Associate Professor - Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Abdul-Aziz conducts highly interdisciplinary research in ecological,
environmental and water resources engineering ― incorporating topics related to
the coupled human-natural systems and sustainability from at-site to global scales.
Current research includes mechanistic data analytics, scaling and robust, and user-friendly
modeling to predict (I) greenhouse gas fluxes (e.g., CO2, CH4, and N2O) and carbon
storage in coastal/terrestrial ecosystems and natural gas fields; (II) stream water
quality and ecosystem health; and (III) large-scale urban/coastal flooding under
various regimes of extreme rainfall, sea level and land uses. His research has been
funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Department of Energy (DOE) and the state of Florida. He received
NSF CAREER AWARD in 2015 to investigate similitude and scaling laws, organizing principles and robust predictions of stream water quality and ecosystem health. He also received
TOP SCHOLAR AWARD in 2015 from the Florida International University, Miami, FL. He
serves as the Chair of ASCE EWRI’s Wetland Hydrology Technical Committee. He also
serves as a member on the ASCE EWRI’s Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee,
as well as on the AGU’s Water Quality Technical Committee. He is an Associate Editor
for the ASCE
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and for the
Sustainability journal.
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2008
M.S., University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, 2004
B.S., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, 2002