Services | Ali Reza Shahvaran

Services, Committee & Panel Assignments

Sep 2026–Present

Member, Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC)

School of Graduate Studies (SGS), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Advise the Dean of SGS and Vice-Provost, Graduate Research and Education (Prof. Joshua Barker) on academic and campus life issues facing graduate students. Meet monthly as part of a selected group of graduate students representing all four SGS divisions and the three University of Toronto campuses.

Peer-Review Services

Oct 2026–Present

Expert Reviewer

Seventh Assessment Report (AR7), Working Group II

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva, Switzerland

Review the First Order Draft for the accuracy, completeness and balance of its scientific, technical and socio-economic content.

Journal Reviewer

Total reviews: 101 for 39 journals (as of November 10, 2026, based on ORCID)

Oct 2026–Present: Advances in Space Research, Elsevier
Oct 2026–Present: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier
Oct 2026–Present: Communications Sustainability, Springer Nature
Sep 2026–Present: Scientific Data, Springer Nature
Aug 2026–Present: Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, Elsevier
Jul 2026–Present: Communications Earth & Environment, Springer Nature
Jul 2026–Present: Earth Systems and Environment, Springer Nature
Jul 2026–Present: Neurocomputing, Elsevier
May 2026–Present: Heliyon, Cell Press (Elsevier)
Apr 2026–Present: GIScience & Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis
Apr 2026–Present: Weather and Climate Extremes, Elsevier
Mar 2026–Present: Journal of Great Lakes Research, Elsevier
Mar 2026–Present: Environmental Management, Springer Nature
Mar 2026–Present: Ecological Informatics, Elsevier
Mar 2026–Present: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE
Mar 2026–Present: Marine Pollution Bulletin, Elsevier
Mar 2026–Present: Earth's Future, AGU/Wiley
Feb 2026–Present: Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences, Springer Nature
Feb 2026–Present: Discover Applied Sciences, Springer Nature
Nov 2025–Present: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier
Sep 2025–Present: Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier
Jul 2025–Present: Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Springer Nature
Jul 2025–Present: Environmental Modelling & Software, Elsevier
Jul 2025–Present: Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, Elsevier
Jul 2025–Present: Ecological Indicators, Elsevier
Jul 2025–Present: Natural Hazards, Springer Nature
Jul 2025–Present: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Springer Nature
Jul 2025–Present: Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier
May 2025–Present: Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier
Feb 2025–Present: Scientific Reports, Springer Nature
Aug 2024–Present: International Journal of Digital Earth, Taylor & Francis

Reviewer certificates

Talks

Ali Reza Shahvaran speaks at a wooden lectern marked TCU Place, and a person in the front row photographs him with a phone. — Saskatoon, May 2023

Ali Reza Shahvaran speaks at the lectern of a conference hall with round tables. His slide is on a large screen, and seven people stand along the wall. — Saskatoon, May 2023

Ali Reza Shahvaran explains a point with both hands behind a laptop at the front of a small room, and two listeners sit with their backs to the camera. — Waterloo, April 2024

These are the oral and poster presentations at conferences of which I am an author.

Oral Presentations

2025, April

The Global Importance of CO2 and CH4 Emissions from Ponds: A Large-Scale Data Perspective

EGU General Assembly 2025 (No. EGU25-13596)

Radosavljevic, J.*, Shahvaran, A. R., Rezanezhad, F., Passeport, E., Slowinski, S., & Van Cappellen, P.
2023, July

Direct Microplastic Inputs from Wastewater Treatment Plants to the Laurentian Great Lakes

Goldschmidt 2023 Conference

Alcott, L. J.*, Shahvaran, A. R., Rezanezhad, F., & Van Cappellen, P.
2023, June

Evaluation of Multispectral Air- and Space-borne Chlorophyll-a Products for Remote Monitoring of Eutrophication in Western Lake Ontario

44th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing

Shahvaran, A.R.*, Kheyrollah Pour, H., & Van Cappellen P.
2023, May

Potential of multispectral satellite and UAV imagery for nearshore water quality monitoring

IAGLR

Shahvaran, A.R.*, Kheyrollah Pour, H., & Van Cappellen P.
2022, December

Evaluation of Atmospheric Correction Processors and Semi-Empirical Algorithms for Retrieval of Chlorophyll-a Concentrations from Multi-Spectral Satellite Imagery over Western Lake Ontario

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. H33E-07)

Shahvaran, A. R.*, Kheyrollah Pour, H., & Van Cappellen, P.
2022, December

Developing A Machine Learning-Based Web Tool for Monitoring Eutrophication and Water Quantity Indices: A Case Study of Javeh Reservoir

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. H11I-03)

Saravani, M. J.*, Saadatpour, M., & Shahvaran, A. R.

Poster Presentations

2025, July

Land use and water chemistry as key controls on global carbon greenhouse gas emissions from ponds

Goldschmidt 2025 Conference

Radosavljevic, J.*, Shahvaran, A. R., Passeport, E., Slowinski, S., Rezanezhad, F., Deng, Y., & Van Cappellen, P.
2025, May

Microplastic Emissions and Retention in Urban Catchments and Stormwater Ponds

EGU General Assembly 2025 (No. EGU25-4437)

Reshadi, M. A. M.*, Rezanezhad, F., Kaykhosravi, S., Nguyen, T. H., Slowinski, S., Shahvaran, A. R., Alcott, L., Puopolo, M. & Van Cappellen, P.
2023, May

Direct Wastewater Treatment Plant Inputs of Microplastics to the Laurentian Great Lakes

IAGLR

Alcott, L. J.*, Shahvaran, A.R., Rezanezhad, F., & Van Cappellen, P.

Media and outreach

Interviews

October 2026

Featured in 'Member Spotlight'

Lake & Reservoir Management Specialist Group Newsletter, International Water Association
Spring 2023

Featured in 'Members News'

Lakes Letter, International Association for Great Lakes Research

Outreach

Oct 2023

Science Outreach Volunteer

Science Open House, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Led hands-on microplastics activities for school-aged children at the University's annual free public science event (several thousand attendees each year).