In the upcoming years, Egypt will be facing challenges meeting its increasing needs for freshwater resources compounded by the reduced River Nile flow due to the completion of the construction of the Renaissance Dam along the Blue Nile. Our recent findings from STDF- and NASA- funded projects indicated that Lake Nasser is the main source …
Dr. Mohamed Sultan, ESRS Director, took the stage as a keynote speaker at the 8th Arab Conference on Astronomy and Geophysics (ACAG 8) hosted by NRIAG in Cairo, Egypt. His presentation, titled “Keeping an Eye on the Aswan High Dam and the GERD from a Distance,” unveiled pioneering techniques for remotely overseeing these vital structures. …
Dr. Mohamed Sultan, ESRS Director, and PhD student Hassan Saleh presented their latest research at the GRACE Science Team Meeting (GSTM) held at UCAR in Boulder, Colorado from Oct. 16 to Oct. 18, 2023. Dr. Sultan discussed “Monitoring Artificial Reservoirs from a Distance,” while Hassan Saleh presented “Tropical Cyclone Contribution to Groundwater Recharge in Southern …
The ESRS researchers (Dr. Mohamed Sultan, Dr. Mustafa Emil, Dr. Abdelmohsen, and Ph.D. candidate Ms. Juzalay Sataer) briefed President Montgomery, the Board Members, and the attendees on the composition, research interests, funding, and ongoing projects of the ESRS.
Dr Sultan was invited (September 12th, 2022) by Ambassador Sameh AboulEnein, the Consul General of Egypt, to meet Indiana’s Governor Eric Holcomb, in preparation for his upcoming visit (Nov 6-18, 2022) to Egypt to attend the Cop 27 meeting in Sharm El Sheikh city. Dr. Sultan will be attending the Cop 27 meeting and presenting …
The Egyptian Consul General, Ambassador, Dr. Sameh Aboul-Enein and his Deputy Consul General, Mr. Bassel Taman paid a visit to Western Michigan University on August 7th and 8th 2022. It was brought to their attention that the researchers of the Earth Sciences Remote Sensing (ESRS) Facility, were conducting investigations on critical water and climate change-related …
A new publication, “Crustal Structure of the Nile Delta: Interpretation of Seismic-Constrained satellite-Based Gravity Data” by Soha Hassan, Mohamed Sultan, Mohamed Sobh, Mohamed S. Elhebiry, Khaled Zahran, Abdelaziz Abdeldayem, Elsayed Issawy, and Samir Kamh was accepted in the Remote Sensing Journal. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101934
In 2020 the ESRS graduated four Ph.D. candidates. A big congratulations to Hossein Sahour, Fahad Alshehri, Karem Abdelmohsen, Hannah G. Pankratz who all successfully defended their dissertations and graduated throughout the 2020 academic year!
A new publication, “Countrywide monitoring of ground deformation using InSAR time series: a case study from Qatar” by Mustafa Kemal Emil, Mohamed Sultan, Khaled Alakhras, Guzalay Sataer, Sabreen Gozi, Mohammed Al-Marri, and Esayas Gebremichael was accepted in the Remote Sensing Journal. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040702