Sajad Soleymani Hasani, MS

To fulfill his long-standing love for nature and inspired by the degradation of Lake Urmia – one of the biggest salt lakes in the world – due to persisting droughts caused by global climate change and unsustainable management and consumption, Sajad joined the University of South Florida to pursue his Ph.D. in Water Resources aiming to play his part in the preservation of globally threatened water resources. Sajad’s research interests are hydrology, water quality modeling, and the application of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models in hydrology. Currently, he is a part of a research project focusing on predicting and managing harmful algal blooms in the St. Lucie Estuary and Watershed – the estuary connecting Lake Okeechobee to the Atlantic Ocean.