Fereidoun Reza Nezhad

Fereidoun Rezanezhad uses field and innovative laboratory experiments to understand mechanisms controlling a variety of chemical, biological and physical processes in the subsurface.

Since 2011, Professor Rezanezhad has been a member of the Ecohydrology Research Group, where he also serves as the group's co-op program coordinator.

• Reactive Interfaces in Agro-ecosystems

• Hydrogeochemical processes of aquatic-terrestrial interfaces

• Biogeochemical cycles of nutrients

• Terrestrial ecosystem processes

• Groundwater-surface water interactions

• Hydrological and biogeochemical processes of peatlands and wetlands

• Seasonal freeze\/thaw dynamics

• CO2, N2O and CH4 production and fluxes

• Flow and transport in porous media (particularly in complex dual-porosity)

• HydroBioGeoPhysics: Geophysical methods to assess subsurface biogeochemical processes

• Threats to Aquatic Ecosystems and their Interaction

• Contamination & Remediation: Water, Soil, Air

• Climate Change and Geosciences

• Increasingly Complex Water Challenges

• Protection of Surface and Groundwater Resources

• Legacies of Agriculture

• Protection of Drinking Water from the Ravages of Climate Change

• 2007, Doctorate Environmental Physics, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany

• 2000, Master of Science Physics, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

• 1998, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics, University of Tabriz, Iran

• 2015-2020: Mercator Fellow in Baltic TRANSCOAST research training group funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)

• 2009-2011: Suncor Energy Inc. Postdoctoral Fellowship. Fen Creation Research Project. University of Waterloo, Canada.

• 2007-2009: IP3 Post-doctoral Fellowship, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, Cold Regions Research Centre (CRRC), Improved Processes and Parameterisation for Prediction in Cold Regions (IP3) network funded by Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS).

• 2004: Outstanding Paper of the Conference for the Best Scientific Poster, Eurosoil2004, Freiburg, Germany.

• 2003-2007: DFG Ph.D. Scholarship and Research Award, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Institute of Environmental Physics.

• Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydrology

• Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Soil Science

• Associate Editor of the journal Mires and Peat

• Academic Editor for the journal PLOS ONE

• Chair of Canadian Representative to the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Commission on Water Quality

• Co-op Program Coordinator of the Ecohydrology Research Group

• Member, The Water Institute

• EARTH 652 - Reactive Transport Modelling
  • Taught in 2020, 2022

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• B. Ding, F. Rezanezhad; B. Gharedaghloo; P. Van Cappellen and E. Passeport. 2018. Bioretention cells under cold climate conditions: Effects of freezing and thawing on water infiltration, soil structure, and nutrient removal. Science of the Total Environment, 649, 749-759.

• N. Sepehrnia, L. Memarianfard, A. A. Moosavi, J. Bachmann, F. Rezanezhad, M. Sepehri. 2018. Retention modes of manure-fecal coliform under saturated condition. Journal of Environmental Management, 227, 209-2015.

• B. Gharedaghloo, J. S. Price, F. Rezanezhad, William Quinton. 2018. Evaluating the hydraulic and transport properties of peat soil using pore network modeling and X-Ray micro computed tomography. Journal of Hydrology, 561, 494-508.

• T. Maavara, S. Slowinski, F. Rezanezhad, K. Van Meter, P. Van Cappellen. 2018. The role of groundwater discharge fluxes on Si:P ratios in a major tributary to Lake Erie. Science of the Total Environment, 622-623, 814-824.

• A. Mellage, C. M. Smeaton, A. Furma, E. A. Atekwana, F. Rezanezhad and P. Van Cappellen. 2018. Linking spectral induced polarization (SIP) and subsurface microbial processes: Results from sand column incubation experiments. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b04420

• Z. Akbarzadeh, A. Laverman, F. Rezanezhad, M. Raimonet, E. Viollier, B. Shafei, P. Van Cappellen. 2018. Benthic nitrite fluxes in the Seine River (France): Insights from early diagenetic modeling. Science of the Total Environment, 628-629: 580-593.

• C. Kleimeier, H. Liu, F. Rezanezhad, B. Lennartz. 2018. Nitrate attenuation in degraded peat soil-based constructed wetlands. Water, 10, 355; doi:10.3390/w10040355.

• Please see Fereidoun Rezanezhad's Google Scholar profile for a current list of his peer-reviewed articles.