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Selection No. 1172405 Technical Proposal

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ANNEX 2: CURRICULUM VITAE (CV) OF PROPOSED KEY PERSONNEL

Dr. Thomas Hopson – Team Leader 1. Name of Staff : Dr. Thomas Hopson_____________________________________ 2. Proposed Position: Team Leader; Prominent Researcher -- Coordination of all activities;

technical focal point for discussions of all the tasks and will have overall reporting responsibility; channel of communication with the World Bank; development of satellite precipitation estimates and satellite- and weather forecast-based flood forecasting techniques

3. Employer: National Center for Atmospheric Research 4. Date of Birth: July 9, 1965 Nationality: USA 5. Education

School, college and/or University Attended

Degree/certificate or other specialized education obtained

Date Obtained

University of Colorado Ph.D. Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences

2005

University of Colorado M.S. Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences

2001

University of Colorado M.S. Civil Engineering, Water Resources Emphasis

1999

Rice University B.A. Physics 1989

6. Professional Certification or Membership in Professional Associations: Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society; the Fulbright Association; American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society 7. Other Relevant Training:

8. Countries of Work Experience: Bangladesh, India, Ghana, Ethiopia, Colombia 9. Languages [For each language indicate proficiency: good, fair, or poor in speaking, reading, and

writing]: English – native speaker; Spanish – fair (speaking, reading, writing)


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10. Employment Record:

From : 2008 To: present

Employer: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO USA

Positions held: Scientist I / Project Scientist I

From : 2006 To: 2008 Employer: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO USA Positions held: Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program

From : 2005 To : 2006 Employer: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Positions held: Research Associate, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science

From : 2000 To: 2005 Employer: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Positions held: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences

From: 1998 To: 1999 Employer: United States Government Positions held: Fulbright Scholar, Harare, Zimbabwe

From: 1996 To : 1998 Employer: U.S. Geological Survey, Boulder, CO, USA Positions held: Hydrologist, Geomorphology Group, Water Resources Division

11. Detailed Tasks Assigned [List all tasks to be performed under this assignment]

As the Team Leader, I will be responsible for all tasks listed under the ToR of this assignment, although two co-Investigators (Dr. Charon Birkett and Dr. Robert Brakenridge) will be separately conducting tasks under their own supervision, but still reporting to me.

Key Tasks: GIS Basin Delineation, Rain Gage and Stream Gage Data Collection and Processing, Satellite Precipitation Estimates, Thorpex-TIGGE NWP Ensembles, Hydrologic Modeling and Multi-modeling, Incorporate DFO Measurements,


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Transforming forecasts into informative visualizations and Dissemination, Training and Reporting

12. Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks Assigned Name of assignment or project: Climate Forecasting Applications for Bangladesh

Year: 2000 to 2007 Location: Bangladesh

Client: USAID Main project features: The Climate Forecasting Applications for Bangladesh (CFAB) project issued operational flood forecasts to the country of Bangladesh over a daily- to seasonal-lead-times, provide advanced warning of severe flood-stage discharges in the catchments of the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins. Specifically, a fully-automated short-range (1- to 10-day in-advance) probabilistic forecast was produced utilizing the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ensemble weather forecasts, near-real-time NASA TRMM and NOAA CMORPH satellite-derived precipitation estimates, and NOAA CPC-GTS rain gauge-based precipitation estimates, and near-real-time discharge estimates from the Bangladesh Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC). These data sets were utilized in conjunction with statistical refinement techniques applied to the weather and discharge forecasts and the use of a multi-model hydrological modeling approach. A long-range (1- to 6-months in-advance) probabilistic forecast was produced based on ECMWF’s 40-member seasonal ensemble forecast.

Positions held: Flood forecast scientist / graduate student / creator of 1-10day and seasonal lead-time forecast systems.

