Amin Owrangi has over 10 years of experience in water resources engineering, climate change impact assessment, and spatial data analysis. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Western Ontario. His skills include hydrology, irrigation engineering, GIS, remote sensing, and using software such as ArcGIS, Python, and Matlab to perform spatial data analysis and watershed modeling. He has worked on projects in Canada assessing climate change health impacts and flood risk mapping, as well as consulting projects in Iran related to watershed management, drought monitoring, and hydraulic structure design.

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AMIN OWRANGI, PhD, EIT
Toronto, ON |(519) 702-7161| imanowrangi@gmail.com| ca.linkedin.com/in/amin-m-owrangi-1b59a834
Profile
PhD in Civil Engineering (Water Resources) with over 10 years experience focused on different
aspects of Academic and Engineering activities with advanced skillsets in teaching, instructing,
mentoring, coaching and administration in engineering, design and construction administration
in industry.
Skills
 Solid background in climate change, water resources engineering and management,
irrigation engineering, drought monitoring and management, ground water engineering and
management, storm water management,
 Professional spatial and temporal data management analyst who is fluent in data trends and
able to manage large databases of information. Adept at utilizing computer productivity
software (SQL, R, SPSS, Access, Excel, etc.) gathering data from multiple sources and
working with management to develop helpful reports.
 Proven background in spatial data analysis performing different watershed problems using
remote sensing, ArcGIS and AutoCAD
 Proficient in use of Matlab and Python
 Vast knowledge in hydrology, irrigation engineering, hydro-meteorology, open channel
hydraulics, hydraulic structural design
Education
Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental (Water Resources) Engineering 2011-2015
The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada,
 Specialize in Climate change, Water resources, Spatial and temporal data management,
Data interpolation and extrapolation using different linear and non-linear methods,
Hydrology, GIS, Remote sensing, Flood, Drought, Sea level rise, Coastal megacities,
Resilience, Human health
M.Sc. in Agricultural (Water Resources) Engineering 2007-2009
Shiraz Azad University, Shiraz, Iran,
 Specialize in Remote Sensing, GIS, Drought, Hydrology, River Engineering, Storm water
management, Water resources management
B.Sc. in Agricultural (Irrigation) Engineering 2000-2004
Shiraz Azad University, Shiraz, Iran,
 Specialize in irrigation engineering, Data management, Open-surface flow, Ground-water
flow, Irrigation and drainage system design, Water resources management, Storm water
management, Hydraulics, Hydrology

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Experience
Consultant
 Coastal Cities at Risk (CCaR) Project - Metro Vancouver 2011-2015
o Developing flood inundation map for Metro Vancouver
o Analysing land use change using satellite images for Metro Vancouver
o Developing methodology using WHO burden of disease classification
o Generation of health risk maps for the City of Metro Vancouver
o Writing technical reports and scientific articles for CCaR team
 Amayesh Makran Consulting Engineers, Tehran, Iran 2005-2010
o Department of Hydrology and Irrigation
 Worked on a variety of watershed management projects related to the land uses
changes, flood peaks/river flows, and erosion.
 Oversee data collection on-site by hydrometrics and other staff.
 Supervise the collection, processing and evaluation of ground water level data for
short/long term irrigation planning (from different monitoring wells) using Access, Excel
and SQL.
 Apply hydrological and statistical techniques to water resource modeling and analysis.
 Undertake hydrological modeling to allow flood forecasting and drought management
strategy development.
 Develop computer systems to improve the efficiency of data collection and analysis.
o Department of Hydrometeorology
 Performed a climate change impact assessment on the Kor basin using different global
climate models.
 Compared different methodologies for downscaling coarsely gridded future global
climate model data to a basin scale.
o Department of Hydraulic Engineering
 Designed variety of hydraulic structures including erosion control structures and
culverts.
o Department of Remote Sensing & GIS
 Performed remote sensing techniques using satellite images for hydrologic drought
monitoring and analysis based on vegetation condition and groundwater levels for
south of Iran.
Construction
 Shiraz Abinehrah Construction Company, Shiraz, Iran 2004-2005
o Site project engineer in 56 inches gas pipeline (Iran-Turkey) project
o Manage and coordinate multidiscipline engineering activities to ensure projects are
executed in a safe, efficient, cost effective and timely manner
o Performs project engineering functions involving monitoring of progress, preparation of
procedures, documentation of communications and meetings, and identification/evaluation
of project issues and problems
Academic
 Facility for intelligent decision support (FIDS), Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 2011-2015
o Research assistant
o Developing climate change related risk maps using spatio-temporal models for coastal
mega cities

