Prof. Dr. Parviz Kardavani (Exemplary Professor of the Tehran University 1998 (1377) & 2001 (1380), Exemplary Researcher of the Tehran University 2006 (1385), National Permanent Scientific Figure 2005 (1384)) A Summary of Educational Situation & Scientific Activities Born in 1931 (1310 according to the Iranian calendar) in Garmsar (Iran), he completed his elementary and high school education in this city and in Tehran and continued his higher education in Germany, where he received his Ph.D in agricultural science (Desert Agriculture). For his dissertation he transferred about one ton of desert soil (salt field) from Iran to Germany and analyzed it during 4 years. He obtained his Ph.D in 1966 (1345), as the best student of agriculture in Germany in that year and received numerous awards on the occasion from the relevant authorities in Germany and Iran. In the same year he returned to Iran, where he became the first faculty member of the newly founded scientific board at Urumieh University. On 19/03/1969 (28/12/1347) he moved to the Department of Geography at Tehran University. Positions by Preserving the Educational Duties: General Manager of the Office of Educational Research at Tehran University (1966-1975) (1345-54). Founder and Director of the Iranian Desert Research Centre affiliated to Tehran University (1975-79) (1354-58). |
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Publications and Scientific Activities: 22 books and dozens of scientific articles published in the Persian, German and English languages in quality science journals at home and abroad. More than one hundred lectures at reliable scientific associations at home and abroad. Membership at several national and international scientific associations such as, the Middle East Water Network, Greenpeace (Green Front) board of trustees and the Asian Studies Foundation. Head of the Committee against Desertification of Iran Environmental Specialists Society. Advisor on more than two hundred M.Sc. thesis and 17 Ph.D dissertations. Executor of several research projects (identification of Lout Desert, identification of the natural, economical and social situation of rural desert regions). After establishing the Iranian Desert and Kawirs Research Centre, he announced at all the universities of the country that every M.Sc. or Ph.D student, who chose to write his thesis on one of the subjects or problems of the desert regions of the country, would be provided with everything necessary for his researches under the condition, that his advisor would also accompany him to the desert regions. As a result, dozens of M.Sc. and Ph.D students went to the desert regions and wrote their thesis about these regions. Among them were also several medical and dentistry students.
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Restoration of the Caravansaries of Shah Abbas: For their researches of the desert regions, the professors and students had to live in the urban areas (Kashan Station or Semnan Station, etc.). Spending the daytime at the desert, they intended to exit these regions as soon as possible and reach their residential places before sunset because they feared problems in the nighttime, due to the darkness. As this circumstance represented a disadvantage for their researches, Dr. Kardavani decided to repair the caravansaries belonging to Shah Abbas, in the desert regions as far as possible and thus establish room for the professors and the students, laboratories, collections of stones, soil, plants and animals, etc. and other needed installations such as restaurants, bathrooms, etc. Before the Islamic Revolution, 3 caravansaries were repaired. Maranjab Caravansary located 50 kilometres north of Aran and Bidgol and south east of Salty Desert (Isfahan Province), Hajib Caravansary located 30 kilometres south of Bouin Zahra (Ghazvin Province) and about 70 kilometres north of Saveh and Dehnamak Carvansary located between Garmsar and Semnan. Dr. Kardavani believed that if the geography students did not observe
the geographical elements and geographical regions closely, they would
never become geographers (professors or geographical researchers). During
the forty decades of his services at the different universities, he therefore
tried to get the students of each course acquainted with the different
regions of their country. For this purpose, he at first organized scientific
field trips and later, from 1992 (1371) on, after the disintegration of
the U.S.S.R., he has let several field trips for B.Sc. and Ph.D course
students of the Tehran University (each time about 20 persons) to some
foreign countries (by equipping the bus of the university with cooker
and kitchen and placing all the needed materials and instruments for several
days of journey through foreign countries). The first journey took place
in 1992 (1371). It took 32 days and started in Tehran. From there they
went through Turkey, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Moscow, Saint Petersburg
(previous Leningrad) and then returned from Moscow, Astrakhan and through
the former countries of the Soviet Republic located in the west of the
Caspian Sea (Calmic), Dagestan and Azerbaijan. Finally they entered Iran
by crossing the border in Astara (Gilan Province), finishing a journey
of about thirteen thousand kilometres. Later a book about the observations
and studies of this field trip was printed and published. (Please refer
to the list of books of Dr. Kardavani). |
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Honors: participation in the establishment of the Ministry of Sciences and the
Rezaieh (Urumieh) Faculty of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry |
Dr. Kardavani has always expressed his views and also his disapproval
about great national projects he considered to be useless, such as (1)
the project of creating a lake in three low internal regions of the country
(Jazmoran Ditch, Lout Desert and Desert Field of Iran) and pumping water
from the Persian Gulf to this region in order to change its dry internal
climate to turn it into a damp region, (2) the project of digging a navigable
canal between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea Iran-rood,
(3) the project of changing the climate of the dry internal regions of
the country by splitting Alborz Mountains so that the damp weather of
the north could enter into the dry regions, (4) the project of creating
artificial rain (securing water) in dry and desert regions, such as Yazd,
Kerman, Ghom, Sistan and Balouchestan and other provinces by cloud seeding
(compensation of water shortage in these regions), (5) cultivation of
jungle in dry and desert regions in order to change its climate. |
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Other books of Dr. Parviz Kardavani: 1-Samples of the Soil of Lout, Zangi Ahmad. |
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