Activities performed: Creation of the following (and all associated tasks): Operational flood forecasts for the Ganges (Hardinge Bridge) and Brahmaputra (Bahadurabad) at lead-times of 1- to 10-days in-advance; Seasonal ensemble forecasts of rainfall and flood potential in the Ganges and Brahmaputra catchments.

Name of assignment or project: A prototype Earth-gauging system integrating weather and health data to manage meningitis Year: 2009 to 2014 _________________

Location: Chad, Benin, Togo, Nigeria and Ghana______________________ Client: Google (non-profit wing) and World Health Organization

Main project features: This project examined how public health decision makers might use weather information to inform decisions about where and when to vaccinate against meningitis in Sahelian Africa

Positions held: Atmospheric Scientist and Forecaster Activities performed: identified the key weather variables that relate to the end of


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epidemics; improved the prediction of those variables; built a system to communicate with decision-makers based on Thorpex-Tigge ensemble weather forecasts Name of assignment or project: Optimizing Reservoir Operations for Hydropower Production in Africa through the use of Remote Sensing Data and Seasonal Climate Forecasts Year: 2014 ongoing ___________________

Location: Reservoirs in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania____________________ Client: NASA

Main project features: Develop a Decision Support System (DSS) aimed at optimizing reservoir operations for hydropower production in Africa. The DSS will allow hydropower schedulers and other water resource managers to develop reliable seasonal (30 – 180 day) reservoir planning that will guide the reservoir operations.

Positions held: Lead Forecaster and Scientist/Atmospheric Researcher Activities performed: Generate ensemble daily, monthly, and seasonal ensemble forecasts to drive hydrologic models (NCAR-Hopson); Develop hydrologic and water resource components of the reservoir systems (UCLA/NCAR-Hopson); Develop optimization algorithms for hydropower production (UCLA); Develop and implement the DSS at end users’ organizations (UCLA/NCAR-Hopson)

13. Do you currently or have you ever worked for the World Bank Group including any of the following types of appointments: Regular, term, ETC, ETT, STC, STT, JPA, or JPO? If yes, please provide details, including start/end dates of appointment. I worked as a STC consultant conducting week-long workshops on Long-Lead Flood Forecasting for the following dates and locations:

1) June, 2012 – National Water Academy, Pune, India; 2) November, 2013 – National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India

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Certification I certify that (1) to the best of my knowledge and belief, this CV correctly describes me, my qualifications, and my experience; (2) that I am available for the assignment for which I am proposed; and (3) that I am proposed only by one Offeror and under one proposal. I understand that any wilful misstatement or misrepresentation herein may lead to my disqualification or removal from the selected team undertaking the assignment.

Date: 13 March, 2015 [Signature of staff member or authorized representative of the staff] Day/Month/Year


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Dr. Joshua Hacker – Prominent Researcher 1. Name of Staff: Dr. Joshua Hacker____________________________________________ 2. Proposed Position: Prominent Researcher/ Scientist -- Support for temporal and spatial data harmonization,

data assimilation expert 3. Employer: National Center for Atmospheric Research 4. Date of Birth: 7 January 1971 Nationality: USA 5. Education



Date Obtained

University of British Columbia

Ph.D. 2001

University of British Columbia

M.Sc. 1996

University of California Los Angeles

B.S. 1994

6. Professional Certification or Membership in Professional Associations:

American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union 7. Other Relevant Training:

8. Countries of Work Experience: USA 9. Languages: English (native), Spanish (fair) 10. Employment Record [Starting with present position, list in reverse order every employment held]:

From : 2013 To: present

Employer: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Positions held: Director, Joint Numerical Testbed Program (current); Deputy Director, National Security Applications Program From: 2009 To: present

Employer: Naval Postgraduate School

Positions held: Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Meteorology


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From: 2002 To : 2009


Positions held: Scientist II, Scientist I, Post-Doctoral Fellow


Objective: (i) Implement long-lead time, public-access flood forecasting systems for the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins spanning India, Bangladesh and Nepal utilizing new satellite precipitation estimates and ensemble weather forecasts from multiple centers.

