Dr. Lakhvinder Kaur is a Research Officer working under a project entitled ‘State Specific Action Plan for Chandigarh’, a part of India’s National Water Mission in the Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. She worked on the water resources, agriculture, vegetation dynamics, soil quality, drought analysis and ecosystem services. Before this, she taught Remote Sensing and GIS to the M.Sc. students of Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. She received her doctorate in Environment Sciences from Panjab University Chandigarh. She also published research articles in reputed international journals on water resource assessment and their linkage with climate and vegetation; water quality, agriculture and human health; use of GIS techniques in natural resource management.