Omar Abdul-Aziz: 1/23. Date: 02/05/17 OMAR I. ABDUL-AZIZ, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Ecological-Water Resources Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University (WVU), PO Box: 6103, Morgantown, WV 26506; Phone: +1 304 293 9929; Fax: +1 304 293 7109; Email: [email protected]; Research website: https://ewrel.fiu.edu/ EDUCATION Ph.D. (2008), Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, U.S.A. Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN. GPA: 3.87/4.00. Dissertation: Ecohydrology of Unit River Ecosystems: Scaling and Critical Responses of Stream Health Indicators to the Environmental Drivers. Committee: Bruce N. Wilson (advisor), John S. Gulliver (co-advisor), Heinz G. Stefan (member), and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou (Chair). M.A.Sc. (2004), Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. GPA (percent grading): 89%. Thesis: Climate Change Impacts on the Hydrological Regime in the Mackenzie River Basin. Advisor: Donald H. Burn. B.Sc. (2002), Civil Engineering, Bangladesh Univ. of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka. Degree awarded with HONORS. GPA: 3.80/4.00. Project: Risk Assessment and Economic Evaluation of Health Hazards Resulting from Environmental Pollutions. Advisor: M. Ashraf Ali. APPOINTMENTS 2015 – Present: Assistant Professor (tenure-track with due credits for previous years), Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. 2011 – 2015: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. 2010 – 2011: Staff Scientist (contractor), USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, SD, USA. 2008 – 2009: Research Associate, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. 2004 – 2008: Research/Teaching Assistant and Graduate School Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, and the Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. 2003 – 2004: Research/Teaching Assistant and Graduate Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 2/23. Date: 02/05/17 Sept – Dec 2002: Research/Teaching Assistant, Civil Engineering, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Ecological-water resources engineering; Ecohydrology; Scaling, similitude (emergence patterns), and organizing principles of hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological processes; Data-analytics, robust modeling and predictions of stream water quality and ecosystem health variables (e.g., TMDLs); Predictive data-analytics and robust modeling of ecosystem (e.g., wetlands, forests) greenhouse gas fluxes and carbon sequestration. Climate, sea level and land use change impacts on water resources & ecosystems; Water resources sustainability and resilience in urban-natural environments; Multi-scale modeling of stormwater runoff and drainage sustainability in complex coastal-urban watersheds; Developing multi-disciplinary decision-support systems for urban adaptation/mitigation and resilience under a changing climate, sea level, and population. System dynamic and network (graph theoretical) modeling of ecological-water resources and related infrastructure; Interactions, sustainability and resilience of waterenergy-food nexus under climatic, sea level and land use/cover changes. RESEARCH GRANTS (total funded ~ $1.58 million) Prepared 24 scholarly grant proposals as PI or Co-PI; submitted to NSF, NOAA, DOE, Sea Grant, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, State of Florida, Inter-American Institute, etc. Current Projects (total ~ $1.28 million) 1. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER (NSF Award No: 1561942/1454435; FIU Account No. 800004983; WVU Account No. 1006859R). PI (single): Omar I. Abdul-Aziz. Project Title: CAREER: Robust Modeling and Predictions of Stream Water Quality and Ecosystem Health. Award Amounts: $500,000. Award Duration: 01/15/2015 to 12/31/2019. 2. Funding Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Estuarine Research Reserve System Science Collaborative Program (NOAA Grant No. NA14NOS4190145; WVU Account No. 1006977R). Collaborative PIs: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz (WVU); Jianwu Tang (Marine Biological Laboratory, MA); Kevin Kroeger (USGS Woods Hole, MA); Serena Moseman-Valtierra, (University of Rhode Island); Stephen Emmett-Mattox (Restore America’s Estuary). Project Title: Expanding Blue Carbon Implementation: Increasing GHG Model Application in Tidally Restricted and Restored New England Salt Marshes. Award Amounts: $250,000 (Total award is $750,000). Award Duration: 01/01/2016 to 08/31/2018.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 3/23. Date: 02/05/17 3. Funding Agency: Florida State Office of Insurance Regulations (OIR) and International Hurricane Research Center (FIU Account No. 800003613; WVU Account No. 1006967R) PIs: Shahid Hamid (Lead, FIU School of Business); Omar I. Abdul-Aziz (WVU); Keqi Zhang (FIU Earth & Environment); Shu-Ching Chen (FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences); Steve Cocke (Florida State University Center for OceanAtmospheric Prediction Studies); Kurtis Gurley (University of Florida Civil & Coastal Engineering); Jean-Paul Pinelli (Florida Institute of Technology Civil Engineering); Andrew Kennedy (University of Notre Dame Civil & Environmental Engineering). Project Title: “Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model: Enhancements to Estimate Losses from Storm Surge and Flooding.” Dr. Abdul-Aziz is the PI for the freshwater (rainfallfed) flood modeling in large-scale urban-natural basins during extreme climate events. Award Amounts: $533,435 (Total award is around $4.0 million). Award Duration: 08/01/2013 – 06/30/2017. Completed Projects (total $294,016) 1. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) Environmental Sustainability (NSF Award No. 1561941/1336911; FIU Account No. 800002870; WVU Account No. 1006849R). PI (single): Omar I. Abdul-Aziz. Project Title: Investigation of Wetland Biogeochemical Similitudes and Scaling for Robust Predictions of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Sequestration. Award Amounts: $146,169. Award Duration: 09/01/2013 to 08/31/2016. 2. Funding Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Estuarine Research Reserve System Science Collaborative Program (NOAA Grant No. NA09NOS4190153; NERRA Agreement No. 3-2011; FIU Account No. 800001756). Collaborative PIs: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz (FIU); Jianwu Tang (Marine Biological Laboratory, MA); Kevin Kroeger (USGS Woods Hole, MA); Serena Moseman-Valtierra, (University of Rhode Island); Stephen Emmett-Mattox (Restore America’s Estuary). Project Title: Carbon Management in Coastal Wetlands: Quantifying Carbon Storage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Tidal Wetlands to Support Development of a Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Economic Assessment. Award Amounts: $114,172 (Total award is $1.3 million). Award Duration: 11/15/2011 to 06/30/2015. 3. Funding Agency: US Department of Energy (DOE) through the FIU Applied Research Center (DOE Grant No. DE-EM0000598; FIU Account No. 800005730) Subproject PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz; Lead PI: Leonel Lagos (FIU ARC)