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o Writing technical reports and journal articles
 Municipal engineering design teacher assistant, University of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario, Canada 2015
 Fluids mechanic teacher assistant, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
2011-2014
 Teacher assistant and lab demonstrator (Statics, Fluid Mechanics, and Open Channel
Hydraulics) at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada 2012-2014
 Open channel hydraulics teacher assistant, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada 2012
 Visiting researcher at McGill University 2010-2011
 Research assistant and Lab Demonstrator (Hydraulics and Water Resources) at Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada 2010-2011
o CFD: Modelling open channel expansions using Gambit and Fluent
Publications
Published and In Press
 Amin M. Owrangi, "An Approach to Developing a Spatio-Temporal Composite Measure of
Climate Change-Related Human Health Impacts in Urban Environments" (2015). Electronic
Thesis and Dissertation Repository. Paper 2998.http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2998
 Amin M. Owrangi, Robert Lannigan, Slobodan P. Simonovic, “Mapping climate change-caused
health risk for integrated city resilience modelling “ Journal of Natural Hazards, Springer. DOI:
10.1007/s11069-014-1582-9.
 Amin M. Owrangi, Robert Lannigan, Slobodan P. Simonovic, “Interaction between Land Use
Change, Flooding and Human Health in Metro Vancouver, Canada.” Journal of Natural
Hazards, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1064-0.
 Amin M. Owrangi, Adamowski, J., Rahnamae, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Sharifan, R.A.,
“Drought monitoring methodology based on AVHRR images and SPOT vegetation maps”
Journal of water resource and protection, Vol. 3,No.5, 2011, pp. 325-334, DOI:
10.4236/jwarp.2011.35041.
 Robert Lannigan, Amin M. Owrangi, Slobodan P. Simonovic, “An approach to developing a
composite measure for human health as an input to dynamic systems model for investigating
city resilience.”, In Proceedings 6th International Conference on Flood Management, ICFM6
2014, Sao Paul, Brazil, September 16-18, 2014.
 Amin M. Owrangi, Robert Lannigan, Slobodan P. Simonovic, “Assessment of climate change
health impacts for coastal megacities.”, In Proceedings CSCE 21st Canadian Hydrotechnical
Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 14 - 17 2013.
 Amin M. Owrangi, Rahnamae, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Sharifan, R.A.,” Using SPOT-VEG
based vegetation indices compared with AVHRR based vegetation indices for drought
monitoring in south of Iran.” In Proceedings IAHS 352 Remote Sensing and Hydrology, Jackson
Hole, Wyoming, USA, 2012.

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Conferences:
Oral Presentations
 Owrangi, M.A,.Lannigan, R., Simonovic, S.P., “Mapping climate change-caused health risk for
the city of Metro Vancouver”, Livable Cities Forum, ICLEI 2014, Vancouver , April 2-4, 2014,
 Owrangi, M.A,.Lannigan, R., Simonovic, S.P. “Assessment of climate change health impacts r
coastal megacities”, CSCE 21st Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference, Banff, Alberta, May 14-
17, 2013.
 Owrangi, M.A., Lannigan, R., Simonovic, S.P., McBean,G.“Health impacts of Floods due to
climate change in coastal cities”, Transcending Borders Global Health Conference, London,
Ontario, Canada, April 27-29, 2012.
 Owrangi, M.A., Li, S.S., “Characteristics of the Vegetation Cover for the St. Francois Watershed
in Southern Quebec from Remote Sensing data” The 20th Canadian Hydro-technical
Conference, CSCE Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2011.
 Owrangi M.A., Rahnamae M., Sharifan R.A., Mohammadzadeh A., “Monitoring Hydrological
drought dynamic by using different indices based on remote sensing on SPOT-Vegetation
images and ground data, case study : Marvdasht region, Fars province , Iran.” International
Conference on Water Resource, ICWR Shahrood, Iran, 2009.
 Owrangi M.A, Shamseddini A. Liaghat A. “Nekah flood, from reasons of occurrence till
renovation Experiences”.Urban floods management conference, Shiraz, Iran, 2007.
Poster Presentations
 Owrangi, M.A,.Lannigan, R., Simonovic, “Mapping climate change-caused health risk for the city
of Metro Vancouver”, GIS day workshop, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada,
October 2013.
 Owrangi, M.A., Rahnamae, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Sharifan, R.A.,” Using SPOT-VEG based
vegetation indices compared with AVHRR based vegetation indices for drought monitoring in
south of Iran.”Remote Sensing and Hydrology Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA,
2010.
 Owrangi, M.A., Rahnamae, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Sharifan, R.A., "Using AVHRR-based
vegetation indices for drought monitoring in south of Iran." 10th International Symposium on
Stochastic Hydraulics and the 5th International Conference on Water Resources and
Environment, Quebec City, Canada, 2010.
 Owrangi, M.A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Shamseddini, A., Baligh, A., " Hydrologic drought
monitoring and preparedness by using different indices based on remote sensing and ground
data in south of Iran.”International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC, Davos, Switzerland,
2010.
Computer and technical skills
 Engineering Software: ArcGIS, ENVI, Vensim, KnnCAD, GRASS, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS,
PCSWMM, Sketch Up, AutoCAD

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 Programming Software: Python, Matlab, SQL, R
 General Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Extracurricular activity
Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE) YP Initiative, London & District Section 2012-2014
Reviewer of different scientific journals 2012-Present
References
References available upon request