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OBJECTIVE
Seeking a challenging position as a hydrogeologist, groundwater modeler, project manager in a well know environmental firm
PROFESSIONAL INTEREST
- Modeling contaminant transport, fate, and biodegradation in the subsurface
- Groundwater remediation techniques
- Natural attenuation assessment
- Stochastic modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport
- Modeling saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers
- Storm water management systems
EDUCATION
*Ph.D., Civil and Coastal Engineering Department, University of Florida, USA, August 2001.
Major: Civil Engineering, Water Resources
Minors:
1. Environmental Engineering
2. Hydrologic Sciences
GPA: 3.82/4.00
Dissertation title "METABIOTRANS: A 3-D Finite Element Model for Metals Transport and Biotransformation in the subsurface"
*M.Sc., Civil Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt, March 1997.
GPA: 3.80/4.00
Thesis Title "Modeling Saltwater Intrusion in the Nile Delta Aquifer"
*B.Sc., Civil Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt, July 1994
GPA: 3.74/4.00
Distinction with honor degree
WORK EXPERIENCE
* 7/03 – present: Research associate/project manager, GPRG, Civil and Structural Eng. Dept., University of Sheffield
Responsibilities include managing activities for a major research project "Development of an In-Situ Aquifer Assessment Tool with a Risk Management Calculator for Natural Attenuation", developing numerical codes, organizing field and lab work, writing reports, and presenting results to the scientific community.
* 7/03 – present: Assistant professor, Civil Eng. Dept., Cairo University, Egypt (on leave)
* 8/02 – 7/03: Assistant professor, Civil Eng. Dept., Cairo University, Egypt
Responsibilities include teaching two courses ("Hydraulics" and "Fluid Mechanics") for undergraduate students and two courses ("Numerical Modeling" and "Groundwater Hydrology") for graduate students.
* 8/02 – 7/03: Technical office manager, Nile Consultants, Cairo, Egypt (Part Time)
Responsibilities include supervising and writing proposals for several multi-national water resources projects related to different topics such as groundwater, surface water, water management, water policy, and hydraulic structures.
* 8/01 – 8/02: Postdoctoral research associate, Civil and Coastal Eng. Dept., University of Florida
Responsibilities include performing research in the field of contaminant transport and biodegradation in the subsurface and preparing reports and proposals.
* 8/01 – 8/02: Lecturer, Civil and Coastal Eng. Dept., University of Florida
Responsibilities include teaching the undergraduate hydraulics course (CWR 4202).
* 1/98 – 8/01: Research assistant, Civil and Coastal Eng. Dept., University of Florida
Responsibilities include creating new codes for modeling contaminant transport and biodegradation in the subsurface using C++, preparing reports, and presenting research results to the scientific community.
* 5/00 - 8/00: Research intern, Division of Hydrologic Science, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV
Responsibilities include creating new codes and modifying existing codes for modeling contaminant transport in the subsurface using FORTRAN.
* 8/97 - 1/98: Teaching assistant, Civil and Coastal Eng. Dept., University of Florida
Responsibilities include teaching laboratory sessions for the undergraduate course hydrodynamics (CWR 3202) and grading homework assignments.
* 3/96 - 8/97: Engineer, Talaat & Imam for Environmental Eng. Consulting, Cairo, Egypt (part time)
Responsibilities include designing and preparing drawings and reports for (1) sanitary and storm water systems of a new city in Egypt and (2) storm water system for an industrial city in Uganda.
* 2/95 - 3/96: Engineer (water resources), Engineering forces, Egyptian army, Egypt.
Responsibilities include designing and evaluating several sanitary and storm water systems in Egypt.
* 8/94 - 2/95: Engineer, Elnile for Construction & Consulting, Cairo, Egypt (part time)
Responsibilities include design and preparing drawings for several construction projects in Egypt.
* 8/94 - 8/97: Teaching/research assistant, Civil Eng. Dept., Cairo University, Egypt.
Responsibilities include (a) teaching several undergraduate water resources courses and grading homework assignments; (b) performing research in the field of modeling seawater intrusion into coastal groundwater aquifers.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Mohamed, M. and Hatfield, K. "New Iterative Solution for the Biodegradation Problem in the Subsurface", J. Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2003, Vol. 50, No. 6.
2. Hassan, A. and Mohamed, M. "On Using Particle Tracking Method to Simulate transport in Single Continuum and Dual Continua Porous Media", J. Hydrology, 2003 (275), 242-260.
