Ahmed Said

Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of South Florida

Degrees

Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Research was funded by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the Inland Northwest Research Alliance (INRA). Dissertation: “Exploring an Innovative Watershed Management Approach: From Feasibility to Sustainability.”

M.S., Statistics, Statistical Studies and Research Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

M.S., Irrigation and hydraulics Engineering, Civil Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Thesis: “Forecasting Models for the Nile River Flows”

B.S., Civil Engineering (structural engineering emphasis), Cairo University

Selected Published Papers

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, 2004. An Innovative Index for Evaluating Water Quality in Streams,  Environmental Management, 34(3): 406 - 414.

Ross, M., J. Geurink, A. Said, A. Aly, and P. Tara, 2005. Evapotranspiration Conceptualization in the HSPF-MODFLOW Integrated Models, in press, JAWRA.

Said, A., D. K Stevens, and G. Sehlke, 2005. Estimating Water Budget in a Regional Aquifer Using HSPF-MODFLOW Integrated Model, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 41(1): 55 - 66.

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, 2004. Physical and Economic Sustainability of Water: New Approach Using the Case of the Big Lost River, Idaho, the Journal of Environment, Development and Sustainability, ENVI 203-04P, 6:1-11.

Said, A., 2005. The Implementation of a Bayesian Network for Watershed Management Decisions, in press, Water Resources Management (WARM1485).

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Terry Glover, Darwin L. Sorensen, Wynn Walker, and Thomas Hardy, 2005. Exploring an Innovative Watershed Management Approach: From Feasibility to Sustainability, the International Journal Energy, Special Issue on Sustainability.

Said, A., M. Nachabe, M. Ross, and J. Vomacka, 2005. Methodology for Estimating Specific Yield in Shallow Water Environment Using Continuous Soil Moisture Data, submitted to Irrigation and Drainage Journal.

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, 2005. Limiting Nutrient and Phosphorus Loading from Non-Point and Point Sources and Groundwater Discharge in the Snake River Basin, submitted to Water Environment Research.

Mark Ross, Jeffrey Geurink, Ahmed Said, Alaa Aly, and Patrick Tara, 2005. Evapotranspiration Hierarchy and Allocation for Integrated Surface and Groundwater Models in West-Central Florida, in press, AIH Journal of Hydrological Science & Technology.

Mark Ross, Patrick Tara, Ahmed Said, Ken Trout, and Jeffrey Geurink, 2005. A New Discretization Scheme For Integrated Surface and Groundwater Modeling, in press, AIH Journal of Hydrological Science & Technology.

Publications in Conference Proceedings 

Said, A., A. Amer, N. Abdel Halem, M. Abdel Wahed, Forecasting Nile River Flows, presented in the International Conference on Coping with Water Scarcity, IAHR, Hurghada, Egypt; 26-28 August 1998

Said, A. , A. Shawky, N. ElMasry, M. Ezzat, M. Hassan, Analysis of Nile Water Pollution Control Strategies: Case study using the Decision Support System for Water Quality, presented in the International Conference Envirowater99 on Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Land Use and Water Management, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999.

Said, A., Water Quality Evaluation Using General Water Quality Index for Freshwater. , presented at the 2001 AWRA/UCOWR Summer Specialty Conference on Decision Support System for Water Resources Management, Snowbird, Utah, June 27-30, 2001.

Said, A. , D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Relation of Land-Use to Total Nitrogen/Phosphorus in Streams,  presented at the 2001 AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Nov 12-15, 2001.

A. Said, T. Glover, D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Water Conservations and Quality Impacts on Watershed Economics.  presented at AWRA Spring Specialty Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana during 12-15 May, 2002.

Said, A., T. Glover, D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Physical and Economic Sustainability: The Case of the Big Lost River, Idaho. , presented at Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems June 2-7 2002, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Surface and Ground Water Interaction in the Big Lost River, Idaho, , presented at AWRA Summer Specialty Conference in Keystone, Colorado during 1-4 July, 2002.

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Water Quality Relationships and Evaluation Using a New Water Quality Index,  presented at the 2002 UCOWR Annual Conference in Traverse City, Michigan during July 23-26, 2002.

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Selective Tool for Best Alternative Remediation Options, presented at AWRA Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during November 3-7, 2002.

Said, A., D. K. Steven, D. Sorenson, T. Glover, W. Walker, and G. Sehlke, Exploring an Innovative Watershed Management Approach: From Feasibility to Sustainability, presented at the 2^nd Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 15-20, 2003.

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Comparisons between the Water Quality Index and the Macroinvertebrate Metrics, presented at the 2003 Subsurface Science Symposium, organized by the Inland Northwest Research Alliance (INRA) and the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), Salt Lake City, UT, October 5-8, 2003.

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Water Balance Model for the Big Lost River, Idaho, 2003 AIH Annual Meeting & Conference on Achieving Sustainable Water Resources in Areas Experiencing Rapid Population Growth, Atlanta, Georgia, October 19 - 22, 2003.

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Integrated Bayesian Network for Watershed Information Management, presented at the Intermountain Section of American Water Works Association, 2003 Annual Conference

Said, A., D. K. Stevens, and G. Sehlke, Surface and Ground Water Interaction in the Big Lost River: How Much and Where Lost? presented at the AWRA Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, November 3-6, 2003.

Said, A., M. Ross, and D. K. Stevens, Water Quality Assessment: Statistical versus Classification Approach, AGU Fall Meeting 2003, San Francisco, 8-12 December 2003.

Updated: 11/08/2005