Poster #3 - Amir AghaKouchak

Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine Irvine, California United States

Biography

Amir AghaKouchak is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on natural hazards and climate extremes and crosses the boundaries between hydrology, climatology, remote sensing. His group has developed models for monitoring and assessing climatic extremes including the Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System (GIDMaPS). Amir studies how extreme events and water availability might change in a warming climate. His research group at UC Irvine utilizes continuously growing satellite data along with ground-based observations to develop/improve integrated drought, flood and landslide modeling, prediction and decision support systems. Amir has served as the principal investigator of several research grants funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In 2017, he recipient of the 2017 AGU Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award.