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Maragheh University - Mehdi Rahmati

Name Mehdi Rahmati
Academic Position Assistant Professor
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Mehdi Rahmati, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
 
 
Address:                                   Telephone:
Soil Science Department          Phone: +98-912-5419200
University of Maragheh            Email: mehdirmti@gmail.com
Maragheh
Iran
 
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-6442
Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fkFWtlAAAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus Author Identifier: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=50661931800
Employment  
Assistant Professor (lecturing) at:
 
University of Maragheh
Department of Soil Science
Maragheh, East Azarbayjan, Iran
Educational  
Philosophy of Doctorate,
Date received: January, 2014
Name of University attended: University of Tabriz
Field of specialization: Soil Physics and Conservation
 
Title of dissertation:
Estimating soil infiltration rate by remote sensing and its using in LISEM model for Lighvan Watershed erosion prediction
 
Supervisors:
Prof. Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri,
Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz
neyshmr@hotmail.com
Dr. Majid Mohammady Oskouei,          
Department of Mining Engineering, Mining Engineering Faculty, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran.
mohammady@sut.ac.ir
Educational Master of Science,
 Date received: September, 2009
Name of University attended: University of Tabriz
Field of specialization: Soil physics and conservation
 
Title of dissertation:
Effects of the conversion of wheat-fallow and wheat- pea crop rotations to continuous wheat cropping on soil structural characters at rain-fed agricultural lands
 
Supervisor:
Prof. Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri,
Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz , Tabriz
Educational Bachelor of Science,
Date received: September, 2007
Name of University attended: University of Tabriz
Field of specialization: Soil science
 
Educational Internship period (6 months)
(March 2013 – September 2013)
Host University: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Field of specialization: Remote sensing and its using in soil science
 
Supervisor:
Prof. Jeffery Walker,
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
jeff.walker@monash.edu
 
Research Sabbatical time (3 months)
(June 2017 – August 2017)
 
Host Institute: Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-3, Jülich, Germany
Field of Work: Structural analysis of swelling soil treated by biopolymers using NMR
 
Contact person:
 Prof. Dr. Harry Vereecken
Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-3, Jülich, Germany
Email:
Research Sabbatical time (2 months)
  1.  
 
Host Institute: Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-3, Jülich, Germany
Field of Work: Working on new procedure to infer soil hydraulically information from infiltration data
 
Contact person:
 Prof. Dr. Harry Vereecken
Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-3, Jülich, Germany
Email:
Research Thesis Under Supervision
No. Title Student/
Degree		 Status
1 Spatial variation of soil salinity and the role of prevailing winds in salinization of agricultural lands in Bonab Plain Mis. Rouhzad/
M.Sc.		 Graduated
2 The effects of Gum Arabic (an analogue to bacterial extracellular polysaccharides) on quality of the saline and non-saline soils around the Lake Urmia Mis. Habibi/
M.Sc.		 Graduated
3 Evaluation of soil displacement due to different tillage operations and its effects on the trend of changes in carbon dioxide emissions and some biological indices of soil quality in post-tillage period Mis. Hashemi/
M.Sc.		 Graduated
4 The trend of changes in some structural properties and water erodibility of soil in post – tillage period Mr. Kouselou/
M.Sc.		 On going
5 Evaluation of statistical relationships between the different characteristics of surface soil (soil texture, organic carbon, salinity, aggregate stability, nutrients, and soil moisture) and remote sensing data Mr. Tebiani/
M.Sc.		 On going
6 The effects of biopolymers application on soil breakthrough curve Mr. Yadollahi/
M.Sc.		 On going
7 Soil management assessment framework (SMAF) usage in evaluation of soil quality change under different tillage treatments during 5 years Mis. Ketabchi/
M.Sc.		 On going
8 Effects of soil moisture content and different potato cultivars in soil and nutrients loss due to potato harvesting
 		 Mis. Azarifam/
M.Sc.		 On going
9 Soil and nutrient (nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, and micronutrients) losses due to mechanized harvesting of sugar beet in farmers’ condition of southern plains of west Azarbayjan Mr. Norouzi/
M.Sc.		 On going
Research Thesis Under Advising
No. Title Student/
Degree		 Status
1 Long-term effects of soil management and fertilization on soil physical and chemical properties Mr. Abdilzadeh/
M.Sc.		 Graduated
2 Evaluation of effects of the different application methods of folic acid on yield and quality of rice Mr. Malekzadeh/
M.Sc.		 Graduated
3 East Lake Urmia land evaluation for current crop and crop pattern change Mis. Nabatian/
M.Sc.		 Graduated
4 Sand washing factory wastewater impact on some soil physical and chemical characteristics and agronomic traits of wheat Mr. Mohammadian/
M.Sc.		 On going
5 The study of physicochemical and mineralogical characteristics of Playa surfaces prone to dust generation in southeast Urmia Lake Mis. Alizadeh/
M.Sc.		 On going
6 Evaluating the object oriented and pixel based processing techniques in remote sensing of the current status of erosion and sedimentation rate in Lighvan watershed Mr. Mohammadi/
PhD		 On going
7 Performance evaluation of satellite images in digital mapping of some properties of soil and wheat plant fields in northwest of Iran Mr. Miran/
PhD		 On going
       
