Nile River Basin

Part I: Hydrology and Water Availability.- The Nile River Basin.- Streamflow Data Needs for Water Resources Management and Monitoring Challenges: A Case Study of Wami River Sub-basin in Tanzania.- Satellite Rainfall Products and their Reliability in the Blue Nile basin.- Africa-Wide Monitoring of Small Surface Water Bodies Using Multi-Source Satellite Data: A Monitoring System for FEWS NET.- Surface and Ground Water Resources of Ethiopia: Potentials and Challenges of Water Resources Development.- Land and Water in the Nile basin.- Part II: Soil erosion and Water Quality.- Soil Erosion and Discharge in the Blue Nile Basin: Trends and Challenges.- Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Soil Erosion in the Semi-humid Ethiopian Highlands: A Case Study of Debre Mawi Watershed.- Modeling Sediments Dynamics: Effect of Land Use, Topography and Land Management in the Wami-Ruvu Basin Tanzania.- Assessment of Soil Erosion in the Blue Nile Basin.- Hydro-epidemiology of the Nile Basin: Understanding the Complex Linkages between Water and Infectious Diseases.- Part III: Lakes and watersheds.- Monitoring State of Biomass Recovery in the Blue Nile Basin Using Image Based Disturbance Index.- Bathymetry, Lake Area and Volume Mapping: A Remote Sensing Perspective.- Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Northern Kordofan State of Sudan: A Remotely-Sensed Data Analysis.- Multi-Model Approach for Spatial Evapotranspiration Mapping: Comparison of Models Performance for Different Ecosystems.- Modeling Rainfall Erosivity from Daily Rainfall Events, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia.- Part IV: Climate Change and Water Resources.- Climate Change Impacts and Development Based Adaptation Pathway to the Nile River Basin.- Climate Change Projections in the Upper Gilgel Abay River Catchment, Blue Nile Basin Ethiopia.- Climate Change Impact on Water Resources and Adaptation Strategies in the Blue Nile River Basin.- Climate change and Rangeland Degradation in Eastern Sudan: Which Adaptation Strategy Work

Dr. Assefa M. Melesse is a water resources engineer with a background in remote sensing and geospatial applications to hydrologic modeling. He earned his M.E (2000) and Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Florida. His areas of research and experience include spatially distributed hydrologic modeling, ecohydrology, river basin management, spatial surface water balance modeling, surface and groundwater interaction modeling, spatial evapotranspiration mapping using remote sensing, water-energy-carbon fluxes coupling and modeling, remote sensing hydrology, and land-cover change detection and scaling. Dr. Melesse has ample experience in river basin modeling employing GIS and data from remote sensing and has conducted studies in the Nile basin with over 40 publications on the Nile (books, peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and proceedings). As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Melesse spent a year in the Blue Nile basin conducting research, organizing workshops, advising graduate students and researchers, providing professional trainings and lecturing at various universities. Dr. Melesse is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) and also Diplomate of Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE) with over 26 years of teaching, research and extension experience both in Ethiopia and the USA. Dr. Melesse is an Associate Professor of water resources engineering at the Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University.Dr. Wossenu Abtew is a registered professional civil engineer who has been working in the field of water resources for over 25 years. He is trained in agricultural engineering and is also a hydrologist. He earned his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering focusing on civil engineering and agricultural engineering from Texas Tech University in 1989. He earned his Master of Science degree in agricultural engineering from Texas Tech University in 1986. Dr. Abtew has published a book on evaporation and evapotranspiration. He has participated in a workshop