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 4/23. Date: 02/05/17 Project Title: “Developing a hydrologic model to predict fate and transport of reactive contaminants in the Savannah River Basin, Georgia, U.S.A.” Award Amounts: $33,675. Award Duration: 10/27/2014 – 05/17/2015. Grant Proposals (pending or unfunded) 1. Project Title: Ecological Similitude and Scaling for Robust Modeling and Predictions of Ecosystem Carbon, Water and Energy Fluxes. PI (single): Omar I. Abdul-Aziz. Funding Agency: NSF; Amounts: $299,999; Date of Submission: October 2016. 2. Project Title: CRISP Type 2: Collaborative Research: Organizing Decentralized Resilience in Critical Interdependent-Infrastructure Systems and Processes (ORDERCRISP). Collaborative PIs: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz (WVU Civil & Environmental Engineering); Pallab Mozumder (FIU Dept. of Economics, and the Dept. of Earth & Environment); Christopher Kuhlman (Virginia Tech Bioinformatics Institute); Joost Santos (The George Washington University Dept. of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering). Co-PIs: Nafisa Halim (Boston University Department of Global Health); Stephen M Rose (University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs); Anil Kumar S Vullikanti (Virginia Tech Bioinformatics Institute and the Dept. of Computer Science). Funding Agency: National Science Foundation; Amounts: $2,499,999; Date of Submission: March 2016. 3. Project Title: Coastal SEES: Collaborative Research: Optimizing water resources for ecosystem-based adaptation strategies under changing coastal stressors in the Caribbean. Collaborative PIs: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz (WVU Civil & Environmental Engineering); Tiffany Troxler (FIU Sea Level Solutions Center and Department of Biological Sciences); William H McDowell (University of New Hampshire Natural Resources and the Environment); Co-PIs: Shu-Ching Chen (FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences); Kevin Grove (FIU Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies); Shahin Vassigh (FIU Dept. of Architecture); Keqi Zhang (FIU International Hurricane Research Center & Department of Earth and Environment). Funding Agency: National Science Foundation; Amounts: $1,795,192; Date of Submission: October 2015. 4. Project Title: Climate change and urban flood risk management: Building community resilience through multi-stakeholder engagement. Institutional (sub-project) PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz (WVU Civil & Environmental Engineering); Lead PI: Heejun Chang (Portland State University Dept. of Geography); Co-PIs: Paul Loikith (Portland State University Dept. of Geography); Stefan Talke (Portland State University Civil & Environmental Engineering); Thad Miller (Portland State University School of Urban Studies and Planning); Tiffany Troxler (FIU Sea Level Solutions Center and Department of Biological Sciences); Kevin Grove (FIU Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies). Funding Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Amounts: $299,894; Date of Submission: September 2015. 5. Project Title: CyberSEES: Type 2: Collaborative Research: Cyber-enabled Decisionsupport and Sustainability under Extreme Climatic Conditions in Complex Coastal-urban

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 5/23. Date: 02/05/17 Watersheds. Lead PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz; Collaborative PI: Sartaj K. Sahni (Distinguished Professor, University of Florida Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Engineering); Co-PIs: Sitharama S Iyengar (Ryder Professor and Director, FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences), My T. Thai (University of Florida Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Engineering), and Pallab Mozumder (FIU Dept. of Economics, and the Dept. of Earth & Environment). Funding Agency: National Science Foundation; Amounts: $1,099,464; Date of Submission: February 2015. 6. Project Title: CAREER: Investigation of Ecological Similitude and Scaling for Robust Predictions of Ecosystem Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Carbon Sequestration. PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz. Funding Agency: US Department of Energy (DOE); Amounts: $750,000; Date of Submission: November 2014. 7. Project Title: CNH-L: The Role of Government Policy, Markets and Emigration in Success on the Commons: Explaining Variability in Jointly Positive Outcomes in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico. Lead PI: David B. Bray (FIU Dept. of Earth & Environment); Co-PIs: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, Kenneth Feeley (FIU Dept. of Biology), and Pallab Mozumder (FIU Department of Earth & Environment and Dept. of Economics). Funding Agency: National Science Foundation; Amounts: $350,000 (Total budget: $1.5 million); Date of Submission: November 2014. 8. Project Title: Hazard SEES: Integrated Modeling of Coastal Vulnerability and Social Complexity for Promoting Community Resilience. Lead-PI: Pallab Mozumder (FIU Department of Earth & Environment and Dept. of Economics); Co-PIs: Omar I. AbdulAziz, Radu Jianu (FIU School of Computing & Information Sciences), Keqi Zhang (FIU Department of Earth & Environment), Achla Marathe (Virginia Tech Bioinformatics Institute and the Dept. of Agricultural & Applied Economics), Christopher Kuhlman (Virginia Tech Bioinformatics Institute), Anil Kumar S Vullikanti (Virginia Tech Bioinformatics Institute and the Dept. of Computer Science), Nafisa Halim (Boston University Department of Global Health), Yue Li (Michigan Technological University Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering), and Joost Santos (The George Washington University Dept. of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering). Funding Agency: National Science Foundation; Amounts: $2,995,880; Date of Submission: December 2014. 9. Project Title: Collaborative Research: An interdisciplinary approach to modeling evacuation behavior and dynamic decision-making. Lead-PI: Pallab Mozumder (FIU Department of Earth & Environment and Dept. of Economics); Collaborative PI: Achla Marathe (Virginia Tech Bioinformatics Institute and the Dept. of Agricultural & Applied Economics); Co-PIs: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, Hugh Gladwin (FIU Dept. of Global & Sociocultural Studies), Christopher Kuhlman (Virginia Tech Bioinformatics Institute), and Anil Kumar S Vullikanti (Virginia Tech Bioinformatics Institute and the Dept. of Computer Science). Funding Agency: National Science Foundation; Amounts: $500,000; Date of Submission: September 2014. 10. Project Title: CyberSEES: Type 1: Collaborative Research: Achieving Water and Energy Sustainability in Geo-distributed Data Centers. Lead PI: Shaolei Ren (FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences); Xiaorui Wang (The Ohio State University