Key Tasks: Thorpex-TIGGE NWP Ensembles

• Pre-process and optimal combination of products, based on available rain gauge values, utilizing a quantile-regression and analog based approach, generating calibrated probability distribution function inputs into hydrologic model.

Objective: (ii) Combine CFAB ensemble discharge forecasts with DFO remotely-sensed river discharge estimates to produce optimal river discharge estimates at select locations along the river course.

Key Tasks: Incorporate DFO Measurements

• Develop assimilation algorithm to update CFAB model flow estimates with River Watch measurements.


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12. Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks Assigned [Among the assignments in which the staff has been involved, indicate the following information for those assignments that best illustrate staff capability to handle the tasks listed under point 11.]

Name of assignment or project: Air Force Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction System

Year: 2007 to 2011 Location: global weather forecast system

Client: U.S. Air Force Weather Agency Main project features: This project supported the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency’s (AFWA) need for probabilistic predictions used in Air Force Operations. We researched optimal mesoscale ensemble construction, and quantified the performance of various possible solutions. We also implemented an Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (ETKF) for data assimilation and ensemble construction.

Positions held: lead in analysis methods and ensemble construction Activities performed: Construct and maintain beta-level code base for managing the AFWA ensemble system; Investigate methods for ensemble construction, and quantify forecast skill; Evaluation new versions of the mesoscale prediction model, and determine sets of parameters that add skill to the ensemble.

Name of assignment or project: State-Space Analysis Of Model Error: A Probabilistic Parameter Estimation Framework With Spatial Analysis Of Variance

Year: 2009 to 2013 Location: global weather forecast system

Client: U.S. Office of Naval Research Main project features: This was a basic research project, focusing on developing methods to identify model inadequacy. We augmented control variables in ensemble data assimilation to estimate parameters that control land-atmosphere coupling. We used new spatial statistical methods to characterize the uncertainty in simple models, leading to method that can be extended to more complex systems.

Positions held: Principal Investigator Activities performed: Basic research on model inadequacy, with data assimilation.

13. Do you currently or have you ever worked for the World Bank Group including any of the following types of appointments: Regular, term, ETC, ETT, STC, STT, JPA, or JPO? If yes, please provide details, including start/end dates of appointment. _____No____________________________________________________________________

Certification


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I certify that (1) to the best of my knowledge and belief, this CV correctly describes me, my qualifications, and my experience; (2) that I am available for the assignment for which I am proposed; and (3) that I am proposed only by one Offeror and under one proposal. I understand that any wilful misstatement or misrepresentation herein may lead to my disqualification or removal from the selected team undertaking the assignment.

Date: 13/03/2015 [Signature of staff member] Day/Month/Year


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Dr. David Yates – Prominent Researcher

Selection No. _________ Technical Proposal

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ANNEX 2: CURRICULUM VITAE (CV) OF PROPOSED KEY PERSONNEL

1. Name of Staff [Insert full name]: Dr. David Yates 2. Proposed Position Prominent Researcher/ Scientists -- Experience in using global and regional based flood

forecasting techniques with strong evidence of his work and publications 3. Employer: National Center for Atmospheric Research 4. Date of Birth: 16 Nov 1965 Nationality: USA 5. Education



Date Obtained

University of Colorado, Boulder

BS-MS 1988

University of Colorado, Boulder

PhD 1995


AGU, ASCE 7. Other Relevant Training:

8. Countries of Work Experience: [List countries where staff has worked in the last ten years]:

Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Lesotho, Thailand, Phillipines, Colmbia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Vietnam, Myanmar, Romania

9. Languages [For each language indicate proficiency: good, fair, or poor in speaking, reading, and writing]:

English (native); Spanish (understanding) 10. Employment Record [Starting with present position, list in reverse order every employment held]:

From [Year]: 1997 To [Year]: present


Positions held: Scientist


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Employer: The Stockholm Environment Institutue/Tellus

Positions held: Research Associate

From [Year]: 1997 To [Year]: 2000

Employer: Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of

Colorado, Boulder

Positions held: Adjunct Assistant Professor


Objectives: (i) Implement long-lead time, public-access flood forecasting systems for the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins spanning India, Bangladesh and Nepal utilizing new satellite precipitation estimates and ensemble weather forecasts from multiple centers.

