Azmal Hossan

A self-motivated and enthusiastic environmental and natural resource sociologist having extensive expertise in community-engaged Indigenous climate change resilience, food-energy-water nexus, political economy of water governance, environmental justice, and science communication. Experienced in writing successful interdisciplinary research proposals and recipient of funding from multiple federal, state, and research agencies. Experienced to work in interdisciplinary funded projects on decolonization of climate change adaptation, coupled human-environment interactions, ranging from climate change, political economy, and water injustice, agricultural water conservation in the US West, community resilience in the face of water shortage, etc. Professionally trained in environmental justice, science communications, and community engagement through National Science Foundation-funded graduate student training programs, fellowships, summer academy, and internships. Problem-solving capacity under challenging environments and the ability to generate new ideas. Supportive of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Tribal Climate Change Adaptation through Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Northern Great Plains. Diverse Knowledge Systems for Climate Adaptation Fellowship, National Climate Adaptation Science Center, USGS.
• Developing a Disaster Food Security Scale Project, USDA Economic Research Service.
• COVID-19 and Food Insecurity Project, Social Science Extreme Events Research Network, and the CONVERGE facility, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder.
• Pushed to the Edge: A socio-environmental analysis of climate gentrification along the East Coast of the United States, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center.
• Child Rights Situation in Bangladesh Monitoring Grant, Save the Children International.

• The 12th Annual Rising Voices Workshop. The Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.
• Workshop on Advancing Food-Energy-Water-Nexus-based Education through Research. National Collaborative for Research on Food, Energy, Water Education (NC-FEW), Virginia Tech.
• Workshop on Employing Model-Based Reasoning in Socio-Environmental Synthesis (EMBeRS). Interdisciplinary Training, Education and Research in Food-Energy-Water Systems, Colorado State University.
• Get Ready, Get Sets: GI! A series of four symposia on how to build urban resilience through the exploration of equitable and multifunctional green infrastructure implementation under the new climate normal. Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (URExSRN) and The CLEO Institute.
• Graduate Student Workshop on Socio-Environmental Synthesis: Interdisciplinary Skill Building, Proposal Writing & Collaborating. National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, The University of Maryland, College Park.
• Early Career Researcher Professional Development Training Workshop. South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, The University of Oklahoma.

• Clay, L., Koyratty, Nadia., Rogus, S., Colon-Ramos, U., Hossan, A., Josephson, A., Neff, R., Zack, R., Niles, M., (2023). A mixed methods approach to the development of a disaster food security framework. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 123(10): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2023.05.005.
• Best, K., Jouzi, Z., Islam, M., Kirby, T., Nixon, R., Hossan, A., Nyiawung, R. (2023). Typologies of multiple vulnerabilities and climate gentrification across the East Coast of the United States. Urban Climate, 48: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101430.
• Guinto, R. R., Deivanayagam, T. A., Chuji, P.T., Hossan, A., Jensen, A., Jung, L., et al. (2022). Achieving climate justice, safeguarding planetary health: Diagnosis and demands from next generation leaders for COP27 and beyond. PLOS Global Public Health, 2(11): e0001304. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001304.
• Hossan, A. (2022). A Tale of water conservation efforts of a CSU Agriculture Experiment Station. Colorado Water, 39(2), 8-9. Colorado Water Center, Colorado State University. Available: https://watercenter.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2022/02/CWC-V39-Issue-2-r3.pdf#page=10
• Hossan, A. (2022). CO2: Friend or foe to food? How rising carbon dioxide uproots Bangladesh’s food systems. Anthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review. Available: https://www.anthroposphere.co.uk/post/co2-friend-or-foe-to-food
• Hossan, A. (2021). Thirst for energy: Ensuring energy and environmental justice in the Rampal coal-fired power plant project. Rethinking Bangladesh, a special issue of Himal Southasians. Available: https://www.himalmag.com/thirst-for-energy-bangladesh-2021/?fbclid

• Hossan, A. (2025). A series of five blog posts has been submitted for publication at the American Geophysical Union under the 2025 Water & Society Fellowship. The titles of the blog posts are:

      1. Monsoon Revolution and the Fall of the Authoritarian Regime: A Tale of Water in the Great Bengal Delta (published)

      2. Water, A Double-Edged Sword in the Bengal Basin (published)

      3. Political Economy of Water Conflict in South Asia.

      4. The Bengal Water Machine: A Nature-Based Solution to Groundwater Crisis in the Bengal Delta.

      5. The Bengal Water Injustice Machine.

• Hossan, A. (2025). Dismantling climate coloniality: Reflections from a Bangladeshi diaspora researcher in the United States. Accepted for publication in joint Routed Magazine and iDiaspora issue on Diasporas driving impact—concrete contributions in health and wellbeing, climate action, and women and youth empowerment.
• Hossan, A. (2024). Decolonizing climate change adaptation research: An ongoing process of unlearning and relearning. HumanNature Blog, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University. Available: https://sustainability.colostate.edu/humannature/decolonizing-climate-change-adaptation-research/
• Hossan, A., & Yi, L. (2025). Fighting (bad) fire with (good) fire: Traditional ecological knowledge for climate change mitigation and adaptation (Forthcoming). New Security Beat, Wilson Center.
• Hossan, A. (2024). What can we hope for Indigenous Peoples regarding climate change mitigation and adaptation in 2024? Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance. Available: https://www.tribalwateralliance.org/news-and-events/izijoyebthp4ltih9zt0hk24dk1rtc