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 6/23. Date: 02/05/17 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering); Co-PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation; Amounts: $400,000; Date of Submission: April 2014. 11. Project Title: Development of a Multi-disciplinary Decision-support Framework for Adaptation under Extreme Climatic Conditions in Complex Coastal Urban Environments. PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz; Co-PIs: Gail Hollander (FIU Dept. of Global & Sociocultural Studies), and Pallab Mozumder (FIU Department of Earth & Environment and Dept. of Economics); Funding Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Climate Program Office; Amounts: $300,000; Date of Submission: November 2012, 2013. 12. Project Title: Mining and Integration of Extreme Climate data, Hydrology, and SocioEconomic Responses for Sustainability in Complex Coastal-urban Watersheds; PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz; Co-PI: Pallab Mozumder (FIU Department of Earth & Environment and Dept. of Economics); Funding Agency: Florida Sea Grant College Program; Amounts: $300,000 (FIU cost-shared portion is $ 90127); Date of Submission: May 2013, July 2014. 13. Project Title: CNH: Converging Outcomes of Forest Stability and Biodiversity Conservation in the Common Property Governance; PI: David B. Bray (FIU Dept. of Earth & Environment); Co-PIs: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, Kenneth Feeley (FIU Dept. of Biology), and Pallab Mozumder (FIU Department of Earth & Environment and Dept. of Economics); Funding Agency: National Science Foundation; Amounts: $350,000 (Total budget: $1.45 million); Date of Submission: September 2012. 14. Project Title: Investigation of Application of Scaling Relationships in Ecological Engineering; PI: Bruce Wilson (University of Minnesota Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering); Co-PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz; Funding Agency: National Science Foundation; Amounts: $327,191; Date of Submission: February 2012. 15. Project Title: Large-scale Experiments and Hydrodynamic Modeling to Determine Physical Distribution, Dispersion, and Dilution of Petroleum and Dispersant Particles Under Hurricane/Tropical Storm Conditions; PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz; Co-PIs: Arindam Gan Chowdhury (FIU Civil & Environmental Engineering), Manhar Dhanak (Florida Atlantic University Dept. of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering), and P. Ananthakrishnan (Florida Atlantic University Dept. of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering); Funding Agency: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI); Amounts: $999,810; Date of Submission: March 2012. 16. Project Title: Appropriate Technologies for Oil Spill Response, Mitigation and Remediation in Vulnerable Coastal Areas (ATOS-RMR-VCA); PI: Berrin Tansel (FIU Civil & Environmental Engineering); Co-PIs: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz; Walter Z. Tang (FIU Civil & Environmental Engineering); Funding Agency: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI); Amounts: $ 13,09,765; Date of Submission: March 2012. 17. Project Title: Sustainable Water Resources in Complex Coastal-urban Environments Under Extreme Climatic Conditions: Towards Developing a Multi-disciplinary Decision Support Tool; PI: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz; Co-PIs: Henry O. Briceño (FIU Southeast Environmental Research Center), and Seon K. Kim (FIU Engineering Management

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 7/23. Date: 02/05/17 Program); Funding Agency: FIU Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP); Amounts: $30,000; Date of Submission: September 2012. 18. Pre-proposal Title: Multi-site, Multi-approach Comparative Study of Responses of Ecosystems and Coastal Urban Communities to Climate Change Across Latitudinal and Altitudinal Gradients; PI: Assefa M. Melesse (FIU Dept. of Earth & Environment); CoPIs: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, Gail Hollander (FIU Dept. of Global & Sociocultural Studies), Mike Ross (FIU Dept. of Earth & Environment), Pallab Mozumder (FIU Department of Earth & Environment and Dept. of Economics), Fernando Miralles (FIU Dept. of Earth & Environment), Jorge Ortiz (University of Puerto Rico, PR), Felipe Vicioso (Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, DR), Dale Webber (University of West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica), Montserrat Acosta (TNC, Dominican Republic), Shimelis G. Setegn (FIU), Remigio H. Galarraga-Sanchez (Water Science Unit, CEED, Escuela Politécnica Nacional Quito, Ecuador), and Armando Sánchez (UNAM, Mexico); Funding Agency: Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research; Amounts: $700,000; Date of Submission: November 2011. PUBLICATIONS (* indicates graduate student advisees) Peer Reviewed Journal Publications (published/in press/accepted) 1. Moseman-Valtierra, S., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Tang, J., *Ishtiaq, K.S., Morkeski, K., Mora, J., Quinn, R.K., Martin, R.M., Egan, K., Brannon, E., Carey, J., Kroeger, K.D. (2016). “Carbon dioxide fluxes reflect plant zonation and belowground biomass in a coastal marsh.” Ecosphere, 7(11):e01560. 10.1002/ecs2.1560. 2. *Ishtiaq, K.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2015). “Relative linkages of canopy-level CO2 fluxes with the climatic and environmental variables for U.S. deciduous forests.” Environmental Management, doi: 10.1007/s00267-014-0437-1. 3. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and *Al-Amin, S. (2015). “Climate, land use and hydrologic sensitivities of stormwater quantity and quality in a complex coastal-urban watershed.” Urban Water Journal, doi: 10.1080/1573062X.2014.991328. 4. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and *Ishtiaq, K.S. (2014). “Robust empirical modeling of dissolved oxygen in small rivers and streams: Scaling by a single reference observation.” Journal of Hydrology, 511: 648–657. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.02.022. 5. *Al-Amin, S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2013). “Challenges in mechanistic and empirical modeling of stormwater: Review and perspectives.” Irrigation and Drainage, 62: 20–28. doi: 10.1002/ird.1804. 6. Huang, S., Young, C., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Dahal, D., Feng, M. and Liu, S. (2013). “Simulating water budget of a Prairie Potholes complex from LiDAR and hydrological models in North Dakota, USA.” Hydrological Sciences Journal, 58 (7), 1–11. 7. Dorner, B., Holt, K.R., Peterman, R.M., Jordan, C., Larsen, D.P., Olsen, A.R. and AbdulAziz, O.I. (2013). “Evaluating alternative methods for monitoring and estimating responses of salmon productivity in the North Pacific to future climatic change and other processes: a simulation study.” Fisheries Research, 147: 10 – 23.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 8/23. Date: 02/05/17 8. Wu, Y., Liu, S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2012). “Hydrological effects of the increased CO2 and climate change in the Upper Mississippi River Basin using a modified SWAT.” Climatic Change,110 (3-4): 977-1003, doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0087-8. 9. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Mantua, N.J. and Myers, K.W. (2011). “Potential climate change impacts on thermal habitats of Pacific salmon in the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas.” Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 68:1660-1680, doi:10.1139/F2011-079. 10. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Wilson, B.N. and Gulliver, J. S. (2010). “Two-zone model for stream and river ecosystems.” Hydrobiologia, 638 (1): 85-107, doi: 10.1007/s10750-009-0011-7. 11. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Wilson, B.N. and Gulliver, J. S. (2007). “An extended stochastic harmonic analysis (ESHA) algorithm: Application for dissolved oxygen.” Water Resources Research, 43(8),W08417, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005530. 12. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Wilson, B.N. and Gulliver, J. S. (2007). “Calibration and validation of an empirical dissolved oxygen model.” Journal of Environmental Engineering, 133(7): 698-710. 13. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Burn, D. H. (2006). “Trends and variability in the hydrological regime of the Mackenzie River Basin.” Journal of Hydrology, 319(1-4): 282-294. 14. Burn, D. H., Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Pietroniro, A. (2004). “A comparison of trends in hydrological variables for two watersheds in the Mackenzie River Basin.” Canadian Water Resources Journal, 29(4): 283-298. Manuscripts under revision/review 15. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and *Ahmed, S. (2016). “Relative linkages of stream water quality variables with the land use, hydrologic and external drivers in complex coastal-urban watersheds.” Under review. 16. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and *Ishtiaq, K.S. (2016). “Linking of net ecosystem exchange (NEE) with the climatic and ecohydrological variables for diverse ecosystems.” Under review. 17. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and *Ishtiaq, K.S. (2016). “Scaling-based robust empirical modeling of growing season net ecosystem exchange: Application for deciduous forests.” Under revision. 18. *Ishtiaq, K.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2016). “Robust empirical modeling of net ecosystem exchange (NEE) from Florida Everglades freshwater wetlands.” Under review. 19. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., *Ishtiaq, K.S., et al. (2016). “Empirical modeling and predictions of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from the coastal salt marshes.” Under review. 20. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., *Huq, E. and *Islam, M.S. (2016). “Potential climate and land use/cover impacts on the stormwater runoff in a complex urban-natural basin of Central Florida”. Under review. Articles 1. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2013). “NSF funded project examines whether wetlands can mitigate global warming.” FIU Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Fall 2013

