My Ph.D. work is related to the Hymes project (Hydrology of Mesopotamia). I am a part of the geography team, and my part is to create a multi-temporal hydrologic model in the form of a geodatabase that is managed and analyzed. The ultimate objective of this interdisciplinary project is to use geographic (satellite imagery, digital elevation models), archaeologic (excavations), and philologic (cuneiform tablets) data to construct a hydraulic model of natural rivers and manufactured canals for Southern Mesopotamia from 4th to 1st millennium BC.
