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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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Ph.D. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
1993 |
Assiut University, EGYPT |
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Degree in Architectural Engineering |
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