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Abdullah Rahman

abdullah rahman

Professor

School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences

Joint appointment: Department of Biology

BCOSL 102
(956) 761-2644
South Padre Island
abdullah.rahman@utrgv.edu

 

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Education

PhD, Soil and Water Science, University of Arizona, 1996
MS, Soil and Water Science, University of Arizona, 1994

Areas of Interest

  • Carbon Dynamics of Coastal Vegetation
  • Remote Sensing and GIS

Courses

  •   BIOL 4388 02 - Global Change Ecology

Research Overview

 

Recent Publications

  •  Stephanie DuBois, Brittney Lacy, Abdullah Rahman, and MD Saydur Rahman. Elevated CYP1A
    expression detected in pinfish collected from a coastal lagoon in the southern Texas Gulf Coast:
    indicative of exposure to microplastics or pollutants?. Environmental Science and Pollution 
    Research. 28, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021): Environmental Science and Pollution Research.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14351-1
  • Aslan Aslan, Abdullah Rahman, Scott Robeson, and Muhammad Ilman. Land-use dynamics
    associated with mangrove deforestation for aquaculture and the subsequent abandonment of ponds.
    Science of the Total Environment. 791, (June 2021)
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896972103391X?via%3Dihub
  • Megan Ballard, Kevin Lee, Jason Sagers, Gabriel Venegas, Andrew McNeese, Abdullah Rahman,
    and Preston Wilson. Application of geoacoustic inference to assess the diurnal effects of
    photosynthetic activity in a seagrass meadow. (2020)  https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10502265.1
  • Rachel Arney, Alison Shepherd, Heather Alexander, and Abdullah Rahman. Soil Carbon and
    Nitrogen Storage in Natural and Prop-Scarred Thalassia Testudinum Seagrass Meadows. Estuaries
    and Coasts. (2020): 1--11.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00765-6
  • Kevin Lee, Megan Ballard, Gabriel Venegas, Andrew McNeese, Matthew Zeh, Preston Wilson, and
    Abdullah Rahman. Acoustic propagation in a seagrass meadow over diurnal and seasonal time scales.
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 148, no. 2482 (December 2020)
    https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.5146879
  • Amy Bogolin, Drew Davis, Krista Ruppert, Richard Kline, and Abdullah Rahman. Pseudemys
    Gorzugi (Rio Grande Cooter) - Geographic Distribution. Herpetological Review. 50, no. 4
    (December 2019): 745. https://ssarherps.org/publications/herpetological-review/
  • Kevin Lee, Megan Ballard, Jason Sagers, Andrew McNeese, Gabriel Venegas, Jay Johnson, Preston
    Wilson, and Abdullah Rahman. Broadband acoustic propagation in a seagrass meadow throughout a
    diurnal cycle. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 145, no. 3 (2019): 1672--1672.  https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5127737
  • Bassil El Masri, Abdullah Rahman, and Danilo Dragoni. Evaluating a new algorithm for
    satellite-based evapotranspiration for North American ecosystems: Model development and
    validation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 268, (2019): 234--248. 
  • Jingfeng Xiao, Frederic Chevallier, Cecile Gomez, Luis Guanter, Jeffrey Hicke, Alfredo Huete,
    Kazuhito Ichii, Wenjian Ni, Yong Pang, Abdullah Rahman, Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon
    cycle: A review of advances over 50 years. Remote Sensing of Environment. 233, (2019): 111383.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111383
  • Gabriel Venegas, AF Rahman, Kevin Lee, Megan Ballard, and Preston Wilson. Toward the
    Ultrasonic Sensing of Organic Carbon in Seagrass-Bearing Sediments. Geophysical Research
    Letters. 46, no. 11 (2019): 5968--5977.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082745
  • Justin Maxwell, Grant Harley, and Abdullah Rahman. Annual growth rings in two mangrove species
    from the Sundarbans, Bangladesh demonstrate linkages to sea-level rise and broad-scale
    ocean-atmosphere variability. Society of Wetland Scientists, 22 N. Carroll St, Ste 300, Madison, WI
    53703: Wetlands. 38, (September 2019): 1159-1170.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-018-1079-5
  • M. Rahnemoonfar, Abdullah Rahman, Richard Kline, and Austin Greene. Automatic seagrass
    disturbance pattern identification on Sonar images. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 44, no. 1
    (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019): 1-10.  https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2017.2780707
  • Bassil El Masri, Abdullah Rahman, and Danilo Dragoni. Evaluating a new algorithm for
    satellite-based evapotranspiration for North American ecosystems: Model development and
    validation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 268, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019): 234-248.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.01.025
