Morteza Mozafari

Associate Professor

Update: 2024-12-04

Morteza Mozafari

College of Science / Faculty of Geology

Journal Paper

  1. "Karst leakage analysis of Roudbal Dam, southwestern Iran, using geological, hydrogeological, hydrochemical and stable-isotopic approaches"
    Morteza Mozafari, John Van Brahana, Roya Eskandari, Maryam Pazoki
    Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Vol. 83, No 11, 2024
  2. "The role of geological structures on water leakage from karst dam sites in Zagros Region, Iran"
    Morteza Mozafari
    Geopersia, Vol. 12, No 2, pp.395-404, 2022
  3. "Effects of climate change and human activity on lake drying in Bakhtegan Basin, southwest Iran"
    Morteza Mozafari, [] [], Elham Fijani, Roya Eskandari, Samar Siahpoush, Fatemeh Ghader
    Sustainable Water Resources Management, Vol. 8, No 4, 2022
  4. "Application of geophysical and geological analyses to identify the main karst conduit close to the Sarabegarm spring, west Iran"
    Morteza Mozafari, Mohammad Moradi, Mohammad Javad Bolurchi, Alireza Aliyari, Maryam Sahhadian
    Bulletino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, Vol. 63, No 1, pp.73-86, 2022
  5. "Application of geophysical and hydrogeological analyses to predict water and hydrocarbon entry to the T5 Tunnel, west Iran"
    Mohammad Moradi, Morteza Mozafari, Mohammad Javad Bolurchi, Alireza Aliyari, Nikolay Palshin, Elena Aleksanova
    Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Vol. -, 2022
  6. "Quantify karstic aquifer potential recharge zones by integrated hydrogeology and GIS approaches, Northern Iran"
    Rahim Bagheri, Ghamaroddin Mirhasani, Hadi Jafari, Morteza Mozafari
    Geopersia, Vol. 12, No 1, 2022
  7. "Potential leakage paths at the dams constructed on karst terrains in Iran"
    Morteza Mozafari, Ezzatollah Raeisi
    Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Vol. -, 2021
  8. "Water leakage problem at the Tangab Dam Reservoir (SW Iran), case study of the complexities of dams on karst"
    Morteza Mozafari, Petar Milanovic, Jalal Jamei
    Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Vol. -, 2021
  9. "Water leakage problems at the Tangab Dam Reservoir (SW Iran), case study of the complexities of dams on karst"
    Morteza Mozafari, Petar Milanovic, Jalal Jamei
    Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Vol. -, pp.1-19, 2021
  10. "Hydrogeology and geomorphology of Bisetun Aquifer (NW Iran): interesting example of deep endokarst"
    Morteza Mozafari, Maryam Sahhadian, Yousef Surninia, Rahim Bagheri, Fatemeh Ghader
    CARBONATES AND EVAPORITES, Vol. 35, No 4, pp.1-19, 2020
  11. "Overexploitation hazards and salinization risks in crucial declining aquifers, chemo-isotopic approaches"
    Rahim Bagheri, Arash Nosrati, Hadi Jafari, Hans Eggenkampb, Morteza Mozafari
    JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, Vol. 369, pp.150-163, 2019
  12. "Contribution of spectral coherency analysis and tracer test to study leakage at the Doosti Dam reservoir, Iran and Turkmenistan"
    Morteza Mozafari, Ezzat Raeisi, Jesus Guerrero
    Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 77, No 4, 2018
  13. "Leakage paths at the Lar Dam site, northern Iran"
    Morteza Mozafari, Ezzatollah Raeisi
    Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Vol. 50, No 4, pp.444-453, 2017
  14. "The application of GPR and ERI in combination with exposure logging and retrodeformation analysis to characterize sinkholes and reconstruct their impact on fluvial sedimentation"
    Mario Zarroca, Xavier Comas, Francisco Gutierrez, Domingo Carbonel, Rogelio Linares, Carles Roque, Morteza Mozafari, Jesus Guerrero, Xavier Pellicer
    EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS, Vol. 42, No 7, pp.1049-1064, 2016
  15. "Salman Farsi Dam reservoir, a successful project on a karstified foundation, SW Iran"
    Morteza Mozafari, Ezzatollah Raeisi
    Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 75, No 12, 2016
  16. "Understanding karst leakage at the Kowsar dam, Iran, by hydrogeological analysis"
    Morteza Mozafari, Ezzatollah Raeisi
    Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, Vol. 21, No 4, 2015
  17. "Leakage problems in dams built on evaporites. The case of La Loteta Dam (NE Spain), a reservoir in a large karstic depression generated by interstratal salt dissolution"
    Francisco Gutierrez, Morteza Mozafari, Domingo Carbonel, Rene Gomez, Ezzatollah Raeisi
    ENGINEERING GEOLOGY, Vol. 185, No 185, pp.139-154, 2015
  18. "Salt-dissolution faults versus tectonic faults from the case study of salt collapse in Spanish Valley, SE Utah (USA)"
    Jesus Guerrero, Ronald Bruhn, James Mccalpin, Francisco Gutierrez, Grant Willis, Morteza Mozafari
    Lithosphere, Vol. 7, No 1, pp.46-58, 2015
  19. "Water leakage paths in the Doosti Dam, Turkmenistan and Iran"
    Morteza Mozafari, Ezzatollah Raeisi, Mohammad Zare
    Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 65, No 1, pp.103-117, 2011
  20. "Hydrochemical Study of Surface and Groundwater Resources of Lanjanat Plain"
    نعیمه مکارم, Morteza Mozafari
    Water and Soil Science, Vol. 34, No 2, 2024
  21. "Assessing the role of meteorological and hydrological droughts on the drying up of the Bakhtegan and Tashk lakes"
    Morteza Mozafari, Zeinab Hosseini, Elham Fijani
    Natural Environmental Hazards, Vol. 11, No 34, pp.79-100, 2022
  22. "Estimation of hydraulic conductivity of Asaluyeh Aquifer using empirical equations based on particle size distribution"
    [] [], Morteza Mozafari, Elham Fijani, Roya Eskandari
    Ferdowsi university civil engineering, Vol. 2, No 35, pp.63-74, 2022
  23. "Relation between the grout take, rock quality and permeability of radiolarite and limestone at the Roudbal Dam Site (SW Iran)"
    Maryam Pazoki, Morteza Mozafari, Elham Fijani, Abdollah Sohrabi Bidar
    Hydrogeology, Vol. 1, No 7, pp.81-90, 2022
  24. "Application of Geostatistics in identifying zones with high water leakage potential at Tangab Dam Site"
    Reza Dehshibi, Reza Jahanshahi, Morteza Mozafari, امین عصاری
    Ferdowsi university civil engineering, Vol. 34, No 4, pp.15-30, 2022
  25. "Impact of Land Use Changes and Expanding of Irrigation on Drying up of the Bakhtegan and Tashk Lakes"
    [] [], Morteza Mozafari, Elham Fijani
    Civil Infrastructure Researches, Vol. 7, No 1, pp.53-65, 2021
  26. "Investigation of leakage problem at the Shah-Ghasem Dam by hydrogeological analysis"
    Morteza Mozafari
    Hydrogeology, Vol. 4, No 2, pp.145-156, 2019
  27. "Qualitative degradation and hydrological regime Changing of the Geysoor critical aquifer, Khorasan Razavi"
    Marzieh Kabi, Rahim Bagheri, Mehdi Jafarzadeh, Morteza Mozafari
    Journal of Iranian Quaternary quarterly, Vol. 3, No 4, 2018

