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Name: Ahmed El-Sayed GaberGeology Department, Faculty of Science at Port-Said,Suez Canal UniversityNationality: EgyptianGender: MaleFax: 002-066-3341303Email: aegaber@bu.edu or ahmedgaber_881@hotmail.comWebsite: http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing/faculty/visiting/gaber/index.htmlEducation2006: M.Sc. Geology (Sedimentology and Remote Sensing), Suez Canal University. Title:"Sedimentomorphic Studies of the Gafton Archipelago North West of the Red Sea, Hurghada,Egypt".1999: B.Sc. Geology (Hons.), Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University.Employment History2008 to present: Assistant Lecturer, Geology Department, Faculty of Science at Port-Said, Suez CanalUniversity.2006-2008: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Biology & Geology, Faculty of Education, Suez CanalUniversity.2001-2006: Demonstrator, Department of Biology & Geology, Faculty of Education, Suez Canal University.Scholars2007: Visiting scholar at the Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, USA.Language ProficiencyFluent in EnglishComputer ExperienceProfessional awareness with software such as: ENVI, ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, Surfer and Photoshop.Several certified online courses of ArcGIS from ESRI Training and Education website such as; LearningArcGIS Desktop, Learning ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, Creating, Editing, and Managing Geodatabases forArcGIS Desktop, Understanding Map Projections and Coordinate Systems and Creating and Integrating Datafor Natural Resource Applications.Professional AffiliationsMember, Egyptian Society for Environmental Science.Member, Egyptian Geological Society.Member, Geological Society of America.Fields of ResearchLand use planning for sustainable developmentEnvironmental impact assessment projectsGroundwater monitoring and exploration using remote sensing and GIS techniquesConsultation and Projects2008: Principal investigator in the project “Generating true colors of Egyptsat-1 using spectral transformationtechnique” Submitted to NARRS.2008: Co investigator with Boston team in the project “Comparison between Radarsat and Alos Palsar inthe Application of Groundwater Exploration in the Arid Lands” Submitted to the Japanese Agency.2005: Member of the scientific team of the Tao project - Gupco Company Egypt.2003: Member of the scientific team of El-Sukhna new port project, Egypt.2002: Member of the scientific team of the Akhen project - Gupco Company Egypt.2/1

TeachingLecturing the following geological practical courses in Suez Canal University: Crystallography, Mineralogy,Petrology, Field Geology, Stratigraphy, Hydrogeology, Petroleum Geology, Structural Geology andPaleontology.Publications1. Farouk El-Fawal and Ahmed Gaber, 2005. El-Gafton El-Kabir Reef Island, NW Red Sea:Sedimentomorphic Analysis and Genesis, Journal of Petroleum & Mining Engineering, Suez CanalUniversity, Vol.8, No. 1, pp. 33-53.2. Mohamed El-Nouby and Ahmed Gaber, 2006. Geothermal studies at Gebel El-Maghara Area,North Sinai, Egypt, 1st international conference of the Egyptian Society for Environmental Sciences,Faculty of Science at Ismailia, Suez Canal University.3. Shams Shaheen and Ahmed Gaber, 2006. Mineral Composition of El-Gafton Islands Sediments,Northwestern Red Sea, Hurghada, Egypt, 7th Conference of Geochemistry, Geology Department,Faculty of Science, Alexandria University.4. Fikry Khalaf and Ahmed Gaber, 2007. "Occurrence of Palustrine and Calcrete deposits within theUpper Miocene (Hagul Formation) East Cairo, Egypt" Journal of African Earth Science (InPress).5. Ahmed Gaber, Eman Ghoneim, Fikry Khalaf and Farouk El-Baz, 2008. Delineation of Paleolakesin Arid Regions Using Remote Sensing and GIS”. Journal of Arid Environment (In press).6. Ahmed Gaber, Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz, 2008. Textural and Compositional Characterizationof Wadi Deposits in Arid Land Using Data Fusion and Linear Mixture Modeling” (In preparation).2/2