Alireza Rashki

I am an Associate Professor at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran, with a Ph.D in Geoinformatics. My expertise includes GIS, environmental remote sensing, Aeolian/Dust studies, and combating desertification. I use tools like Google Earth Engine, R, ARCGIS, ERDAS, ENVI, and UAV image processing. With over a decade at FUM, I have excelled in aerosol/dust research and wind erosion studies, earning recognition as the TOP RESEARCHER at FUM in 2019 and at the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands of Iran in 2005. Skilled in programming (R, GEE, Python, SPSS, Power BI, ArcGIS) and modeling, I have presented at and chaired international conferences. I developed and taught Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing courses, collaborating with Lund University, ITC, and Lisbon University. I supervised 10 Ph.D. and 36 MSc students, led International Cooperation and Development and Community Relations since 2019, and Education for Open Higher Education Programs since 2015.

· TOP RESEARCHER at FUM in 2019

· TOP RESEARCHER at Faculty of Natural resources and Environment at FUM in 2020, 2021,202

Top researcher at the Research Institute of Forest and Rangelands of Iran (RIFR) in 2005,

· Head of office, International Cooperation and Development of the Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, 01/01/2020

· Head of office, Communication with society and industry office, faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, 13/04/2021

· Member of the Research Committee of the General Environment Department of Khorasan Razavi Province, 01/04/2022

· Member of the emergency working group of the dust phenomenon of Khorasan Razavi province, Iran, , 08/01/2017

· Member of Mashhad air pollution emergency working group, Iran, 08/01/2017

GoogleScholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wopCsm4AAAAJ&hl=en

ORCiD Profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0213-7097

Scopus Profile: https:// www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=43561856700

· 102 Peer reviewed papers, 51 Scopus papers(H-Index:25, Citation:1985), 48 WOS papers(H-Index:25),

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Petrinoli K., Grivas G., Kalkavouras P., Tsagkaraki M., Tavernaraki K., Papoutsidaki K., Stavroulas I., Paraskevopoulou D., Bougiatioti A., Liakakou E., Rashki A., Sotiropoulou R.E.P., Tagaris E., Gerasopoulos E., Mihalopoulos N. (2024). Impact of peri-urban forest fires on air quality and aerosol optical and chemical properties: The case of the August 2021 wildfires in Athens, Greece, Science of the Total Environment, 907, art. no. 168028, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168028

· Shukurov K.A., Simonenkov D.V., Nevzorov A.V., Rashki A., Hamzeh N.H., Abdullaev S.F., Shukurova L.M., Chkhetiani O.G. (2023). CALIOP-Based Evaluation of Dust Emissions and Long-Range Transport of the Dust from the Aral−Caspian Arid Region by 3D-Source Potential Impact (3D-SPI) Method, Remote Sensing, 15 (11), art. no. 2819, DOI: 10.3390/rs15112819

· Poormorteza S., Gholami H., Rashki A., Moradi N. (2023).High-resolution, spatially resolved quantification of wind erosion rates based on UAV images (case study: Sistan region, southeastern Iran), Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30 (8), pp. 21694 – 21707, DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-23611-7

· Broomandi P., Mohammadpour K., Kaskaoutis D.G., Fathian A., Abdullaev S.F., Maslov V.A., Nikfal A., Jahanbakhshi A., Aubakirova B., Kim J.R., Satyanaga A., Rashki A., Middleton N. (2023).A Synoptic-and Remote Sensing-based Analysis of a Severe Dust Storm Event over Central Asia, Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 23 (2), art. no. 220309, DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.220309

· Mohammadpour K., Sciortino M., Kaskaoutis D.G., Rashki A. (2022). Classification of synoptic weather clusters associated with dust accumulation over southeastern areas of the Caspian Sea (Northeast Iran and Karakum desert), Aeolian Research, 54, art. no. 100771, DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2022.100771

· Al-Dousari A., Omar A., Al-Hemoud A., Aba A., Alrashedi M., Alrawi M., Rashki A., Petrov P., Ahmed M., Al-Dousari N., Baloshi O., Jarba M., Esmail A., Alsaleh A., William T. (2022). A Success Story in Controlling Sand and Dust Storms Hotspots in the Middle East, Atmosphere, 13 (8), art. no. 1335, DOI: 10.3390/atmos13081335