Key Tasks: Hydrologic Modeling and Multi-modeling x Implement lumped and semi-distributed 2-layer models for each sub-basin and gauging

locations (maximum of three). x River routing using

o Constant travel time in lower reaches. o Muskinghum-Cunge in upper catchments of the Ganges and Brahmaputra.

12. Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks Assigned [Among the assignments in which the staff has been involved, indicate the following information for those assignments that best illustrate staff capability to handle the tasks listed under point 11.] Name of assignment or project: Be Secure

Year: 2014-2017

Location: Manila, the Jalaur River, Iloilo and Cagayan Rivers, Philippines

Client: USAID through AECOM

Main project features: Working with the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services, to train forecasters on new approaches to meterological forecasting and the use of WRF-Hyddro

Positions held: PI

Activities performed: Training on WRF-Hydro and the Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP)


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Name of assignment or project: Para-Agua

Year: 2014-2015

Location: Pirua Basin in Peru; the Chchina Basin in Colombia

Client: USAID through AECOM

Main project features: The Partnering for Adaptation and Reilence in Latin America is a USAID Project, undertaking Integrated Water Resource Management methods to develop robust adapation strategies in Latin Ameria

Positions held: NCAR PI

Activities performed: Led the development of regional climate scenarios using both statistical and dynamically metehods for inclusion in a participatory, robust decision support process. Name of assignment or project: Destructive Water Abatement and Control of Water Disasters (DESWAT)

Year: 2008-2010

Location: United States and Romania (DESWAT)

Client: Baron Meterological Services

Main project features: Development of national hydrological forecast and warning system for the country of Romania

Positions held: Scientist/ WRF-Hydro developer

Activities performed: Developed and implemented the distributed hydraulic routing scheme with the NCAR WRF-Hydro System- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf_hydro

13. Do you currently or have you ever worked for the World Bank Group including any of the following types of appointments: Regular, term, ETC, ETT, STC, STT, JPA, or JPO? If yes, please provide details, including start/end dates of appointment. Yes,

x 1 week, short term assignment in Santiago, Chile (May 2013), where training was conducted on multi-criteria decision analysis with the Water Evaluation and Planning System (Javier Zuelta [email protected].).

x Short term assignment in Maseur Lesotho, within the Natural Resoruces Section of the World Bank (contact Ijeoma Emenajno, [email protected])

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I certify that (1) to the best of my knowledge and belief, this CV correctly describes me, my qualifications, and my experience; (2) that I am available for the assignment for which I am proposed; and (3) that I am proposed only by one Offeror and under one proposal.

I understand that any wilful misstatement or misrepresentation herein may lead to my disqualification or removal from the selected team undertaking the assignment.

Date: 12 March 2015 [Signature of staff member or authorized representative of the staff] Day/Month/Year


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Dr. Olga Wilhelmi – Prominent Researcher 1. Name of Staff: Dr. Olga Wilhelmi______________________________________________ 2. Proposed Position : GIS program team leader and GIS specialist 3. Employer: National Center for Atmospheric Research______________________________ 4. Date of Birth: April 22 1971 Nationality: USA 5. Education



Date Obtained

Lomonosov Moscow State University

M.S. 1993

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

M.S. 1996

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ph.D. 1999

6. Professional Certification or Membership in Professional Associations: 7. Other Relevant Training: 8. Countries of Work Experience: USA,Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,

Canada 9. Languages [For each language indicate proficiency: good, fair, or poor in speaking, reading, and

writing]: English – fluent, Russian – fluent

10. Employment Record [Starting with present position, list in reverse order every employment held]:

From :2002 To :present Employer: National Center for Atmospheric Research Positions held: Project Scientist

