{"id":48,"date":"2017-05-04T20:24:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2023-04-16T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:21:22","slug":"monireh-faramarzi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/lab-members\/monireh-faramarzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Monireh Faramarzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-112\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/101816Sci-Faramarzi09-resized.jpg\" alt=\"101816Sci-Faramarzi09 resized\" width=\"400\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/101816Sci-Faramarzi09-resized.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/101816Sci-Faramarzi09-resized-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>In January 2010, I received my PhD from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences (EAWAG). For my PhD research, I have developed a national scale agro-hydrological model to study challenges on water-food security in Iran. After an international review procedure, I won ETH best PhD dissertation Medal. The novelty of my PhD work was not only on its quality science but in developing innovative ideas to bridge natural sciences into policy and application. That was highly proved by Ministry of Energy and Agriculture in the country. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With several years of experience on leading and conducting multi-disciplinary research projects during 2010-2016, currently I am Associate Professor and Campus Alberta Innovates Chair in Watershed Science and Modelling. Currently, I am leading the Watershed Science and Modelling Laboratory (WSML) of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. I am leading three research projects to study water-food-energy-environment relationship and climate change in Alberta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overall my research interest involves application of environmental models for:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Large-scale (continental, country, sub-country) water resources modelling and management<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Water and food security<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Adaptation to climate change in water resources management<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Virtual water trade and water scarcity<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Water quality assessment<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Water-Food-Energy-Environment nexus<\/p>\n<h3>Previous research:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1. Provincial (Alberta): Water-Climate Change<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faramarzi, M., Srinivasan, R., Iravani, M., Bladon, K.D., Abbaspour, K.C., Zehnder, A.J.B, Goss, G., 2015. Setting up a hydrological model of Alberta: Data discrimination procedure prior to calibration, Environmental Modelling &amp; Software 74: 48-65.&nbsp;Read it&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/ENMS-2015-min.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Faramarzi, M., Abbaspour, K., Adamowicz, W.L., Lu, W., Fennell, J., Zehnder, A.J.B, Goss, G., 2016. Uncertainty based assessment of dynamic freshwater scarcity in semi-arid watersheds of Alberta, Canada, Journal of Hydrology: regional Studies 9: 48-68.&nbsp;Read it&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/JHRS-2016-min.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. National (Iran)<\/strong>:&nbsp;Assessment of regional water Endowments, crop water productivity and implications for intra-country virtual water trade in Iran (Water-Food-Climate Change)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faramarzi, M., Yang, H., Mousavi, J., Schulin, R., Binder, R.C., Abbaspour, K.C., 2010. Analysis of intra-country virtual water trade to alleviate water scarcity in Iran, HESS: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14, 1417-1433.&nbsp;Read it&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/HESS-2010.compressed.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Faramarzi, M., Abbaspour, K.C., Schulin, R., Yang, H., 2010. Modeling wheat yield and crop water productivity in Iran: implications of agricultural water management for wheat production, Agricultural Water Management 97, 1861-1875.&nbsp;Read it&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/AWM-2010.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Faramarzi, M., Abbaspour, K.C., Schulin, R., Yang, H., 2009. Modelling blue and green water resources availability in Iran, Hydrological process 23, 486-501.&nbsp;Read it&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/HP-2009.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Abbaspour, K.C, Faramarzi, M., Seyed Ghasemi, S., Yang, H., 2009. Assessing impact of climate change on water resources of Iran, Water Resources Research 45, W10434.&nbsp;Read it&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/WRR-2009.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. Continental (Africa)<\/strong>:&nbsp;Assessment of freshwater resources in Africa under global warming scenarios (Water-Food-Climate Change)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faramarzi, M., Abbaspour, K.C., A. Vaghefi, S., Farzaneh, M., Zehnder, A.J.B. &nbsp;Srinivasan, R., Yang, H., 2013. Modeling impacts of climate change on freshwater availability in Africa, Journal of Hydrology 480, 85-101.&nbsp;Read it&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/JoH-2013.compressed.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4. Regional (European&nbsp;Russia): <\/strong>Water resources and yield gap (Water-Food-Global Food Security)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Schierhorn, F., Faramarzi, M., Prishchepov, A.V., Prishchepov, Koch, F.J., Muller, D., 2014. Quantifying yield gaps in wheat production in Russia, Environmental Research Letters, 9 084017.&nbsp;Read it&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/ENRL-2014.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Schierhorn, F., Muller, D., Prishchepov, A.V., Faramarzi, M., Balmann, A., 2014. The potential of Russia to increase its wheat production through cropland expansion and intensification, Global Food Security 3, 133-141.&nbsp;Read it&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/GFS-2014.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ongoing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Water-Food-Energy-Environment-Climate Change<\/p>\n<p><strong>More of my research can be found on my&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=dY6xjEAAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Teaching Statements<\/h3>\n<p>2018-Earth Science (BSc, 36 h)<\/p>\n<p>2017-&nbsp;Hydrologic Modelling (MSc, PhD, 48 h)<\/p>\n<p>2010-2013 Water Harvesting in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions (BSc, 36 h)<\/p>\n<p>2010-2013&nbsp;Soil Plant Water Relationship (BSc, 36 h)<\/p>\n<p>2010-2013&nbsp;Fluid Mechanics (BSc, 48 h)<\/p>\n<p>2010-2013&nbsp;Water Resources Management (MSc, 36 h)<\/p>\n<p>2010-2013&nbsp;Integrated Watershed Management (MSc, 36 h)<\/p>\n<p>2010-2013&nbsp;Advanced Hydrology (PhD, 36 h)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2010, I received my PhD from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences (EAWAG). For my PhD research, I have developed a national scale agro-hydrological model to study challenges on water-food security in Iran. After an international review procedure, I won ETH best PhD dissertation Medal. The novelty of my PhD work was not only on its quality science but in developing innovative ideas to bridge natural sciences into policy and application. That was highly proved by Ministry of Energy and Agriculture in the country. With several years of experience on leading and conducting multi-disciplinary research projects during 2010-2016, currently I am Associate Professor and Campus Alberta Innovates Chair in Watershed Science and Modelling. Currently, I am leading the Watershed Science and Modelling Laboratory (WSML) of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/lab-members\/monireh-faramarzi\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/1729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/faramarzilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}