· MalAmiri N., Rashki A., Hosseinzadeh S.R., Kaskaoutis D.G. (2022). Mineralogical, geochemical, and textural characteristics of soil and airborne samples during dust storms in Khuzestan, southwest Iran, Chemosphere, 286, art. no. 131879, DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131879

· Simonenkov D.V., Shukurov K.A., Belan S.B., Tolmachev G.N., Rashki A. (2022). Main statistical moments of a number of physico-chemical parameters of tropospheric aerosol in the background region of the south of Western Siberia in the air mass from the Aral-Caspian arid region according to the results of many-years flying experiments, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12341, art. no. 1234137, DOI: 10.1117/12.2644903

· Mohammadpour K., Rashki A., Sciortino M., Kaskaoutis D.G., Darvishi Boloorani A. (2022). A statistical approach for identification of dust-AOD hotspots climatology and clustering of dust regimes over Southwest Asia and the Arabian Sea,Atmospheric Pollution Research, 13 (4), art. no. 101395, DOI: 10.1016/j.apr.2022.101395

·  Rashki A., Middleton N.J., Goudie A.S. (2021). Dust storms in Iran – Distribution, causes, frequencies and impacts, Aeolian Research, 48, art. no. 100655, DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2020.100655

·  Karami S., Hossein Hamzeh N., Kaskaoutis D.G., Rashki A., Alam K., Ranjbar A. (2021). Numerical simulations of dust storms originated from dried lakes in central and southwest Asia: The case of Aral Sea and Sistan Basin, Aeolian Research, 50, art. no. 100679, DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2021.100679

· Moghadam Z.R., Farashi A., Rashki A. (2021). Development of a framework to predict the effects of climate change on birds, Ecological Complexity, 47, art. no. 100952, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2021.100952

· Simonenkov D.V., Shukurov K.A., Nevzorov A.V., Makeev A.P., Belan S.B., Rashki A. (2021). Study of transboundary aerosol transport from Aral-Caspian arid region to the south of Western Siberia in 2015-2016, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11916, art. no. 119165W, DOI: 10.1117/12.2603267

· Zoraghi G., Goraji K.S., Noura M., Rashki A., Bumby A. (2021). An assessment of the ability of a novel mulch to stabilise sand dunes in the Sistan region of Iran, International Journal of Environmental Studies, 78 (5), pp. 759 – 772, DOI: 10.1080/00207233.2020.1864189

· Hamzeh N.H., Kaskaoutis D.G., Rashki A., Mohammadpour K. (2021). Long-term variability of dust events in southwestern iran and its relationship with the drought , Atmosphere, 12 (10), art. no. 1350, DOI: 10.3390/atmos12101350

· Abdollahzadeh S., Sepehr A., Rashki A. (2021). Detecting degraded, prone and transition ecosystems by environmental thresholds and spectral functions, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 22, art. no. 100503, DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100503

· Hamidianpour M., Jahanshahi S.M.A., Kaskaoutis D.G., Rashki A., Nastos P.G. (2021). Climatology of the Sistan Levar wind: Atmospheric dynamics driving its onset, duration and withdrawal, Atmospheric Research, 260, art. no. 105711, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105711

· Emamian A., Rashki A., Kaskaoutis D.G., Gholami A., Opp C., Middleton N. (2021). Assessing vegetation restoration potential under different land uses and climatic classes in northeast Iran, Ecological Indicators, 122, art. no. 107325, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107325

· Karami S., Kaskaoutis D.G., Kashani S.S., Rahnama M., Rashki A. (2021). Evaluation of nine operational models in forecasting different types of synoptic dust events in the middle east, Geosciences (Switzerland), 11 (11), art. no. 458, DOI: 10.3390/geosciences11110458

· Shahraki M., Mahmudy Gharaie M.H., Moussavi-Harami R., Rashki A. (2021). Geochemistry of Bandan River sediments in Sistan Basin (Eastern Iran): implication for provenance and environmental impact on the Hamoun Lake pollution, Environmental Earth Sciences, 80 (1), art. no. 22, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-020-09313-8

· Dumka U.C., Kaskaoutis D.G., Francis D., Chaboureau J.-P., Rashki A., Tiwari S., Singh S., Liakakou E., Mihalopoulos N. (2019). The Role of the Intertropical Discontinuity Region and the Heat Low in Dust Emission and Transport Over the Thar Desert, India: A Premonsoon Case Study, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124 (23), pp. 13197 – 13219, DOI: 10.1029/2019JD030836

