Congratulations to Moein Izadi. He successfully defended his PhD thesis in spring 2022. His thesis title is: A Remote Sensing and Machine Learning-Based Approach to Forecast the Onset of Harmful Algal Bloom, PhD, Western Michigan University
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
Dr. Mohamed Sultan has been awarded National Academy of Science grant to study Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) in Egypt . The research will utilize Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP), Soil Moisture active Passive (SMAP), Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) Moderate Resolution …
A new publication, “Groundwater processes in Saharan Africa: Implication for landscape evolution in arid environments” by Abotalib Z.A. Farag, Mohamed Sultan, and Racha Elkadiri was accepted in the Earth-Science Reviews Journal.
Esayas Gebremichael, Abdullah Othman, and Hannah Pankratz recently recieved WMU’s Graduate College Student Travel Grant to help cover the costs of attending the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting this past December.
Abotalib received the award at the annual GSA meeting that took place November 1-4, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. The award is given to those who focus on desert research to encourage and promote others to do so as well.
Dr. Sultan presented a talk and Abotalib a poster at the annual Geological Society of America meeting that took place from November 1-4, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
A new publication titled: Assessing and Improving Land Surface Model Outputs over Africa using GRACE, Field, and Remote Sensing Data by Mohamed Ahmed, Mohamed Sultan, Eugene Yan, and John Wahr got accepted to be published in the Journal of Surveys in Geophysics.