Groundwater Hydrology
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Mohammad Karamouz is a professor at the University of Tehran. He is an internationally
known water resources engineer and consultant. He is licensed as a PE
in the state of New York since 1985. Dr. Karamouz is the former dean of engineering
at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He is also a fellow of the American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a diplomat of the American Academy of
Water Resources Engineers.
Dr. Karamouz received his BS in civil engineering from Shiraz University, his
MS in water resources and environmental engineering from George Washington
University, and his PhD in hydraulic and systems engineering from Purdue University.
He served as a member of the task committee on urban water cycle in UNESCO-IHP
VI and was a member of the planning committee for the development of a 5-year
plan (2008–2013) for UNESCO’s International Hydrology Program (IHP VII).
Among many professional positions and achievements, he also serves on a number
of task committees for the ASCE. In his academic career spanning 35 years, he
has held positions as a tenured professor at Pratt Institute (Schools of Engineering
and Architecture in Brooklyn) and at Polytechnic University (Tehran, Iran). He was
a visiting professor in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the
University of Arizona, Tucson, 2000–2003 and a research professor at NYU,
2009–2014. He was also the founder and former president of Arch Construction and
Consulting Co. Inc. in New York City.
His teaching and research interests include integrated water resources planning
and management, flood resilient cities, groundwater hydrology and pollution,
drought analysis and management, water quality modeling and water pollution,
decision support systems, climate forecasting, and the conjunctive use of surface
and groundwater. He has more than 350 research and scientific publications, books,
and book chapters to his credit, including three books: Urban Water Engineering
and Management and Hydrology & Hydroclimatology published by CRC Press in
2010, and 2012, respectively, Water Resources System Analysis published by Lewis
Publishers in 2003, and a coauthored book entitled Urban Water Cycle Processes
and Interactions published by Taylor & Francis Group in 2007.
Professor Karamouz serves internationally as a consultant to both private and
governmental agencies, such as UNESCO and the World Bank. Dr. Karamouz is
the recipient of the 2013 ASCE Service to the Profession and 2018 ASCE Hydraulic
Engineering Awards.
Azadeh Ahmadi is an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering
at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT). She received her BS in civil engineering
and her MS in water resources engineering from IUT, and her PhD in water
resources management from the University of Tehran. She was a research associate
in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of
Bristol through a UK fellowship in 2008 and at the Eawag Institute of ETH University
in 2017. Dr. Ahmadi is an international expert and consultant in the application of
systems engineering in the planning of aquifer-river-reservoir systems. Her teaching
and research interests include groundwater modeling, water engineering and management,
systems analysis, the conjunctive use of surface and groundwater, conflict
resolution, climate change impacts studies, analysis of risk and uncertainty, and
development of decision support systems.
Masih Akhbari is the founder of Global Water Resources Inc., where he develops
interdisciplinary models and provides consultant services for water resources
management and offers expert witness services on cases with disputes over the management
of water resources systems. He is also a project engineer at Larry Walker
Associates, where he supports development of groundwater sustainability plans
under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. Prior to these positions,
he served as a senior water resources engineer at Riverside Technology Inc., a
cutting-edge company that provides innovative IT-based solutions to develop decision
support systems for water resources.
Dr. Akhbari obtained his PhD from Colorado State University (CSU), followed
by two years of postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis to
investigate the effects of climate change on streamflow, stream temperature, and
cold-water habitats for the California Energy Commission, and at CSU to assess
the United States perspective on the water-energy-food nexus for the Department
of State and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His journey to apply increasingly complex
tools of analysis to thorny problems around the world has already led to the
development of interdisciplinary decision-support tools to increase the security of
water, energy, and food systems. He has employed hydrologic, engineering, systems
analysis, and social science concepts to develop frameworks and tools that support
informed decision-making for improved management of water resources.
Through his academic background, along with his professional experience outside
of academia, he has gained a unique blend of research experience and knowledge
of the broader impacts of the technological advances to deal with the most urgent
global water issues. He has built a rigorous perspective on how scientific, engineering,
and systems analysis techniques can be implemented to support resources
planning and management. Dr. Akhbari has also served as a review panelist for the
National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, as a discussion
panelist at the American Water Resources Associations Annual Conference,
as a reviewer for multiple scientific journals, as a session chair and convener at the
American Geophysical Union Fall Meetings, and as a coadvisor on multiple masters
and PhD theses.