From :2001 To : present Employer: National Center for Atmospheric Research Positions held: Head, Geographic Information Science Program


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From :2008 To : present

Employer: Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

Positions held: Associate Faculty, Environmental Studies Program



Key Tasks: GIS Basin Delineation

• Delineate sub-basins and river networks using SRTM (30m horizontal resolution) data. The delineated sub-basins using the USGS Hydro1k (1km resolution stream networks and flow connectivity) will be used, but use of the STRM data will be employed to repeat the process at higher resolution.

• Calculate grid-weighting per sub-basin for gridded rainfall observation, estimates, and forecast products. This process will generate (fractional) weights that will efficiently combine precipitation values from neighboring grids to produce sub-basin average rainfall, based on the grid-box spatial overlap with the basin.

Key Tasks: Transforming forecasts into informative visualizations and Dissemination

• Create graphical displays providing: (i) public access to both predicted and present river discharge status of a relatively dense network of measurement points


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12. Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks Assigned [Among the assignments in which the staff has been involved, indicate the following information for those assignments that best illustrate staff capability to handle the tasks listed under point 11.] Name of assignment or project: Climate Inspector

Year: 2014 Location: Boulder, Colorado

Client: U.S. National Science Foundation Main project features: web app to explore climate anomalies, variability and uncertainty in space and time; mapping and graphing of complex data in a simple way Positions held: Principal Investigator

Activities performed: Developed an interactive web application which expands GIS mapping and graphing capabilities to visualize possible temperature and precipitation changes throughout the 21st century. This included development of advanced data interactions and visualizations of CMIP5 CCSM4 simulations for the globe and specific geographic locations.

Name of assignment or project: System for Integrated Modeling of Metropolitan Extreme Heat Risk (SIMMER) Year: 2010-2014

Location: Houston, TX and Continental US and southern Canada Client: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Main project features: 1)This international, multi-instituional project has advanced the methodology for assessing current and future urban vulnerability from heat waves through the integration of physical and social science models, research results, and NASA data; and 2) developed models and tools for building local capacity for heat hazard mitigation and climate change adaptation in the public health sector.

Positions held: Principal Investigator Activities performed: 1) Characterized and modeled present and future extreme heat events at regional and local scales; 2) Improved representation of urban land cover and its accompanying radiative and thermal characteristics at local and regional scales; 3) Determined the combined impact of extreme heat and the characteristics of urban environmental and social systems on human health; 4) Characterized societal vulnerability and responses to extreme heat (i.e., mitigation and adaptation strategies) and 5) Developed GIS-based decision-support tools for local and regional applications


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Name of assignment or project: Integrating Extreme Weather, Hydrology, and Societal Impacts with GIS Year: 2010-present

Location: global applications

Client: U.S. National Science Foundation/ U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Hydrologic Development

Main project features: This project was desined to integrate spatial methods and data processing capabilities into atmospheric and hydrological modelling packages for more robust applications of extreme weather, hydrology and societal applications.

Positions held: Principal Investigator Activities performed: Under this project the following activities were perfomed: vector- and grid-based routing routines, basin delineation, sub grid-scale aggregation of land surface model input parameters, and grid-to-basin correspondence for aggregating model results. Working with NCAR hydrologists, the NCAR GIS Program developed both stand-alone and server based tools for processing geographic data for input into the Noah-LSM (WRF), WRFHydro, and NCAR Distributed Hydrological Modeling System (NDHMS). In addition, spatial methods for urban flash flood risk assessment and mapping were developed.

