Dr. Mohamed Ahmed was invited to travel to Breckenridge, CO. to present at the 20th CESM workshop on “Improving the performance of land surface models over Africa using GRACE and remote sensing data.” This workshop took place on the 14th-18th of June.
Dr. Sultan was invited to travel to Saudi Arabia to the campus of King Saud University, Riyadh to present on the “Paleohydrology of the Arabian Peninsula.” The conference was put on by the Saudi Society for Geosciences to advance and enhance the geoscientific knowledge in geology and geophysics and its relations to the sustainable development.
Dr. Sultan traveled to Egypt to present on “Egypt’s Water Resources: Present and Future” at the scientific program of the 8th international conference on the geology of the Middle East. The conference was put on by a collaboration of the geology department at Ain Shams University, Arab Geologists Association, and the Egyptian Syndicate of Scientific …
Dr. Sultan got invited to travel to Tunisia to give a presentation on using remote sensing on groundwater in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. The workshop was put on by a collaboration of the Arab Water Council, USAID, the World Bank, and NASA in the frame of the “Regional Coordination on Improved Water …
ESRS members Lamees Mohamed and Abotalib Farag made a trip to south Sinai in January 2015 with Dr. Mustafa Amin (Egyptian Nuclear Materials Authority (NMA)) to investigate the main system that controlling the flow and accumulation of the groundwater in the fractured basement and to understand the role of the different structural elements in that …
Dr. Sultan received an award from Western Michigan University for Excellence in Discovery: Research and External Funding over $1 Million Level for 5 years 2009-2014.
A new publication titled: Geophysical, remote sensing, GIS, and isotopic applications for a better understanding of the structural controls on groundwater flow in the Mojave Desert, California by D. Dailey, W. Sauck, M.Sultan, A. Milewski, M. Ahmed, W.R. Laton, R. Elkadiri, J. Foster, C. Schmidt, and T. Al Harbi got accepted to be in the Journal …
ESRS members Dr. Racha El Kadiri and Mustfa Kemal Emil lead a one month training session November-December on landslide hazard assessment in mountainous areas for four visiting Saudi Geological Survey members. This Training is a collaboration between ESRS and the Saudi Geologic Survey.
At the recent AGU fall meeting in December, 10 abstracts were presented by ESRS members in San Francisco, California.
In December 2014 two ESRS students graduated from Western Michigan University, Racha El Kadiri graduated with her Ph.D. in Geosciences and Cameron J. Manche with his MS in Geosciences.