       
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Projects
No. Title Sponsor Status
1 Assessing vegetation effects on remotely sensed soil texture accuracy using ETM+ images University of Maragheh done
2 Assessment of the saline and non-saline soils boundary around Urmia Lake using ETM+ data University of Maragheh done
3 Soil loss due to different potato cultivars harvesting and its modelling using crop’s morphological characteristics University of Maragheh On going
4 Evaluation the effects of conservation and conventional tillage practices on emission of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from agricultural lands Iran National Science Foundation On going
Publications Book, Edited (Published):
Book title: Soil Science (In Persian)
Authors: Mehdi Rahamati, Vali Feiziasl, Seyed bahman Mousavi, Esmaeil Karimi
Publications Published Articles (ISI journals)
  1. M Rahmati, MR Neyshabouri, S Oustan, M Moghadam, and V Feiziasl. 2011. Impact of Changing Crop Rotation to Continuous Wheat on Soil Characteristics in Semiarid Regions. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 6(16): 3783-3788.
 
  1. M. Rahmati, M.R. Neyshabouri, C. Doussan, B. Behroozinezhad. 2013. Simplified estimation of unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity using bulk electrical conductivity and particle size distribution. Soil Research, 51, 23–33.
 
  1. M. Rahmati, M.M. Oskouei, M.R. Neyshabouri, J. Walker, A. Fakherifard, A. Ahmadi. 2015. Soil moisture derivation using Triangle Method in the Lighvan watershed, North Western Iran. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 15(1): 167-178.
 
  1. M. R. Neyshaboury, M. Rahmati, S. A. R. Rafiee Alavi, H. Rezaee, A. H. Nazemi. 2015. Prediction of unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity by using air permeability: Regression approach. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research, 49 (6): 528-533.
 
  1. Rahmati, M., & Neyshaboury, M. R. (2016). Soil Air Permeability Modeling and Its Use for Predicting Unsaturated Soil Hydraulic Conductivity. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 80(6), 1507-1513.
 
  1. Hamzehpour, N., & Rahmati, M. (2016). Investigation of soil salinity to distinguish boundary line between saline and agricultural lands in Bonab Plain, southeast Urmia Lake, Iran. Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 20(4), 1037-1042.
 
  1. Rahmati, M., & Hamzehpour, N. (2017). Quantitative remote sensing of soil electrical conductivity using ETM+ and ground measured data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38(1), 123-140.
 
  1. Rahmati, M. 2017. Reliable and accurate point-based prediction of cumulative infiltration using soil readily available characteristics: A comparison between GMDH, ANN, and MLR. Journal of Hydrology, 551, 81-91.
 
  1. Mehdi Kouselou, Sanaz Hashemi, Iraj Eskandari, Blair M. McKenzie, Esmaeil Karimi, Abbas Rezaei, Mehdi Rahmati. 2018.Quantifying soil displacement and tillage erosion rate by different tillage systems in dryland northwestern Iran. Soil Use and Management (In press).
 