13. Do you currently or have you ever worked for the World Bank Group including any of the following types of appointments: Regular, term, ETC, ETT, STC, STT, JPA, or JPO? If yes, please provide details, including start/end dates of appointment. ____No._______________________________________________________________________


Date: 16/03/2015 [Signature of staff member or authorized representative of the staff] Day/Month/Year


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Arnaud Dumont – Analyst


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Dr. Charon Birkett – Collaborator 1. Name of Staff [Insert full name]: Dr. Charon Birkett________________________________ 2. Proposed Position Collaborator/Consultant; Promient Researcher -- Satellite altimetry expert for operational

flood forecasting 3. Employer: University of Maryland 4. Date of Birth: 1961 Nationality: USA 5. Education



Date Obtained

Sheffield, UK BSc 1983 Leicester, UK PhD 1987

6. Professional Certification or Membership in Professional Associations: AGU

7. Other Relevant Training: 25yrs experience with satellite radar altimetry data set analysis and application to interdisciplinary research and application programs 8. Countries of Work Experience: [List countries where staff has worked in the last ten years]: USA

9. Languages [For each language indicate proficiency: good, fair, or poor in speaking, reading, and

writing]: ENGLISH

10. Employment Record [Starting with present position, list in reverse order every employment held]: From 2000 To current Employer: University of Maryland at College Park Positions held: Research Scientist

From : 1997 To: 2000 Employer: Universities Space Research Association, USA Positions held: Research Scientist


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Objective: (iv) Validate Radar Altimetry Satellite Data for Operational Flood Forecast. Satellite-based (microwave sensor) altimetry data will be collected and synthesized over river measurement sites to monitor changes in river water heights. This will be converted into river flow measurements to supplement in-situ discharge data and used to assess river heights at regional scale across all sub-basins. In addition, this approach will also test monitoring of reservoir levels, to remotely-assess water release schedules of management agencies.

Key Tasks: Incorporate DFO (satellite) Measurements

• Devise satellite-based microwave sensor altimetry virtual data points to collect river measurement sites to monitor changes in river water heights to compute river flow for validations.

12. Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks Assigned [Among the assignments in which the staff has been involved, indicate the following information for those assignments that best illustrate staff capability to handle the tasks listed under point 11.] Name of assignment or project: G-REALM (Global Reservoir and Lake Monitor)

Year: 2003 to current Location: NASA/GSFC and UMD/ESSIC (USA) for Global Monitoring

Client: USDA/FAS/OGA Main project features: Delivery of operational lake level products

Positions held: Project Manager, Lead Scientist Activities performed: Scientific data analysis, validation, benchmarking, reporting, collaboration with and assistance to various stakeholders.

Name of assignment or project: Altimetric Remote Sensing of the Amazon: Surface Water Dynamics

Year: 1999-2002 Location: USA-based project, focussed on Amazonia/Brazil

Client: NASA and LBA Main project features: Amazon River Basin study

Positions held: Principal Investigator, Project Manager, Lead Scientist Activities performed: Analysis of satellite radar altimetry data to determine variation in surface water heights over the Amazon main channel and its major tributaries. Conducted research into water dynamics. Delivered archive-based water-level products to the LBA


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and NASA/DAACS.

Name of assignment or project: Altimetric Performance over lakes, rivers, wetlands.

Year: 2012-current Location: USA-based research for multiple regional studies including theYukon River (North America), the Sudd, Okavango and Usangu wetlands (Africa), a selection of large climatically sensitive lakes (global), a collection of irrigation sites and ponds (Queensland, Australia) Client: NASA

Main project features: Application of radar altimetry datasets for interdisciplinary programs

Positions held: Principal Investigator, Project Manager, Lead Scientist Activities performed: Analysis of satellite radar altimetry data to determine variation in surface water heights over multiple lakes, river channel and wetland zones. Investigattive research into data quality/quantity. Application programs via collaboration looking at climate change, conservation, irrigation supply, basin dynamics.