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 9/23. Date: 02/05/17 Newsletter/Magazine, available online at http://www.cee.fiu.edu/2013/10/nsf-fundedproject-examines-whether-wetlands-can-mitigate-global-warming/ (last accessed on February 7, 2014). Conference Proceedings 1. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Wilson, B.N. and Gulliver, J. S. (2008). “Food web models for stream ecosystems.” Proc., World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008, Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-16, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1061/40976(316)224. 2. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Wilson, B.N. and Gulliver, J. S. (2007). “Comparative parameterization of dissolved oxygen by an extended stochastic harmonic analysis (ESHA) algorithm.” Proc., World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007, Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE),Tampa, Florida, May 15-19, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1061/40927(243)112 3. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2004). “Climate change impacts and flood risk analysis in the Mackenzie River basin: A modeling based comparative study considering and not considering trends in hydrologic variable.” Proc., 6th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Singapore, June 21-24. (CD-ROM) 4. Burn, D. H., Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Pietroniro, A. (2004). “Trends in hydrological variables for two watersheds in the Mackenzie River basin.” Water and Climate Change: Knowledge for Better Adaptation, Proc., 57th Canadian Water Resources Association Annual Congress, Montréal, Qc, June 16-18. (CD-ROM) 5. Aziz, O.I.A. (2004). “Developing control rules in operating single reservoir system: Use of micro-genetic algorithm.” Proc., 2nd BSME-ASME International Conference on Thermal Engineering, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2-4. (CD-ROM) PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES Presentations at Major International and National Conferences 1. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and *Ishtiaq, K.S. (2016). “Environmental and hydroclimatic sensitivities of greenhouse gas (GHG) Fluxes from coastal wetlands.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15. 2. *Ishtiaq, K.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2016). “CH4 emissions from coastal salt marshes are more sensitive to temperature and salinity than hydrologic variables.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15. 3. *Huq, E. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2016). “Current and future urban stormwater flooding scenarios in the southeast Florida coasts.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15. 4. *Khan, M. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2016). “Comparative synthesis of current and future urban stormwater runoff scenarios in Tampa Bay Basin under a changing climate.”

