Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

– Holding a set of Google Earth Engine cyber workshops on monitoring water resources and the environment for experts and students from all over the country, Instructor: Amirhossein Ahrari, February & March 2021

– Hosting a series of webinars on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) experience exchange in collaboration with the Urmia Lake Restoration Program (ULRP), January to March 2021

– Hosting a cyber workshop on lake Urmia in collaboration with the Utah State University (USA), December 2020

– Participating in the 27th Congress and 89th annual meeting of the “International Commission on Large Dams” to present lessons learned from flood management in Iran, Marseille, June 4-11, 2021

– Participating in the 12th “National Congress on Civil Engineering” in Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran, to present a novel remote sensing-based approach for a semi-online reservoir monitoring, May 27-28, 2020

– Seminar: 2019 Floods in Iran: From challenges to solutions, Lecturer: Meysam Jafarzadeh, General Manager of the Crisis Management Office in Ministry of Energy, February 22nd, 2020

– Seminar: Intermittent Wave Breaking-induced Turbulence: a Synergy between High-fidelity Numerical Modeling and Field Observations, Lecturer: Dr. Morteza Derakhti, Senior Research Scientist at the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory, January 18th, 2020

– Participating in the 2nd meeting of “Water for Human Settlements related Chairs and Centers” on 17 and 18 December 2019 at UNESCO headquarters to present the activities implemented by the Chair, as well as to iterate on the IHP-IX agenda.

– Seminar: Earth Observation for Effective Water Management, Lecturer: Dr. Poolad Karimi, Senior Lecturer at IHE Delft, Netherlands, December 10th, 2019

– Seminar: Optics and Mesoscale Engineering Sciences for Moisture Source Detection and Droplets Growth Rate Prediction, Lecturers: Dr. Rasoul Nasiri & Dr. Vahideh Faghihi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE, UK, November 19th, 2019

– Seminar: A Review of Mathematical Methods and Research Opportunities in Uncertainty Analysis of Numerical Models in Water and Environmental Engineering, Lecturer: Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Rajabi, Assistant Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, November 12th, 2019

– Two training workshops on Google Earth Engine (GEE) in collaboration with the Remote Sensing Research Center (RSRC) at Sharif University of Technology for Water, energy, and environment experts and students from different disciplines, June 2019; December 2019

– Seminar: Statistical Evaluation of the Effect of Groundwater on the Lake Urmia, Lecturer: Dr. Babak Vaheddoost, Assistant Professor, Bursa Technical University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Civil Engineering, May 19th, 2019

– Seminar: Sea Level Rise and Climate Change Impact on Coastal Wetlands, Lecturer: Dr. Karim Alizad, Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina, April 28th, 2019

– Seminar: Application of Artificial Intelligence in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling and Flood Forecasting: Advantages, Challenges, and Future Prospects, Lecturer: Dr. Amin Talei, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Monash University (Malaysia Campus), January 10th, 2019

– A 4-day workshop for the journalists active in water and environment related issues in collaboration with the Urmia Lake Restoration Program (ULRP), Department of Environment, and Ministry of Energy, September 2018

– International Workshop on Solutions for Eliminating Diesel and Gasoline Emitted Soot from urban air, (Background, lessons learned in Europe, solutions for Tehran), September,2016

– An International Workshop to gain European Experience for Diesel, Periodic Test, Inspection &  Maintenance of Iran’s  commercial fleet, current vehicles and future vehicles with DPF,SCR,DOC, and EOBD, Dec. 14-15,2016

– Water and Environment Management in urban sustainable development Workshop, 19-20 July 2016

– Water Management Workshop “ONE WATER” (Water Conservation and reuse, Groundwater Contamination , Water Policy), July 19-20, 2016

– Water Reuse in Iran with Emphasis on Domestic Uses: Benefits and Challenges Workshop

– Collaboration in organizing a Workshop on “ Lessons from Water Reforms in Australia”, April 20, 2017

– Participating in Iranian National Committee for IHP Meetings.

– Representing the Chair in the meeting with the UNESCO Director General, Ms. Irina Bokova, April 26, 2014, Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology, Tehran.

– Meeting with the Counselor, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Sweden, Discussing Swedish Universities and Research Centers – UNESCO Chair Cooperation, 2014.

– Meeting with Mr. Garry Louise, the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Iran to plan for  joint activates on water and environment and Networking

– 5th Session of the 15th Round of the Iranian National Committee for IHP, (with the presence of   Dr.  Blanca Jimenez Cisneros), 5 December 2016, Tehran, IR of Iran, Ministry of Energy

– Member, Patent Registration Committee, Iran National Science Foundation, INSF, 2014-Date

– Member, Scientific Committee, Asian Conference on Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ACESE’14), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 16-17, 2014

– Member, Steering Committee, Urmia Lake Restoration Program, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

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