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Shafiqul Islam
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow
Education
Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research
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Profile
Professor Islam is the first Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty
Fellow in Engineering at Tufts University. His research and
teaching emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to
understand and model the coupling between land surface and
atmospheric processes, with a particular emphasis on scale
issues and remote sensing. Prior to joining Tufts
University, he was a Professor at the University of
Cincinnati, where he served as Director of the Cincinnati
Earth Systems Science Program and developed an
interdisciplinary graduate program in environmental
hydrology involving over twenty faculty from three colleges.
He has developed international partnerships with the faculty
and students at MIT, Columbia University, Purdue University,
Penn State University, Princeton, BUET in Bangladesh,
University of Tokyo, and ETH in Switzerland, to initiate and
sustain multi-year, interdisciplinary collaborative
partnerships to address contemporary problems of
environmental hydrology focusing on scarcity and abundance
of water. His major research sponsors include the National
Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Dr. Islam's research Group,
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is interested in understanding, characterizing, measuring,
and modeling land surface and boundary layer processes with
a particular emphasis on scale issues and remote sensing.
Understanding of these processes is critical to diagnose and
predict possible climate change due to natural and human
induced factors, and assess the consequences of such a
change for society and the environment. His research in this
area has evolved by maintaining a close link between
observational data analysis, theoretical, and modeling
studies of various processes and feedback between land and
atmosphere. Solutions for contemporary hydrologic and water
resource problems require interdisciplinary perspectives and
his effort focuses on bringing together students and faculty
from various water interfacing disciplines to provide the
scientific information society needs to address these
changes. An overreaching goal of
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is how to conceptually and quantitatively relate issues of
scales within the context of "Act locally but think
globally.". To learn more about Dr. Islam's academic
interests and research projects, please visit
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