Education
- M.S.c. Hydrogeology, Shiraz University, Iran, 2009
- B.S.c. Geology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, 2006
Research interests
- Subsurface flow and transport modeling
- Design optimization under uncertainty
- Groundwater resources management
- Groundwater recharge estimation and water budget calculation
- Assessment of natural and anthropogenic contamination of aquifers
Publications
Journal articles:
• Joodavi A, Aghlmand R, Podgorski J, Dehbandi R, Abbasi A (2021) Characterization, geostatistical modeling and health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in groundwater resources of northeastern Iran. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 37, 100885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100885
• Taherian, P., & Joodavi, A. (2021). Hydrogeochemical characteristics and source identification of salinity in groundwater resources in an arid plain, northeast of Iran: implication for drinking and irrigation purposes. Acque Sotterranee – Italian Journal of Groundwater, 10(2), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.7343/as-2021-502
• Joodavi A, Izady A, Karbasi Maroof MT, Majidi M, Rossetto R (2020) Deriving optimal operational policies for off-stream man-made reservoir considering conjunctive use of surface- and groundwater at the Bar dam reservoir (Iran), Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 31, 100725, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100725.
• Izady A, Abdalla O, Joodavi A, Karimi A, Chen M, Tompson AFB (2017) Groundwater recharge estimation in arid hardrock-alluvium aquifers using combined water-table fluctuation and groundwater balance approaches. Hydrological Processes.
• Joodavi, A., Zare, M., Ziaei, A. N., & Ferré, T. P. A. (2017). Groundwater management under uncertainty using a stochastic multi-cell model. Journal of Hydrology, 551, 265-277. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.06.003.
• Joodavi A, Zare M, Ezzat Raeisi, Mohammad Bagher Ahmadi (2016) A Multi-Compartment Hydrologic Model to Estimate Groundwater Recharge in an Alluvial-Karst System. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. DOI: 10.1007/s12517-015-2084-0
• Joodavi A (2016) Comments on ”Operations optimization of multireservoir systems using storage moments equations” by M. Mahootchi, K. Ponnambalam, H.R. Tizhoosh [Adv. Water Resour. 33 (2010) 1150-1163]. Advances in Water Resources. DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.11.004.
• Izady A, Davary K, Alizadeh A, Ziaei AN, Akhavan S, Alipoor A, Joodavi A, Brusseau ML (2015) Groundwater Conceptualization and Modeling using Distributed SWAT-based Recharge for the Semi-arid Agricultural Neishaboor Plain, Iran. Hydrogeology Journal. 23(1) pp 47-68.
• Joodavi A, Zare M, Mahootchi M (2015) Development and application of a stochastic optimization model for groundwater management: crop pattern and conjunctive use consideration. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment journal doi:10.1007/s00477-015-1049-x
• Izady A, Davary K, Alizadeh A, Ziaei AN, Alipoor A, Joodavi A, Brusseau ML (2014) A framework toward developing a groundwater conceptual model. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 7(9), pp 3611-3631.
Books:
Nazari R, Joodavi A (2014). Applied Flow and Contaminant Transport Modeling in Aquifers (In Farsi). ISBN 9786006451169.
Selected conference presentations:
• Joodavi A, Adibinia MJ, Hosseini S, Shazadeh T (2018) Analysis of geological factors affecting Chromium, Arsenic, and Vanadium distribution in groundwater resources in Khorasan Razavi province, Iran. Proceeding of the second national symposium on water and wastewater engineering, Esfahan, Iran (In Farsi).
• Gholizadeh-Sarabi Sh, Ghahraman B, Shafiei M, Davari K, Majidi M, Joodavi A (2018) Developing a perceptual model for socio-hydrological modelling in a semi-arid region of Iran. EGU2018-13741.
• Izady A, Osman A, Joodavi A (2015) A simple daily surface water balance method to estimate groundwater recharge in an arid North Oman Mountains. Proceeding of the seventh environmental symposium of German-Arab scientific forum for environmental studies, Environmental protection and water resources in the Middle East and North Africa – Water Resources, Air and Soils, At Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, pp 25-26.
• Joodavi A, Zare M (2014) Development of a new stochastic optimization model for groundwater management using constrained state formulation. Proceeding of the 3rd International Eurasian Conference on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (IECMSA-2014), Vienna, Austria, pp 389-390.
• Joodavi A, Samani, N (2011). “Review of methods for estimating dispersivity and its effect on solute transport in aquifers”, The 7th Iranian conference of engineering geology and the environment, Shahrood, Iran, p. 318 (In Farsi).
• Nazari, Reza, Joodavi, Ata (2011). “Groundwater flow simulation using MODFLOW in Chardavol Plain, Ilam province, Iran”, The 29th symposium on geosciences, Tehran, Iran, p. 213 (In Farsi).
• Nazari, Reza, Joodavi, Ata, Niksefat, GholamReza (2010). “Groundwater flow simulation using MODFLOW in Hilan Plain, Ilam province, Iran”, The 4th national symposium on geosciences, Payam Noor university, Mashhad, Iran, p. 410 (In Farsi).
• Joodavi, Ata, Zare, Mohammad (2010). “Assessing Groundwater Vulnerability in Ghare_Bagh aquifer using GIS, AHP and DRASTIC model”, The 4th national symposium on geosciences, Payam Noor university, Mashhad, Iran, p. 403 (In Farsi).
• Joodavi, Ata, Zare, Mohammad (2010). “Use of GQI index for groundwater quality assessment for drinking usage”, The 27th symposium on geosciences and 13th Geological Society of Iran, Tehran, Iran, p. 4 (In Farsi).
• Joodavi, Ata, Zare, Mohammad. (2009). “Groundwater resources planning in a “groundwater mining” condition; Feyz-Abad aquifer as a case study”, International Conference on Water Resources (ICWR2009), Shahrood, Iran, Vol. 2, p. 52-58 (In Farsi).
• Joodavi, A., Zare, M., Etemadi, B. (2009). Hydrogeochemistry and Sources of Groundwater Salinity in Feyz-Abad plane, 12th Symposium of the Geological Society of Iran, Ahvaz, Iran, Vol. 2, p. 411-417 (In Farsi).