Taufique Mahmood

Biography

Taufique Mahmood, Ph.D. Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota. taufique.mahmood@engr.und.edu 701-777-6959

Dr. Mahmood is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in Climate Change and Hydrological Science, Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Award (2022) and Founders Day UND Foundation/McDermott Faculty Award (2024) for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity.

a. Professional Preparation
University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) Geology B.Sc., 2001
University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) Geology M.Sc., 2003
University of Mississippi Engineering Science M.S., 2006
Arizona State University Geological Sciences Ph.D., 2012
University of Saskatchewan (Canada) Snow Hydrology Postdoctoral, 2012-2015

b. Grants & Awards

NSF CAREER award in Hydrologic Science (PI, $442,000): EAR-Climate: Impacts of Recent Wetting on Cold Region Hydrologic Change in the Northern Great Plains (2022-2027).

Founders Day UND Foundation/McDermott Faculty Award (2024)

Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Award (2022)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) Michaela Neal (MS in Geological Engineering): Effects of Recent Deluge and Drought Climates on Water Supply and Security in a Missouri River Headwater Basin (2023-2028).

Outstanding Student Presentation Award (AGU 2022 Fall Meeting): Archambault, AL and Mahmood, TH. 2022. Remotely Sensed Wetland Storage Changes to Climatic Variability and their Implication on Streamflow Generation. AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL. 

Bureau of Land Management (single PI $499,000): Impacts of prescribed fire on water supply and water quality in the Indian Creek Watershed (2024-2027).

Bureau of Reclamation (single PI $437,000): Water forecasting in the Cannonball River Watershed (2024-2026).

USDA-NRCS-ND (Co-PI $489,000): Impacts of tillage practices on runoff and wetland water quality (2024-2027).

USDA-NRCS-ND award (PI $314,000): Grassland dynamics to climatic and land use variability in Three Affiliated Tribes area (2023-2026).

USDA-NRCS-ND award (PI $390,000): Impacts of Tillage Practices on Soil Health, Water Quality, Snow Accumulation and Runoff in the Turtle Mountain Reservation (2023-2026).

North Dakota Department of Water Resources award (PI, $165,000): Science-based Groundwater Appropriation Approach for Oakes Aquifer: Insights from the Cold Region Hydrologic Model (2022-2024).

USGS – NC CASC award (Co-PI, $360,000): Impact of climate-driven water-level fluctuations on recreational fisheries in the Northern Glaciated Plains! (2022-2025).

ND EPSCoR GSRA award(PI, $90,000): Wetland Dynamics in a Terminal Lake Basin Using Remotely Sensed Imagery: Implications to Recent Hydroclimatic Evolution (2017-2019).

ND EPSCoR (PI, $28,000): Traditional Ecologic Theory to decipher past Hydrologic Change. (2019-2020).

NSF MRI award (Co-PI, $106,000): Acquisition of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) System for Profiling Open Channels (2018-2021).

NDWRRI (PI, $1800): Impacts of Recent Climatic Wetting on Distributed Snow and Streamflow Responses in a Terminal Lake Basin (2017).

NDWRRI (PI, $1000): Hydrological Changes Due to Recent Wetting in a Cold Region Riverine Headwaters Environment. (2020).

UND CEM (Facilitator, $90,000): Acquisition of an ICP-OES for the Environmental and Analytical Laboratory, University of North Dakota. 

UND CEM (PI, $90,000): Online course development of Groundwater Monitoring and Remediation (GEOE 419) ($3000).

ND EPSCoR (PI, $84,000):Impacts of climate change on cold region  hydrologic responses and nutrient export. Award amount: $83,700. ND EPSCoR start-up award (2015-2018).

c. Publications

Archambault, A.L. and Mahmood, T.H. 2024. A Remote Sensing Approach to Characterize Cold Region Watershed Storage and its Influence on Streamflow Generation. Wetlands (In Press).

Atashi, V., Lim, Y.H. and Mahmood, T.H. (2024). Cold Region River Flood Mapping and Scour Potential Prediction: Insights from Hydraulic Model using Advanced Autonomous Surface Vehicles. Environmental Processes (In Press).

Maldonado M., Mahmood, T.H., Coulter, D., Coulter, A., Chipps, S., Siller, M., Neal, M.L., Saha, A., and Kaemingk, M.A. 2024. Water-level changes impact angler effort in a large lake: implications for climate change. Fisheries Research (In Press).

Atashi, V., Mahmood, T.H. and Rasouli, K., 2023. Impacts of climatic variability on surface water area observed by remotely sensed imageries in the Red River Basin. Geocarto International, (just-accepted), pp.1-18.

Archambault, A.L., Mahmood, T.H., Todhunter, P.E. and Korom, S.F., 2023. Remotely sensed surface water variations during drought and deluge conditions in a Northern Great Plains terminal lake basin. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 47, p.101392.

Putkonen, J. and Mahmood, T.H., 2022. Twenty-Four Buried Ice Masses Remotely Mapped in Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Geocarto International, 38 (1), pp.1-16.

Atashi, V., Rosati, M., Lim, Y.H. and Mahmood, T.H., 2022. Characteristics of Seasonality on 3D Velocity and Bathymetry Profiles in Red River of the North. In World Environmental and Water Resources Congress (pp. 252-263).

Shoaib, S.A., Mahmood, T.H. and Sultana, N., 2022. The spectrum of uncertainty in flood damage assessment. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 13(6), pp.2337-2352.

