Featured grants
- Faroughi, Salah Aldin (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Tiefenbacher, John P (Co-Principal). ESMs Latent Space Exploration for Uncertainty Quantification and Spatiotemporal Downscaling, DOE-BER, Federal, $150000. (Funded: August 2022 - June 2024). Grant.
- Tiefenbacher, John P. Research Enhancement Grant. "Geographic Assessment of Roadway Hazards at Water Crossings during Flash-Flood Events in Central Texas.", Research Enhancement Program, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8000. (Funded: 2005). Grant.
- Tiefenbacher, John P. Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center--Quick Response Grant. (Funded: 2000). Grant.
- Faroughi, Salah Aldin (Principal), Sharif Khodaei, Zahra (Co-Principal), Tamir, Dan (Co-Principal), Tiefenbacher, John (Co-Principal). Big Data Compression, Reduction, and Intelligent Fusion for Technology-enhanced Infrastructures, TXST MIRG, Texas State University, $30000. (Funded: August 2022 - September 2023). Grant.
- Tiefenbacher, John P (Principal). Assessing Vulnerability to Disaster Due to Disability in a City in the Russian Arctic, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $5597. (Funded: January 1, 2022 - June 1, 2023). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Mahjour, S. K., Tiefenbacher, J. P., & Faroughi, S. A. (2025). Select Representative General Circulation Model Runs Using Envelope-Based Technique. Journal of Climate, 38(7), 1627–1650. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-24-0219.1
- Maleki, S., Pouyan, S., Khoshoui, M. M., Tiefenbacher, J. P., & Pourghasemi, H. R. (2024). Detecting soil salinization, sodicity, and alkalization hazards within cultivated lands using digital soil mapping approaches. In Advanced Tools for Studying Soil Erosion Processes: Erosion Modelling, Soil Redistribution Rates, Advanced Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 435–460). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-22262-7.00019-9
- Mokarram, M., Pourghasemi, H. R., Tiefenbacher, J. P., & Pham, T. M. (2024). Mapping soil erosion susceptibility: A comparison of neural networks and fuzzy-AHP techniques. Environmental Earth Sciences, 83(19), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-024-11869-8
- Amindin, A., Pourghasemi, H. R., Safaeian, R., Rahmanian, S., Tiefenbacher, J. P., & Naimi, B. (2024). Predicting Current and Future Habitat Suitability of an Endemic Species Using Data-Fusion Approach: Responses to Climate Change. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 94, 149–162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2024.03.002
- Nohani, E., Karimipour, A., Khazaei, S., Haroni, H. Z., Akhmatov, S.-M., Yegorov, A., … Tiefenbacher, J. (2024). Monthly streamflow forecasting based on meteorological data from a nearby station. Water Practice and Technology, 19(5). https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.109
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Invited Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. October 23, 2023 - December 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor of International Studies, International Studies Program. January 1, 2008 - 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: College of Liberal Arts Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity., College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University. January 2020 - May 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor Award, The Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. April 2016
Featured service activities
- Member
Texas State Family Campaign
- Member
Instructor Review Committee
- Chair
Instructor Review Committee
- Editorial Review Board Member
International Journal of Wine Research
- Other
Sustainability
- Editorial Review Board Member
Journal of Geographical Research