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Department of Desert Arid Zones Management

The Department of Desert and Arid Zones Management (DAM) started its activities in 2005. The department has a mandate to carry out both teaching and research to address the problems of land degradation, with special emphasis on problems of wind erosion, desertification and proper management of natural resources of desert and arid regions of the country. The department offers high quality education to both undergraduate and postgraduate students with different courses which cover all aspects of arid zone management. The department’s mission is to train experts who have full knowledge about the limitations and potentials of deserts and can play significant roles in management of arid zones. Training these experts, therefore, helps prevent desertification, soil erosion and land degradation, exploit natural resources in arid and desert conditions, and control of people immigration from arid and semi-arid region.

Major Objectives of the Department

  • To impart higher education at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the field of Desert and Arid Zones Management
  • To supervise post-graduate students in planning, conducting, and evaluating students’ theses as part of their degree programs
  • To develop closer link in line with departments and research organizations for mutual collaboration in research/development activities on natural resource conservation and improvements in deserts and arid zones of Iran

  • To promote awareness among students, researchers, policy makers and the society in general about natural resource conservation and management through publishing articles and organizing seminars/workshops on the subjects related to natural resource management More

    Head of the Department of Desert Arid Zones Management
    Omid_Safari Omid Safari
    Associate Prof.
    Department of Environmental Science
    Omid_Safari@yahoo.com
    +985138805451

    Concentration areas offered by the Department of Desert Arid Zones Management
    Areas Bachelor's Master's Ph.D
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Academic staff

Morteza Akbari
Assistant Professor
Alireza Rashki
Associate Professor
Adel Sepehr
Associate Professor

Research

Recent journal articles

Malamiri, N., Rashki, A., Hosseinzadeh, S., & D G Kaskaoutis (2022). Mineralogical, geochemical, and textural characteristics of soil and airborne samples during dust storms in Khuzestan, southwest Iran. Chemosphere, 286 (3), 131879-131895.
Zanganeh, F., Heiari, A., Sepehr, A., & Rohani, A. (2022). Bioaugmentation and bioaugmentation–assisted phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated soil by a synergistic effect of cyanobacteria inoculation, biochar, and purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29 (4), 6040-6059.
Mauriziosciortino, Dimitris G.kaskaoutis, & Rashki, A. (2022). Classification of synoptic weather clusters associated with dust accumulation over southeastern areas of the Caspian Sea (Northeast Iran and Karakum desert). Aeolian Research, 54 (1), 100771-100789.
Sepehr, A., Hosseini, A., Naseri, K., & Gholamhosseinian, A. (2022). Biological soil crusts impress vegetation patches and fertile islands over an arid pediment, Iran. Journal of Ecology and Environment, 46 (), -.
Rashki, A., Maurizios Ciortino, Dimitris G.kaskaoutis, & Ali Darvishi Bolooranief (2022). A statistical approach for identification of dust-AOD hotspots climatology and clustering of dust regimes over Southwest Asia and the Arabian Sea. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 13 (4), 1-17.
Akbari, M., Alizadeh Noughani, M., & Hadi Memarian (2022). Spatial distribution of soil erosion risk and its economic impacts using an integrated CORINE-GIS approach. Environmental Earth Sciences, 10 (81), 10405-10422.
Amir Ebrahimi, Saeed Reza Ahmadizadeh, & Rashki, A. (2022). Variation of PM10 and its relationship with Dust and Climate in Birjand, Iran. Desert, 27 (1), 97-114.
Ali Al-dousari, Ali Omar, Ali Al-hemoud, Abdulaziz Aba, Majid Alrashedi, Mohamad Alrawi, Rashki, A., Peter Petrov, Modi Ahmed, Noor Al-dousari, Omar Baloshi, Meshael Jarba, Ala Esmail, Abeer Alsaleh, & Teenawilliam (2022). A Success Story in Controlling Sand and Dust Storms Hotspots in the Middle East. Atmosphere, 13 (8), 1335-1365.
Sajad Alimahmoodi Sarab, Rashki, A., Mohammad Hadi Moayeri, & Shaban Shataee Jouibari (2022). Investigating the impact of drought and dust on oak trees decline in the West of Iran. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 15 (1583), 1-10.
Saeed Poormorteza, Hamid Gholami, Rashki, A., & Navazollah Moradi (2022). High-resolution, spatially resolved quantification of wind erosion rates based on UAV images (case study: Sistan region, southeastern Iran). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30 (8), 21694-21707.
Pourali, M., Sepehr, A., Hosseini, Z., & Mohammad Ali Hamzeh (2022). Sedimentology, geochemistry, and geomorphology of a dry-lake playa, NE Iran: implications for paleoenvironment. Carbonates and Evaporites, 38 (1), -.
Tavasoli Shirvan, S., Sepehr, A., & Ghaderi, A. (2022). Investigation of Geological Diversity Based on the Degree of Sensitivity and the Amount of Equilibrium and Resilience of the Geosystem Case study: The Eastern Kopet-Dagh Zone). Geoconservation Research, (), -.

Recent theses and dissertations

Feizollahi, S. (2022). Monitoring and characterization of atmospheric aerosols in Northeast of Iran using sun-photometer measurements, satellite data and atmospheric aerosol trajectory models. , ( ). Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Sabet Jazari, Z. (2022). Investigation of spatial and temporal variability of desert dust emission sources in Iran by using SEVIRI MSG images. , ( ). Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Ganjbakhsh, F. (2022). The linkage between biological soil crusts and soil biodiversity over Aridisols. , ( ). Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Mostafa, N. (2022). Compositions of modern and past Aeolian sediments in the east Iran to compare their potential sources. , ( ). Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Namazi, S. (2022). Assessing impacts of the expansion of desertification on the reduction of ecosystem services. , ( ). Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Arbabi, S. (2022). Assessing the impacts of climate change on the movement of sand dunes and its economic losses -Case study: Omrani and Nodeh-Pashang regions of Gonabad County in Khorasan Razavi Province. , (Master's thesis of ). Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Zare, M. (2022). Identifying and evaluating damage caused by important pests on Haloxylon SPP and proposing suitable solutions its control -Case study: desert areas of Yahya abad,Sheshtamad county , Khorasan Razavi province. , (Master's thesis of ). Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Rezvani Moghaddam, M. (2022). Evaluating impacts of agricultural development on desertification expansion trend with emphasis on food security-Case study-The Balajam plain Torbat Jam County. , (Master's thesis of ). Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.

Contact Information

Iran, Mashhad, Azadi Square, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Desert Arid Zones Management

Phone: +985138805466