Publications

1. Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, Sonia Zehsaz, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2025). “Drought-induced changes in groundwater-surface water exchange at Lake Mead area”. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. Article Link. 

2. Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam, Leonard Ohenhen, Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2025). “Building Damage in Sinking Indian Megacities”. Nature Sustainability. Article Link. 

3. Manoochehr Shirzaei, Shubham Awasthi, Esther O. Oyedele, Mohammad Khorrami, Niviedita Kamaraj, Susanna Werth, Mir Matin, Kaveh Madani (2025). Building Damage Assessment of the March 2025 Myanmar Earthquake, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Article Link.

4. Leonard Ohenhen, Guang Zhai, Jonathan Lucy, Susanna Werth, Grace Carlson, Mohammad Khorrami, Florence Onyike, Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam, Ashutosh Tiwari, Khosro Ghobadi-Far, Sonam F Sherpa, Jui-Chi Lee, Sonia Zehsaz, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2025). “Land Subsidence Risk to Infrastructure in US Metropolises”. Nature Cities. Article Link.

5. Mohammad Khorrami, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Khosro Ghobadi-Far, Susanna Werth, Grace Carlson, and Gunag Zhai (2023). “Groundwater Volume Loss in Mexico City Constrained by InSAR and GRACE Observations and Mechanical Models”. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(5). Article Link.

6. Yao Wang, Mohammad Khorrami, Khiem Tran, and David Horhota (2023). “Application of Ambient Noise Tomography for Deep Void Detection”, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 209, p.104922. Article Link.

7. Masoud Kotlar, Ali Akhtarpour, and Mohammad Khorrami (2023). “A Modified Strain Softening–Hardening Constitutive Model for Plastic Concrete Cut-off Wall”. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2(1), pp.389-407. Article Link.

8. Khiem Tran, Yao Wang, Mohammad Khorrami, and Ruoyun Chen (2021) “In-Service Assessment of Road Sinkholes With 2D Ambient Noise Tomography”. Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT), Funding No. BDV31-977-122. Article Link. 

9. Mohammad Khorrami, Saeed Abrishami, Yasser Maghsoudi, Babak Alizadeh, and Daniele Perissin (2020).“Extreme subsidence in a populated city (Mashhad) detected by PSInSAR considering groundwater withdrawal and geotechnical properties”. Scientific Reports, 10(1), p.11357. Article Link.

10. Mohammad Khorrami, Saeed Abrishami, and Yasser Maghsoudi (2020). "Mashhad Subsidence Monitoring by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Technique." Amirkabir Journal of Civil Engineering 51(6), pp.1187-1204.  Article Link.

11. Mohammad Khorrami, Babak Alizadeh, Erfan Ghasemi Tousi, Mahyar Shakerian, Yasser Maghsoudi, and Peyman Rahgozar (2019). “How Groundwater Level Fluctuations and Geotechnical Properties Lead to Asymmetric Subsidence: A PSInSAR Analysis of Land Deformation over a Transit Corridor in Los Angeles Metropolitan Area”, Remote Sensing, 11(4), p.377. Article Link.

12. Mohammad Khorrami, Mohsen Hatami, Babak Alizadeh, Hedieh Khorrami, Peyman Rahgozar, and Ian Flood (2019). "Impact of ground subsidence on groundwater quality: A case study in Los Angeles, California". In ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering 2019 (pp. 162-170). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers. Article Link.

13. Ali Jozaghi, Babak Alizadeh, Mohsen Hatami, Ian Flood, Mohammad Khorrami, Nastaran Khodaei, and Erfan Ghasemi Tousi (2018). “A Comparative Study of the AHP and TOPSIS Techniques for Dam Site Selection Using GIS: A Case Study of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran”, Geosciences, 8(12), p.494. Article Link.

14. Rouzbeh Shad, Mohammad Khorrami, and Marjan Ghaemi (2017). “Developing an Iranian green building assessment tool using decision making methods and geographical information system: Case study in Mashhad city”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 67, pp.324-340. Article Link.

1. Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2025). Total Water Storage Change in Lake Mead Region. University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7294/29241962.v1

2. Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, Sonia Zehsaz, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2024). InSAR-based Vertical Land Motion at Lake Mead Area. University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7294/26487280.v1 

3. Manoochehr Shirzaei, Leonard Ohenhen, Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam, Oluwaseyi Dasho, Mohammad Khorrami, Jui-Chi Lee et al. (2024). InSAR-Based Coastal Land Subsidence. University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7294/25864435.v1 

4. Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam, Leonard Ohenhen, Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2024). Data for Vertical Land Motion and Building Damage Risk for the Indian Megacities. University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7294/25856260.v1 

5. Mohammad Khorrami, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Khosro Ghobadi-Far, Susanna Werth, Grace Carlson, and Guang Zhai (2023). InSAR-based Vertical Land Motion at Mexico City. University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7294/21935947.v. 

1. Mohammad Khorrami, Ibrahim Isiaka, Mahmoud Reshadati, Carmen Atkins, Sarah Wilson, Claire Becher, Alexandra Oleski, Farshid Vahedifard, Amir AghaKouchak, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2025). “Exposing the Nation’s Most Vulnerable Dams: A Remote Sensing and Socio-Spatial Risk Framework”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024, Washington DC, USA (accepted for Oral presentation).

2. Susanna Werth, Grace Carlson, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Mohammad Khorrami, and Leonard Ohenhen (2025). “A Physics-Informed GNSS-InSAR-GRACE Framework for Water Resources & Hazards Monitoring”. The Geological Society of America. San Antonio, Texas, USA.

