University of Michigan at Ann Arbor B.S.E. (Engineering Physics) 2001

California Institute of Technology Ph.D. (Geochemistry) 2006

University of California at Berkeley Postdoc (Climate and water resources) 2006-2008

Graduate

•  CE G9800: Sustainability in Civil Engineering (course newly proposed, developed, and taught)
•  CE G9500: Remote Sensing in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering
•  ENGR I1100: Introduction to Engineering Analysis

Undergraduate

• CE 31500: Computational Methods in Civil Engineering
• CE 37200: Environmental Impact Assessment
   

Courses taught at Caltech (as a teaching assistant)

• Ge/ESE 149: Marine Geochemistry 
• Ge 148c: Global Biogeochemical Cycles 
• Ge 1: Earth and Environment

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Recent Publications

1. K Rezkallah, A Sebbar, P Maugis, NY Krakauer, W Hammoudy, W Badri (2026), Rainfall variability and droughts in the Sebou basin (Morocco): ERA5 bias correction by quantile mapping and trend analysis over 1980-2024, Applied Sciences, 16(14): 7023, doi: 10.3390/app16147023
    
2. M Arif, CJ Chen, NY Krakauer, TY Lee (2026), Changing water resources in the Indus Basin: A multi-model Budyko-based analysis, International Journal of Climatology, e70471, doi: 10.1002/joc.70471
    
3. R Kessabi, M Hanchane, NY Krakauer, M Belmahi (2026), Assessment of the rainfall trend effect on meteorological and hydrological drought in the Upper Sebou Basin, Morocco, Climate, 14(6): 118, doi: 10.3390/cli14060118
    
4. F Soleimani Sardoo, T Mesbahzadeh, E Ghanbari Adivi, NY Krakauer (2026), Spatiotemporal dynamics of dust storm activity across Iran (2003-2022), Land, 15(6): 950, doi: 10.3390/land15060950
    
5. L El Hani, NY Krakauer, R Kessabi, M Belmahi, J Khachab, A Bouberria (2026), The sustainability challenge of water resources in arid rural areas under drought constraints and increasing consumption pressure: A case study of the Guercif Plain (Morocco), Water, 18(9): 1094, doi: 10.3390/w18091094
    
6. J El Kassioui, M Hanchane, NY Krakauer, L Amraoui, R Kessabi (2026), Changes in regional circulation weather type in Morocco during the period 1980-2019, Atmosphere, 17(5): 445, doi: 10.3390/atmos17050445
    
7. F Soleimani Sardo, NY Krakauer (2026), Dust modeling using MODIS data and WRF model (case study of dust storm from December 16 to 20, 2016), Sustainable Earth Trends, 6(1): 55-65, doi: 10.48308/set.2025.238019.1098
    

• CUNY Sandi Cooper Award for Outstanding Research for Associate Professors, 2026
   
• CUNY "Salute to Scholars" recognition, 2012, 2015
   
• American Society of Civil Engineers Excellence in Civil Engineering Education Teaching (ExCEEd) Fellow, 2011
   
• NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2008
   
• NASA Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellow, 2005-2006
   
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation graduate fellow, 2001-2005 
   
• Sigma Pi Sigma, 2000 
   
• Tau Beta Pi, 1999
   
• First prize, R.C. Jones Poetry Contest (for University of Michigan engineering students), 1998 and 2000 
   
• National Merit Scholar, 1996