Her primary research interests are in Infrastructure Engineering, Extreme Events, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology and Weather and Climate Prediction, and Environmental Physics with a focus on water-cycle processes in the coupled land-atmosphere-biosphere system particularly in regions of complex terrain, the study of multiscale interface phenomena in complex environments across the Earth Sciences, remote sensing of the environment (precipitation, clouds, soil moisture,and vegetation), climate predictability and risk assessment of natural hazards.