Mahmood, T.H.; Putkonen, J.; Sobbe, A. 2021. Spatially Variable Precipitation and its Influence on Water Balance in a Headwater Alpine Basin, Nepal. Water , 13, 254. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13030254

Shoaib, S.A., Khan, M.Z.K., Sultana, N. and Mahmood, T.H., 2021. Quantifying Uncertainty in Food Security Modeling. Agriculture, 11(1), p.33. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/1/33

Rasouli, K., Scharold, K., Mahmood, T.H., Glenn, N.F. and Marks, D., 2020. Linking hydrological variations at local scales to regional climate teleconnection patterns. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13982

Todhunter, P., Jackson, C., Mahmood, T.H., 2020. Streamflow Partitioning using the Budyko Hypothesis in a Northern Glaciated Watershed under Drought to Deluge Conditions. Journal of Hydrology. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125569 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169420310295

Jeannotte, T.L., Mahmood, T.H., Vandeberg, G.S., Matheney, R.K., Hou, X. and Van Hoy, D.F., 2020. Impacts of Cold Region Hydroclimatic Variability on Phosphorus Exports: Insights from Concentration-Discharge Relationship. Journal of Hydrology, p.125312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125312

Van Hoy, D.F., Mahmood, T.H., Todhunter, P.E. and  Jeannotte, T.  2020.  Mechanisms of Cold Region Hydrologic Change to Recent Wetting in a Northern Glaciated Landscape. Water Resources Research,  DOI: 10.1029/2019WR026932. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019WR026932

Rasouli, K., Nasri, B.R., Soleymani, A., Mahmood, T.H., Hori, M. and Haghighi, A.T., 2020. Forecast of streamflows to the Arctic Ocean by a Bayesian neural network model with snowcover and climate inputs. Hydrology Research.  doi.org/10.2166/nh.2020.164. https://iwaponline.com/hr/article/doi/10.2166/nh.2020.164/73322/Forecast-of-streamflows-to-the-Arctic-Ocean-by-a

Mahmood, T.H., Hasan, K. and Akhter, S.H., 2019. Lithologic mapping of a forested montane terrain from Landsat 5 TM image. Geocarto international, 34(7), pp.750-768. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10106049.2018.1434688?casa_token=QaA2oCj3fs4AAAAA%3AaS4B9FfwzNEGtYrrj9x3US06rWIX9W3PKVhA9y8AqV6Lu3y4wOQI_MnuiXlviODpWwqrRbakC8ve

Mahmood, T.H., Pomeroy, J.W., Wheater, H.S., & Baulch, H. (2017). Hydrological responses to dry and wet conditions in an agricultural cold region. Hydrological Processes, 31(4), 854-870. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hyp.11064?casa_token=pmPGbpEh2CMAAAAA%3AqN2or3Fm0Y53yM2uaE-aVupW1VAX-GXzepyoYShGfZn3OCH4ArlfUpEJ7NNaC201se4B8nDJ6Xhrfw

Mahmood, T.H. & Vivoni, E. R. (2014). Forest ecohydrological response to bimodal precipitation during contrasting winter to summer transitions. Ecohydrology, 7(3),pp. 998-1013.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eco.1424

Mahmood, T. H. & Vivoni, E. R. (2011a). A climate-induced threshold in hydrologic response in a semiarid ponderosa pine hillslope. Water Resources Research, 47(9), 1028-1038. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011WR010384

Mahmood, T.H. & Vivoni, E.R. (2011b). Breakdown of hydrologic patterns upon model coarsening at hillslope scales and implications for experimental design, Journal of Hydrology, 411 (3-4), 309-321, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.011. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169411007220?casa_token=fgd4iGPDzXAAAAAA:NYHfX9sTR8FII6ESsvstsvpzKH7GQGhZFt8anGvQBFkz9IR17ASf4ju1sORz_LBSyD0qqGUf

Mahmood, T.H, & Vivoni, E.R. (2008). Evaluation of distributed soil moisture simulations through field observations during the North American monsoon in Redondo Creek, New Mexico. Ecohydrology. 1(3): 271-287. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eco.23?casa_token=yJ4xg1rPzFcAAAAA:bv_UU-UpEvhLboQ2uQpUwOr5qvuaG1EaQLqfPSNKKMDRn9aZvO3qN4GKEbSIsAdiO0LvgjAO0eoIuQ

Vivoni, E.R., Rinehart, A.J., Méndez?Barroso, L.A., Aragón, C.A., Bisht, G., Cardenas, M.B., Engle, E., Forman, B.A., Frisbee, M.D., Gutiérrez?Jurado, H.A. Mahmood, T.H., and Hong, S.H., 2008. Vegetation controls on soil moisture distribution in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico, during the North American monsoon. Ecohydrology, 1(3), pp.225-238. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eco.11?casa_token=aG3TAhNJGJwAAAAA:D9GExTEInuQl-0TBOlb5ybfzqEFX8MHOeB2fljA2F0yB1YJeJ-BZtzUTgPkT1F9NjGLOcmIFrqa3jA

Mahmood, T.H. & Easson, G.L. (2006). Comparing ASTER and Landsat 7 ETM+ at spectral level for change detection studies, ASPRS annual conference 2006, Reno, Nevada. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Taufique_Mahmood/publication/270510050_Comparing_aster_and_Landsat_7_ETM_for_change_detection/links/54ac3e270cf23c69a2b78e60.pdf