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 10/23. Date: 02/05/17 Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15. 5. *Siddik, M. A. Z. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2016). “A scaling-based robust empirical model of stream dissolved oxygen for the eastern United States.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15. 6. *Ahmed, S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2016). “Land use and hydrologic sensitivities of stream water quality in complex coastal-urban watersheds.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15. 7. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and *Ishtiaq, K.S. (2016). “Data-analytics for predicting greenhouse gas fluxes and carbon storage in tidal wetlands.” Presented at the ASCE EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, West Palm Beach, FL, May 22-26. 8. *Huq, E. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2016). “Scenarios of current and future urban stormwater flooding in the southeast Florida coasts.” Presented at the ASCE EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, West Palm Beach, FL, May 22-26. 9. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Ishtiaq, K.S. (2015). “A mechanistically informed user-friendly model to predict greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes and carbon storage from coastal wetlands.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18. 10. Islam, M.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2015). “Impacts of changing climate and environment on the stormwater runoff in the Kissimmee River Basin, Florida.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18. 11. Ahmed, S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2015). “Analyzing the relative linkages of land use and hydrologic variables with urban surface water quality using multivariate techniques.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18. 12. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Ishtiaq, K.S. (2015) (INVITED). “Developing user-friendly models of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from coastal wetlands.” Presented at the 2015 Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, May 31-June 4. 13. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Ishtiaq, K.S. (2015) (INVITED Plenary). “A user-friendly model for predicting greenhouse gas fluxes and carbon storage in tidal wetlands.” Presented at the ‘Bringing Wetlands to Market: Capitalizing on Coastal Blue Carbon’ Conference, May 12-13, Brockton, MA, U.S.A. 14. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Al-Amin, S. (2015). “Climate, land use and hydrologic sensitivities of stormwater quantity and quality in complex coastal-urban basins: A case study for South Florida, U.S.A.” Presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Austin, Texas, May 17-21. 15. Huq, E. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2015). “Predictions of urban flooding in the Southeast Florida coasts during extreme climatic events.” Presented at the ASCE EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Austin, Texas, May 17-21.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 11/23. Date: 02/05/17 16. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Ishtiaq, K.S. (2014). “Robust modeling of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from coastal wetland ecosystems.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19. 17. Ishtiaq, K.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2014). “Scaling for robust empirical modeling and predictions of net ecosystem exchange (NEE) from diverse wetland ecosystems.” Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19. 18. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Ishtiaq, K.S. (2014) (INVITED). “Empirical modeling and predictions of greenhouse gas fluxes from coastal wetlands: A multivariate data-analytics approach.” Presented at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2014, Portland, Oregon, May 18-23, 2014. 19. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Ishtiaq, K.S. (2013). “Relative linkages of climatic and environmental drivers with net ecosystem exchanges of six diverse terrestrial ecosystems.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-12. 20. Ishtiaq, K.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2013). “Quantitative linking of dominant environmental drivers and fluxes with vertical CO2 fluxes of eight deciduous forests.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-12. 21. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Wilson, B.N. and Ishtiaq, K.S. (2013). “Application of scaling in ecological engineering.” Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, August 4-9. 22. Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Ishtiaq, K.S. (2012). “Scaling for robust assessment and predictions of aquatic ecosystem health.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 3-7. 23. Al-Amin, S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2012). “Responses of stormwater runoff to climate variability and urban land uses.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 3-7. 24. Ishtiaq, K.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2012). “Application of scaling for robust modeling of dissolved oxygen in streams and rivers.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 3-7. 25. Byrd, K., Ratliff, J., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Bliss, N., Wein, A., Sleeter, B. and Sohl, T. (2012). “Quantifying maximum wetland carbon sequestration potential in the great plains for three greenhouse gas emission scenarios”. 9th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference: Wetlands in a Complex World, Orlando, FL, June 3-8. 26. Liu, S., Li, Z., Liu, J., Chen, M., Gleason, R., Grangaard, L, Young, C.J., Schmidt, G., Oeding, J., Davis, B., Zhu, Z., Dahal, D., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Sohl, T.L., Hawbaker, T.J. and Sleeter, B.M. (2011). “Impacts of disturbances, management and climate change on carbon dynamics and N2O and CH4 emissions from 1992 to 2050 in the US great plains.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 5-9.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 12/23. Date: 02/05/17 27. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Mantua, N.J., Myers, K.W. and Mitchell, T. (2011). “Scenarios for climate change impacts on thermal high seas habitats of Pacific salmon in the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent aeas.” American Fisheries Society 141st Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, September 4-8. 28. Huang, S., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Young, C.J., Dahal, D. and Liu, S. (2011). “Simulating spatio-temporal water dynamics of landscape wetland complex for ecosystem services evaluation in Prairie Pothole Region, USA.” South Dakota Water Conference, Rapid City, SD, April 28. 29. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Liu, S., Young C.J. and Huang, S. (2010). “Regional-scale biogeochemical modeling of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wetland ecosystems.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17. 30. Huang, S., Liu, S., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Young, C., Dahal, D., Feng, M., Rover, J., Ji, L. and Wu, Y. (2010). “Monitoring and predicting spatial-temporal water surface dynamics of topographic depressions in the Prairie Pothole Region from remote sensing and hydrologic models.” A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) Conference, December 6-9, Phoenix, Arizona. 31. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Mantua, N.J. and Myers, K.W. (2010). “Climate change impacts on the ocean distributions of Pacific salmon.” International Symposium on Climate Change Effects on Fish and Fisheries, Sendai, Japan, April 26-29. 32. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Mantua, N.J. and Myers, K.W. (2010). “Potential climate change impacts on the ocean thermal habitat area and ranges of Pacific salmon.” American Geophysical Union (AGU)’s Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon, February 22-26. 33. Abdul-Aziz et al. (2008). “Future stream temperature projections for the US Pacific Northwest: Potential implications for salmon habitat.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15-19. 34. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Wilson, B.N. and Gulliver, J. S. (2008). “Food web models for stream ecosystems.” ASCE EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-16. 35. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Wilson, B.N. and Gulliver, J. S. (2007). “Ecohydrological modeling of food webs in stream ecosystems.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 10-14. 36. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Wilson, B.N. and Gulliver, J. S. (2007). “Comparative parameterization of dissolved oxygen by an extended stochastic harmonic analysis (ESHA) algorithm.” ASCE EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Tampa, Florida, May 15-19. 37. Abdul-Aziz, O.I., and Wilson, B.N. (2006). “Dissolved oxygen (DO) interpolation and extrapolation.” 14th National Nonpoint Source Monitoring Workshop: Measuring Project and Program Effectiveness, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 24-28.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 13/23. Date: 02/05/17 38. Burn, D. H., Abdul-Aziz, O.I. and Pietroniro, A. (2004). “Trends in hydrological variables for two watersheds in the Mackenzie River basin.” Water and Climate Change: Knowledge for Better Adaptation, 57th Canadian Water Resources Association Annual Congress, Montréal, Qc, June 16-18. Invited Talks and Seminars at Other Institutions/Departments 1. “Ecological-Water Resources Engineering: An interdisciplinary research-education platform for environmental sustainability.” Presented at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, March 30, 2016. 2. “Data-analytics and data-based mechanistic modeling of wetland GHG fluxes and carbon storage.” Presented at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Land Carbon Workshop, USGS Water Science Center, Raleigh, NC, October 28, 2015. 3. “Ecological-Water Resources Engineering: An interdisciplinary research-education platform for environmental sustainability.” Presented at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, March 11, 2015. 4. “Robust modeling of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from coastal wetland ecosystems.” Presented at the Blue Carbon Workshop, Wells, Maine, December 5, 2014. 5. “Large-scale modeling of urban stormwater runoff in Florida”. Presented at the City of Ft. Lauderdale Workshop, Florida, October 29, 2014. 6. “Climate, land use and hydrologic sensitivities of stormwater quantity and quality in a complex coastal-urban watershed”. Presented at the USAID-WAWASH Study Tour for the Ghana Community Water and Sanitation Agency, FIU, September 9, 2014. 7. “Ecological Engineering at local to global scales: Approaches for sustainable water resources and infrastructure.” Presented at the South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL, October 3, 2012. 8. “Ecological Engineering for sustainable water resources at variable scales.” Presented at the Broward County Environmental Lab, Devi, FL, July 17, 2012. 9. “Sustainable developments for coastal communities under the changing environment.” Presented at the Department of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering, SeaTech, Florida Atlantic University, February 14, 2012. 10. “Ecological Engineering for sustainable water resources: A trans-disciplinary approach.” Presented at the Department of Earth & Environment, Florida International University, January 18, 2012. 11. “Ecological Engineering for sustainable water resources.” Presented at the CNRPrinceton workshop series: Next Frontiers in Hydrology conference, Miami, FL, January 9-11, 2012. 12. “Ecological-hydrological engineering at local to global scales: Approaches for sustainable water resources and infrastructures.” Presented at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, April 27 and September 2, 2011.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 14/23. Date: 02/05/17 13. “Ecological Engineering: Platform for a holistic approach towards sustainable water resources and green watershed infrastructures.” Presented at the Department of Bioresources Engineering, University of Delaware, May 13, 2010. 14. “Ecohydrology of unit river ecosystems.” Presented at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, March 16, 2010. 15. “Large-scale biogeochemical modeling of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from wetland ecosystems.” Presented at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, March 25, 2010. 16. “Ecohydrology and ecological engineering: Concepts towards obtaining sustainable water structures and watershed infrastructures.” Presented at the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, October 21, 2009. 17. “Biogeochemical modeling: A tool for guidance under changing climate, population, land use, etc.” Presented to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, October 29, 2009. OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1. Dr. Abdul-Aziz developed a first of its kind, mechanistically informed, Excel-based userfriendly empirical modeling software to predict the GHG fluxes (CO2 and CH4) and carbon storage of coastal wetlands, considering Waquoit Bay as a case study. The tool is applicable to similar environmental regimes in New England and beyond. The software is open-access and available at http://www.waquoitbayreserve.org/research-monitoring/saltmarsh-carbon-project/. 2. Based on Dr. Abdul-Aziz’s research on “Wetland carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions modeling and management” with a NOAA funded project, a YouTube video was published in order to increase scientific and public awareness and knowledge of wetland carbon sequestration as a global warming mitigation strategy. The video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRgUSE6dTg4. 3. Video of Dr. Abdul-Aziz demonstrating wetland GHG model development and applications was posted on YouTube for broader disseminations (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffr4qlYdxTw). A follow-up panel discussion was also posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRrsF9HkcQg. 4. Dr. Abdul-Aziz’s NOAA-NERRS funded project “Wetland carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions modeling and management” has developed a high school STEM curriculum on “Bringing Wetlands to Market”. The curriculum includes the topics of carbon sequestration and carbon cycle, salt marsh values including the concept of Blue Carbon, the nitrogen cycle, and sea level rise. It has engineering activities as well as a whole write up on doing an “Adopt-a-Wetland” stewardship/field study activity. See http://wbnerrwetlandscarbon.net/teachers/ for details. 5. Based on Dr. Abdul-Aziz’s and other collaborative investigators’ NOAA funded project of “Carbon Management in Coastal Wetlands”, an article entitled “Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Awarded Grant” was published in the October

