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 …
Congratulations to Guzalay Sataer. Her manuscript titled “Remote Sensing Application for Landslide Detection, Monitoring along Eastern Lake Michigan (Miami Park, MI)” was recently published in Remote Sensing.
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.