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Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management
1910 East-West Road Sherman 101
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 956-7530
Fax: (808) 956-6539
Email: nrem@ctahr.hawaii.edu

Departmental Chair:
Dr. Carl I. Evensen
Graduate Chair:
Dr. Catherine Chan-Halbrendt
Undergraduate Chair:
Dr. Travis Idol

Associate Professor
Watershed Hydrology and Tropical Soils

Office: Sherman 243
Phone: (808) 956-6361
Fax: (808) 956-6539
E-mail: afares@hawaii.edu
Website: www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/faresa/

Ph.D. Hydrological Science, University of Florida
M.S. Agronomy/Computer Science, University of Florida
B.S. Horticultural Engineering, University of the Center

NREM491 Watershed Hydrology
NREM600 Evaluation of Natural Resource Management
NREM660 Hydrological Processes in Soil
NREM662 Watershed Hydrology
NREM301/301L Natural Resources & Conservation

Professional Experience

• 2005–Present Associate Professor, NREM-CTAHR, UH-Manoa.
• 2002–2005 Assistant Professor NREM-CTAHR, UH-Manoa.
• 2006-Present Affiliated faculty, Center for Teaching Excellence, UH-Manoa
• 1996–1999 & 2001 – 2002. Research Associate, University of Florida
• 2001–2002 Graduate Adjunct Faculty, The Union Institute & University, OH
• 2001–2002 Adjunct Faculty, Keiser College, Lakeland, FL.
• 2002 Adjunct Faculty, Warner Southern College, Lake Wales, FL.
• 2000 Research Scientist, Sentek, Adelaide, South Australia.

Publications (selected)

Books:
• Fares, A. and A. ElKadi. 2006 (Editors). Land Management Impacts on Coastal Watershed Hydrology. Progress in Water Resources Series, WIT Press. (Expected Publication December 2007)

Book Chapters:
• Fares, A. and V.O. Polyakov. 2006. Advances in Crop Water Management Using Capacitive Water Sensors. In D. Sparks (ed.) pp. 43-77. Advances in Agronomy. Vol.90, Academic Press.
• Fares, A. and A. Kimoto. 2007. Use of Buffers to Reduce Nitrogen Transport to Water Bodies. In J. Delgado (ed.) Nitrogen Management For Water Quality. USDA-ARS.
• Delgado, A.J, A.K., Alva, A. Fares, S. Paramasivam, D. Mattos, Jr. and K. Sajwan. 2006. Numerical modeling to study the fate of nitrogen in cropping systems and best management case studies. In A. Basra and S. Goyal (ed.) Enhancing the Efficiency of Nitrogen Utilization in Crops. Haworth's Food Products Press, Binghamton, NY. 479 Pp.

Refereed Publications:
• Fares A., Hamdhani and D.M. Jenkins. 2007. Temperature Dependant Scaled Frequency to Improve the Accuracy of Multisensor Capacitance Probes. SSSAJ. 71:10-16.
• Fares, A., Hamdhani, H., and H. Valenzuela. 2006. Real-time soil water monitoring for optimum water management. JAWRA Sustainable Watershed Special Issue, 42:1-8.
• Fares, A., J. Simunek, M. Th. van Genuchten L.R. Parsons, T.A. Wheaton and K. Morgan. 2001. Effect of emitter patterns on solute transport. Soil Crop Sci. Soc. Florida Proc. 61:46-56.
• Fares, A., P., Buss, M. Dalton, A. I. El-Kadi, and L.R., Parsons. 2004. Dual field calibration of capacitance and neutron sensors in a shrinking-swelling clay soil. Vadose Zone Journal Volume 3: 1390-1399.
• Mair A, A. Fares and A. I. Elkadi. 2007. Evaluation of the Effect of Groundwater Extraction and Long-Term Weather Patterns on the Makaha Valley’s Streamflow. JAWRA, 43:1-12, 2007.
• Fox, R.L., A. Fares, Y. Wan and C.I. Evensen. 2006. Comparative Phosphorus Sorption by Marine Sediments and Agricultural Soils in a Tropical Environment. Journal of Environ. Sci. and Health, Part A, Toxic/Hazardous Substance & Environ. Eng. Part A, 41: 2109 – 2126.
• Elrashidi, M., D. Mays, A. Fares, C. Seybold, and S.D. Peaslee. 2005. Loss of Nitrate-Nitrogen by Runoff and Leaching for an Agricultural Watershed in Southeast Nebraska. Journal of Soil Science 170:969-984. 15.

Conference and Symposium Organizer

• Chair of the organizing committee of the Soil Moisture Sensing Technology Conference: Current and future research directions in soil moisture sensing. Honolulu, HI March 19-21 2007.
• Organizer of the Short course: PC-based Modeling of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in the Vadose Zone. M.T. van Genuchten and J. Simunek. University of Hawaii-Manoa- Honolulu, HI June 30 – July 1 2005.
• Co-Chairman of the session: Quantifying the effect of land use changes on watershed hydrology: Experimental and/or Numerical Approach. The 2005 Summer Specialty Conference, the American Water Resources Association, June 27-29 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Co-Organizer of the Short course: Applied Modeling of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Soils and Groundwater Workshop. M.T. van Genuchten and J. Simunek. University of Hawaii-Manoa- Honolulu, HI Dec. 15-16 2003.
• Co-Organizer of the workshop: AnnAGNPS Training Workshop, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI May 24-28, 2004.
• Session co-convener: Surface subsurface hydrological responses to land cover and land use West Pacific Geophysical Union Meeting. Honolulu, HI August 16-20, 2004.
• Co-Organizer of: The First International Symposium on Soil Water Measurement Using Capacitance and Impedance, USDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research, Beltsville, MD. November 5-7 2002.