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 15/23. Date: 02/05/17 2011 issue of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) newsletter. The article highlighted the goal and objectives of the project to collect field data, as well as to compute and predict the carbon storage and GHG fluxes of coastal wetland ecosystems, examining their role in climate change mitigations. 6. Based on Dr. Abdul-Aziz’s and other collaborative investigators’ NOAA funded project of “Carbon Management in Coastal Wetlands”, a press release entitled “NERRS Grant Funds Critical Research into Salt Marshes, Climate Change” was published in the October 2011 by the reputed NGO, Restore America’s Estuary (RAE) (available online at http://myemail.constantcontact.com/NERRS-Grant-Funds-Critical-Research-into-SaltMarshes--Climate-Change.html?soid=1101973164694&aid=yv7ELsAJEbI; last accessed on February 10, 2014). The article highlighted the goal and objectives of the project to collect field data, as well as to compute and predict the carbon storage and GHG fluxes of coastal wetland ecosystems, examining their role in climate change mitigations. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Aug 2015 – present: Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; Aug 2011-Aug 2015: Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL. Summary: Developed a highly interdisciplinary research and teaching platform, “Ecological-Water Resources Engineering Lab (EWREL)” (see http://www.ewrel.fiu.edu/about/), incorporating topics related to the coupled humannatural systems and sustainability sciences/engineering from at-site to regional to global scales. The research emphasizes the hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological aspects of water resources engineering. Specific research activities include developing robust, user-friendly models to predict and assess (i) wetland and forest greenhouse gas fluxes and carbon sequestration; (ii) stream/river water quality and ecosystem health; and (iii) urban stormwater flooding and drainage sustainability under extreme climates. Specific educational activities include development and teaching of inductive learning based graduate and undergraduate courses, involving graduate, undergraduate and high school students (and teachers) into the cutting edge research of ecological-water resources engineering. The long-term research goal is to formulate appropriate Ecological Engineering principles and guidelines by incorporating biological, ecological, and socio-economical sciences into the traditional physical/chemical science based water resources engineering for achieving sustainability at variable time and space scales under a changing climate, sea level, population, land use/cover, and socio-economic scenarios. The long-term education goal is to integrate ecological engineering research and education to train engineering workforce with an interdisciplinary vision and skill-set for promoting sustainable ecological/water resources and environment in the 21st century. Jan 2010 – Aug 2011: USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, USA. Team: ASRC Research and Tech. Solutions (ARTS). USGS mentor: Dr. Shuguang Liu.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 16/23. Date: 02/05/17 Project: National assessment of ecosystems for current carbon stocks and fluxes and potential increases in capacity for carbon sequestration by considering a range of climate change, policy and economic scenarios. Sponsor: US Department of Interior through the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in response to the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007. Summary: Developed biogeochemical models to predict major greenhouse gas fluxes (CO2, N2O, and CH4) from wetlands and coastal ecosystems under various climate, land use/cover and management scenarios at plot to national scales. Conducted fundamental research to simulate the wetland water storage and water table dynamics. Provided a leadership role in model development, calibration, and validation to address the roles of wetlands and coastal areas in national carbon sequestration and reduction of N2O and CH4 emissions. July 2008 – Dec 2009: Univ. of Washington, Seattle Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, and School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Team: Climate Impacts Group. Collaborators: Dr. Nate J. Mantua & Dr. Katherine W. Myers. Project: Responses of Pacific salmon to climate change: Importance of evolutionary versus plastic responses and mechanisms that limit geographic range. Sponsor: Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation through the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara. Summary: Worked with regional-scale mechanistic, as well as statistical, models to predict stream temperature in the Pacific Rim Basins under different future climate scenarios, as projected by the GCMs. Downscaled and analyzed the global-scale sea surface temperature data from history (NOAA) and GCMs. Defining the observed warmest and coldest thermal limits as the reference limits, past-present-possible future reference habitat areas were quantified to assess the potential climate impacts on the salmon ecology in the North Pacific Ocean. Historical and potential ocean range changes and distributions for six major species of Pacific salmon were mapped using ArcGIS 9.3. Potential future changes were compared with the historical changes associated with the natural inter-decadal climate variability of Pacific Decadal Oscillations. Jan 2005 – Dec 2007: Univ. of Minnesota Dept. of Civil Engineering and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, jointly with the Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Advisors: Bruce N. Wilson and John S. Gulliver Project: Stream classification for total maximum daily load (TMDL) assessment using a dimensionless reference reach approach. Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through a STAR Grant.