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Francis D., Rashki A., Chaboureau J.-P., Dumka U.C. (2019). Atmospheric dynamics from synoptic to local scale during an intense frontal dust storm over the sistan basin in Winter 2019, Geosciences (Switzerland), 9 (10), art. no. 453, DOI: 10.3390/geosciences9100453

· Zoraghi G., Goraji K.S., Noura M., Rashki A., Bumby A. (2019). Identification of sand dune sources in the east Sistan, Iran by using mineralogical and morphoscopic characterization of sediments, Iranian Journal of Earth Sciences, 11 (3), pp. 183 - 195

· Rashki A., Kaskaoutis D. (2019). Assessment of the dust sources over Central and Southwest Asia with emphasis on the Sistan dust storms, E3S Web of Conferences, 99, art. no. 01002, DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20199901002

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Dumka U.C., Rashki A., Psiloglou B.E., Gavriil A., Mofidi A., Petrinoli K., Karagiannis D., Kambezidis H.D. (2019). Analysis of intense dust storms over the eastern Mediterranean in March 2018: Impact on radiative forcing and Athens air quality, Atmospheric Environment, 209, pp. 23 – 39, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.04.025

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Rashki A., Dumka U.C., Mofidi A., Kambezidis H.D., Psiloglou B.E., Karagiannis D., Petrinoli K., Gavriil A. (2019). Atmospheric dynamics associated with exceptionally dusty conditions over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece in March 2018, Atmospheric Research, 218, pp. 269 – 284, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.12.009

· Rashki A., Kaskaoutis D.G., Mofidi A., Minvielle F., Chiapello I., Legrand M., Dumka U.C., Francois P. (2019). Effects of Monsoon, Shamal and Levar winds on dust accumulation over the Arabian Sea during summer – The July 2016 case, Aeolian Research, 36, pp. 27 – 44, DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2018.11.002

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Houssos E.E., Minvielle F., Rashki A., Chiapello I., Dumka U.C., Legrand M. (2018). Long-term variability and trends in the Caspian Sea – Hindu Kush Index: Influence on atmospheric circulation patterns, temperature and rainfall over the Middle East and Southwest Asia, Global and Planetary Change, 169, pp. 16 – 33, DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.07.004

· Hatami Z., Rezvani Moghaddam P., Rashki A., Mahallati M.N., Habibi Khaniani B. (2018). Effects of desert dust on yield and yield components of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.), Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, 64 (10), pp. 1446 – 1458, DOI: 10.1080/03650340.2018.1440081

· Rashki A., Kaskaoutis D.G., Sepehr A. (2018). Statistical evaluation of the dust events at selected stations in Southwest Asia: From the Caspian Sea to the Arabian Sea, Catena, 165, pp. 590 – 603, DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2018.03.011

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Houssos E.E., Solmon F., Legrand M., Rashki A., Dumka U.C., Francois P., Gautam R., Singh R.P. (2018). Impact of atmospheric circulation types on southwest Asian dust and Indian summer monsoon rainfall, Atmospheric Research, 201, pp. 189 – 205, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.11.002

·  Ebrahimi A., Farashi A., Rashki A. (2017). Habitat suitability of Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) in Iran in future, Environmental Earth Sciences, 76 (20), art. no. 697, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-017-7040-8

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Rashki A., Houssos E.E., Legrand M., Francois P., Bartzokas A., Kambezidis H.D., Dumka U.C., Goto D., Takemura T. (2017). Assessment of changes in atmospheric dynamics and dust activity over southwest Asia using the Caspian Sea–Hindu Kush Index, International Journal of Climatology, 37, pp. 1013 – 1034, DOI: 10.1002/joc.5053

· Rashki A., Arjmand M., Kaskaoutis D.G. (2017). Assessment of dust activity and dust-plume pathways over Jazmurian Basin, southeast Iran, Aeolian Research, 24, pp. 145 – 160, DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2017.01.002

· Hatami Z., Rezvani Moghaddam P., Rashki A., Nasiri Mahallati M., Habibi Khaniani B. (2017). Effects of dust deposition from two major dust source regions of Iran on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production, International Journal of Environmental Studies, 74 (6), pp. 991 – 1000, DOI: 10.1080/00207233.2017.1356630

· Kambezidis H.D., Kaskaoutis D.G., Kalliampakos G.K., Rashki A., Wild M. (2016). The solar dimming/brightening effect over the Mediterranean Basin in the period 1979–2012, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 150-151, pp. 31 – 46, DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2016.10.006

