Mr Biniam Ashagre
Research Assistant
Location: Building 42a, Cranfield campus
E: b.ashagre@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2734
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Mr Biniam Ashagre is working on a project funded by the Leverhulme study on “Valuing the Arc: linking science with stakeholders to sustain natural capital”. His role in this project is to undertake catchment scale hydrological modeling using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT).
Mr Ashagre's other activities are: model parameterisation, calibration, validation, and delivering model outputs for current conditions and for different scenarios to inform ecological, biodiversity, domestic water supply and irrigation studies.
Background
Mr Biniam Ashagre graduated in Civil Engineering from Arba Minch University, Ethiopia. He then studied for his Masters degree in Integrated Watershed Management and Hydrology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.His first degree had an emphasis on the construction and design of hydraulic structures, as well as irrigation and drainage structures and practical application of the knowledge gained through project management.
The Masters degree in Integrated Watershed Management and Hydrology, gave him the knowledge and the ability to analyse and to assess hydrological processes on a watershed scale.
Mr Ashagre's previous research was on the identification of watershed management options using the modified Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model (SWAT-WB/Water Balance) for areas where the runoff process is dominantly influenced by the saturation of the soil rather than the rate of infiltration.
Selected publications
- Amy S. Collick, Zachary M. Easton, Tegenu Ashagrie, Biniam Biruk Ashagre, Seifu Tilahun, Enyew Adgo, Seleshi B. Awulachew, Gete Zeleke and Tammo S. Steenhuis, A simple semi-distributed water balance model for the Ethiopian highlands. Hydrological Processes 23, 3718– 3727 (2009).
