Research Assistant Professor

Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Public Health

Professional Summary

• 2019 - present, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health
• 2018 - 2019, Postdoctoral Research Associate , Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health

Education

• 2018, PhD, Climatology/Meteorology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 2011, MSc, Meteorology University of Tehran
• 2008, BSc, Physics, Terbiat Moallem University

Research Interests

• I am a Research Assistant professor in the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center. My expertise is in Climate Science, and I am interested in understanding the complex ways that climate and weather patterns can affect human health at global and local scales. My current projects involve the use of statistical modeling, data management, and machine learning techniques to improve our understanding of how environmental exposure, such as drought and heatwaves, are affecting the communities. The proper early warning messaging systems should be backed up by robust scientific research. The efforts on reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be accompanied by preparing the communities to manage the health impacts of climate and weather pattern changes. The ultimate goal of my research is to help improve the allocation of public resources and public health messaging systems to minimize adverse health outcomes driven by climate and weather-related events.

Selected Publications

• Rennie J. J., Bell E. J., Kunkel K. E., Herring S., Heidi C., Abadi A. M., 2019: Development of a sub-monthly temperature product to monitor real-time climate conditions and assess long- term heat events in the United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology58, no. 12 (2019): 2653– https://doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-19-0076.1.
• Lynch K. M., Lyles R. H., Waller L. A., Abadi A. M., Bell J. E., Gribble M. O., 2019: Drought severity and all-cause mortality rates among adults in the United States: 1968-2014 (Accepted for Publication)
• Abadi A. M., Rowe C., and Andrade M., 2019: Climate Classification in Bolivia: A Combination of Hierarchical and Consensus Clustering Analyses Based on Precipitation and Temperature. International Journal of Climatology, November 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6464.
• Abadi A. M., Oglesby R., Rowe C., Mawalagedara R., 2018: Evaluations of GCMs historical simulations of monthly and seasonal climatology over Bolivia. Dyn. doi: 10.1007/s00382-017-3952-y

Professional Affiliations

• American Meteorological Society
• American Geophysical Union
• Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute