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Poster #17 - Hesham El-Askary

Chapman University, United States

Biography

Prof. El-Askary received his PhD in computational sciences and informatics from George Mason University in 2004. He is the 2015 recipient of the Chapman University›s elite Senior Wang-Fradkin Professorship award. In 2016, he was named as the regional coordinator on a $3 million Euro grant from the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020. Through this work, he and the research team were able to deliver the first analytical solar atlas of Egypt. His research interests include studying extreme events, air pollution problems over mega cities due to natural and man-made effects, climate change and its impact on sea level rise and coral reefs for coastal areas. His research also includes using earth observations for water resources management, precision agriculture along the sustainable development goals and in dust storms monitoring and detection and studying their impact on anomalous chlorophyll outbreaks in the marine environment, hurricanes intensification as well as transport of microbes’ causing valley fever and Kawasaki disease outbreaks. He has published over a 100 refereed research publications, conferences full paper and book chapters in these research areas and has been supported by NSF, NASA, USDA and EU. He has received the Saudi Arabia award hosted by ARADO affiliated with the League of Arab states for the best published article in environmental management among 150 articles in 2006. He is also member of the IEEE, AGU, EGU, COSPAR, and Phi Beta Delta Honor Society.