Amali Abraham AMALI, Graduate Student (Integrated Water Resources Management - IWRM)
About
Amali Abraham Amali is a Hydrology and Water Resources researcher at the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics of the TH-Köln University of Applied Sciences Germany. As a young researcher in water resources management, Amali’s career is dedicated to investigating innovative ways of assessing regional and context-specific hydrologic processes using locally available technologies, especially in water-and-data-scarce arid regions. His experience spreads across agricultural and environmental management of water resources, water scarcity and drought analysis as well as an assessment of their impacts on water variability, availability, and access at the catchment spatial scale.
A Soil and Water Conservation Specialist, Amali is actively embedded in driving the engagement of Young Professionals in the water sector and presently a Joint Coordinator of the ICID Young Professional’s e-Forum (IYPeF) as well as the Coordinator of the African Young Water Professional’s Forum (Af-YWPF). He has extensive professional experience in research and analysis of water resources management at the basin scale as well as mainstreaming water across the various sectors and disciplines. He achieves these through the formation of initiatives around topics such as water productivity using hydrological modelling, upscaling innovative technologies in Irrigation and drainage, as well as transboundary water governance with a long-term objective of developing metrics and measurements for assessing interconnectedness of catchment ecosystems and their final utility. In a recent project on Water-Energy-Food Nexus of the Azraq Basin: Towards a Sustainable Economy”, he analysed the interaction between the different resource base of the Azraq basin and the impact of different development scenarios on water scarcity, availability and access for agriculture and rural livelihood in the basin.
With a background in Agricultural and Environmental Resources Engineering, Amali is genuinely enthusiastic about bracing the science-policy interface in the water sector and currently focused on evaluating agricultural water productivity using hydrological water balance and land use change in arid catchments to inform decision-making at basin level.
Information
- Location: Cologne, Germany
Industry experience
Education: Masters
Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant
Years of experience: 1 to 5 years
Work experience
Research Assistant (Soil and Water Conservation Engineer)
Responsible for the coordination and preparation of project work plans and management of day-to-day activities of research projects and also for preparing articles. Also to include field data collection, organising, analysing, interpretation, reporting and presentations.
2012-08-08 - Present
Taxonomy
- Water Resources Engineer
- Researcher
- Quality Maintenance
- Hydrology
- Groundwater Recharge
- Groundwater Assessment
- Surface-Groundwater Interaction
- Water Resources Engineering
- Natural Resources Management
- Water Resources Management
- Irrigation Systems
- Soil Conservation
- Watershed Management