  1. Rahmati, M., Weihermüller, L., Vanderborght, J., Pachepsky, Y. A., Mao, L., Sadeghi, S. H., Moosavi, N., Kheirfam, H., Montzka, C., Van Looy, K., Toth, B., Hazbavi, Z., Al Yamani, W., Albalasmeh, A. A., Alghzawi, M. Z., Angulo-Jaramillo, R., Antonino, A. C. D., Arampatzis, G., Armindo, R. A., Asadi, H., Bamutaze, Y., Batlle-Aguilar, J., Bechet, B., Becker, F., Blöschl, G., Bohne, K., Braud, I., Castellano, C., Cerdà, A., Chalhoub, M., Cichota, R., Císlerová, M., Clothier, B., Coquet, Y., Cornelis, W., Corradini, C., Coutinho, A. P., de Oliveira, M. B., de Macedo, J. R., Durães, M. F., Emami, H., Eskandari, I., Farajnia, A., Flammini, A., Fodor, N., Gharaibeh, M., Ghavimipanah, M. H., Ghezzehei, T. A., Giertz, S., Hatzigiannakis, E. G., Horn, R., Jiménez, J. J., Jacques, D., Keesstra, S. D., Kelishadi, H., Kiani-Harchegani, M., Kouselou, M., Kumar Jha, M., Lassabatere, L., Li, X., Liebig, M. A., Lichner, L., López, M. V., Machiwal, D., Mallants, D., Mallmann, M. S., de Oliveira Marques, J. D., Marshall, M. R., Mertens, J., Meunier, F., Mohammadi, M. H., Mohanty, B. P., Moncada, M. P., Montenegro, S., Morbidelli, R., Moret-Fernández, D., Moosavi, A. A., Mosaddeghi, M. R., Mousavi, S. B., Mozaffari, H., Nabiollahi, K., Neyshabouri, M. R., Ottoni, M. V., Ottoni Filho, T. B., Pahlavan Rad, M. R., Panagopoulos, A., Peth, S., Peyneau, P.-E., Picciafuoco, T., Poesen, J., Pulido, M., Reinert, D. J., Reinsch, S., Rezaei, M., Roberts, F. P., Robinson, D., Rodrigo-Comino, J., Rotunno Filho, O. C., Saito, T., Suganuma, H., Saltalippi, C., Sándor, R., Schütt, B., Seeger, M., Sepehrnia, N., Sharifi Moghaddam, E., Shukla, M., Shutaro, S., Sorando, R., Stanley, A. A., Strauss, P., Su, Z., Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Taguas, E., Teixeira, W. G., Vaezi, A. R., Vafakhah, M., Vogel, T., Vogeler, I., Votrubova, J., Werner, S., Winarski, T., Yilmaz, D., Young, M. H., Zacharias, S., Zeng, Y., Zhao, Y., Zhao, H., and Vereecken, H.: 2018. Development and Analysis of Soil Water Infiltration Global Database, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., 10(3): 1237-1263, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2018-11.
  2. Latorre, B., Moret-Fernández, D., Lassabatere, L., Rahmati, M., López, M.V., Angulo-Jaramillo, R., Sorando, R., Comín, F. and Jiménez, J.J., 2018. Influence of the β parameter of the Haverkamp model on the transient soil water infiltration curve. Journal of Hydrology, 564: 222-229.
Publications Published Articles (ISC journals)
  1. M. Rahmati, M.R. Neyshabouri, A. Fakherifard, M.M. Oskouei, A. Ahmadi, J.V. Sheikh. 2013. Rainfall-runoff prediction using LISEM model in Lighvan watershed, North West of Iran. Technical Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 3 (16): 1893-1901.
 
  1. Mehdi Rahmati, Majid Mohammady Oskouei, Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri, Ahmad Fakheri Fard, Abas Ahmadi, Jeffrey Walker. 2014. ETM+ data applicability to remote sensing of soil salinity in Lighvan watershed, Northwest of Iran. Current Opinion in Agriculture, 3(1): 10-13.
 
  1. Mehdi Rahmati, Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri, Seyed Bahman Mousavi. 2014. Swelling bulk density and its application in Arya and Paris model for soil moisture curve prediction. Environmental Resources Research, 2(2): 185-194.
 
  1. Jallil Asghari Meydani, Mehdi Rahmati, Esmaeil Karimi, Ali Asghar Alillou. 2104. Dryland soil water storage susceptibility to different soil tillage practices under Vetch-Wheat crop rotation. Azarian Journal of Agriculture, 1(1): 18-24.
 
  1. Ezatollah Esfandiari, Majid Abdoli, Mehdi Rahmati. 2015. Evaluation of iodate toxicity (KIO3) on growth, morpho - physiological characteristics and mineral nutrients concentrations of potato (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Agria). Azarian Journal of Agriculture, 2(4): 99-107.
 
