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Dr. Mohamed Sultan is professor and chairman of the Department of Geosciences at Western Michigan University in Michigan, USA, and the Director of the Earth Sciences Remote Sensing Lab at the same university. Over the years he has occupied a number of positions at Washington University, University of Illinois, and the State University of New York at Buffalo in the United States; at Cairo University in Egypt; and as Senior Research Scientist at NASA's Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Laboratory at the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences in Washington University, Missouri, USA.
Specialized in a number of fields including geology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, and remote sensing, Sultan takes an interdisciplinary approach in his work to study the Earth's environment and structure. He is also involved in assembling interdisciplinary geographic information system (GIS) databases where several disciplines would store information about a certain Earth structure in an integrated and coherent manner, adding more depth to the area under study. His work involves helping several developing and Muslim nations such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan to identify the presence of desert groundwater, mapping and predicting the presence of insect-borne diseases, assessing agricultural land degradation, and evaluating the risk of earthquakes hitting different areas in those regions.
Sultan spoke to IslamOnline.net from Michigan on Tuesday, June 5, 2007, about his work in remote sensing, the projects he is involved in, the evidence and danger of climate change on Earth's environment, his collaboration with the Muslim world over space-based research, and the chances of Muslim students joining space study programs in Western universities.
To listen to the entire interview click here.
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