Department of Geography

The Department of Geography was founded in Dr. Ali Shariati Faculty of Letters and Humanities in 1957 at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The aim of this department is to foster the study the relationship between human and the environment and to determine the degree to which each has effective impacts on the other. This means that the goal of this department is to help students in the review and analysis of the relation between man and the environment in order to explain the geographical phenomena. Based on this scientific knowledge, the objective of this department is to train students who are able to develop and promote human capabilities for improving living conditions.

The areas of specialization offered in the Department of Geography in the Master’s program (founded in 1990) are as follows:

  • Geography and Rural Planning
  • Geography and Urban Planning
  • Geomorphology
  • Political Geography
  • Climatology

The Ph.D. program at the Department of Geography (established in 1996) covers the following areas of specialization:

  • Geography and Rural Planning
  • Geography and Urban Planning
  • Geography and Geomorphology. More

Head of the Department of Geography
Hadi_Azami
Hadi Azami
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
aazami@um.ac.ir
+985138806784


Concentration areas offered by the Department of Geography
Areas Bachelor's Master's Ph.D
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Geography and Rural Planning (Physical texture) -
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Geography and Rural Planning (Sustainable Management) -
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Geomorphology -
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Geography and Rural Planning (Quality of environment) -
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Geography and Rural Planning (Job Creation) -
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Political Geography -
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Climatology (Synoptic) -
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Political Geography (Spatial planning) -
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Geography and Urban Planning (Housing Planning) -
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Academic staff

Mohammad Ajza Shokouhi
Associate Professor
Mostafa Amirfakhriyan
Assistant Professor
Rouhallah Asadi
Assistant Professor
Hadi Azami
Associate Professor
Khadijeh Bouzarjomehry
Associate Professor
Reza Doostan
Assistant Professor
Maryam Ghasemi
Assistant Professor
Mohammad Ghasemi Khozani
Assistant Professor
Akbar Heydari Tashekaboud
Assistant Professor
Seyed Reza Hosseinzadeh
Associate Professor
Mohsen Janparvar
Assistant Professor
Barat Ali Khakpoor
Associate Professor
Omid Ali Kharazmi
Assistant Professor
Masoud Minaei
Associate Professor
Abbas Mofidi
Assistant Professor
Neda Mohseni
Assistant Professor
Mohammad Rahim Rahnama
Professor
Tahereh Sadeghloo
Assistant Professor
Hamid Shayan
Professor
Hamdollah Sojasi  Qeidari
Assistant Professor
Seyyed Hadi Zarghani
Associate Professor
Azar Zarrin
Assistant Professor

Research

Recent journal articles

Mofidi, A. (2024). Climatic comparison of surface urban heat island using satellite remote sensing in Tehran and suburbs. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), -.
Attaran, S., Mosaedi, A., Sojasi Qeidari, H. (2024). Co-evolution of human and hydrological system: Presenting a socio-hydrological approach to flood adaptation in Kalat city, Iran. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 102 (), 104292-104308.
Zarrin, A. (2024). Assessment of mean precipitation and precipitation extremes in Iran as simulated by dynamically downscaled RegCM4. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 106 (), 101452-.
Minaei, M., Philip K. Hopke (2024). An in-depth investigation of global sea surface temperature behavior utilizing chaotic modeling. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31 (27), 39823-39838.
Kharazmi, O., & Shaddel, L. (2024). Transition of the life cycle of the gold and jewellery innovation ecosystem and development of its future scenarios: The case of Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest metropolis. International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 23 (2), 155-193.
Rezaee, A., Mosaedi, A., Beheshti, A., & Zarrin, A. (2024). Using wavelet transform to analyze the dynamics of climatic variables; to assess the status of available water resources in Iran (1961–2020). Earth Science Informatics, 17 (6), 5499-5519.
Atefe Arfa, & Minaei, M. (2024). Utilizing multitemporal indices and spectral bands of Sentinel-2 to enhance land use and land cover classification with random forest and support vector machine. Advances in Space Research, 74 (11), 5580-5590.
Minaei, M. (2024). Identification of Urban Functional Areas Based on Point of Interest data and Thiessen Polygons for a Sustainable Urban Management. Social Indicators Research, 176 (3), 1071-1092.
Minaei, M. (2024). Deep learning insights into spatial patterns of stable isotopes in Iran’s precipitation: a novel approach to climatological mapping. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 60 (4), 380-399.
Sadeghloo, T., Bouzarjomehry, K., Yarahmadi, M. (2024). Exploring parental risk perceptions in family travel in rural destinations. Tourism Recreation Research, (), -.
(2024). Framework and overview of the Pediatric Spinal Muscular Atrophy Registry Program of Iran. Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, 60 (1), -.

Recent theses and dissertations

Recent research projects

 

Contact Information

Iran, Mashhad, Azadi Square, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Dr. Ali Shariati Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Department of Geography

Phone: +985138796829-33

Fax: +985138794144

Postal code: 917794883