3. Mohamed, M. and Hatfield, K. "Modeling Microbial-Mediated Reduction Using The Quasi-Steady-State Approximation". (Sent to Chemosphere)
4. Mohamed, M., Hatfield, K., and Hassan, A. "Monte Carlo Evaluation of Contaminant Biodegradation in Two-Dimensional Heterogeneous Aquifers". (Sent to J. Contaminant Hydrology)
5. Mohamed, M. and Hatfield, K. "Evaluation of Biochemical Parameters in the Subsurface Using Moment Analysis". (Sent to Advances in Water Resources)
6. McKnight D., Mohamed M., Thomson N., and, S. Banwart, "Modeling Transport in Dipole Flow and Reactive Tracer Test", proceedings of the FEM-MODFLOW Conference, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, Sep., 2004.
7. McKnight D., Mohamed M., Thomson N., and, S. Banwart, "A Laboratory-Scale Dipole Flow and Reactive Tracer Test", proceedings of the Groundwater Quality Conference, Waterloo, Canada, July 2004.
8. Mohamed M., S. Banwart, and P. Nathanail "Aquifer Assessment tool: the coalition forces of science, engineering and technology attack site investigation drawbacks", proceedings of the CL:AIRE Conference: Monitored Natural Attenuation, London, UK, April. 2004.
9. Banwart S., M. Mohamed, D. McKnight, A. Smalley, and N. Thomson, "Monitored Natural Attenuation: Development of Aquifer Assessment Tool" proceedings of the CL:AIRE Conference: Monitored Natural Attenuation, Sheffield, UK, Oct. 2003.
10. Mohamed, M. and Hatfield, K. "Biochemical Factors Affecting Biodegradation in the Subsurface: A Sensitivity Study". (in preparation)
11. Mohamed, M., Thomson, N., and Banwart, S., "A New Reactive Transport Model for the Dipole Flow Test" (in preparation)
PRESENTATIONS
1. Mohamed M., Thomson N., D. McKnight, A. Smalley, and S. Banwart "Development of a Numerical Model for the Dipole Flow and Reactive Tracer Test", EGU 1st Assembly meeting, Nice, France, April, 2004.
2. Mohamed M., S. Banwart, and P. Nathanail "Aquifer Assessment tool: the coalition forces of science, engineering and technology attack site investigation drawbacks", proceedings of the CL:AIRE Conference: Monitored Natural Attenuation, London, UK, April. 2004.
3. Banwart S., M. Mohamed, D. McKnight, A. Smalley, and N. Thomson, "Monitored Natural Attenuation: Development of Aquifer Assessment Tool" CL:AIRE Conference: Monitored Natural Attenuation, Sheffield, UK, Oct. 2003.
4. McKnight D., A. Smalley, M. Mohamed, S. Banwart, N. Thomson, and D. Lerner "A Novel Aquifer Assessment Tool Using Reactive Tracers", First-Faraday annual meeting, Melton Mowbray, UK, Sep. 2003.
5. Mohamed M. and K. Hatfield, "Evaluation of Biological Parameters in the Subsurface Using Moment Analysis", AGU Spring meeting, Washington D.C., USA, May 2002.
6. Mohamed M. and K. Hatfield, "Source Zone Biological Treatment of Metals in the Subsurface", AGU Spring meeting, Boston, MA, USA, May 2001.
7. Mohamed M. and K. Hatfield, "An Iterative Solution for Modeling Microbial-Mediated Chromium Reduction", AGU Spring meeting, Boston, MA, USA, May 2001.
8. Mohamed, M., Hassan, A. and Hatfield, K. "Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Biodegradation Problem in Two-Dimensional Heterogeneous Aquifers", GSA meeting, Reno, NV, USA, Nov. 2000.
9. Hassan, A. and Mohamed, M. "Using the Particle Tracking Method to Solve the Solute Transport Problem in Single Continuum and Dual Continua Porous Media: A Comparative Study", GSA meeting, Reno, NV, USA, Nov. 2000.
10. Mohamed M. and K. Hatfield, "Modeling Metals Biotransformation in the Subsurface", AGU Spring meeting, Washington D.C., USA, May 2000.
11. Mohamed M. and K. Hatfield, "Numerical Solutions for the Biological Reactions in Groundwater", AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, Dec. 1999.
12. Mohamed, M. and Sherif, M. and Amer, A., "Numerical Modeling of Saltwater Intrusion". Changchun, China, 1998.
SELECTED PROJECTS
- Development of an In-Situ Aquifer Assessment Tool with a Risk Management Calculator for Natural Attenuation:
I am the manager of the project which is funded by EPSRC. With the help of other members of the groundwater protection and restoration group I organize all activities of the project including lab and field experiments. I am also responsible of developing a new numerical model to represent reactive transport in dipole flow test.
