SARA SADRI, Ph.D., P.Eng.Associate Professional Specialist NewsNew Article from Professional Engineers (Canada) on My Research, Ideas, and Interests [September 2018]EducationPh.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering M.Sc. in Biosystems Engineering B.Sc. in Agricultral Irrigation and Water Engineering |
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Research Interests
Hydrological Water Cycle, Statistical and Physical Modeling, GoogleMaps Applications in Hydrology and Data Visualization, Water Treatment and Resources, Drought Modeling, Human Induced Drought, Remote Sensing for Climate Change and Food/Water Security, and Application of Visual Arts and Films in Science.
Links
Near Real-time Soil Moisture Drought Index Maps Using SMAP for the U.S.
Near Real-time Global Soil Moisture Drought Index Maps Using SMOS and SMAP
Positions Held
2016-2018: Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Joint between Princeton University and University of California, Los Angeles, USA2015: Scientist in Residence
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2012-2014: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
2011-2012: Project Manager and R&D Developer
Cole Engineering Consultants, Toronto, Canada
2010-2011: U.N. Consultant
World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland
2010: Research Fellow
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2008: Guest Researcher
DHI Water and Environment, Hørsholm, Denmark
2005-2010: Research and Teaching Assistant
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
2003-2005: Research Assistant
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Publications in Review/in Press
[1] Sara Sadri, Eric F. Wood, Ming Pan, Rajat Bindlish (2019). Global Near-Real-Time Drought Monitor Using Integrated SMOS and SMAP Soil Moisture Data. Submitted to EGU (Under Review).
[2] Sara Sadri, Eric Wood, Ming Pan, Dennis Lettenmaier (2017). SMAP-based near real-time daily drought maps for CONUS. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2017, #H12G-05.
[3] Sara Sadri, Eric Wood, Ming Pan, Dennis Lettenmaier (2017). Development of a SMAP-Based Drought Monitoring Product. AMS 97th Annual Meeting #304097.
[4] Sara Sadri, Eric Wood, Ming Pan, Dennis Lettenmaier (2016). Development of a SMAP-Based Drought Monitoring Product. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2016, #H31G-1469.
[5] Sara Sadri. (2015).The Need for More Scientific Approaches to Science Communication. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2015, #ED33C-0949.
[6] Sara Sadri, Justin Sheffield. (2013). Comparison of low flows from the VIC hydrological model with observations for the eastern United States. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013, #H33G-1475.
[7] Sara Sadri, Justin Sheffield. (2012). Low flow trends in the eastern United States. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2012, #H34D-03.
[8] T. Evans, M. Cox, P. McCord, K. Caylor, C. Washington-Ottombre, K. Soderberg, and S. Sadri. (2012) “Water Governance, Agricultural Development and Community-Level Resilience to Climate Change,” 14th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, Mt. Fuji, Japan, June 3–7.
[9] Sara Sadri, Edward Graham. (2011). Development of an antecedent moisture condition model for prediction of Rainfall-Derived Inflow/Infiltration (RDII). American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, #H53J-1547.
[10] Sara Sadri, Donald H. Burn. (2010). Regionalization using Fuzzy C- Means algorithm for stochastic analysis of hydrological droughts. LATSIS Symposium, 17-20 October, EPFL, Switzerland.
[11] Sara Sadri, Henrik Madsen, Peter Steen Mikkelsen, Donald H. Burn. (2009). Analysis of extreme rainfall trends in Denmark. 33rd IAHR Congress, 9-14 August, Vancouver, Canada. p. 1731-1738.
[12] Sara Sadri, Henrik Madsen, Peter Steen Mikkelsen, Donald H. Burn. (2009). Obtaining DDF Curves of Extreme Rainfall Data Using Bivariate Copula and Frequency Analysis. American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly. Vol. H13C-05 American Geophysical Union, 2009. p. H13C-05.
[13] Sara Sadri, Nazim Cicek, Jamie Van Gulck. (2005). Aerobic treatment of a submerged membrane bioreactor- Prospects for on-site use. WEF2005, Session 1 to 10, 282–294, Washington DC, USA.
[14] Sara Sadri, Henrik Madsen, Peter Steen Mikkelsen, Donald H. Burn. (2009). Frequency analysis of extreme rainfall data: definition and comparative analysis of IDF curves and bivariate Copula. CWRA ACRH Congress, 9-12 June, Quebec City, Canada. (Oral Presentation)
[15] Sara Sadri, Henrik Madsen, Peter Steen Mikkelsen, Donald H. Burn. (2009). Obtaining DDF curves of extreme rainfall data using bivariate Copula and frequency analysis. AGU Joint Assembly, 24-27 May, Toronto, Canada. (Oral Presentation)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
[1] Sara Sadri, Eric F. Wood, Ming Pan (2018). Developing a drought monitoring index for the Contiguous U.S. using SMAP. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 6611–6626.
[2] S. Sadri, J. Kam, and J. Sheffield. (2016). Nonstationarity of low flows and their timing in the eastern United States. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20, 633-649.
[3] Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, Nathaniel Chaney, Kaiyu Guan, Sara Sadri, Xing Yuan. (2014). A Drought Monitoring and Forecasting System for Sub-Sahara African Water Resources and Food Security. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Vol. 95(6), 861882.
[4] Sadri, Sara and Burn, Donald H. (2014). Copula-based Pooled Frequency Analysis of Droughts in the Canadian Prairies. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 19(2). 277–289.
[5] Sadri, Sara and Burn, Donald H. (2012). Nonparametric methods for drought quantile estimation at ungauged sites. Water Resources Research, Vol. 48. 1–10.
[6] Sadri, Sara and Burn, Donald H. (2011). A Fuzzy C-Means approach for regionalization using a bivariate homogeneity and discordancy approach. Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 401. 231–239.
[7] Sadri, Sara and Burn, Donald H. (2010). Frequency analysis of drought using stochastic and soft computing techniques. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Waterloo.ca.
[8] Sara Sadri; Nazim Cicek; Jamie Van Gulck (2008). Aerobic treatment of landfill leachate using a submerged membrane bioreactor. Journal of Environmental Technology, Vol. 29. 899–907.
Last updated May 17, 2018 by Sara Sadri