ESRS Group Makes Strong Showing at AGU 2025
This past December, the ESRS group traveled to New Orleans to share our latest findings at the 2025 AGU Annual Meeting. It was an excellent opportunity to engage with the global scientific community and showcase our current research projects.
The team delivered 13 presentations focusing on critical issues such as the hydrology of arid regions, climate change impacts on the Nile Basin, and hyperspectral fingerprinting of dune sediments.
2025 Abstracts & Presentations
Hydrology, Hydroclimatology, & Climate Resilience
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Elhaddad, E., Sultan, M., Yan, E., Tran, T.N.D, Torres-Uribe, H.E., Karimi, H., 2025. Intensifying Flood Occurrence in the Nile Basin Under 21st-Century Climate Variability. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Hegazy, D., Sultan, M., Elhaddad, H., Yan, E., Karimi, H., 2025. Tracing Drought Propagation across Transboundary River systems in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Case Study of the Nile River Basin. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Karimi, H., Sultan, M., Elhaddad, H., Emil, M.K., Abdelmohsen, K., 2025. Data‑Driven Framework for Quantifying Dryland Water Storage Patterns and Near‑Future Projection. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Mansouri, R., Sultan, M., Elhaddad, H., Saleh, H., 2025. Sustainable utilization of the Rahat Volcanic Field Aquifer, Saudi Arabia: Inferences from field, GRACE, and Precipitation data. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Saleh, H., Sultan, M., 2025. When rare rains matter: How aquifers in arid regions respond to extreme precipitation events. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Sultan, M., Elhaddad, H., Saleh, H., Karimi, H., Hegazy, D., Mansouri, R., Abdelmohsen, K., Save, H., Emil, M.K., 2025. Integrated GRACE and Model-Based Analysis of Hydrologic Systems in Present and Future Climates. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Zahran, K., and Sultan, M., 2025. Detailed gravity observations at the northwestern part of Lake Nasser to delineate the preferred pathways for groundwater flow. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
Remote Sensing, Mineralogy, & Dune Dynamics
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Alshakr, A., Sultan, M., Elhaddad, H., Mohammad, A.T., Saleh, H., Karimi, H., and Emil, M.K., 2025. A Machine Learning Framework for Classifying Dune Morpho-dynamics Driven by Seasonal ITCZ Migration. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Alshakr, A., Sultan, M., Emil, M.K., Mohammad, A.T., Yildirim, A., Sturchio, N.C., 2025. Hyperspectral Fingerprinting of Dune Sediments Across the Arabian Peninsula: Insights into Sediment Provenance and Transport Pathways from NASA EMIT Data. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Emil, M.K., Sultan, M., Raising, H., Yildirim, A., Alshakr, A., Kattamuri, V., 2025. A Web-Based Interactive Viewer for NASA EMIT Surface Reflectance and Mineralogy Data. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Sultan, M., Emil, M.K., Alshakr, A., Yildirim, A., Mohammad, A.T., 2025. EMIT Contributions to Red Sea Rifting, and Dune Sources, Sabkha Types, and REE mineralization in the Arabian Peninsula. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
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Yildirim, A., Sultan, M., Emil, M.K., Raising, R., Alshakr, A., Mohammad, A.T., 2025. EMIT contributions to Rare Earth Element Detection over the Arabian and Nubian Shields. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.
Tectonics
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Mohammad, A.T., Sultan, M., Forman, S.L., Emil, M.K, Farag, A.Z.A, Elhebiry, M.S., 2025. Tectonic Readjustment, Not Rift Failure: A Re-evaluation of the Dynamics of Suez Rift, Egypt. AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec 15-19.