Invited Talks
2021 Characterization and Modeling of Compound Flooding Events and Their Environmental Impacts. The University of Texas at Austin- Bureau of Economic Geology. Virtual, Apr 27, 2021.
2020 Characterization and Modeling of Compound Flooding Events. Texas Water Development Board, Virtual, Dec 4, 2020.
2020 Coupled Rainfall-Storm Surge Modeling in Support of Hurricane Flood Protection System Evaluation in Coastal Texas. Texas Weather Conference, Virtual, Sept 24, 2020.
2019 Sediment transport vulnerabilities in extreme hydrology and hydrodynamics. SSPEED 2019 Conference, Houston, TX, Oct 08, 2019.
2019 Environmental Impacts of Hurricanes and Severe Storms on a Highly Industrialized Estuarine System. ADCIRC Users Group Meeting, Vicksburg, MS, May 21, 2019.
2015 From Produced Water to Producing Water. UH Energy Advisory Board, University of Houston, Houston, TX, Sept 11, 2015.
Selected Oral Presentations
2020 A. Kiaghadi, and H. S. Rifai. Simulate Pollutant Releases During Different Types of Hurricanes: Coupling ADCIRC-SWAN with EFDC. 2020 Virtual Annual Water Resources Conference, AWRA, Nov 09, 2020.
2020 A. Kiaghadi, and H. S. Rifai. A Multiscale Study on Hurricanes and Coastal Resiliency from Microbial Communities to Community Health, Social Justice, and the Built Environment. HurriCon: Science at the Intersection of Hurricanes and the Populated Coast, Greenville, NC, Feb 27, 2020.
2019 A. Kiaghadi, C. Dawson, H. S. Rifai, M. Loveland, J. Gaither, and Ch. Rodriguez. Compound Flood Modeling of the Upper Coast of Texas. 2019 National Coastal Conference: Where Coasts and Rivers Meet, Myrtle Beach, SC, Oct 25, 2019.
2019 A. Kiaghadi, C. N. Dawson, C. Do, P. B. Bedient, J. Profit, and M Chung To Sang. The Effect of a Surge Barrier on the Salinity of a Highly Industrialized Estuary. 15th U.S. Congress on Computational Mechanics, Austin, Texas. Jul 31, 2019.
2019 A. Kiaghadi, H. S. Rifai, and S. M. Gunter. Community Health Post Natural Disasters: An Interdisciplinary Convergent Challenge. 44th Annual Natural Hazards Meeting, ISA-RC39 Research Meeting, Broomfield, CO. Jul 18, 2019.
2019 A. Kiaghadi, E. N. Sappington, and H. S. Rifai. Beneficial Reuse of Oilfield Produced Water in Agriculture: Blending or Treatment? A Fuzzy Logic Indexing Approach. 8th Annual Water Reuse in Texas: Extending our Water Frontier Conference and Expo, McAllen, Texas. May 24, 2019.
2018 A. Kiaghadi, and H. S. Rifai. The Effect of Local Runoff from Concurrent Rainfall Events with Storm Surge on Hydrodynamics and Land Inundation. American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington DC. Dec 11, 2018.
2018 A. Kiaghadi., and H. S. Rifai. Water Quality Impacts Associated with Extreme Hydrologic Events in a Highly Industrialized Estuary. Texas Water 2018, San Antonio, TX, Apr 24, 2018.
2018 A. Kiaghadi, and H. S. Rifai. Produced Water Desalination Using Geothermal Energy from Retrofitted, Decommissioned Oil and Gas Wells. Produced Water Society Seminar 2018, Houston, TX, Febr 14, 2018.
2016 A. Kiaghadi, and H. S. Rifai. Natural Attenuation of Indicator Bacteria in Natural Water Systems. 8th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Houston, Texas, Jun 9, 2016.
2015 A. Kiaghadi, and H. S. Rifai. Spatial and temporal analysis of Enterococci indicator bacteria in the Houston Ship Channel. The Southeast Chapters of WEAT and TAWWA Half-Day Seminar, Houston, TX, Feb 19, 2015.
Selected Posters
2018 A. Kiaghadi, and H. S. Rifai. Contrasting Hydrodynamic and Environmental Effects of Different Hurricane Types in Highly Industrialized Estuaries. 2018 Natural Hazards Workshop, Broomfield, CO, Jul 9, 2018.
2018 A. Kiaghadi, A. Govindarajan, R. S. Sobel, and H. S. Rifai. Contrasting Hydrodynamic and Environmental Effects of Hurricanes Harvey and Ike in a Highly Industrialized Estuary. SSPEED Urban Flooding & Infrastructure Conference: Moving Forward from Harvey, Houston, Texas, Feb 22, 2018.
2016 A. Kiaghadi, and H. S. Rifai. Produced Water Treatment Using Geothermal Energy from Oil and Gas Wells: An Appropriateness of Decommissioned Wells Index (ADWI) Approach. AGU 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec 12, 2016.