Associate Professor at Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands-Desert Division- Retired
Hassan Rouhipour, Previous National Representative and member of WASWAC for Iran rouhi@rifr-ac.ir, and parviz.rouhi@yahoo.com.au
Hassan Rouhipour received his first degree in Soil and Water from Ahvaz Agricultural College, the Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in 1971. He first worked on developing drip irrigation systems in Iran. He then became interested in land degradation and desertification. In 1973, he joined the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands (RIFR) and did research in the south of Iran on soil erosion and combating desertification. During his employment in RIFR, he completed his MSc degree in Soil Science at the University of Shahid Chamran (Ahvaz).
In 1991 he participated in a Graduate Course in Hydrology at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He was then granted an Iranian student scholarship and completed his studies for a Ph.D. in 1996 in the School of Environmental Sciences at Griffith University, Australia. He also teaches soil erosion and conservation courses at three Iranian Universities for postgraduate students. He has published three books on soil erosion and water balance in the Persian language and numerous scientific papers in several valid journals.
He retired in Feb. 2010 from RIFR and Currently, he is working as a consultant with the same Institute, He is now the vice Editor-In-Chief of The Iranian Journal of Range and Desert Research.
