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College / Department
Teaching areas
Fluid Mechanics, Water Resources Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Advanced Water Resources Engineering, Statics
Research areas
River engineering, catchment flood management plans, Strategic Flood Risk Management, Channel resistance, boundary shear stress distributions, Overbank flow, flood hydraulics, Sediment mechanics, Hydraulic structures at high flow, e.g. bridges and Environmental Hydrology and Modelling.
Education
PhD, Open Channel Hydraulics, Water Resources, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2001
Professional experience
Senior Engineer, Project Manager, 2006 - 2008
Senior Engineer, 2002 - 2006
Research Assistant, 2001 - 2002
Memberships
The International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research, January 2001
Contact
+971 6 515 2998
Professor Serter Atabay
Professor
PhD, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Serter Atabay has more than seven years of professional experience with the UK's leading specialists in flood risk and environmental management. He has taught a variety of courses for undergraduate students, including fluid mechanics, water resources engineering, coastal engineering and statics. His general area of specialization is open channel hydraulics, and his research interests span over a few sub-areas of research including compound channel flow mechanism and boundary shear stress distributions, and hydraulic structures such us bridges and culverts.
Publications
Abdullah Yilmaz, Serter Atabay And Kimia Kimia Assar. Climate Change Impacts on Inflows into Lake Eppalock Reservoir from Upper Campaspe Catchment, Hydrology, 24 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021
Md. Mortula, Serter Atabay, Kazi Fattah And Ahmad Madbuly. Leachability of Microplastic from Different Plastic Materials, Journal Of Environmental Management, June 2021
Georgenes Cavalcante Segundo, Filipe Vieira, Edmo Dias Campos, Serter Atabay, Mohamed Abouleish And Rita Bento. Environmental aspects of semi-closed lagoons in the Sharjah coastline during spring/neap tides, southern Arabian/Persian Gulf coast, Regional Studies In Marine Science, 21 June 2021
Georgenes Cavalcante Segundo, Filipe Vieira, Edmo Dias Campos, Serter Atabay, Mohamed Abouleish And Rita Bento. Environmental aspects of semi-closed lagoons in the Sharjah coastline during spring/neap tides, southern Arabian/Persian Gulf coast, Regional Studies In Marine Science, 21 June 2021
Mohammed Yamin, Mousa Attom, Serter Atabay And Ramesh Vandanapu. The effect of compaction effort on shear strength parameters of low/high plasticity clay soils, Geotechnical Engineering Journal Of The Seags & Agssea
Md. Mortula, Serter Atabay, Haifa Ismail And Nour Aljafari. Assessment of Factors Affecting Bromate Formation in Drinking Water Bottles, International Journal Of Hydrology Science And Technology, March 2021
Kimia Assar, Serter Atabay, Abdullah Yilmaz And Kazi Fattah. Empirical analysis of backwater level due to skewed bridge constriction, Water Management, 14 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020
Mayada Farah, Esraa , Md. Mortula And Serter Atabay. Evaluation of Microplastic and Other Contaminants in the Leachates of Plastic Waste, 1st Asia Pacific Conference On Sustainable Development Of Energy, Water And Environmental Systems, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2020
Abdullah Yilmaz, Arwa Najah, Aysha Hussein, Athra Khamis, Naseraldin Kayemah And Serter Atabay. Climate Change Effects on Drought in Sharjah, UAE, International Journal Of Environmental Science And Development, March 2020
Mahsa Hashemi, Serter Atabay, Abdullah Yilmaz And Md. Mortula. Prediction of stage-discharge relationship in two-stage channels, International Journal Of Hydrology Science And Technology
Georgenes Cavalcante Segundo, Filipe Vieira, Edmo Dias Campos, Mohamed Abouleish And Serter Atabay. Climate oscillation factors controlling hydrodynamic variability in urban lagoons under extreme environmental conditions in the southern Arabian Gulf, United Arab Emirates, November 2019
Khalid Kaddoura, Tarek Zayed, Zhi Chen, Altayeb Qasem And Serter Atabay. Optimized Maintenance Model for Wastewater Treatment Plants, Canadian Journal Of Civil Engineering
Khalid Kaddoura, Tarek Zayed, Serter Atabay And Alaa Hawari. Automated Detection Tool for Deformed Buried Conduits, 5 March 2019
