Specialization

• Environmental decision-making
• Air quality and dispersion modeling
• Waste management
• Environmental technology
• Ecology, environmental and health risk assessment
• Multi-media fate and transport modeling

Research Projects

Current

• 2019 - Present, Principal Investigator and Project Manager: Sample Characterization and Leaching Test of Oil Fly Ash, Global Environemntal Management Services (GEMS), Saudi Arabia
• 2018 - 2022, Principal Investigator, Development of improved adsorption technologies for oil spill response, Multi-partner Oil Spill Research Initiatives (MPRI), Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• 2018 - 2021, Principal Investigator, Development of Improved Decanting and Oily Waste Management Strategies for Marine Oil Spill Response, Multi-partner Oil Spill Research Initiatives (MPRI), Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• 2015 - 2021, Principal Investigator, Low Cost Water Filtration Technology for Small Communities, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, Discovery Grants
• 2016 - 2019, Principal Investigator, Safe Drinking Water in Small Communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, Research and Development Corporation (RDC), Collaborative R&D Program
• 2018, Sample Characterization and Leaching Test of Oil Fly Ash, Global Environmental Management Services (GEMS), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Completed

• 2016 - 2017, Principal Investigator: Low Cost Adsorbent for Arsenic Removal from Rural Water Supply Systems in Newfoundlanf and Labrador, RBC Water Research and Outreach Fund
• 2015 - 2016, Principal Investigator: Activated Carbon from Saudi Arabian Fly Ash for Pollution Control Technology Development – Cleaning, Characterization, and Activation Process, Saudi Electricity Company
• 2016, Principal Investigator: Activated Carbon from Saudi Arabian Fly Ash for Pollution Control Technology Development – Application to Wastewater Treatment and Flue Gas Desulfurization, Saudi Electricity Company
• 2016, Principal investigator: Nickel and Vanadium Recovery from Saudi Arabian Fly Ash, Saudi Electricity Company
• 2015 - 2016, Principal Investigator: Newfoundland Hydraulic Fracturing in the Western Newfoundland – Impact on Land, Waste management and Site restoration (Additional tasks), NL Fracking Board
• 2015 - 2016, Principal Investigator: Newfoundland Hydraulic Fracturing in the Western Newfoundland – Air Quality Assessment
• 2015 - 2016, Principal Investigator: Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Mill Waste Management, RBC Water Research Outreach Research Fund, Harris Centre
• 2015 - 2016, Principal Investigator: Affordable Water Filtration Technology for Small Rural Communities, RBC Water Research Outreach Research Fund, Harris Centre
• 2014 - 2015, Principal Investigator: Composting of Municipal Sludge - Riverhead Wastewater Treatment Facility, Harris Centre MMSB Waste Management
• 2013 - 2015, Co-investigator: Development of Biosurfactantbased Dispersants and Associated Technologies for Offshore Oil Spill Control in Harsh Environments (Helen Zhang: PI), Petroleum Research Newfoundland and Labrador
• 2013 - 2015, Principal Investigator: Safe Drinking Water for Small and Rural Communities in NL with a Case Study of Pouch Cove, Harris Centre RBC Drinking Water Research and Outreach Fund
• 2012 - 2014, Principal Investigator: Use of BluegreenAlgae to Improve the Chemical Quality of Municipal Solid Waste Composting, Harris Centre MMSB Waste Management Fund
• 2012 - 2014, Principal Investigator: Use of Activated Carbon from Oily Fly Ash to Remove Disinfectant byproducts from Drinking Water Supply Systems, Harris Centre RBC Drinking Water Research and Outreach Fund
• 2011 - 2014, Co-investigator: Ozonation as Treatment Option for Produced Water Effluents (Bing Chen PI), Petroleum Research Atlantic Canada (PRAC), Oil and Gas Research Program)
• Environmental Decision-making under Uncertainty, One-time Graduate Student Support, Memorial University
• 2011 - 2013, Principal Investigator: Risk Assessment of Mahd ad Dhahab Mining Project Phase II, Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 2009 - 2010, Principal Investigator: Risk Assessment Mahd ad Dahab Mining Project Phase I, Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 2010 - 2011, Principal Investigator: Environmental Decision-making under Uncertainty, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant
• 2011 - 2012 Pricipal Investigator: Development of Predictive Models for Disinfectant by-products Associated in Newfoundland and Labrador Water Supply System, Harris Centre, RBC Water Research and Outreach Fund
• 2011, Princial Investigator: Risk Assessment of Mining Operation in Saudi Arabia – Phase 2, Saudi Arabian Mining Company (MA’ADEN), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 2011, Principal Investigator: Environmental Decision-Making for Offshore Produced Water Management, Centre for Offshore Oil and gas Environmental Research (COOGER), Deartment of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
• 2009, Principal Investigator: Environmental Decision Making for Offshore Produced Water Management, Centre for Offshore Oil and gas Environmental Research (COOGER), Deartment of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
• 2008 - 2009, Principal Investigator: Offshore Produced Water Management – An Integrated Approach, Centre for Offshore Oil and gas Environmental Research (COOGER), Deartment of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), , Dartmouth, Nova scotia
• 2008 - 2010, Co-investigator: Northern Region Persistent Organic Pollution Control Laboratory, Canada Foundation for Innovations (CFI)
• 2007 - 2008, Principal Investigator: Heavy Metals Invetigation in and around Mahd Adh Dhahab Mine Facility, Saudi Arabian Mining Company (MA’ADEN), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 2006, Principal Investigator: Produced Water Monitoring and Risk of Environemntal Impacts from Discharges in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industries, Befdford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
• 2005 - 2008, Principal Investigator: POSEIDON - Produced water mOnitoring and riSk of Environmental Impact from Discharges in the Offshore oil and gas iNdustry, Petroleum Research Atlantic Canada / Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• 2005 - 2010, Principal Investigator: Risk-based Environmental Decision Making, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Discovery Grant
• 2001 - 2002, Principal Investigator: Long Range Transport and Risk Assessment of Dioxin in Labrador region, Labrador Research Foundation
• 2002, Principal Investigator and Project Manager: Contaminant Transport Modeling using Visual MODFLOW - Pump and Treat Method, Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 2000 - 2005, Principal Investigator: Multimedia Fate and Transport Modeling and Quantitative Environmental Risk Assessment, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada
• 2000 - 2004, Co-investigator: Strategic Research Funding in Offshore Environmental Monitoring, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Ottawa, Canada
• 1999 - 2002, Principal Investigator: Development of Risk Based Corrective Action (RBCA) Computer Model, Aramco Services Company (ASC), Houston, Texas
• 2001, Principal Investigator: Water Quality Indices and Trend Analysis for EMAN Sites, Ecological Monitoring Assessment Network (EMAN), Environment Canada, Burlington, Ontario
• 1998 - 2000, Co-investigator: Research Infrastructure in Ocean Environmental Risk Engineering (Risk assessment modeling in offshore oil production in Newfoundland), Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency (ACOA), Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
• 1996 - 2000, Principal Investigator: Development of an Integrated Exposure Assessment and Dispersion Model for Environmental Risk Analysis, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada
• 1997, Principal Investigator: University Strategic Funding to develop Environmental laboratory facilities, Office of Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 1998, Team Member: Equipment Grant for TOC Analyser, Office of Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 1998 - 1999, Team Member: Equipment Grant on Diode Array UV/VIS Scanning Spectrophotometer Zhou Hongde, Leonard Lye, and Husain, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada
• 1997, Principal Investigator: Oil Spill Modeling and Coastal Zone Damage Assessment and Mitigation Measures, Department of Human Resources, Government of Newfoundland
• 1999, Project Manager and Principal Investigator: Water Quality Indices Determination for Northwest Territory, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND), Yellowknife, Canada
• 1996, Principal Investigator: Sulfur Dioxide Emission Modeling from Jeddah Oil Refinery, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• Project Manager: Meteorology and Air Quality Baseline Studies, Saudi Consolidated Electric Company, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
