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SAYED M. BATENIProfessor

I would like to conduct extensive research on crucial issues that will benefit Hawaii, such as forecasting floods, wildfires, and landslides.

SAYED M. BATENIProfessor

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Sayed M. Bateni
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I would like to conduct extensive research on crucial issues that will benefit Hawaii, such as forecasting floods, wildfires, and landslides.

Professor Sayed Bateni has been honored numerous times by the UH College of Engineering for his outstanding contributions to the research community. As a joint appointee of WRRC and CEE, the quality of his research has enabled him to secure large grants from a diverse group of organizations, including USDA, Hawaii State DOT, USGS, and FEMA and HI-EMA.

Sayed received the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship in 2020 to conduct water research in Qatar, one of the fastest warming areas in the world. In 2021, he was a member of the Qatar Foundation and NASA OASIS mission science team where his research focused on merging remotely sensed deep-layer soil moisture observations into data assimilation and machine learning approaches to estimate the groundwater in arid areas.

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EDUCATION:

  • PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
  • MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 2005
  • BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, 2003

FIELDS OF INTEREST:

  • Earth remote sensing
  • Land-atmosphere interaction
  • Data assimilation: Techniques, development and applications
  • Optimization techniques and parameter estimation in hydrology
  • Application of artificial intelligence methods

CURRENT PROJECTS:

  • Real time monitoring of scour depth around bridge piers and the accurate estimation of scour depth
  • Near real time wildland fire risk prediction system for Hawaii to improve readiness, public safety, and risk mitigation
  • Forecasting daily reference evapotranspiration and rainfall for water resources conservation and sustainable agriculture

 

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Forecasting Daily Reference Evapotranspiration for Water Resources Conservations and Sustainable Agriculture in Hawai‘i

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The objective of this project is to adapt the current CropManage web application to use in Hawai‘i, and to develop accurate methods of forecasting evapotranspiration (ETo) data that in turn, results in more accurate irrigation scheduling.

Real-Time Optimization of Irrigation Scheduling for Farmlands in Hawai‘i, Guam, and American Samoa

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The project objective is to expand the capabilities of the CropManage online irrigation scheduling tool to include tropical island parameters such as soil and climate, and to adapt the tool for a wider geographical region that includes the Pacific Islands.

Estimating Evapotranspiration Over Native Wet Montane Cloud Forests in Hawaii and Evaluating the Impact of Climate Change on it

SPONSOR: National Institute for Water Resources, Water Resources Research Institute Program PROJECT PERIOD: 03/01/2014-02/29/2015 ABSTRACT: Sensible and latent heat fluxes are the key variables in energy and water vapor exchange between the land surface and the atmosphere. Latent heat flux…

A Novel Approach for Estimation of Evapotranspiration

SPONSOR:National Institute for Water Resources, Water Resources Research Institute Program PROJECT PERIOD:3/1/2015 – 2/28/2016 ABSTRACT:Understanding of the amount, spatial distribution, and temporal variability of evapotranspiration (ET) in Hawaii is essential for assessment of water resource availability and management of water…