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Houssos E.E., Rashki A., Francois P., Legrand M., Goto D., Bartzokas A., Kambezidis H.D., Takemura T. (2016). The Caspian Sea-Hindu Kush Index (CasHKI): A regulatory factor for dust activity over southwest Asia, Global and Planetary Change, 137, pp. 10 – 23, DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.12.011

· Abdollahzadeh Z., Sepehr A., Rashki A.R. (2016). Application of dilation mathematical morphology algorithm to detect transition zone of ecosystem, Journal of Environmental Studies, 42 (2), pp. 411-426 and 28-29

· Rashki A., Kaskaoutis D.G., Francois P., Kosmopoulos P.G., Legrand M. (2015). Dust-storm dynamics over Sistan region, Iran: Seasonality, transport characteristics and affected areas, Aeolian Research, 16, pp. 35 – 48, DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2014.10.003

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Rashki A., Francois P., Dumka U.C., Houssos E.E., Legrand M. (2015). Meteorological regimes modulating dust outbreaks in southwest Asia: The role of pressure anomaly and Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone on the 1-3 July 2014 case, Aeolian Research, 18, pp. 83 – 97, DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2015.06.006

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Rashki A., Houssos E.E., Mofidi A., Goto D., Bartzokas A., Francois P., Legrand M. (2015). Meteorological aspects associated with dust storms in the Sistan region, southeastern Iran, Climate Dynamics, 45 (1-2), art. no. 2208, pp. 407 – 424, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2208-3

· Rashki A., Kaskaoutis D.G., Eriksson P.G., de W. Rautenbach C.J., Flamant C., Abdi Vishkaee F. (2014). Spatio-temporal variability of dust aerosols over the Sistan region in Iran based on satellite observations, Natural Hazards, 71 (1), pp. 563 – 585, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0927-0

· Kaskaoutis D.G., Rashki A., Houssos E.E., Goto D., Nastos P.T. (2014). Extremely high aerosol loading over Arabian Sea during June 2008: The specific role of the atmospheric dynamics and Sistan dust storms, Atmospheric Environment, 94, pp. 374 – 384, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.05.012

· Rashki A., Rautenbach C.J.d., Eriksson P.G., Kaskaoutis D.G., Gupta P. (2013). Temporal changes of particulate concentration in the ambient air over the city of Zahedan, Iran, Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, 6 (1), pp. 123 – 135, DOI: 10.1007/s11869-011-0152-5

· Rashki A., Eriksson P.G., Rautenbach C.J.W., Kaskaoutis D.G., Grote W., Dykstra J. (2013). Assessment of chemical and mineralogical characteristics of airborne dust in the Sistan region, Iran, Chemosphere, 90 (2), pp. 227 – 236, DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.06.059

· Rashki A., Kaskaoutis D.G., Goudie A.S., Kahn R.A., (2013). Dryness of ephemeral lakes and consequences for dust activity: The case of the Hamoun drainage basin, Southeastern Iran, Science of the Total Environment, 463-464, pp. 552 – 564, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.045

Rashki A., Kaskaoutis D.G., Rautenbach C., Eriksson P.G., Qiang M., Gupta P. (2012). Dust storms and their horizontal dust loading in the Sistan region, Iran, Aeolian Research, 5, pp. 51 – 62, DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2011.12.001

· A.Rashki, S. Feizollahi, A. Bayat. 2024.Characteristics of aerosol types and identifying the externaldust sources (the case of Mashhad city, Iran), Second Central Asian DUst Conference (CADUC-2), April 2024,Nakus, Uzbekistan

· Denis V. Simonenkov - Karim A. Shukurov - Alexey V. Nevzorov - Andrey P. Makeev - Sergey B. Belan - Alireza Rashki , 2021,Study of transboundary aerosol transport from Aral-Caspian arid region to the south of Western Siberia in 2015-2016, 27th International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics, Atmospheric Physics,

· A. Rashki – K. Mohamadpour- D.G. Kaskaoutis - D.V. Simonenkov - K.A.Shukurov ,2021. Role of synoptic meteorological circulation in the formation of dust outbreaks in Aral-Caspian sea depressions/deserts: 7-9 September 2021 case. XXVIII Workshop \\\"Siberian Aerosols\\\"