3. Mohammad Khorrami, Sui Tung, Thomas Goebel, Guang Zhai, Mostafa Khoshmanesh, Taka'aki Taira, Manoochehr Shirzaei, John Hole, Michael Manga, and Roland Bürgmann (2025). “Insights into the 16-Year Delay of the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake”. CRESCENT Community Fault Model workshop, Portland, Oregon, USA (Oral).

4. Mohammad Khorrami, Sui Tung, Thomas Goebel, Guang Zhai, Mostafa Khoshmanesh, Michael Manga, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2024). “Why was the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake Delayed?”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024, Washington DC, USA (Oral).

5. Mohammad Khorrami, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Grace Carlson, and Susanna Werth (2024). “Seismic Risks Linked to Lake Urmia's Water Decline: Insights from the January 2023 Khowy Earthquake (Magnitude 5.9)”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024, Washington DC, USA (Poster).

6. Esther Oyedele, Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2024). “Disappearing of Lake Powell: Clues and Remedies from Integrated Analysis of InSAR Deformation and Climate Data”. GEOINT Abstracts. Poster presentation at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINT 2024 Symposium, Kissimmee, Florida. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024, Washington DC, USA (Poster).

7. Esther Oyedele, Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2024). “Monitoring Lake Powell: Insights into Water Storage and Surface Deformation from Satellites”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024, Washington DC, USA (Poster).

8. Mohammad Khorrami, Leonard Ohenhen, Jonathan Lucy, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2024). “Monitoring Infrastructure Resilience from Satellite Observations”. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) virtual meeting (Online-Poster).

9. Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2024). “Lake Mead’s Surface and Groundwater Loss during Drought”. The 2024 Virginia Tech Office of GIS and Remote Sensing (OGIS) Research Symposium, Blacksburg, USA (Poster).

10. Mohammad Khorrami, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Susanna Werth, and Grace Carlson (2023). “Anthropogenic and Climate-Induced Drought Impact on Lake Urmia and Potentially Induced Earthquakes”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, USA (Oral).

11. Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, Sonia Zehsaz, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2023). “Drought-induced Lake and Groundwater Storage Decline Surrounding Lake Mead from InSAR Observations and Geomechanical Modeling”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, USA (Poster).

12. Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam, Leonard Ohenhen, Mohammad Khorrami, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2023). “From Hazard to Risk: Subsidence-derived Building Structural Damage in Indian Megacities” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, USA (Poster).

13. Mohammad Khorrami and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2023). “Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts on Disappearing Water Sources”, 2nd workshop of the Inter-Commission Committee on Geodesy for Climate Research (ICCC) of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), March 29, 2023 (Online-Oral).

14. Mohammad Khorrami and Manoochehr Shirzaei (2022) “Investigating the Impact of CO2 Injection in Carbon Capture and Storage Sites on Ground Surface Displacement Employing InSAR Observations and Poroelastic Model”, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA (Oral).

15. Jui-Chi Lee, Mohammad Khorrami, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Pietro Teatini, Andrea Franceschini, Claudia Zoccarato, Jun Ge, Jean-Philippe Nicot, Katie M Smye, and Peter Hennings (2022) “Wastewater Injection, Surface Deformation and Induced Earthquakes in Delaware Basin, West Texas”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA (Oral).

16. Guang Zhai, Leonard Ohenhen, Khosro Ghobadi-Far, Grace Carlson, Sonam Futi Sherpa, Jui-Chi Lee, Mohammad Khorrami, Sonia Zehsaz, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei  (2022). “Quantifying subsidence damage risk to infrastructures in 25 most populous U.S. cities from space”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA (Poster).

17. Mohammad Khorrami, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Khosro Ghobadi-Far, Susanna Werth, and Grace Carlson (2021). “Constraining the dynamics of groundwater loss in Mexico City from Sentinel and GRACE observations”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA (Oral).

18. Khiem Tran, Yao Wang, and Mohammad Khorrami (2020). “In-service Assessment of Road Sinkholes with 2D Ambient Noise Tomography”. Geotechnical Research in Progress (GRIP) Conference Meeting 2020, Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), USA (Oral).

Khiem Tran, Yao Wang, Mohammad Khorrami, and Ruoyun Chen (2021) “In-Service Assessment of Road Sinkholes With 2D Ambient Noise Tomography”. Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), Funding No. BDV31-977-122. Link.

Mohammad Khorrami (2017). “A Guidance to the Civil Engineering Olympiad Competition”. Vajegan Kherad, Mashhad. ISBN: 9789648931945 (Language: Persian).  Link.

• Serving as Reviewer for Scientific Journals (Peer-Review):

  1. 1. 1. 1. Water Resources Research

           2. Remote Sensing of Environment

           3. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

           4. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

           5. Radio Science

           6. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

           7. International Journal of Digital Earth

           8. The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences

           9. Geocarto International Journal

           10. Geo-spatial Information Science Journal

           11. Water Management

           12. Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering

           13. Asian Journal of Geological Research

           14. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Served as the Co-Convener of the induced-seismicity session at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024, Washington DC.

• Served as the Vice-President of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Student Society at Virginia Tech since 2023.

• Served as the Reviewer in the International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy (IMAGE), 2023, Houston, Texas.

• Served as the Reviewer for the Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA) in the AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, 12/2022.

• Served as the Editor of the Journal of “Advances in Sustainable Development” (ISSN 2834-3859) since 01/2023.