He is Co-Director of the SEGS lab, Associate State Director of Vermont EPSCOR, and the Director of the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security (IEDS) at the University of Vermont. Dr. Zia is conducting NSF-funded work on developing computational integrated assessment models that project and quantify high-resolution impacts of global climate change and land-use land cover change on watershed scale hydrological systems and lake systems, and their feedbacks on social systems.