Conference Paper

  1. "Why the lakes in Iran are drying up?"
    Morteza Mozafari
    The 8th Regional Conference on Climate Change and Global Warming, 2023
  2. "Evaluation of karst development based on hydrodynamic characteristics of karst springs (Case Study: Hashtgerd, Alborz province)"
    Mohammad Haghiri, Morteza Mozafari, Sasan Habibi
    The 25th Symposium of Geological Society of Iran, 2023
  3. "The impact of climate change on the groundwater reduction in the Bakhtegan Basin"
    Morteza Mozafari, Zeinab Hosseini
    5th national conference on climate change and its impacts on agriculture and the environment, 2022
  4. "The effect of climate change and dam construction on the drying up of Kor and Sivand rivers"
    Morteza Mozafari, Zeinab Hosseini
    5th national conference on climate change and its impacts on agriculture and the environment, 2022
  5. "Determining the leakage paths at the Tangab Dam based on the geological and hydrogeological settings"
    Morteza Mozafari
    The 16th National Conference on Urban Planning, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environment, 2022
  6. "The effect of construction of Doroudzan, Mulla-Sadra and Sivand dams on the drying of Bakhtegan and Tashk lakes"
    Morteza Mozafari, [] [], Elham Fijani
    The 40th National Geosciences Congress, 2022
  7. "Determining the water leakage paths at the Roudbal Dam site using the hydrogeological analysis"
    Morteza Mozafari, Maryam Pazoki, Elham Fijani
    The 40th National Geosciences Congress, 2022
  8. "The role of tectonic in formation of the deepest karst features of Iran, Bisteun Mountains."
    Morteza Mozafari
    The 7th National Conference on Tectonic and Structural Geology of Iran 2019, 2019
  9. "The importance of the transboundary aquifers in national defense program"
    Morteza Mozafari, Mohammad Javad Bolurchi, Mohammad Moradi
    he National Conference on the Defense Architecture of the Islamic Republic on the horizons of 1404, 2019
  10. "The role of paleokarst in leakage from the Lar Dam reservoir"
    Morteza Mozafari, Ezzatollah Raeisi
    The 28th ‎Symposium of Geological Society of Iran, 2016
  11. "The application of GPR and ERI in combination with exposure logging and retrodeformation analysis to characterize sinkholes and reconstruct their impact on fluvial sedimentation, Valle Del Gallego, Spain."
    Mario Zarroca, Domingo Carbonel, Xavier Comas, Francisco Gutierrez, Jesus Guerrero, Linares Rogelio, Carles Roque, Morteza Mozafari, Xavier Pellicer
    14th National Quaternary Symposium, Granada 2015, 2015
  12. "• Evaluation of groundwater flow direction and velocity in the Doosti Dam, using a dye tracer"
    Morteza Mozafari, Ezzatollah Raeisi, Mohammad Zare, Zargham Mohammadi, Farahtaj Bahadori
    The 26th Symposium of Geological Survey of Iran, 2008