13. Do you currently or have you ever worked for the World Bank Group including any of the following types of appointments: Regular, term, ETC, ETT, STC, STT, JPA, or JPO? If yes, please provide details, including start/end dates of appointment. NO ___________________________________________________________________________


Date: 12th March 2015 [Signature of staff member or authorized representative of the staff] Day/Month/Year


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Prof. A.K.M. Saiful Islam – Collaborator 1. Name of Staff [insert full name]: A.K.M. Saiful Islam 2. Proposed Position Researcher/Analyst -- Support for temporal and spatial data harmonization, assimilation 3. Employer: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology 4. Date of Birth: 26 July 1972 Nationality: Bangladesh 5. Education



Date Obtained

Drexel University Ph.D. 2004 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

M.Sc. 1999

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

B.Sc. 1996


Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), M-10232716 Member, Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), M-14920

7. Other Relevant Training: Training Workshop on Asian Monsoon Variability and Predictability, Beijing, 2014; 7th Regional Climate Modeling (RegCM) Training Workshop, ICTP, Italy, 2014; 2nd Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries: Planning and Management in a Climate Change Scenario, ITCP, Italy, 2013; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Training Course, CESBI, Toulouse, France, 2012; Seasonal Forecast Information Development and Application Training, ADPC, Thailand, 2012; PRECIS Training Workshop, Department of Meteorology, Reading University, UK, 2008. 8. Countries of Work Experience: [List countries where staff has worked in the last ten years]:

USA from 2000 to 2004 as Research Assistant at Drexel University; USA during July 2010, as Visiting Scientist at Tufts University; UK during September 2012, as Visiting Scientist at Plymouth Marine Lab (PML); UK during November 2013 as Visiting Scientist at National Oceanographic Center (NOC)

9. Languages [For each language indicate proficiency: good, fair, or poor in speaking, reading, and writing]:


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English – Speaking – Good, Reading – Good, Writing – Good Benglai – Speaking – Good, Reading – Good, Writing – Good

10. Employment Record [Starting with present position, list in reverse order every employment held]:


Employer: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Positions held: Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor

From [Year]: 2000 To [Year]: 2004

Employer: Drexel University

Positions held: Research & Teaching Assistant



Key Tasks: Rain Gage and Stream Gage Data Collection and Processing

• Consult on availability of Bangladesh downstream discharge data to be used as lower boundary condition for hydrologic models

• Consult on dissemination of forecast products derived from this consultancy to users downstream in Bangladesh

12. Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks Assigned [Among the assignments in which the staff has been involved, indicate the following information for those assignments that best illustrate staff capability to handle the tasks listed under point 11.]

. Name of assignment or project: Designing Flash Flood Early Warning System (FFEWS) Sub-component for Haor Region of North-eastern Bangladesh

Year: October 2014 - ongoing

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Client: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Main project features: The Climate Adaptation and Livelihood Protection (CALIP) is a supplementary project integrated with IFAD's Haor Infrastructure and Livelihoods Improvement Project (HILIP) launched in 2012.The CALIP project will work in the same project areas as HILIP in the five Haor districts of Netrakona, Habiganj, Brahmanbaria, Kishoreganj and Sunamganj in 28 Upazilas selected on the basis of their exposure to


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climate risks and poverty context. These include 4 Upazilas in Netrakona, 4 Upazilas in Kishoreganj, 6 Upazilas in Brahmanbaria, 3 Upazilas in Habiganj and 11 Upazilas in Sunamganj. The objective of the HILIP/CALIP project is to enhance livelihood opportunities and reduce vulnerability of the poor. The main outcomes expected from the HILIP/CALIP project include: (i) enhanced access to markets, livelihood opportunities and social services; (ii) enhanced village mobility, reduction in production losses and protection against extreme weather events; (iii) enhanced access to fishery resources and conservation of biodiversity; (iv) enhanced production, diversification and marketing of crop and livestock produce; (v) efficient, cost effective and equitable use of project resources; and vi) enhanced capacity and knowledge for building resilience (new outcome introduced by CALIP).Positions held: Institutional Lead (BUET).

