Along with being a part of the TBWN leadership team, Dr. Safeeq Khan is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in Water and Watershed Sciences at the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resource. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Merced. Dr. Khan is an agricultural engineer by training with research and extension interests in hydrology and watershed systems.

Dr. Khan's research broadly focuses on understanding the interaction between climate and ecosystems to inform land and water management. He uses data-driven numerical models as a research tool to aid in the understanding of watershed systems and predicting hydrological change. He has led several projects, from investigating the impact of non-native tree species and groundwater overdraft on streamflow in Hawaii to mapping hydrological vulnerabilities to climate change in the Pacific Northwest. More recently, his research has been focused on evaluating climate change and watershed restoration impacts on water and forest health and developing stakeholder-driven adaptive decision support tools. He serves as an associate editor for the journal of Hydrological Processes (HP). Dr. Khan is also a co-director of UC Merced’s first Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS) grant that focuses on connected wildland-storage-cropland subsystems in California.