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Current Projects

Environmental Research:

    		• Integration of GRACE Data with Inferences from Hydrologic Models, Geochemical Data, and Field Data for a Better Understanding of the Time-Dependent Water Storage Variability in Large-Scale Aquifers: Case Studies from Northern Africa

    Collaborators: Argonne National Laboratory , Cairo University (Cairo, Egypt) , Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) , University of Illinois at Chicago

    Sponsor: NASA Science Mission Directorate

    		• Transcurrent Fault Evaluation for Water Resource Investigation of Este Groundwater Basin

    Collaborators: Dr. Richard Laton , UC Fullerton

    Sponsor: Mojave Water Agency

    		• Developing Cost-effective Methodologies for Groundwater Assessment and Exploration in Sinai

    PI: Adam Milewski

    Collaborators: Drs. Farouk Soliman and Mohamed Rashed , Suez Canal University (Cairo, Egypt)

    Sponsor: USDA

    		• Hydrologic, Geochemical, Isotopic, and Remote Sensing Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of the Rub Al Khali Aquifer System, Arabian Peninsula

    Collaborators: King Saud University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) , Saudi Geological Survey

    Sponsor: King Saud University, Saudi Geological Survey

    		• The Mesopotamian Marshes from Disintegration to Restoration 

    Collaborators: Dr. Ahmad Al-Dousari – Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR); Dr. Sabbar Abdullah Salih Al-Kaisy, University of Tikrit; Dr. Lifta Salman Kadem, University of Tikrit.

    Funded By: NSF

    		• Renewable Groundwater Resources in Sinai

    Collaborator: Dr. Ahmed Wagdy, Cairo University

    Funded By: NSF International Program    

    		• The Relation Between 20th Century Dune Migration and Wetland Formation at Cape Cod National Sea Shore, MA.

    Collaborators: Dr. Steven Forman, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences at University of Illinois-Chicago ; Dr. Stephen Smith, Cape Cod National Seashore (National Park Service), MA

    Funded By: a cooperative agreement by the US National Park Service

  		• Assessment and Development of Renewable Groundwater Resources in the Quetta Valley, Pakistan

    Collaborators: Dr. Shuhab Khan, University of Houston; Dr. Abdul Salam Khan, and  Dr. Khalid Mahmood, National Center of Excellence In Mineralogy, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan; Mansoor-ul-Hada Abbasi,Iqra University, Quetta, Pakistan

    Sponsor: US Agency for International Development, in cooperation with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan

  		• Assessing Subsidence in the Nile Delta using Radar Interferometry

    PI: Richard Becker ,

    Sponsor: European Space Agency (ESA)

  		• Assessment and Development of Alternative Water Resources in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

    Collaborator: Dr. Farouk Soliman, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

    Funded by: NATO (Environmental Security Program)

     

    GeoInformatics:

  		• A web-based GIS for Egypt’s Geological datasets

    Collaborator: Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority (EMRA)

    Funded By: NSF

     

    Aquatic Remote Sensing:

  		• Monitoring and Event Response for Harmful Algal Blooms (MERHAB)  

    Collaborator: Joseph Atkinson , SUNY- University at Buffalo ; Greg Boyer , SUNY – College of Environmental Science and Forestry

    Funded By: NOAA

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    Education:

  		• Mars Exploration Public Engagement Program

    Collaborator: Dr. Mark Jenness, SAMPI

    Funded By: JPL

     

    Past Research

    Environmental:

  		• Developing Renewable Ground Water Resources in Arid Lands: A Pilot Case – the Eastern Desert of Egypt

    Collaborators: Cairo University ; Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation

    Funded By: UNDP Global Environmental Facility

  		• Water and Air Quality
  		• Monitoring Urbanization
  		• Seismic Hazard Assessment
  		• Examining Origins of groundwater and thermal waters
  		• Environmental Facilities
  		• Assessment, Monitoring, and Modeling of Changes in Land Use and Land Cover and their Impacts on the Nubian Aquifer, Saharan Africa  

    Collaborator: Ain Shams University , Cairo, Egypt

    Funded By: NASA - carbon cycle science and related opportunities in biology and biogeochemistry ofecosystems and applications

  		• Urban Aquifers in Costa Rica ( National University (Universidad Naciónal) of Costa Rica )

    Collaborator: Universidad Naciónal de Costa Rica

    Funded By: Universidad Naciónal de Costa Rica

  		• Towards a better understanding of the hydrology of Lake Nasser, Egypt

    Collaborator: Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation

    Funded By: NSF International Program    

    GeoInformatics:

  		• A GIS database for studying and visualizing Tethyan plate collisions

    Collaborators: University of Illinois, Chicago ; University of Missouri, Columbia ; Idaho State University ; University of Houston

    Funded By: NSF

    Paleoclimate:

  		• Paleoclimate Studies in Northern Africa

    Tectonics:

  		• Satellite Image Based Plate Reconstructions
  		• Red Sea
  		• Gondwana
  		•   Mapping Suture Zones
  		• Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
  		• Geochronology: Accretion of the Arabian Nubian Shield

    Other Collaborative Research:

  		• Studying Volcanic Activity in Ecuador ( With Dr. Sheridan )
  		• Cotopaxi - Hyperspectral image analysis of Hyperion data as well as TM and SIR-C data
  		• Tunguroura - Hyperspectral image analysis of Probe-1 data as well as ALI and SIR-C data

     

     

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    Last updated: May 13, 2009.