Dr Shams Rahman
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
I am a hydrologist interested in groundwater dynamics, surface water-groundwater interactions, and the influence of groundwater dynamics on land surface and lower atmospheric processes. I like to apply numerical models of the hydrological cycle to address my research interests. I am very enthusiastic about it because I see a numerical model as a tool to look into the past, present, and future of our terrestrial system, not as a collection of difficult mathematical equations. I am very interested to apply my knowledge to address questions related to the sustainability of water resources.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Projecting extreme droughts in rapidly changing human-water systems
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2025
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Projecting extreme droughts in rapidly changing human-water systems
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design EngineeringDates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2025
A MUlti-scale Soil moisture-Evapotranspiration Dynamics study - AMUSED
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
The ultimate goal of the AMUSED project is to identify the spatiotemporal scale-dependency of key dominant processes that control changes in soil moisture and land-atmosphere interactions. Soil moisture plays a…Managing organisational unit
Dates
30/11/2014 to 30/05/2019
Thesis supervisions
The impact of groundwater representation in land surface models under current and future climate scenarios in Great Britain
Supervisors
Addressing the challenges of catchment characterisation, model selection and evaluation in large-sample hydrology
Supervisors
Developing a parsimonious land surface model to understand the impacts of climate change on UK hydrology
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
20/04/2026Widespread human footprints on groundwater trends across England
Environmental Research: Water
Application of a parsimonious large-scale distributed groundwater flow model to quantify inter-catchment groundwater flow
Journal of Hydrology
DECIPHeR-GW v1
Geoscientific Model Development
Location, location, location – Considering relative catchment location to understand subsurface losses
Journal of Hydrology
Infiltrated pits: using regional groundwater data to estimate methane emissions from pit latrines
Hydrology
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