• 1991 - 1994, Project Manager and Principal Investigator: Atmospheric Pollution Research Program (Kuwaiti Oil Fires), Meteorology and Environmental Protection Administration (MEPA), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• 1994 - 1995, Principal Investigator: Shallow Ground Water Contaminant Modeling through Ras Tanura Peninsula, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• 1992 - 1995, Task Leader and Principal Investigator: Soil Moisture Research (A Part of Corrosion Research Program, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Jubail, Saudi Arabia
• 1994, Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator, Environmental Impact Assessment of Land Treatment Facility near Abqaiq, March-April, Saudi Environmental Works Ltd., Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia
• 1994, Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator: Natural Perils of Saudi Arabia, NCCI (National Corporate Company on Insurance), Saudi Arabia
• 1992 - 1993, Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator: Ground Water Table Rise in the Land Forces Facilities, Eastern Province, Ministry of Defence and Aviation (MODA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 1988 - 1990, Principal Investigator and Project Manager: Assessment of Air Pollution from Jeddah Oil Refinery using Dispersion Model, Jeddah Oil Refinery Company, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• 1980 - 1983, Principal Investigator: Meteorological Network Design and Optimisation for Saudi Arabia - Phase II, Meteorology and Environmental Protection Administration (MEPA), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• 1982, Task Leader: Review and Evaluation of and Recommendations for the Saudi Arabian Fertiliser Company's Air Pollution Control Program, Saudi Arabian Fertiliser Company (SAFCO), Dammam, Saudi Arabia
• 1981 - 1982, Principal Investigator and Project Manager: Air Pollution Network Design for Saudi Arabia using Meteorological Data, Meteorology and Environmental Protection Administration (MEPA), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• 1979, Principal Investigator: Meteorological Network Design and Optimisation for Saudi Arabia - Phase I, Meteorology and Environmental Protection Administration (MEPA), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• 1990, Project Manager: Development of Database for the Al-Hassa Date Processing Factory, Al-Hassa Irrigation and Drainage Authority (HIDA), Saudi Arabia
• 1982 - 1990, Principal Investigator and Task Leader: Modeling and Programming of Al-Hasa Irrigation System, Al-Hassa Irrigation and Drainage Authority (HIDA), Saudi Arabia
• 1986, Project Manager and Principal Investigator: Review of Hydraulic Calculation of Ad-Dur(Bahrain) Desalination Intake, Saline Water Conversion Corporation , Dammam, Saudi Arabia
• 1984, Principal Investigator and Project Manager: Solid Waste Planning Guide for ARAMCO Communities, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• 1983 - 1984, Team Member Specifications for the Automation of Al-Hasa Irrigation System, Al-Hassa Irrigation and Drainage Authority (HIDA), Saudi Arabia
• 1980 - 1981, Task Leader: Recommendations for the Automation of Al-Hasa Irrigation System, Al-Hassa Irrigation and Drainage Authority (HIDA), Saudi Arabia
• 1984 - 1990, Task Leader: Database Development and Statistical Analysis under ARAMCO Sustaining Research Project, Saudi Aramco
• 1993, Testing of New Materials for Absorption in Reduction of Gaseous Pollutants from Automobile Exhaust Emission
• 1986 - 1994, Principal Investigator and Task Leader: Meteorology and Atmospheric Research Phase II, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University (APL/JHU), Laurel, USA
• 1985, Principal Investigator and Task leader: Meteorology and Atmospheric Research Phase I, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University (APL/JHU), Laurel, USA

In-house Funded Studies at King Fahd University (1979-1995)

• 1989 - 1993, Project Manager: Toxic Chemical Database Development for Civil Defense Group, KFUPM/RI funded study
• 1994, Project Manager: Development of Management Information System for the Research Institute using ORACLE, Development and Manufacturing Centre, The Research Institute, Since February, 1994, KFUPM/RI funded study
• 1983 - 1987, Project Manager: Environmental Database Management Part I and II, Water Resources and Environment Division, The Research Institute
• 1987, Project Manager: Development of Ground Water database in Microcomputer Environment, KFUPM/RI funded study
• 1987, Project Manager: Urban Water Leakage Detection and Control, KFUPM/RI funded study
• 1985 - 1986, Project Manager: Management of Hazardous Waste Generated by the University, September 1985 - August 1986, KFUPM/RI funded study
• 1983 - 1984, Project Manager: Solid Waste Management- Alternatives and Approaches, KFUPM/RI funded study
• 1981 - 1983, Project Manager: Urban Air Pollution Modeling, KFUPM/RI funded study