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 Awards & honors

 

  • NASA Robert H. Goddard Team and PI Awards for exceptional contributions to climate science by developing and releasing the new Version 3.2 Monthly and Daily Global Precipitation Climatology Project datasets (2022)

  • University Distinguished Scholar Award and Title (University of Arizona, 2020)

  • Fellow, Kavli Frontiers of Science, National Academy of Sciences (2017)

  • NASA JPL award for the development of AIRS based drought indicator and prediction (2017)

  • NASA JPL Science Division team award (2017)

  • NASA JPL Team Award for assessing the consequences of the loss of AMSU-A2 on the AIRS mission (2017)

  • NASA Early Career Achievement Medal (2016)

  • NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) award (2014)

  • WCRP/GEWEX Outstanding Early Career Award (2014)

  • NASA JPL Team Award (800), Water Cycle Workshop (2013)

  • NASA JPL Outstanding Postdoc Research Award (2012)

  • NASA Earth and Space Science (NESSF) fellowship (2008-2010)

  • AGU Fall meeting “Outstanding Student Paper Award” (2010)

  • Outstanding Achievement in Doctoral Education in Civil Engineering from the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (2010)

  • Award recipient of Excellence in Engineering Education, sponsored by the Society of American Iranian Engineers and Architectures (2010)

  • NASA GSRP, Goddard Space Flight Center award (2008)

  • Fariborz Maseeh Best Research Poster Award in the Seventh Annual “California:  Prosperity through Technology” Industry Research Symposium(2008) 

  • Research and travel grant from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine(2007)

 

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ASSOCIATIONS / AFFILIATIONS

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  • Lead member of the WCRP weather and climate extreme grand challenge

  • Member of the WMO/WCRP Joint Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI)

  • Panel member: Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Data and Analysis Panel (GDAP)

  • Partner Investigator, The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEx), Australia.

  • Member of J. of Hydrometeorology Editorial board (Associate Editor)

  • Member of J. of Remote sensing Editorial board (Associate Editor and Editor for Special issue)

  • Member of the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG)

  • Member of GEWEX Mountainous Terrain Precipitation (MOUNTerrain) Project

  • Executive member of the Earth Dynamic Observatory EDO (UA)

  • Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)

  • Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)

  • Member of International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)

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