Dr. Zahidul Islam - Presentations

Invited Guest Lectures (Online)

CIVE 431 Guest Lecture -University of Alberta

Applied Topics in Water Resources Engineering

December 2022

I delivered a guest lecture at the University of Alberta on December 01, 2022. It was part of the CIVE 431(Water Resources Engineering) course. The lecture was focused on the following applied topics in Water Resources Engineering:

Surface water supply, demand and challenges in Alberta
Lake hydrology, including quantifying lake water balance
Challenges in flood frequency analysis
Alluvial fan flood hazard in Alberta.

CIVE 431 Guest Lecture -University of Alberta

Lake Hydrology: Theory and Application

November 2021

Delivered a guest lecture on "Lake Hydrology: Theory and Application" at the University of Alberta course CIVE 431 (Water Resources Engineering). The lecture aimed to provide a basic understanding of lake water balance in general, for instance, quantifying incoming water into a lake, outgoing water from a lake, and changes in lake storage. Various theoretical and applied topics related to lake water balance were explored, for instance, lake watershed delineation, lake evaporation, lake area capacity curves, etc. Finally, a lake water balance example was demonstrated.

CIVE 431 Guest Lecture -University of Alberta

Lake Hydrology: Theory and Application

November 2020

CIVE 645 Guest Lecture -University of Alberta

Alberta Surface Water Resources, Challenges, and Management

March 2020

Invited Guest Lectures (In-Person)

Guest Lecture, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Winter 2019: EAS 456/555 (Hydrologic Modelling): Hydrologic Modeling to Support Water Policy Development in Alberta. Guest Lecture, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. March 2019

Winter 2017, 2018: EAS 429 (Hydrologic modeling): Alberta Surface Water Resources & Challenges. Guest Lecture, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Fall 2017: EAS 208 (Introduction to Global Change): Climate Change & Water Resources Impact, Mitigation and Adaptation in Alberta. Guest Lecture, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. November 2017

Guest Lecture, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Fall 2019: CivE 431 (Water Resources Engineering): Lake Hydrology: Theory and Application. Guest Lecture, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. November 2019

Fall 2018: CivE 431 (Water Resources Engineering): Lake Hydrology: Theory and Application. Guest Lecture, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. November 2018

Fall 2017: CivE 431 (Water Resources Engineering): Lake Hydrology: Theory and Application. Guest Lecture, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. November 2017

Invited Talks

Lake Watershed Delineation: Methods & Challenges. Alberta Environment and Parks ArcHydro Community of Practices. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. July 2016.

Lake Watershed Delineation: Methods & Challenges. Alberta Environment and Parks Limnology Congress. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. April 2016. PDF

Development of Generic Shapes of Alberta Lakes to Support Water Policy Development. Alberta Environment and Parks Hydrology Community of Practices. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. April 2016.

Water Management in Southern Alberta under The Potential Impact of Climate Change and Climate Variability. PhD Seminar, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. July 2013

Sensitivity of Morton’s ET Model. Alberta Environment and Parks Hydrology Community of Practices. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. October 2013.

Evaporation and Evapotranspiration: Methods and Application in Alberta. Alberta Environment and Parks Hydrology Community of Practices. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. June 2013.

Effects of biases in NEXRAD precipitation uncertainties and sub-basin resolution in the hydrologic modeling of Blue River Basin using a semi-distributed hydrologic model. Department of Water Resources Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Dhaka, Bangladesh. June 2008.

Conference Presentations

Estimating Lake Evaporation for the South Saskatchewan River Basin of Alberta

Conference: Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Conference, Whistler, BC, Canada, May 2022

Comparison of Evaporative Losses in Alberta based on Five Evapotranspiration Models

Conference: Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Hydrotechnical Conference (Virtual), May 2021

Estimating Water Availability and Under Ice Volume of Alberta Lakes using Minimal Data. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Annual General Conference. Fredericton, NB, Canada. June 2018

Evapotranspiration Map for Alberta. GEOSPATIAL Alberta Conference 2018 Edmonton, April 26, 2018

Reconstruction of Area/Capacity Curves for Alberta Lakes. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) 23rd Hydrotechnical Conference. Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 2017

Lake Water Balance: Case Study of Skeleton Lake, Alberta. Alberta Environment and Parks Modeling Workshop. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. March 2017.

Development of generic shapes of Alberta lakes to support water policy development. 36th International Symposium of the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS). Banff, Alberta, Canada. November 2016.

Development of Generic Shapes of Alberta Lakes to Support Water Policy Development. Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) Alberta Branch Conference. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. April 2016.

Lake Watershed Delineation. Geospatial Alberta Conference. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. March 2016.

Development of Alberta Lake Level Index: A Simple Approach. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Annual General Conference. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. May 2015.

Development of a Simple River Flow Quantity Index for Water Resources Management in Alberta. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Annual General Conference. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. June 2014.

Effect of Climate Change on Management of Surface Water of South Saskatchewan River Basin. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California, USA. December 2011.

Effect of Climate Change on Management of Surface Water of South Saskatchewan River Basin. 20th Hydrotechnical Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. June 2011.

Potential Hydrologic Impact of Climatic Change to Regional Scale River Basins of Alberta and British Columbia. 20th Hydrotechnical Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. June 2011.

Precipitation simulation over Athabasca River Basin by MM5. Canadian Geophysical Uniion-Hydrology Section Meeting, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. January 2010.

Effects of biases in NEXRAD precipitation estimates and sub-basin resolution in the hydrologic modeling of Blue River Basin using a semi-distributed hydrologic model. 23rd Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society (AMS). Phoenix, Arizona. January 2009.

Applicability of Delft3D on Flow Field simulation around bottom vanes. 15th Congress of APD-IAHR and International Symposium on Maritime Hydraulics. Chennai, India. August 2006.