  • Justin Maxwell, Grant Harley, and Abdullah Rahman. Annual Growth Rings in Two Mangrove
    Species from the Sundarbans, Bangladesh Demonstrate Linkages to Sea-Level Rise and Broad-Scale
    Ocean-Atmosphere Variability. Wetlands. 38, no. 6 (2018): 1159--1170.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-018-1079-5
  • Megan Ballard, Jason Sagers, Gabriel Venegas, Kevin Lee, Andrew McNeese, Preston Wilson,
    Abdullah Rahman, and Justin Dubin. Application of geoacoustic inference for ecosystem monitoring
    of a seagrass meadow. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 144, no. 3 (2018):
    1913--1913.  https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5068383.
  • Justin Dubin, Megan Ballard, Kevin Lee, Andrew McNeese, Jason Sagers, Gabriel Venegas,
    Abdullah Rahman, and Preston Wilson. Compressional and shear in situ measurements in the Lower
    Laguna Madre. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143, no. 3 (2018): 1712--1712.  https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5035575
  • Gabriel Venegas, Aslan Aslan, Ivy Hinson, Abdullah Rahman, Kevin Lee, Megan Ballard, Jason
    Sagers, Andrew McNeese, Justin Dubin, and Preston Wilson. Effect of carbon content on sound
    speed and attenuation of sediments in seagrass meadows. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of
    America. 143, no. 3 (2018): 1797--1797.  https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5035877
  • Gabriel Venegas, Kevin Lee, Megan Ballard, Preston Wilson, and Abdullah Rahman. Geoacoustic
    properties of seagrass-bearing sediments. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 144, no.3 (2018): 1844--1844.   https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5068121
  • Aslan Aslan, Abdullah Rahman, and Scott Robeson. Investigating the use of Alos Prism data in
    detecting mangrove succession through canopy height estimation. Ecological Indicators. 87, (2018):
    136--143.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.12.008
  • Abdullah Rahman. Methane Emission from Seagrass Disturbance and its Impact on Global
    Atmospheric Methane Budget. AGUFM. 2018, (2018): B42C--08.
  • Austin Greene, Abdullah Rahman, Richard Kline, and MD Saydur Rahman. Side scan sonar: A
    cost-efficient alternative method for measuring seagrass cover in shallow environments. Estuarine,
    Coastal and Shelf Science. 207, (2018): 250--258.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.04.017
  • Hao Yan, Shao-Qiang Wang, Kai-Liang Yu, Bin Wang, Qin Yu, Gil Bohrer, Dave Billesbach,
    Rosvel Bracho, Faiz Rahman, and Herman Shugart. A Novel Diffuse Fraction-Based Two-Leaf
    Light Use Efficiency Model: An Application Quantifying Photosynthetic Seasonality across 20
    AmeriFlux Flux Tower Sites. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9, no. 6 (2017):
    2317--2332.  https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000886
  • Megan Ballard, Kevin Lee, Andrew McNeese, Jason Sagers, Preston Wilson, Abdullah Rahman,
    Justin Dubin, and Gabriel Venegas. Acoustical characterization of a seagrass meadow in the Lower
    Laguna Madre. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142, no. 4 (2017): 2694--2694  https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5014828
  • Taehee Hwang, Hamed Gholizadeh, Daniel Sims, Kimberly Novick, Edward Brzostek, Richard
    Phillips, Daniel Roman, Scott Robeson, and Abdullah Rahman. Capturing species-level drought
    responses in a temperate deciduous forest using ratios of photochemical reflectance indices between
    sunlit and shaded canopies. Remote Sensing of Environment. 199, (2017): 350--359.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.033
  • Zheng Fu, Paul Stoy, Yiqi Luo, Jiquan Chen, Jian Sun, Leonardo Montagnani, Georg Wohlfahrt,
    Abdullah Rahman, Serge Rambal, Christian Bernhofer, Climate controls over the net carbon uptake
    period and amplitude of net ecosystem production in temperate and boreal ecosystems. Agricultural
    and Forest Meteorology. 243, (2017): 9–18.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.05.009
  • Abdullah Rahman and Aslan Aslan. The first global-scale 30 m resolution mangrove canopy height
    map using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data. arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09958. (2017)
  • Abdullah Rahman. Peer review report 1 On "Land surface phenology of China's temperate
    ecosystems over 1999-2013: Spatial-temporal patterns, carry-over effects, covariation with climate
    and implications for productivity''. AgFM. 217, (2016): 69.
  • Zakiuddin Januri, Siti Idris, Norazah Rahman, Sharmeela Matali, SF Manaf, AF Rahman, and
    Syarifah Rahman. Solid char characterization from effect of radiation time study on microwave
    assisted pyrolysis of kitchen waste. J Eng Sci Technol. 11, (2016): 70--82.

 

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