About me

Zahra Amiri

Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Environmental Sciences

University of California, Riverside

Appointments

Graduate Research Assistant, Environmental Sciences Department, University of California- Riverside, Mar 2020- Now.

Natural Resources Management Expert and Strategy Specialist, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, Kabul, Afghanistan , June 2019- Mar 2020.

Graduate Research Assistant, Water Engineering Department, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran , Sep 2015- Jan 2018.

Laboratory Assistant, Water Engineering Department, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran , Sep 2015- Jan 2018.

Education

PhD, Environmental Sciences, University of California- Riverside, In Progress.

MSc, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, 2018.

BSc, Water Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, 2014.

Research Interests

  • Soil Water Modeling

  • Soil, Crop, Water Relations

  • Precision Irrigation Management

  • Sustainable Water Management

Research Description

Coupling HYDRUS 2D/3D and DSSAT is a powerful tool to study water movement and yield under various irrigation management

Agriculture has compelled a great pressure on water resources among other sectors in arid and semi-arid regions. Application of Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) technologies can enhance irrigation water use efficiency and improve crop production by maintaining soil water content within the optimum level, resulting in making the best use of water within the root zone. Although, considering soil water variation for irrigation scheduling can significantly save water through decreasing applied water, deep percolation and nitrate leaching, the major challenge is collecting data in different field-level soil heterogeneity conditions across irrigated fields (e.g., soil textural variability, topography, availability of shallow restrictive layers) which is time-consuming and economically inefficient. Therefore, coupling a hydrological model (HYDRUS 2D/3D) and crop model (DSSAT) would be a powerful tool to evaluate the impact of VRI technologies on soil water movement aligned with yield.

Publication

Amiri, Z., Gheysari, M., Mosaddeghi, M. R., Tabatabaei, M. S. and Amiri, S. (2021). An Attempt to Find a Suitable Place of Soil Sensor for Measuring Soil Water Status under Drip Irrigation System. Information Processing in Agriculture. Accepted.

Tabatabaei, M. S., Gheysari, M., Abedi Koupai, J. and Amiri, Z. (2018). Interaction of Water and Nitrogen on Yield and Irrigation Water Use Efficiency of Corn (Zea of mays) under Drip-Tape Irrigation Management. Iranian Journal of Irrigation & Drainage. Accepted. (in Farsi with English abstract).

Amiri, Z., Gheysari, M., Mosaddeghi, M. R., Tabatabaei, M. S. and Moradian-Nejad, M. (2018). Determination of Suitable Location of Soil Moisture Sampling in Drip-Tape Irrigation Management in Maize Field. Journal of Water & Soil Science. Accepted. (in Farsi with English abstract).

Amiri, Z., Gheysari, M. and Sadeghi-Nazarabadi, H. (2016). Investigation of Physical Filtration and Hydraulic Performance of Geotextile Filters under Wastewater Application. Iranian Journal of Irrigation & Drainage. Vol. 10, No. 3, 307-315. (in Farsi with English abstract).

Amiri, S., Gheysari, M., Trooien, T. P., Asgarinia, P. and Amiri, Z. (2015). Maize Response to a Deficit-irrigation Strategy in a Dry Region. ASABE North Central Intersectional Meeting. Fargo, ND.