- An In-Situ Tracer Method for Establishing the Presence and the activity of Heavy-Metal-Reducing-Microbes in the Subsurface (DOE): This project was funded by the department of energy, USA. I conducted column experiments to examine the effect of different microbial species on the reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III); created several C++ codes to simulate the reduction process in batch reactors and saturated aquifers; and examined the effect of different hydrological and biological scenarios on Cr(VI) reduction.
- Water Resources Development for Bedouins Settlement in Sinai: Responsibilities include studying water resources in Sinai, performing groundwater and surface water modeling, designing a monitoring system for the water quality in Sinai, and writing periodical reports for the project.
- Results Based Management and Baseline Study of National Water Quality and Availability Management Project: this is a joint project between the government of Egypt and the Canadian government. Responsibilities include modeling surface and subsurface water quality scenarios, performing statistical analysis, and writing progress reports.
- Simulation of Seawater Intrusion in the Nile Delta Aquifer, Egypt: Prepared maps for the spatial distribution of all physical and hydrological parameters that represent the Nile Delta Aquifer in Egypt. Modeled the seawater intrusion from the Mediterranean Sea into the aquifer using two software programs (SUTRA and MOC). Compared modeling results to available field data. Prepared scenarios for future use of the aquifer to minimize seawater intrusion.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1. Groundwater Modeling: Spring 04 Sheffield University
2. Environmental Microbiology: Fall 03 Sheffield University
3. Groundwater Hydrology: Fall 02 and Spring 03 Cairo University
4. Numerical Methods in Water Resources: Fall 02 and Spring 03 Cairo University
5. Hydraulics: Fall 02 and Spring 03 at University of Florida; and Spring 02 and Fall 01 at Cairo University
Other courses that I can teach: Hydraulics, Fluid mechanics, Hydrology, Groundwater hydrology, Subsurface contaminant transport, Environmental Hydrology, and Groundwater modeling.
Proposals, Articles, and Reports
- Development of a Novel Aquifer Assessment Tool for Natural Attenuation, Article in First-Faraday Newsletter, Dec. 2003.
- Integrated Irrigation Improvement and Management Project (IIIMP), Proposal, presented to Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt, 2003.
- Water Supply for Bedouins Settlement in Sinai (WSBSS), Final report, presented to Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt, Funded by the Islamic Development Bank, 2003.
- National Water Quality and Availability Management (NAWQAM), Progress reports, presented to National Water Resources Center, Funded by the Canadian Government, 2003.
- Environmental Improvement for the Egyptian Village Project (EIEVP), Progress reports, presented to Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt, 2003.
- Evaluation of the water Resources in the Area between Marsa-Alam and Ras-Benas on the Red Sea, Proposal, presented to Ministry of Tourism, Egypt, 2003.
- Construction of a Farm using the Treated Waste Water in Qouss City, Egypt, Proposal, presented to Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt, 2003.
- Construction of a Farm using the Treated Waste Water in Qena City, Egypt, Proposal, presented to Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt, 2003.
- Numerical Investigation of Chromium Biotransformation in Heterogeneous Subsurface Environments: Effects of Heterogeneity, Parameter Uncertainty, and Mass Transfer Processes, Proposal, Presented to NABIR program, USA, 2001.
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Application Programs: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mathcad, Mathematica, and Surfer.
- Groundwater Modeling: MOC, SUTRA, and MODFLOW.
- Programming Languages: C++ and Fortran.
- Numerical Methods: Finite Difference, Finite Elements, Finite Volumes, Method of Characteristics, and Particle tracking method.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/MEMBERSHIP
- Member since 2003, EGU "European Geosciences Union".
- Member since 2003, First-Faraday "UK Centre of Excellence for Remediation of the Polluted Environment"
- Member since 2003, CL:AIRE "Contaminated Land: Application In Real Environments"
- Convener, April 2003, 1st European Geosciences Union general assembly meeting.
- Assistant editor, Journal of Engineering and Applied Science.
- Member since 1997, AGU "American Geophysical Union".
- Member since 1999, ASCE "American Society of Civil Engineering".
- Associate member since 2001, ASCE "American Society of Civil Engineering".
- Member since 1994, Egyptian Syndicate of Civil Engineers
- Staff 2002-2003, NAWQAM "National Water Quality and Availability Management", a project between the Egyptian and Canadian governments for the purpose of improving the national water resources management policies.
AWARDS/RECOGNITION
- Academic achievement award (four years 1998-2001), University of Florida.
- Research assistant award, 1998, University of Florida.
- Scholarship award (undergraduate and graduate studies, 1990-1997), Cairo University, Egypt.
- Academic outstanding award (four years 1991-94), Cairo University, Egypt.
- Distinction with honor award, 1994 and 1997, Cairo University, Egypt.
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