School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences College of Science

Higher-Education

• 1996 Ph.D. Soil and Water Science, University of Arizona
• 1994 M.S. Soil and Water Science, University of Arizona

Research Overview

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.

Present Courses

• BIOL 4388 02 - Global Change Ecology