Sherif Abu El-Magd

Bypass cement waste dust (BCWD) significantly threatens human health and the environment due to its high concentrations of fine, respirable crystalline silica, chlorine, and sulfates. This study introduces an eco-friendly recycling approach that processes BCWD at a low temperature of 80 °C for 24 h. The method combines 50% BCWD with an equal propor...

Environmental negotiations are complex, and conveying the interaction between science and policy in traditional teaching methods is challenging. To address this issue, innovative educational approaches like serious gaming and role-playing games have emerged. These methods allow students to actively explore the roles of different stakeholders in env...

A comprehensive groundwater (GW) monitoring approach is necessary for the long-term sustainability of regional economies and livelihoods, especially with the threats of population explosion, rapid urbanization, and climate change. By using modern technologies like integrating of machine learning, geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sen...

The persistent water treatment and separation challenge necessitates innovative and sustainable advances to tackle conventional and emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment effectively. Therefore, a unique three-dimensional (3D) network composite film (BNC-KC) comprised of bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) incorporated nano-kaolinite clay parti...

Egypt is grappling with water scarcity challenges, which are exacerbated by extensive urban development in arid coastal regions with rugged terrain. Although desalinated water is an alternative source in the remote Halayeib region of Southeast Egypt, its cost increases reliance on groundwater from the intricate aquifers. This study aims to accurate...

Land surface temperature Land cover indices Land use A B S T R A C T The continuous increase of urbanization and industrialization brought various climatic changes, leading to global warming. The unavailability of meteorological data makes remotely sensed data important for understanding climate change. Therefore, the land surface temperature (LST)...

The study was carried out in the area between Abu Sweir and Abu Hammad, Ismalia, Egypt, for collecting 52 groundwater samples. The data collected to investigate the hydrochemistry and groundwater quality for agriculture purpose. Physo-chemical and water quality indicines (WQI) have been used to determine the groundwater suitability for irrigation....

The demands upon the arid area for water supply pose threats to both the quantity and quality of social and economic activities. Thus, a widely used machine learning model, namely the support vector machines (SVM) integrated with water quality indices (WQI), was used to assess the groundwater quality. The predictive ability of the SVM model was ass...

The rapid development and mutations have heightened ceramic industrialization to supply the countries' requirements worldwide. Therefore, the continuous exploration for new reserves of possible ceramic-raw materials is needed to overwhelm the increased demand for ceramic industries. In this study, the suitability assessment of potential application...

Land use and climate change always induce significant changes in various parameters of the hydrologic cycle (e.g., surface runoff, infiltration, evapotranspiration). The Wadi El-Assiuti downstream area in the Eastern Desert of Egypt is one of the most promising areas for development that is suffering from insufficient water availability and inadequ...

Climate change continuously increases the frequency of disasters and the other potential consequences of environmental changes. However, various hydrological factors, including slope, vegetation, elevation, and heavily urbanized regions, have contributed to flash floods. Therefore, flash floods are the aggregations of meteorological, hydrological,...

Natural hazards and severe weather events are a matter of serious threat to humans, economic activities, and the environment. Flash floods are one of the extremely devastating natural events around the world. Consequently, the prediction and precise assessment of flash flood-prone areas are mandatory for any flood mitigation strategy. In this study...

The prediction and study of air pollution is a complex process due to the presence of controlling factors, different land use, and different sources for the elaboration of pollution. In this study, we applied the machine learning technique (Random Forest) with time series of particulate matter pollution records to predict and develop a particulate...

In order to carry out this study between Abu Sweir and Abu Hammad, Ismalia, Egypt, fifty-two groundwater samples were collected. The data were collected to investigate the hydrochemistry and groundwater quality for agriculture purposes. Physio-chemical and water quality indices (WQI) have been used to determine groundwater suitability for irrigatio...

The increasing water demand in Egypt causes massive stress on groundwater resources. The high variability in the groundwater depth, aquifer properties, terrain characteristics, and shortage of rainfall make it necessary to identify the groundwater potentiality in semi-arid regions. This study used the possibilities of multi-criteria decision approa...

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are reliable approaches to address incomplete datasets in existing studies. In this study, the ML algorithms naïve Bayes (NB) and random forest (RF) were used to generate a flash flood forecasting model in Wadi El-Dib on the Gulf of Suez Coast at the Eastern Desert of Egypt. A total of 1117 point locations of field...

The Western Desert is considered as one of the most promising areas for groundwater resource and development in Egypt. The Eocene carbonate aquifer is one of the most exploited aquifers for development in the Egyptian Western Desert, especially in the area west of El-Minia in central Egypt. The present study aims to assess the hydrochemistry of the...

As population and water demand increase, accurate assessment of water resources is imperative for sustainable development. This study aims to develop a map of the potential groundwater zone for the northwestern part of the Gulf of Suez. A hydrographical basin of the study area covers approximately 1007 km2. A geographic information technique (GIS)...

An arid climate and lacking adequate flood management systems are the main reasons for flash flood events in arid and semi-arid areas. The study area is a part of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, Wadi Gharandal subjected to several flooded events during the past decades. The present study incorporated hydrologic indices and morpho-tectonic parameters...

Recently, one of the most frequent natural hazards around several regions in the world is the landslide events. The area of Jabal Farasan in the northwest Jeddah of Saudi Arabia suffers from landslide events. The main cause of these events was identified due to the anthropogenic activities represented by mining activities. In this work, different m...

The harsh environment of Egypt makes the potentiality assessment of the groundwater of high concern where the groundwater considered as the foremost water supply for irrigation and domestic purposes. In the present work, the frequency ratio (FR), analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and evidential belief function (EBF) models were integrated with Ge...

In the work described here, flash flood prediction mapping for the Wadi El-Laqeita in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt was established, using machine learning approaches involving two algorithms-extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) and k-nearest neighbor (KNN). Flash flood driving factors, including elevation, slope, curvature, slope-aspect, lith...

The Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, and Pb concentrations in the sediments of Lake Mariout were measured and estimated by statistical approaches using the contamination factor (CF), pollution load index (PLI), geo-accumulation index (Igeo), Nemerow index (Iin), ecological hazard index, and potential ecological hazard index (RI). The aim of the present work was to...

Abydos is one of the oldest archaeological sites in Upper Egypt. It is located in western flood plain of the River Nile at Sohag Governorate, and about 13 km west of the River Nile course. However, this site is threatened by groundwater rise. For any archaeological site, it is necessary to be placed within its wider natural environment, and to thor...

Archaeological sites in Egypt used to stand in dry environments as the ancient architects planned. Several sites are found nowadays bathed in water and seriously threatened by groundwater rise. Groundwater level rising became a phenomenon causing problems to temple construction. Abydos is one of these sites, located about 13 km west of the River Ni...

In the last few years, cement industry become a major player in materials recycling, although it is environmental polluted industry and a great consumer of limestone and clay. Cement manufacturing depends greatly upon chemical and physical characteristics of raw materials, its quality and quantity, simplicity of its extraction and its costs. Sohag...