
Dr Shams Rahman
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Research interests
I am a hydrologist interested in groundwater dynamics, surface water-groundwater interactions, and the influence of groundwater dynamics on land surface and lower atmospheric processes. I like to apply numerical models of the hydrological cycle to address my research interests. I am very enthusiastic about it because I see a numerical model as a tool to look into the past, present, and future of our terrestrial system, not as a collection of difficult mathematical equations. I am very interested to apply my knowledge to address questions related to the sustainability of water resources.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Projecting extreme droughts in rapidly changing human-water systems
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2025
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Projecting extreme droughts in rapidly changing human-water systems
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design EngineeringDates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2025
A MUlti-scale Soil moisture-Evapotranspiration Dynamics study - AMUSED
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
The ultimate goal of the AMUSED project is to identify the spatiotemporal scale-dependency of key dominant processes that control changes in soil moisture and land-atmosphere interactions. Soil moisture plays a…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
30/11/2014 to 30/05/2019
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2025Location, location, location – Considering relative catchment location to understand subsurface losses
Journal of Hydrology
Infiltrated pits: using regional groundwater data to estimate methane emissions from pit latrines
Hydrology
Simulating spatial variability of groundwater table in England and Wales
Hydrological Processes
On doing hydrology with dragons
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water
The topographic control on land surface energy fluxes
Journal of Hydrology