Pollution Assessment for Sustainable Practices in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Abdel-Mohsen O. Mohamed is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, General Managing Director of EX Scientific Consultants, United Arab Emirates, and a Senior Scientific Advisor at Uberbinder Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom. He is a renowned expert in sustainable materials and geoenvironmental engineering. With decades of research and academic experience, he has contributed significantly to the field of geoengineering, focusing on the development and application of sustainable materials. Prof. Evan K. Paleologos is Professor and Director of the graduate programs in Engineering Management and Project Management, College of Engineering, Abu Dhabi University (ADU), United Arab Emirates (UAE). He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. from New York University (NYU), NY, and a Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Az. His expertise lies in geo-environmental engineering, risk analysis, and in water resources and waste management. He is the author of 5 books on geo-environmental engineering and environmental risk analysis published by Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, and the Geological Society of America (GSA), and of over 140 scientific papers. Recently, one of his papers received the “Environmental Geotechnics Prize 2023” by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). His career includes working for the US high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, NV, being a tenured professor at the University of South Carolina (USC), subsequently at the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece, and currently at ADU in the UAE. He has founded two research centers, the USC Center for Water Research and Policy, and the ADU Center of Excellence on Sustainable Built Environment. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors in USA, which included the South Carolina State’s “Researchers of Carolina,” and the USC’s “Initializer,” and “USC President” awards. In Greece, concurrently with being a faculty at TUC he had served as Science Advisor to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and as Deputy Chairman of the board of the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Co (EYDAP). He has been Associate Editor of three international journals.Dr. Howari is an environmental scientist and engineer with a wide range of expertise. During the progressive of his career, he developed distinguished academic, and project coordination skills. He has valuable experience in natural resources management and exploration, strategic planning and administration, and also in creative leadership. He currently serve as a Dean of College of Natural and Health Sciences at Zayed University. He served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics at Abu Dhabi University and a Director of Abu Dhabi University Center of Excellence of Environment, Health and Safety. Dr Howari also served at the University of Texas, PB, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy and the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin. Prof Howari worked also as an Associate Professor at United Arab Emirates University. Prior to this Dr. Howari worked at Texas A and M University where he worked as a research scientist on the development and application of computer models and remote sensing techniques to assess environmental contamination problems.

• Part I: Geosphere Pollution Transport1. Sustainable Pollution Assessment Practices2. Risk Analysis and Management3. Environmental Remote Sensing4. Geographic Information System: Spatial Data Structures, Models, and Case Studies5. Geophysical Methods6. Site Investigation7. Subsurface Pollutant TransportPart II: Atmosphere Pollution Assessment 8. Indoor Air Pollutants: Sources, Characteristics, and the Impact on Human Health and Wellbeing.9. Outdoor Air Pollutants: Sources, Characteristics, and the Impact on Human Health and the Environment.10. Modeling Air Pollution by Atmospheric Desert Dust11. Troposphere Air Pollution: Aviation Industry's Case12. Health Economics of Air PollutionPart III: Hydrosphere (Marine Environment and Water Bodies) Assessment13. Arabian Gulf Hydrodynamics and Environmental Impacts due to Climate Change and Coastal Effluents14. Recent Analytical Methods for Risk Assessment of Emerging Organic Contaminants in Ecosystems15. Water Quality at Jabel Ali, Dubai, UAE16. Sediment Quality in Jabel Ali, Dubai, UAE17. Inland Desalination: Techniques, Brine Management, and Environmental ConcernsPart IV: Emerging Issues in Environmental Pollution Assessment18. Pollution Assessment of Nanomaterials19. Noise Pollution Assessment and its Impact on Human Health and the Environment20. Assessment of Radiation Pollution from Nuclear Power Plants21. Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Geosciences and Remote Sensing: Theory and Application