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Number of Papers Published by Geosciences Faculty:
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Geology Awards and Achievements
Faculty Awards between 2017 and 2023
| Name | DATE | Award / Recognition |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Bassam Tawabini | 2017 | 1st place at the 5th Saudi Water Arabia conference held between 17-19 of October, 2017 in Saudi Arabia. The paper titled’ Assessment of Polyelectrolyte Coated Fly Ash for Cadmium Removal in Polluted Water". |
| 2019 | Awards for obtaining three US Patents. | |
| Prof. Michael Kaminski | 2017 | Excellence in Teaching in April 2017. |
| Recognized as foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in October 2017. | ||
| 2020 | Elected as a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. This is the highest honor for any academician in Poland in July 2020. | |
| Dr. Osman Abdullatif | 2017 | Dr. O. Abdullatif was appointed as a member of the Technical Committee of the 7th EAGE Arabian Plate Geology Workshop in October 2017. |
| 2018 | Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, from Journal of African Earth Sciences in January 2018. | |
| 2019 | Certificate of outstanding contribution in Reviewing from Journal of Petroleum science and Engineering, Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands January 2019. | |
| Dr. Mohammad Makkawi | 2018 | Excellence in Teaching in April 2018. |
| 2020 | Appointed a Shura Council Member in October 2020. | |
| Dr. Khalid Al-Ramadan | 2018 | AAPG Distinguished Services Award for Academic Contribution in March 2018. |
| 2019 | Excellence in Teaching in April 2019 | |
| Dr. Israa Abu Mahfouz | 2023 | International Geomechanics Symposium DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD 2023 |
Student Competitions / Awards
| Title | DATE | Team | Mentor | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Paper presentation at 8th Annual KFUPM Students Scientific Forum | Oct-17 | Ammar juma | Dr. Osman Abdullatif | 1st |
| Best Poster Award at 5th Saudi Water Arabia Conference & Exhibition. | Oct-17 | Fatai A. Olabemiwo | Dr. Bassam Tawabini | 1st |
| AAPG-Imperial Barrel Challenge (IBA) at GEO 2018 | Mar-18 | Omar Al-Hejaji | Dr. Khalid Al Ramadan | 2nd |
| Ali Alabyadh | ||||
| Hisham Mousawi | ||||
| Mohd. Said Abdallah | ||||
| 2018 Saudi Aramco Upstream Hackathon | Dec-18 | Musab Saad Al-Modrra | Dr. Mohammad Makkawi | 1st |
| EAGE Earth Hackathon by European Association of Geoscience and Engineering (EAGE) | Feb-19 | Musab Saad Al-Modrra | Dr. Mohammad Makkawi | 1st |
| Petroenvironment 2019 Student Poster Competition | Feb-19 | Arya Pradipta | Dr. Mohammad Makkawi | 3rd |
| 2019 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation Grants-in-Aid Program | Mar-19 | Septriandi Chan | Dr. John Humphrey | Among 114 selected students from across the world from total 445 applicants |
| 2020 Imperial Barrel Award by AAPG (Middle East) | Mar-20 | Mohammad Naveed | Dr. Khalid Al-Ramadan (KFUPM) | 1st Place in Middle East. |
| Ignatius Argadestya | Dr. Mahdi AbuAli (Saudi Aramco) | |||
| Mohamad Al-Dubais | ||||
| Fawaz Al-Qahtani | ||||
| 2020 Imperial Barrel Award by AAPG (Global) | Jun-20 | Mohammad Naveed | Dr. Khalid Al-Ramadan (KFUPM) | 2nd Place in Global Competition |
| Ignatius Argadestya | Dr. Mahdi AbuAli (Saudi Aramco) | |||
| Mohamad Al-Dubais | ||||
| Fawaz Al-Qahtani | ||||
| AAPG - the 14th Middle East Region Imperial Barrel Award Competition 2023 | Feb-23 | Talal Aluthman | Dr. Khalid Al-Ramadan | 1st |
| Sara Kellal | ||||
| Osama Aziz | ||||
| Anas Salisu | ||||
