Arup Paul

Arup R. Paul is a PhD student in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research examines the relationship between environmental stressors, human health, and migration, with a particular focus on Bangladesh. He specializes in quantitative and spatial methods - integrating large-scale demographic, climate, and satellite datasets through GIS, remote sensing, and statistical modeling in R, Stata, ArcGIS Pro, and Google Earth Engine. Alongside this, his background in sociology (MA, Texas Tech University) provides him with expertise in qualitative research and critical argumentation, allowing him to situate data-driven findings within broader socio-political contexts.

At CU Boulder, Arup contributes to two interdisciplinary projects: an NIH-funded study on heat stress and infant mortality, where he merges demographic surveys with district-level climate indices, and an NSF-supported project on land use change, migration, and resilience in coastal Bangladesh, which links household survey data with remote sensing analyses. His broader interests include environmental health, migration, socio-ecological resilience, and developing integrative methods that bridge quantitative rigor with qualitative depth.