Farid Ishak Boushaki, Ph.D.

Dr. Boushaki is a recent graduate from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he received his Ph.D. in Hydrology from the Department of Civil Engineering. He also received a B.S. in Hydraulics Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Algiers, and M.S. in Hydrology and Water Resources from the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona in 2002. His coursework covered many aspects of hydrology including surface water, groundwater, and parameter optimization methods.

As part of his Ph.D. dissertation, Dr. Boushaki developed and implemented a procedure that optimally merge radar, satellite, and gauge precipitation estimates for Rainfall-Runoff Process at a Watershed Scale, as well as a bias removal algorithm for improving the quality of satellite precipitation estimates over the US and Mexico. Dr. Boushaki is familiar with various hydrologic software applications, including HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, EPANET, MODFLOW, SAC-SMA, and HAZUS. He is also familiar with GIS and remote sensing software, including ArcInfo, ArcGIS9.x, ArcView, ERDAS-Imagine, IDRISI and Surfer.

As a Senior Engineer at Wildermuth Environmental, Inc. (WEI), Dr. Boushaki is currently invovled with the Chino Basin model recalibration project and the Cucamonga Creek recharge feasibility study. He is also assisting in the preparation of a numerical groundwater model for Mammoth Basin. Dr. Boushaki is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society.

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