Activities performed: The work conducted in the CALIP project focused on the capacity building for weather and flash flood forecasting: Current and future climate risk management will depend on access to real-time weather and flash flood information. In this regard, CALIP will build on existing systems to make more robust the weather and flash flood related data generation, analysis and dissemination, as well as, community preparedness and response capacity. The specific tasks will be carried out by BUET team:

(i) Field data collection and assisting on carrying out social, technical, hydrological and navigational survey; (ii) Carrying out statistical analysis and data assimilation for WRF data assimilation;

(iii) Set-up, calibration and validation of WRF model for the Haor area using data assimilation;

(iv) Assisting on the development of Rainfall-Runoff model and 1D-Hydrodynaic model (v) Interpretation of Flood inundation depth into local level flood warning

(vi) Interaction with FFWC, BMD and other partners of the project. (vii) Assisting capacity Building of the Govt. officials through two short course on 1. WRF & Data Assimilation and 2. Flash Flood forecasting.

2. Name of assignment or project: High End cLimate Impact and eXtremes (HELIX) Year: (November) 2013 – ongoing

Location: South Asia (Bangladesh) Client: European Union

Main Project Features: The High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes (HELIX) is a collaborative project funded by European Union, and started in November 2013, with sixteen participating institutions led by the Exeter University, UK. Assessment of climate change impacts as a result of 2°C +, 4°C+ and 6°C + world will be conducted in HELIX on a global scale under a range of physical and socio-economic conditions with the consideration of different adaptations scenarios. As a partner of HELIX, BUET will focus on South Asia (case study: Bangladesh) for the apprehended implications of higher-end


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scenarios beyond 2°C, 4°C and 6°C and possible warming of the world upon different bio-physical systems of the country like agriculture, water resources, ecology, infrastructure, health, socio-economy, etc.

Activities Performed: Research focus of HELIX is on land and coastal impacts and their consequences for food, water and energy security; flooding, infrastructure, ecosystems, health, migration, and risk of conflict. It will carry out research for-

• Developing global scenarios of the combined natural and human world at 4 degrees + Celsius warming, with and without society pro-actively undertaking adaptation

• Developing and analysing global scenarios of the world at 6 degrees + Celsius by 2100

• Devising detailed case studies for Europe, northern sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

• Describing reliable assessments of confidence in the scenarios • Ensuring our research addresses the needs of decision-makers

3. Name of assignment or project: Assessing Health, Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services And Poverty Alleviation In Populous Deltas (ESPA Deltas)

Year: (April) 2013 – (June) 2014

Location: Bangladesh Client: Department for International Development (DFID), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), as part of the UK’s Living with Environmental Change Programme (LWEC).

Main Project Features: This project aims to provide policy makers with the knowledge and tools to enable them to evaluate the effects of policy decisions on people's livelihoods. This will be done by a multidisciplinary and multi-national team of policy analysts, social and natural scientists and engineers. Collectively they will use a participatory approach to create a holistic approach to formally evaluating ecosystem services and poverty in the context of the wide range of changes that are occurring. These changes include subsidence and sea level rise, land degradation and population pressure in delta regions. The approach will be developed, tested and applied in coastal Bangladesh and also tested conceptually in two other populous deltas in India. Activities Performed: Major activities performed in this study are-

(i) Development of one dimensional hydrodynamic model for the river networks of the south west regions of Bangladesh.

(ii) Assessment of flow and salinity of the rivers and estuary of the coastal regions of Bangladesh by developing a 3D models.

(iii) Identification of Core Model inputs. These inputs are fundamental to the development of the model framework.

(iii) Collection of primary and secondary data required for both models.


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(iv) Model Quantification, Verification, Calibration & Historical analysis. Outputs form the physical modeling has been utilized to quantify the conceptual dynamic systems model framework produced in other work packages of this project (WP2 and WP4)

13. Do you currently or have you ever worked for the World Bank Group including any of the following types of appointments: Regular, term, ETC, ETT, STC, STT, JPA, or JPO? If yes, please provide details, including start/end dates of appointment. ________________ Not Applicable_______________________________________________


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