  • 2017-21: (PI) NASA Land Use Land Cover Change (LCLUC) Program ($751,707)
  • 2016-19: (PI) NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) in Earth Sciences. ($262,612)
  • 2014-18: (PI) National Science Foundation Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellowship (SEES; $487,020). 
Education

PhD, Columbia University (ecology, evolutionary and environmental biology)

BA, Princeton University (ecology and evolutionary biology)

In the News
Assistant Professor Dr. Meha Jain during Fast Food for Thought presentation

10 Questions: Dr. Meha Jain

Assistant Professor Dr. Meha Jain’s research examines the impacts of environmental change on agricultural production and strategies that farmers may adopt to reduce...

October 1, 2019

Microsatellite data can help double impact of agricultural interventions

ANN ARBOR—Data from microsatellites can be used to detect and double the impact of sustainable interventions in agriculture at large scales, according to a new study led...

In the Media
08/29/2021
Meha Jain
Satellites Help Improve Crop Yields in India (SpaceRef)
02/24/2021
Meha Jain
India's groundwater crisis threatens food security for hundreds of millions, study says (CNN)
02/24/2021
Meha Jain
Groundwater Depletion Threatens 20% Of India's Winter Farmland (Gizmodo)
10/01/2017
Meha Jain
Sowing wheat earlier can help increase yields in India
06/01/2017
Meha Jain
Faculty Spotlight Meha Jain
03/01/2017
Meha Jain
Jain Lab Research featured in Smithsonian Magazine
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