Abdullah Yilmaz, Abdallah Shanableh, Tarek Merabtene, Serter Atabay And Naseraldin Kayemah. Rainfall Trends and Intensity-Frequency-Duration Relationships in Sharjah City, UAE, The International Journal Of Hydrology Science And Technology
Heba Hussein, Serter Atabay, Md. Mortula And Tarig Ali. Investigation of Water Quality Parameters for Coastal Lagoon, Pollution Research, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2018
Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Serter Atabay. Monitoring and assessment of water quality of a coastal lake using high resolution imagery and GIS, Pollution Research, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017
Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Serter Atabay And Ehsan Navadeh. A GIS-based spatiotemporal study of the variability of water quality in the Dubai creek, UAE, Water Quality Research Journal Of Canada, 1 August 2016
Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Serter Atabay. GIS-based study on the susceptibility of dubai creek (UAE) to eutrophication, Polish Journal Of Environmental Studies, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016
Tarig Ali, Serter Atabay, Md. Mortula And Ruijin Ma. Semiautomatic extraction of the shoreline from high-resolution satellite imagery and coastal terrain model, Surveying And Land Information Science, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015
Conference Presentations
Backwater calculation due to Arc Bridges with skewed crossing, The International Conference On Decision Aid Sciences And Applications (dasa’20), 8 November 2020
Climate oscillation factors controlling hydrodynamic variability in urban lagoons under extreme environmental conditions in the southern Arabian Gulf, United Arab Emirates, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020, February 2020
Grants and sponsorships
Grant, Understanding Potential Climate Change Impacts on the Stability of Coastal Lagoons, American University of Sharjah, 1 July 2022 - 31 May 2024
Grant, Design and Manufacturing of a Novel Solar Desalination Pilot Unit for Families and Small Communities in Remote Areas, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2021 - 31 May 2023
Grant, FRG19-Medium : Lagoon Dynamics and Vulnerability Assessment on the Sharjah coast—Impacts of Climate Change., American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE., May 2019 - May 2021
Grant, Assessment of coastal processes in the nearshore areas of Sharjah: : Lagoon Dynamics and Vulnerability Assessment on the Sharjah coast—Impacts of Climate Change, Sharjah Research Academy, 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2020
Grant, Lagoon Dynamics and Vulnerability Assessment on the Sharjah coast—Impacts of Climate Change., 1 September 2019
Grant, Improving Sustainability and Resilience in Water Distribution Systems; A Lifecycle Thinking Approach, American University of Sharjah
Grant, Assessment of Chemical and Biological Stability of Water within Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority Distribution Network, American University of Sharjah
Awards and Honors
FRG22-C-E32_Faculty Research Grant (FRG), AUS, Understanding Potential Climate Change Impacts on the Stability of Coastal Lagoons 372500 AED inc. GRA, 1 June 2022
FRG21-M-E89_Faculty Research Grant (FRG), AUS, As Co-PI; Design and Manufacturing of a Novel Solar Desalination Pilot Unit for Families and Small Communities in Remote Areas (146500), May 2021
Faculty Development Funds, 20000 AED, AUS, I received this Faculty Development Funds for successfully completing the total of 3 master students' supervision., 3 March 2020
AUS Faculty Research Grant (FRG19-Medium), AUS, Segundo, G. (Principal), Abouleish, M. Y. (Co-Principal), Atabay, S. (Co-Principal): Lagoon Dynamics and Vulnerability Assessment on the Sharjah coast—Impacts of Climate Change.," Sponsored by American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.,...
Featured Researcher of the month, AUS library in a newly launched library series, 1 May 2018
Best technical note of 2018, The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Technical note was published in the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering by ASCE, 6 February 2018
Best Paper Award, 18th International Conference on Agricultural, Environmental, Ecological and Ecosystems Sciences which was held in Rome, September 15~16, 2016, Then the conference paper was published as the journal paper as Aljafari, Nour, Mariam S. Maani, Serter Atabay, Tarig Ali, Said Daher,...
Analysing of experimental data from SERC flood Channel facility (Skew flow experiments, CEN-Seed Research Grant, 12 October 2008