Amir AghaKouchak

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Phone: (949) 824-9350
Email: amir.a@uci.edu

Amir AghaKouchak is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.  His research crosses the boundaries between hydrology, climatology, remote sensing to address critical global water resource issues. His long-term research objective is to utilize continuously growing satellite data along with ground-based observations to develop/improve integrated drought, flood and landslide modeling, prediction and decision support systems. His group has developed models for monitoring and assessing climatic extremes including the Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System.