{"id":3818,"date":"2023-09-12T23:13:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T03:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/?post_type=team&#038;p=3818"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:25:53","slug":"reza-khanbilvardi","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/?team=reza-khanbilvardi","title":{"rendered":"Reza Khanbilvardi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi, a Licensed Professional Engineer, is the Executive Director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CUNY Remote Sensing of the Earth Institute<\/a>\u00a0at The City University of New York, and Director of<a href=\"http:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Center for Water Resources and Environmental Research<\/a>. He is also Editor-In-Chief of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inderscience.com\/jhome.php?jcode=ijw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Journal for Water\u00a0<\/a>(InderScience Publications). Dr. Khanbilvardi has worked extensively with agencies like NOAA, NASA, NSF, USAID, UN, USDA, and CRDF. Dr. Khanbilvardi obtained his Masters (Environmental Engineering) Doctoral (CE\/Water Resourced Engineering) degrees and Post Doctoral (Water Resources) award from Pennsylvania State University in 1980, 1983 and 1984 respectively.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">His research interest\u00a0 include Satellite-based Remote Sensing Applications in Hydro-climate, Hydrology and Land Processes, \u00a0Surface Water Hydraulics and Hydrology, Flash-Flood Monitoring and Mapping, \u00a0Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources; Snow-Water Equivalent Studies. \u00a0Dr. Khanbilvardi has served as a principal, and co-investigator on many research grants totaling more than $100 Millions sponsored by various agencies like NOAA, NASA, NSF, USAID, US Department of Education, NYC Department of Environmental Protection, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and others.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Dr. Khanbilvardi attended many conferences and workshops, and has more than 200 national and international level publications to his credit and also published 5 books as an Editor. Dr. Khanbilvardi is also a member of various professional organizations and societies like ASCE, AGU, and International Water Research; Association; Water Research; American Water Resources Association and National Ground Water Association and others. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in states of New York and Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1363,"menu_order":35,"template":"","team_designation":[63,53],"team_department":[30,29,31],"class_list":["post-3818","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_designation-executive-director","team_designation-leadership","team_department-education-training","team_department-management","team_department-research-application"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/team\/3818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fteam_designation&post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fteam_department&post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}