Ph.D. candidate
Zada Tawalbeh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at New Mexico State University (NMSU). She obtained her bachelor’s degree in engineering and technology from Jordan University of Science and Technology and a master’s degree with a thesis in civil engineering – water resources from NMSU. She started her doctoral degree in 2019 under Dr. Salim Bawazir with a minor in remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS). Zada has several years of experience in teaching and has been teaching hydraulics laboratory at NMSU since 2019. She has worked on several research projects since she started her doctoral program at NMSU. The projects she worked on include evaporation of reservoirs using remote sensing sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, urban development in desert areas and its effect on heating and cooling of the environment sponsored by the NSF-Stanford ReNUWIt research center, transboundary aquifer recharge sponsored by WRRI/USGS, among others. Zada is currently working on two journal articles evolving quantification of the water consumed by crops in the Mesilla Valley under farming practices based on remote sensing models and ground-level measurements.