Biography

Kazi Rahman focuses on climate change impacts on mountain hydrology. He is interested in large-scale watershed modeling and simulation. Understanding the complex hydrological behavior of mountains is important to have better planning of water management downstream since flow generation processes start in the upstream head water catchments. Mountainous watersheds provide a source of fresh water generated from snow and glaciers, which eventually flows through rivers. Therefore, any changes in the flow regime will have a significant impact on downstream fresh water availability. Aside from this focus, Kazi is building a forecasting system by coupling atmospheric models with land surface models for large-scale basins. Kazi earned his master’s degree in water resources engineering from Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium and Vrije University of Brussels, Belgium. He did his Ph.D. in environmental science at the University of Geneva’s Institute for Environmental Sciences. He is a recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) fellowship to pursue research at Stanford.