Farinaz Gholami

Farinaz Gholami is a visiting researcher in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at the University of California, Davis. Her Ph.D. focused on "quantifying flood risk dynamics impacted by land use and climate change using CMIP6, remote sensing, and advanced machine learning models at Qingdao University in China. She has four years of experience from her work at a federal water and wastewater company in Tehran, Iran, where she actively contributed to various projects. These projects included implementing telemetry for remote monitoring of water distribution systems, conducting network analysis with GIS, and utilizing GIS for emergency response and disaster management. Her primary research interests encompass hydrological and hydraulic modeling, land use modeling, climate change modeling, flood risk assessment, geomorphology and sediment transport, and water resource management. Her research, as part of the Sustainable Agricultural Water Management research group at UC Davis, will focus on hydrologic and agricultural water management research related to groundwater demand management in the Central Valley of California as a tool to achieve groundwater sustainability under SGMA, as well as data management at the Agricultural Water Center.