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Name: Shafiqul Islam
Title: Professor and Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Engineering
Associate Dean of Engineering for Research
Departmental Affiliation: Civil & Environmental Engineering Department
Degrees: Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise: Hydroclimatology and Hydrometerology, Remote Sensing, Scale Issues
Major Awards: Fulbright Scholar
E-mail: Shafiqul.Islam@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/reason
Scholarship & Research: Low Frequency Variability in Fall Precipitation Across the United States from 1895 to 2004, Water Resources Research, 2006WR005623R, 2008 (with D. Small)

"Decadal variability in the frequency of fall precipitation over the United States," Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 34, L02404, doi:10.1029/2006GL028610, 2006(with D. Small)

"Trends in precipitation and streamflow in the eastern U.S.: Paradox or perception?", Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 33, L03403, doi:10.1029/2005GL024995, 2006 (with D. Small and R. Vogel)

"Estimation and Comparison of Evapotranspiration from Multiple Satellites for Clear Sky Days", 103 (1), p.1-15, 2006, Remote Sensing of Environment, (with N. Batra, V. Venturini, G. Bisht, and L. Jiang).

"Groundwater Dynamics and Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: Aquifer Flushing and the Source of Recharge", vol. 228(1-3), doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2005.11.025, 2006, Chemical Geology, (with C. F. Harvey, K. N. Ashfaque, W. Yu, A. M. Badruzzaman, M. A.Ali, Peter M. Oates, H. Michael, R. Neumann, R. Beckie and , M. F. Ahmed)

"Temporal Invariance of Leading EOFs for Western United States Precipitation Over a  Range of Scales", 2006, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D07108, doi:10.1029/2005JD005876. (with D. Small)

"A precipitation dipole in eastern North America", 2006, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L21703, doi:10.1029/2006GL027500 (with A. Jutla and D. Small)

"Estimation of Net Radiation Using MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometrer) Terra Data", 97: 52-67, 2005, Remote Sensing of Environment, (with G. Bisht, V.Venturini, and L. Jiang).

“Comparison of evaporative fractions estimated from AVHRR and MODIS sensors overSouth Florida”, 93: (2004): 77-86, Remote Sensing of Environment, (with V.Venturini, G. Bisht, and L. Jiang).

“Towards the Uncertainty of Surface Fluxes Estimation and Implications for Using a Simplified Approach With Remote Sensing Data”, 30(5): 769-787, 2004, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (with Jiang, L.,and Carlson, T.).

“Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh”, 298: 1602-1606, Science, 2002 (with C. Harvey, C. Swartz, A. B. M. Badruzzaman, N. Keon, W. Yu, M. Ali, J. Jay, R. Beckie, V. Niedan, D. Brabander, P. Oates, K. Ashfaque, H. Hemond, and M. F. Ahmed).

“Estimation of Surface Evaporation Map over Southern Great Plains Using Remote Sensing Data”, 37(2): 329-340, Water Resources Research, 2001. (with Jiang, L.)

"Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of Rainfall and Stream Flow Time Series", 105(D23): 29,165-29,172, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2000. (with Matsoukas, C., and Rodriguez-Iturbe, I)

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