· F. Minvielle - I. Chiapello - C. Bouet - D. Kaskaoutis - B. Laurent - M. Legrand - B. Marticorena – A. Rashki . 2020. Modeling analysis and satellite observations of mineral dust event in the sistan region, 10th International Conference on Aeolian Research, 24-25 June 2018, Bordeaux , France

· Alireza Rashki , Atmospheric dynamics, properties and transportation of dust storms over the southwest Asia (From the Caspian Sea to the Arabian Sea) , International conference on Loess research , 2017-10-08

· Alireza Rashki , SATELLITE MONITORING OF DUST STORMS OVER SOUTHWEST ASIA , The 37th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE-37) , 2017-05-08

· Isabelle Chiapello , Fanny Minvielle , Michel Legrand , Benoit Laurent , Christèle Bouet , Guillaume Siour , Béatrice Marticorena , Alireza Rashki , Dimitris Kaskaoutis , Satellite observations of mineral dust in the Sistan region , A-Train Symposium 2017 , 2017-04-19

· Zahra Abdollahzadeh , Adel Sepehr , Alireza Rashki , Distinguishing Desert Landscapes Base on Eco-geomorphic Thresholds , The 33rd International Geographical Congress- IGC2016 , 2016-08-21

· Dimitris Kaskaoutis , Alireza Rashki , The Caspian Sea – Hindu Kush Index (CasHKI): definition, meteorological influences and Dust activities over southwest Asia , the first international conference on dust , 2016-03-02

· Alireza Rashki , Lakes dryness and Meteorological complex associated with dust cycle over south West Asia , Eighth International Conference on Aeolian Research (ICAR VIII , 2014-07-20

Kaskaoutis D.G , Alireza Rashki , Houssos E.E , Abbas Mofidi , Bartzokas A , Meteorological conditions associated with severe dust storms in the Sistan region, Iran , 12th International Conference on Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics COMECAP 2014 , 2014-05-28

· 2012-current: Teaching professor,

·  about 23 courses at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, see the list in the link below:

http://prof.um.ac.ir/a.rashki/teaching.html

Developer and lecturer in an International MSc Educational Program in Environmental Management and Modelling (GeoNetC), funded by Erasmus+, As a developer and lecturer in the GeoNetC program, I contributed by teaching three courses (Advanced GIS, Remote Sensing, RS and GIS applied in Environmental Change) in collaboration with professors from esteemed institutions such as Lund University (Sweden), ITC, Twente University (the Netherlands), and Lisbon (Portugal), among others. 1/2017 to12/ 2019.

• TOP RESEARCHER at FUM in 2019
• TOP RESEARCHER at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment at FUM in 2020, 2021, and 2022
• TOP RESEARCHER at the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands of Iran (RIFR) in 2005

· Python Intermediate Course

· Data Science with R

· The 10 behaviors of   successful people

· NAPPO, USDA Risk-Based   Sampling symposium and workshop

· World Trade Organization   Sanitary Phytosanitary Agreement Overview Seminar

· APS Workshop on   "Simulation Modelling in Botanical Epidemiology and Crop Loss   Analysis"

· Promoting Critical   Thinking using Active Learning Strategies

· Biometrics training   workshop

· Latin American e-Science   workshop "Turning data into insight."

· Analysis of multivariate   data from biology, ecology, microbiology, agricultural and environmental   sciences using PRIMER v6

· Phenology modelling   workshop

· Workshop on the   "Information -Theoretic methods for model selection"

· Aeolian Research

· Remote Sensing

· Atmospheric Research(Aerosol/

· Science of Total Environment

· Atmospheric Environment

· Geoscience

· Chemosphere

· Atmosphere

· Climate change

· Desert

· Arid Lands

· Ecological Indicators

· Arid Land Management

Applied Sciences

Patrick Eriksson(retirement), (postdoctoral Supervisor and PhD supervisor),

1940patrickeriksson@gmail.com

Department of Geology, University of Pretoria,

Pretoria, South Africa

Hannes Rautenbach (PhD supervisor)

hannes.rautenbach@up.ac.za, Hannes@akademia.ac.za

Department of Geograpghy, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, Faculty of Agriculture and Sciences,  , University of Pretoria, Pretoria,  South Africa.

Mobile: +27 21 252 8967

Dimitris kaskaoutis (PhD co-supervisor)

dkaskaoutis@uowm.gr, dimitriskask@hotmail.com

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, 50150, Greece