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 17/23. Date: 02/05/17 Summary. Conducted research in the emerging discipline of ecohydrology and ecological engineering, which integrates concepts of ecological sciences with that of water resources engineering to solve environmental problems within the context of ecosystem sustainability. Developed an algorithm for robust scaling and predictions of ecohydrological and water quality variables for a proper assessment of stream health. My publications presented solutions, for the first time, to the fundamental problem of diurnal variability in assessing stream health by collecting grab samples of total maximum daily loads (TMDLs). Developed and calibrated a reach-scale, interacting two-zone (water column and benthic zones) stream/river food web model to predict the long term dynamics of key ecosystem players under different hydroclimatic and environmental stressor scenarios. Jan 2003 – Aug 2004: Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Dept. of Civil Engineering Advisor: Donald H. Burn Funding: Mackenzie Global Energy & Water-cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Study. Summary. Explored climate change impacts on the regional to sub-continental scale hydrological and meteorological regimes and their inter-connections in the Mackenzie River Basin of Canada. Also evaluated the appropriateness of a process-based hydrological model, WATFLOOD to simulate streamflow trends. Published several wellcited refereed articles in reputed journals and conference proceedings. Sept – Dec 2002: Dalhousie Univ., Canada Dept. of Civil Engineering Summary. Reviewed the potential effects of non-revenue water (water lost from distribution networks through leaky and broken pipes) on roadway pavement. Also reviewed the problem of sand production during operation of oil and gas wells in petroleum industry. Jan – Dec 2001: Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. and Tech. Dept. of Civil Engineering Summary. Based on ambient concentrations of groundwater pollutants (e.g., arsenic) and air pollutants (e.g., particulate matter), census data and epidemiological studies, public health risk and economic losses were quantified for different cities of Bangladesh. TEACHING EXPERIENCE West Virginia Univ. Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering CE 593 Ecological Engineering. Spring 2017. CE 321 Fluid Mechanics. Fall 2016. CE 543 Water Quality Modeling-Analysis. Spring 2016.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 18/23. Date: 02/05/17 CE 695 Directed Independent Study. Fall 2016, Spring 2017. Florida International Univ. Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering CWR 6625C Ecological Engineering. Spring 2015. CWR 5140C Ecohydrology. Fall 2012. CWR 5251 Environmental Hydraulics. Fall 2011. CWR 3201 Fluid Mechanics. Spring 2012, 2013, 2014. CWR 3103/3540 Water Resources Engineering. Fall 2012, 2013, 2014. ENV 5905/CGN 6905 Directed Independent Study. Spring 2012, 2014; Fall 2012, 2013; Summer 2012. CGN 4980 FE Review Seminar (Guest Lecturer). Spring and Fall semesters since 2011. Student Evaluations: 88% of the students rated my teaching as ‘good to excellent’. New Courses: Developed 2 new courses at FIU: ‘Ecological Engineering’ (graduate) and ‘Ecohydrological Engineering’ (undergraduate). Also modified 1 existing graduate course from ‘Statistical Hydrology’ to ‘Stochastic Hydrology’ to broaden the scope. Univ. of Minnesota Dept. of Civil Engineering Role: Teaching Assistant (Sep – Dec 2006). Course: Hydrologic Design. Duties: Responsible for teaching recitation components of the class; assisted students with homework and lab materials; graded lab assignments. Univ. of Waterloo Dept. of Civil Engineering Role: Teaching Assistant (Jan – Apr 2004). Course: Probability and Statistics. Duties: Responsible for teaching recitation components of the class; assisted students with homework and lab materials; graded lab assignments. Dalhousie Univ., Canada Dept. of Civil Engineering Role: Teaching Assistant (Sept – Dec 2002). Course: Transportation Systems. Duties: Responsible for grading homework assignments.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 19/23. Date: 02/05/17 STUDENT AND POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLAR SUPERVISION Post-Doctoral Associates 1. Dr. Khandker S. Ishtiaq (WVU, February 2016 – present). 2. Dr. Mehrnoosh Mahmoudi (FIU, December 2014 – June 2015). 3. Dr. Yongzhi Liu (FIU, July 2013 – July 2014). Ph.D. Students 1. Khandker S. Ishtiaq (FIU, 2012 – 2015). Dissertation: “Robust Modeling and Predictions of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Forest and Wetland Ecosystems.” 2. Shakil Ahmed (FIU, 2014-2015; WVU, 2015 – present). 3. Erfanul Huq (FIU, 2014-2015; WVU, 2015 – present). 4. Mohammad A. Z. Siddik (WVU, 2015 – present). 5. Mahmood Khan (WVU, 2015 – present). 6. Hafiz Ahmed (WVU, 2017 – present). 7. Selina J. Sumi (WVU, 2015 – 2016). M.S. Students 1. Filmon Araya (WVU, 2017 – present); Thesis: TBD. 2. Aron K. Gebreslase (WVU, 2016 – present); Thesis: TBD. 3. Mohammed T. Zaki (WVU, 2016 – present); Thesis: TBD. 4. Tasnuva Mahjabin (FIU, 2014 – 2015); Thesis: “Long-term Trends in Magnitude and Frequency of Extreme Rainfall Events in Florida.” 5. Mohammad S. Islam (FIU, 2014 – 2015); Thesis: “Impacts of Climate, Land Cover and Hydrologic Changes on Stormwater Runoff in Central Florida.” 6. Shams Al-Amin (FIU, 2012 – 13); Thesis: “Climate, Land Use and Hydrologic Sensitivities of Stormwater Quantity and Quality in Complex Coastal Urban Watersheds.” 7. Nicole Anderson (FIU, 2012 – 13). Non-thesis. Undergraduate Students (Research Interns) Spring 2017 (WVU): Brittany Brush. Summer 2016 (WVU): Stephen Chen, Jacob Nichols. Summer 2015 (FIU): Arlene LaRocque; Woudeline Lucdor; Shaquon Samuel; Ynaja Juste; Fritz Fenelus; Brenda Dantas; Paulo Lucas; Amanda Santos; Raissa Brito Silva; Antoine Leroy; François Kerhoas. Summer 2014 (FIU): Alysson Kildary; Sabrina A. Mendes; Felipe Monteiro; Milton E Reinoso; Hugues E. Charles.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 20/23. Date: 02/05/17 DISSERTATION/THESIS COMMITTEE (*other than own advisees) Doctoral Dissertation Committees Sharon E. Surita (FIU, 2012-15); Mohamed Ibrahim (FIU, 2014-15); Adelaide Hummel (FIU, 2014); Farrukh Arif (FIU, 2013). Master’s Thesis Committees Venkat D. Gadi Reddy (WVU, 2016), Ye Tao (WVU, 2015); Lillian Mareo (FIU, 2013); Heidi Henderson (FIU, 2013); Juan Guillermo Londono Lozano (FIU, 2011). SELECTED COLLABORATIONS Kevin Kroger (USGS Woods Hole); Jianwu Tang (Marine Biological Lab/Brown Univ.); Serena Moseman-Valtierra (Univ. of Rhode Island); Stephen Emmett-Mattox (Restore America’s Estuary); Mark Green (Plymouth State Univ., NH); Arindam Chowdhury (FIU); Gail Hollander (FIU); Pallab Mozumder (FIU); David Bray (FIU); Kenneth Feeley (FIU); Leonard Scinto (FIU); Shahid Hamid (FIU); Keqi Zhang (FIU); S.S. Iyengar (FIU); Sartaj Sahni (Univ. of Florida); My Thai (Univ. of Florida); John Callaway (Univ. of San Francisco); Jim Morris (Univ. of South Carolina); Patrick Megonigal (Smithsonian Institution, DC); Nathan Mantua (NOAA Fisheries, CA); Katherine W. Myers (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Zhiliang Zhu (USGS Reston); Shuguang Liu (USGS EROS). PROFESSIONAL HONORS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS 

