Mesfin Tewolde

Position

  • PhD Student

Contact

Office: 231

Phone: +41 26 300 9020 / Fax: +41 26 300 97 46

email: mesfin.tewolde@unifr.ch

Research interest

Remote sensing and image processing, Spatial Modeling and Analysis, DTM, Geomatics, Application of GIS in catchment and hydrological studies, Hydrological modeling, Water resource management and flood studies, Rainfall runoff analyses, design hydrology, Dam and irrigation engineering.ELink CV link

Academic qualifications

10/2005 Master of Science in Engineering (Engineering hydrology), Faculty of Engineering, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. BEEH

02/1996 Bachelor's of Science in Engineering (Civil/Irrigation Eng), Faculty of Engineering, Arbaminch Water Technology Institute, Ethiopia.AWTI

Professional experiences

02/1996 - 01/2002 Junior design and construction engineer (small scale earth and rockfill dams, irrigation infrastructures and building constructions), Ethiopia and Eritrea.

02/2002-11/2006 Research assistance, South Africa.

Publications

Books and chapters in book

Tewolde MH (2005) Flood Routing in Ungauged Catchments using Muskingum Methods.Universal publishers(Dissertation.com), Florida, USA.Link or Google book Link

Peer-reviewed articles and research reports

van Heerden PS; Crosby CT; Grové B; Benadé N; Theron E; Schulze RE and Tewolde MH (2009) Integrating and upgrading of SAPWAT and PLANWAT to create a powerful and user-friendly irrigation water planning tool, WRC report No. K5/15784. Agricultural Water - Commercial irrigation, R & D - Information technology, Water Resources Commission, Pretoria,RSA.Link or.PDF-Link /

Smithers JC, Chetty KT, Frezghi MS, Knoesen DM and Tewolde MH (2007) Development and assessment of a continuous simulation modeling system for design flood estimation, WRC report No. 1318/1/07. Water Resources Commission, Pretoria,RSA.Link

Tewolde MH and Smithers JC (2006) Flood routing in ungauged catchments using Muskingum methods. Journal of Water South Africa 32 (3) 379-388.WRS-link Scientific Commons or Global development networkCSA Illumina /

Conference proceedings

Tewolde MH and Smithers JC (2005) Flood routing in ungauged catchments using Muskingum methods. Poster. International Conference on Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change: A North-South Analysis. Bonn, Germany.Check here

Others

Others contained in the following link :Link

 
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