  1. Mehdi Rahmati, Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri, Majid Mohammady Oskouei, Ahmad Fakheri Fard, Abbas Ahmadi. 2016. Soil organic carbon prediction using remotely sensed data at Lighvan watershed, Northwest of Iran. Azarian Journal of Agriculture, 3(2): 45-49.
 
  1. Rasoul Daneshfaraz; Mehdi Rahmati; Pourya Akbari Moghanjiq, 2017. Soil erosion and sediment mapping in Aidoghmoush watershed appling MPSIAC model and GIS and RS technologies, Environmental Resource Research, 5(1), 35-49.
 
  1. Rahmati, M. and Hamzehpour, N., 2018. Effectiveness of spectral data reduction in detection of salt-affected soils in a small study area. Desert, 23(1), pp.97-106.
Publications Published Articles (Local journals, in Persian)
 
  1. M. Rahmati, M. R. Neyshaburi, S. Oustan, and V. Feiziasl, 2010. Crop rotation effects on soil physical and chemical properties and wheat crop in dryland condition, Soil Science Researches (Tabriz), 24 (1): 1-14.
 
  1. Mehdi Rahmati, Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri, Shahin Oustan, Vali Feiziasl, 2010. Effects of the conversion wheat–fallow and wheat–pea crop rotation to continuous wheat cropping system on soil physical properties related to soil erodibility factor, Soil Science Researches (Tehran), 24 (2): 1-10.
 
  1. Mehdi Rahmati, Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri, Majid Mohammadi Oskooei, Ahmad Fakheri Fard, Abas Ahmadi, Seied Bahman Mousavi. 2014. Evaluating and optimizing the parameters of soil infiltration models in Lighvan watershed (Northwest of Iran). Journal of Water and Soil Conservation, 22(6): 167-178.
 
  1. Mehdi Rahmati, Evaluation of ETM+ data applicability for remote sensing of the soil texture and vegetation effects on accuracy of predictions. Journal of Water and Soil Conservation, 23(1): 187-201.
 
Publications  
Presented Articles (International conferences, in English):
 
  1. MR Neyshabouri, M Rahmati, S Oustan, V Feiziasl. 2009. Crop rotation effects on soil structural properties, aggregate fractal dimension, and dry-land wheat yield in semiarid regions of Iran. 2nd International Conference BIOHYDROLOGY 2009: A changingclimateforbiologyand soilhydrology interactions, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 21–24, 2009. (Represented by Prof. Neyshabouri)
 
Teaching activities  
Teaching activities:
 
Soil Erosion and Conservation
Remote Sensing in Soil Science
Watershed Management
Sustainable Soil Management
GIS in Soil Science
 
Training and Workshops
  1. Workshop’s title: Remote sensing (2 days, August-2013)
Place: University of RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
  1. Workshop’s title: MicrolLIS and its application (2 days, September- 2011)
Place: University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
  1. Workshop’s title: Storing comprehensive information of soil in MicrolLIS (2 days, September- 2011)
Place: University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
 
Interests  
 
Soil Physics, Soil Erosion and conservation, Hydrology, Remote sensing, GIS, Geostatistics
International cooperations Joint Supervising of Students thesis
Prof. Dr. Blair McKenzie
The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie Dundee DD2 5DA
Email: Blair.McKenzie@hutton.ac.uk
 
Joint Project
Prof. Dr. Harry Vereecken
Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-3, Jülich, Germany
Email: h.vereecken@fz-juelich.de
 
 

Educational background

Teaching Experience

Teaching activities:
 
- Soil Erosion and Conservation
- Remote Sensing in Soil Science
- Watershed Management
- Sustainable Soil Management
- GIS in Soil Science

Research Interests

Soil Physics, Soil Erosion and conservation, Hydrology, Remote sensing, GIS, Geostatistics

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Projects

No. Title Sponsor Status
1 Assessing vegetation effects on remotely sensed soil texture accuracy using ETM+ images University of Maragheh done
2 Assessment of the saline and non-saline soils boundary around Urmia Lake using ETM+ data University of Maragheh done
3 Soil loss due to different potato cultivars harvesting and its modelling using crop’s morphological characteristics University of Maragheh On going
4 Evaluation the effects of conservation and conventional tillage practices on emission of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from agricultural lands Iran National Science Foundation On going

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