Welcome to my
page!
I have joined the faculty at the
Department of Geography at OU in August 2003. I have actively been involved,
professionally and academically, within an international, multi-disciplinarily
career in the fields of GIS and remote sensing for the past 13 years, during
which I worked in many projects in the United States, United Kingdom, Egypt,
Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. My research interests
span many interdisciplinary areas, including the use of GIS and remote sensing
for hazards risk and vulnerability analyses and disaster management, modeling
population dynamics, systems analysis and design, fuzzy logic, virtual GIS,
internet mapping, techniques of urban remote sensing, and more recently GIS
education.
I always welcome ideas for
collaborations in projects and research. If you are a colleague, please have a
moment to browse my projects and publications pages. Please don' hesitate
in contacting me if you see potential collaboration avenues in research and
projects among us.
I have had 11 students completing
their masters degrees under my supervision both at the University of Redlands
and here at the University of Oklahoma. Now, I am a chair and co-chair of
graduate committees of five graduate students at the doctoral level and one
student at the masters level. If you are a potential student thinking of
pursuing your graduate school at OU and you see some good overlap between my
research areas and yours, please feel free to drop a line and discuss your
ideas with me.
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Education |
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Ph.D.
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2003 |
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Degree in Geography (GIS and Remote
Sensing) |
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Dissertation title: Measuring
the Environmental Context of Urban Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazards: An
Integrative Remote Sensing and GIS Approach. |
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Post Graduate Diploma
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2000 |
University
of Geneva, SWITZERLAND |
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Degree in Disaster Management
(GIS and Risk Management) |
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Thesis title: Applications of
GIS to Flood Hazard Assessment: A case study of rainfall-runoff modeling for
Tijuana River Watershed (TRW) on the US-Mexican borders. |
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M.S.
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1998 |
University of Manchester (formerly
UMIST), UK |
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Degree in Computation (GIS
and Software Engineering) |
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Thesis title: An Investigation
into GIS Support for Flood Risk Assessment and a Design of Flood Management
and Risk Assessment System (FMRAS). |
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B.S.
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1993 |
Assiut University, EGYPT |
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Degree in Architectural
Engineering |
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