This proposal builds on findings from our (Western Michigan University) joint project with the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) in which areas of land deformation were delineated and the land deformation rates were extracted. An executive summary of the earlier project are listed below. The accomplished tasks and findings from the project-related activities throughout …
Funding Agency: Collaborative Research Grants: U.S. – Egypt S&T Joint Fund In the upcoming years, Egypt will be facing challenges meeting its increasing needs for fresh water resources, difficulties that will be soon compounded by the reduced River Nile flow due to the construction of the Renaissance Dam along the Blue Nile. We propose to …
The area of interest is Jazan City and surroundings, Jazan Province in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The old city of Jazan is located on a ~3-4 km2 salt dome raised ~50 m above the surrounding area. In the preliminary study of this project, we examined geophysical (gravity and passive seismic), remote sensing (radar and …
In this project we will accomplish the following using the Saharan fossil aquifer systems in North Africa, Lake Chad Basin Aquifer and in the Arabian Peninsula as test sites: (1) investigate whether the rapid response observed over the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS: Abdelmohsen et al., 2019) could be common to many of the aquifers …