National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award 2015-19.

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Top Scholar Award 2015, Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA.

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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA 1. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2007-08: The most prestigious University fellowship awarded to the outstanding Ph.D. candidates through competition among departments. 2. Sommerfeld Fellowship 2004-05: Awarded by the Department of Civil Engineering to the most qualified graduate students. 3. Tsai Award 2007-08, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota. 4. Travel Grants 2006-07, 2007-08 from the Department of Civil Engineering.

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University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 1. University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering Scholarship 2004. 2. University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship 2004. 3. University of Waterloo Millennium Graduate Student Bursary 2003.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 21/23. Date: 02/05/17 4. University of Waterloo International Graduate Student Award 2003-04. 

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh 1. Dean List and University Merit Scholarships

OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 1. Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2007 – present. 2. Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2006 – present. 3. Member, Ecological Society of America (ESA), 2007 – present. 4. Member, American Ecological Engineering Society (AEES), 2014 – present. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE Reviewer of Manuscripts for Professional Journals Water Resources Research (AGU), Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences (AGU), Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (ASCE), Natural Hazards Review (ASCE), Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE), Ecological Indicators (Elsevier), Ecological Engineering (Elsevier), Water Research (Elsevier), Ecological Modelling (Elsevier), Journal of Environmental Management (Elsevier), Applied Water Science (Springer), Environmental Management (Springer), Urban Water Journal (Taylor and Francis), Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (American Meteorological Society). Participation in NSF Proposal Review Process Environmental Sustainability CAREER Panel; Hydrologic Sciences; Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences; Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (EAR-PRF). National committees Member, EWRI Wetland Hydrology Technical Committee (WHTC), American Society of Civil Engineers. Invited member (1) Panel member of the Selection Committee for the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department’s Capital Improvement Plan Projects 2013, 2014; (2) “Tidal wetland carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions model” working group of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010-2011; (3) “Reader Advisory Panel” of the journal, Nature, 2008-2010. Convener, Chair, and Organizer 1. Convener, Chair, and Award Liaison, “B11G (Oral session), B12A (Oral session), and B13A (Poster session): Coastal Blue Carbon: Recent Advances in Measurement and Modeling I-III.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA, December 11-16. (Co-conveners: Jianwu Tang, Ph.D., Marine Biological Lab, MA;

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 22/23. Date: 02/05/17 Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Ph.D., USGS Menlo Park, CA; Kevin Kroeger, Ph.D., USGS Woods Hole, MA). 2. Lead Convener, Chair, and Award Liaison, “B21H (Poster session): Wetland Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Fluxes and Carbon Sequestration under a Changing Climate, Sea Level, and Environment Posters.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18. (Co-convener: Jianwu Tang, Ph.D., Marine Biological Lab, MA). 3. Lead Convener, Chair, and Award Liaison, “B31I (Oral session) and B41D (Poster session): Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Fluxes from Wetland Ecosystems: Implications for Climate Change, Coastal Management, and Adaptation III.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19. (Co-convener: Jianwu Tang, Ph.D., Marine Biological Lab, MA). 4. Organizer of the Fall 2006 and Fall 2007 seminar series at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Responsible for planning, inviting and communicating with the speakers, and maintaining the seminar schedules. Selected Services at WVU and FIU 1. Fall 2016 – Spring 2017: Served as a member of five committees for the WVU Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering — Committee of Academic Affairs; Committee for Lab and Facilities; Committee for Recruiting; Committee of Digital, Media, and Emerging Educational Technology; and Subcommittee on Course Prerequisites. 2. Fall 2015 – Spring 2016: Served as a member of five committees for the WVU Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering — Transportation Faculty Search Committee, Committee of Academic Affairs, Committee for Lab and Facilities, Committee for Recruiting, and Committee of Digital, Media, and Emerging Educational Technology. 3. Fall 2013 – Summer 2014: Served as a member of the FIU “Global Leaning Curriculum Oversight Committee (GLCOC)”. This is a high priority University committee composed of 4 regular members and 1 ex-officio member. Responsibilities include the evaluations and assessments of existing and newly proposed GLCOC courses for compatibility with the GLCOC mission and objectives; recommending rejection, revision and retention/acceptance of any course under review for the GLCOC program. 4. Fall 2013 – Spring 2014: Served as a member of the FIU Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) “Graduate Program Advisory Committee (GPAC)”; contributed to the revisions of the CEE Graduate Student Handbook. 5. Fall 2012 & Summer 2013: Contributed as a guest speaker to present Ecological & Water Resources Engineering research-education activities to the middle and high school students of the Miami region; participated in the FIU’s MIAMI PREP Program and the best STEM camp in the region. 6. Fall 2011-Fall 2012: Served as the Engineering Faculty leader for developing a University wide Interdisciplinary Research Network (IRN) on Climate and Society.

Omar Abdul-Aziz: 23/23. Date: 02/05/17 LICENSES Engineer In-Training (EIT) License # 139542, Minnesota. IMMIGRATION STATUS/WORK AUTHORIZATION U.S. Citizen