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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
Institute of

WF Forestry

Fatemé Ghafarian


Institute of Forestry

Leuschnerstraße 91
21031 Hamburg-Bergedorf
Telephone
+49 40 739 62 351
Email
fateme.ghafarian@thuenen.de

Scientist


Working Area

  • Economic Evaluation, Forests and Society

Regional Expertise

  • Europe (Germany)
  • Africa (Tanzania)

Specialized in

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Image processing
  • Machine learning
  • Land Use Management, including Agroforestry at Regional and National Scales

Projects

Involved in

ongoing projects

completed projects

    Publications

    Below you find publications by Fatemé Ghafarian, which are not registered in TI-LIT.

    • Ghafarian F, Wieland R, Lüttschwager D and Nendel C (2022) ‘Estimating the Evaporative Cooling Effect of Irrigation within and above Soybean Canopy’, Water (Switzerland), 14(3). doi: 10.3390/w14030319.
    • Ghafarian F, Wieland R and Nendel C (2022) ‘Application of extreme gradient boosting and Shapley Additive explanations to predict temperature regimes inside forests from standard open-field meteorological data’, Environmental Modelling and Software. Elsevier Ltd, 156(October 2020), p.105466. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105466
    • Ghafarian F. et al. (2024) ‘The impact of small woody features on the mesoclimate in an agricultural landscape’, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Elsevier B.V., 349(March), p. 109949. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.109949.

    Curriculum Vitae

    • 09/2004 - 02/2009: Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Engineering, specializing in Hydraulics, at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Iran.
    • 10/2013 - 11/2017: Master’s Degree in Global Change Management (M.Sc.), Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany.
      Master Thesis: "Assessing Climate Change Impacts in the Wami River Basin, Tanzania, using the Eco-hydrological Model SWIM" funded by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
    • 03/2017 - 09/2017: Research Assistant at Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology and Institute for Geophysics at University of Hamburg, Germany.
    • 08/2018 - 05/2019: Remote Sensing Specialist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Research Group on Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Potsdam, Germany.
    • since 06/2019: Doctoral Program in Ecology, University of Potsdam and Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Research Platform "Data Analysis & Simulation", Germany.
      PhD Thesis: Investigating the cooling effects of diverse vegetation landscapes on their surroundings using a data-driven approach.
    • 03/2023 - 04/2024: Research Associate, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Research Platform " Land Use and Governance".
    • since 10/2024: Research Associate at the Institute of Forestry
       
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