Civil Engineering Quality

Mohammad Nayeb Yazdi, Ph.D.,

Water Resources Engineer

**** ******* ******* **, ******** Beach, VA, 23455 *******@**.***

Phone: 540-***-****

Professional Preparation

Academic and Professional Experiences

Work on two projects funded by the City of Virginia Beach, Department of Public Works: 2018 – 2020

“Assessing the role of urban land use characteristics on stormwater quality”. The task was to provide technical services for runoff quality monitoring for selected urban land uses in Virginia Beach. My Role and Responsibilities:

1. Writing Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) for the project. 2. Installing Auto-samplers, rain gages, and area velocity sensors for multiple land uses. 3. Collecting stormwater samples after each storm event. 4. Analysis water samples in the laboratory to measure pollutants (Phosphorous, Nitrogen and Sediment). 5. Developing a SWMM model for each catchment and calibrating model for hydrology and water quality. 6. Developing a watershed pollutant loads for coastal urban areas.

“Assessing the ability of a retention pond to treat nutrients and sediment”. The task was to provide technical services for water quality monitoring for selected retention pond in Virginia Beach. My Role and Responsibilities:

1. Writing Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) for the project. 2. Installing Auto-samplers, rain gages, and area velocity sensors for the inlets and outlet. 3. Developing a SWMM model for the pond and calibrating the model for hydrology and water quality. Work on a project funded by Clean WateR3 and Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station: 2017– 2018

“Evaluating water quality of storm and irrigation runoff from a container nursery”. The task was to monitor runoff quality for a container nursery.

My Role and Responsibilities:

1. Installing Auto-samplers, rain gages, and flume at the outlet of a production area in that nursery. 2. Collecting irrigation and storm runoff for several events. 3. Analysis water samples in the laboratory to measure pollutants (Phosphorous, Nitrogen and Sediment). 4. Developing a SWMM models for the nursery and calibrating models for hydrology and water quality. Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2016– 2020

• Developing an annual pollutant loads for coastal urban and agricultural areas.

• Assessing the performance of HSPF and SWMM for simulating streamflow in urban watersheds.

• Preparing proposals on “Assessing Holistic Solutions for Mitigating the Water Quality Impacts of Land Use Change and Sea Level Rise within Coastal Plain Watersheds”.

• Serving as an instructor in several ASCE/Virginia Tech Joint SWMM Workshops

• Ph.D. Water Resources Engineering, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA, USA. Supervisors: Dr. David Sample (*******@**.***) & Dr. Durelle Scott

(******@**.***)

2016 – 2020

• M.S. Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran. Supervisor: Dr. Arhami

(******@******.***).

2010 – 2012

• B.S. Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mazandaran, Babol, Iran. Supervisors: Dr. Haghighi (********@***.**.**). 2005 – 2010

Workshops

Technical Skills

• Watershed Models: SWMM, HSPF

• Air Pollution Control Models: AERMOD, CALINE4, CT-EMFAC

• Other models: ArcGIS

• Programming Languages: R

• Desktop Applications: LaTex, EndNote, MENDELEY, Microsoft Office Professional and Scholarly Affiliations

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Member, 2016-Present

• American Ecological Engineering Society" (AEES), Member, 2018-Present

• Virginia Lakes and Watershed Association (VLWA), Member, 2020 Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Nayeb Yazdi, M., Ketabchy, M., Sample, D., Scott, D., Liao, H. (2019). “An evaluation of HSPF and SWMM for simulating streamflow regimes in an urban watershed". Environmental Modelling & Software. 118, 211-225.

• Nayeb Yazdi, M., Sample, D., Scott, D., Owen, J., Ketabchy, M., Alamdari, N. (2019) “Water quality characterization of storm and irrigation runoff from a container nursery”. Science of the Total Environment. 667, 166-178.

• Nayeb Yazdi, M., Arhami, M., Delavarrafiee, M., Ketabchy, M. (2019). “Developing air exchange rate models by evaluating vehicle in-cabin air pollutant exposures in a highway and tunnel setting: case study of Tehran, Iran". Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26 (1), 501-513.

• Nayeb Yazdi, M., Delavarrafiee, M and Arhami, M. (2015). “Evaluating near highway air pollutant levels and estimating emission factors: Case Study of Tehran, Iran”. Science of the Total Environment. 538, 375–384.

• Ketabchy, M., Sample, D.J., Wynn-Thompson, T., Nayeb Yazdi, M. (2019). “Simulation of watershed-scale practices for mitigating the thermal pollution due to urbanization”. Science of the Total Environment. 671, 215-231.

• Zhu, D., Cheng, X., Sample, D., Nayeb Yazdi, M. (2019). “Effect of intermittent aeration mode on nitrogen concentration in the water column and sediment pore water of aquaculture ponds". Journal of Environmental Sciences. 90, 331-342.

• Zhu, D., Cheng, X., Sample, D., Nayeb Yazdi, M. (2019). “The effect of temperature on sulfate release from Pearl River sediments in South China” Science of The Total Environment. 688, 1112-1123

• Ketabchy, M., Sample, D., Thompson, T., Nayeb Yazdi, M. (2018). “Thermal evaluation of urbanization using a hybrid approach”. Journal of Environmental Management. 226, 457-475.

• Ketabchy, M., Nayeb Yazdi, M., and Ahmadisharaf, E. (2016). “An overview on Geographic Information System

(GIS) application in environmental management: case study of algae growth assessment in Tampa Bay” The Caspian Sea Journal, 3 (1), 8-13.

• Using EPA SWMM to model green infrastructure for effective design, ASCE, August, 2017, Virginia Beach, VA.

• Introduction to stormwater and water quality workshop, VSU, April 3-4, 2018, Petersburg, VA.

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