Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Dr Ben Jarihani is an Assistant Professor with School of Science and Engineering and a Senior Research Scientist at Mountain Societies Research Institute, at the University of Central Asia, Tajikistan. Ben has over two decades of teaching, research and consulting experience in the fields of hydrology, natural resources management and spatial sciences. Ben completed his PhD through the University of Queensland analysing the hydrological and hydrodynamic condition of water catchments in central Australia. Outside of his academic pursuits, Ben spent eight years as a consulting hydrologic engineer where he was able to successfully manage complex natural resource management challenges.

Qualifications

PhD, Qld; M. Sci., Qld; M. Eng., University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; B. Eng. (Irrigation and Drainage Engineering), University of Tehran, Iran.

Teaching areas

• Hydrology
• Spatial science
• Natural resources management

Research areas

• Hydrology
• Erosion modelling
• Spatial surveying
• Geomorphology

Awards

• CRS SMARSTAT (2019)
• CSIRO – USC Strategic Project on “Modelling land use change impacts on runoff: an improved model of runoff and erosion for grazing systems in Northern Australia” (2015 – 2019)
• SEQ Water Erosion and Sediment Control Program Investigation and Option Analysis (2016 – 2018)
• The University of Queensland Research Scholarship (2011 – 2014)
• The Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) top-up scholarship, CSIRO (2011 – 2014)

Memberships

• American Geoscience Union (AGU)
• European Geoscience Union (EGU)
• Asia Oceania Geoscience Society (AOGS)
• International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
• International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Key Research Publications

Jarihani, A, Callow, J, McVicar, T, Van Niel, T & Larsen, J (2015) ‘Satellite-derived digital elevation model (DEM) selection, preparation and correction for hydrodynamic modelling in large, low gradient and data-sparse catchments’, Journal of Hydrology, vol. 524, pp. 489-506.

Jarihani, A, McVicar, T, Van Niel, T, Emelyanova, I, Callow, J & Johansen, K (2014) ‘Blending Landsat and MODIS data to generate multispectral indices: A comparison of ‘Index-then-Blend’ and ‘Blend-then-Index’ approaches’, Remote Sensing, vol. 6(10), pp. 9213-9238.

Jarihani, A, Callow, J, Johansen, K & Gouweleeuw, B (2013) ‘Evaluation of multiple satellite altimetry data for studying inland water bodies and river floods’, Journal of Hydrology, vol. 505(0), pp. 78-90.

Jarihani, A, Larsen, J, Callow, J & McVicar, T & Johansen K (2015) ‘Where does all the water go? Partitioning water transmission loss in a data-sparse, multi-channel and low-gradient dryland river system using modelling and remote sensing’, Journal of Hydrology, vol 529, pp. 1511-1529.

Sidle, R, Gomi, T, Usuga, J & Jarihani, B (2017) ‘Hydrogeomorphic processes and scaling issues in the continuum from soil pedons to catchments’, Earth-Sci, Rev. 175:75-96.

Koci, J, Jarihani, B, Leon, J, Sidle, R, Wilkinson, S & Bartley, R (2017) ‘Assessment of UAV and Ground-Based Structure from Motion with Multi-View Stereo Photogrammetry in a Gullied Savanna Catchment’, ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf,  vol. 6, pp. 328.

Contact Dr Ben Jarihani via email bjarihan@usc.edu.au