| AAPG- International Imperial Barrel Challenge (IBA) 2023 | May-23 | Talal Aluthman | Dr. Khalid Al-Ramadan | 1st |
| Sara Kellal | ||||
| Osama Aziz | ||||
| Anas Salisu |
Geophysics Awards and Achievements
Faculty Awards between 2017 and 2023
| Name | DATE | Award / Recognition |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. SanLinn I. Kaka | 2017 | Excellence in Advising in April 2017. |
| Appointed as a Scientific Advisor Board Member of STEPS (Science and Technology for Exploration and Production Solutions) in November 2017. | ||
| Prof. Abdullatif Al Shuhail | 2017 | Certificate of appreciation by John Willy Publishers for writing a knowledgeable book "Seismic Data Interpretation using Digital Image Processing" |
| 2018 | Chaired several sessions in GEO2016 and GEO2018 | |
| Organizing Committee Member of SEG Near Surface Geophysics. | ||
| Promoted to Full Professor Rank in April 2018 | ||
| Appointed as Department Chairman in September 2018 | ||
| Technical Committee member for SEG Wide Azimuth Workshop. | ||
| Patents: Al-Shuhail, A. A. and Abdullah, F., 2018. Method and system for characterization of subsurface cavities using joint inversion of gravity and ground penetrating radar data (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number US9977124B2) - Co-Inventor. Mousa, W., Latif, A., and A. A. Al-Shuhail, 2018. System and method for acquisition and processing of seismic data using compressive sensing (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number US10094941B2) - Co-Inventor. |
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| 2022 | Co-chair of Technical Committee of the SEG "Near Surface Modeling & Imaging Workshop" in Muscat, Oman, on September 26-29, 2022 | |
| Won King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Translation | ||
| Patent: Khan; Sikandar, Khulief; Yehia Abel, Al-Shuhail; Abdullatif, 2022. Method and alarming system for CO2 sequestration (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number US011353621B2) - Co-Inventor. | ||
| Dr. Sherif Mahmoud | 2018 | Associate editor at the Near Surface Geophysics |
| 2019 | Member of the DL committee, SEG. | |
| Elected as the district 10 representative, SEG | ||
| 2021-23 | Elected member at the SEG board of director | |
| 2022 | Chair of Committee on Nomination, SEG | |
| Committee member of the Near-surface Modeling and Imaging Workshop, Oman | ||
| Prof. Peter Mora | 2021 | Featured in the list of the world's top 2% scientists in their research area in a global list issued by a joint research evaluation metric created by Elsevier and Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford. The global list, carries names of 159,683 people from all scientific disciplines. |
| Dr. Umair Bin Waheed | 2022 | KFUPM Early Career Researcher Award |
| 2023 | KFUPM 2023 Teaching Award |
Student Competitions / Awards
| Title | DATE | Team | Mentor | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEG Challenge Bowl at GEO 2018 | 18-Mar | Ahmed Afify | Dr. Ammar Elhusseiny | 4th |
| Oluseun Sanuade | Dr. Umair Waheed | |||
| EAGE Geo-Quiz at GEO 2018 | 18-Mar | Leon Tufani | Dr. Umair Waheed | 5th |
| Ahmed Afify | Dr. Osman Abdullatif | |||
| Mohamed ElMuzafar | ||||
| KFUPM 4th Senior Design Expo | 18-Dec | Ahmad Alghamdi | Dr. Sherif Hanafy | 1st (Geosciences Category) |
| Ahmed Almomen | ||||
| Wael Alhulaimi | ||||
| Mohammed Mahroos | ||||
| Adnan Bin Madhi | ||||
| CPG Challenge Bowl 2019 | 19-Mar | Septriandi Chan | Dr. Ammar Elhusseiny | 1st |
| Nabil Saraih | 3rd | |||
| SEG DGS 13th Middle East | 19-Apr | Ayman Al-Lehyani | Dr. Ammar Elhusseiny | 1st |
| Oluseun Sanuade | ||||
| SEG Challenge Bowl 2019 San Antonio | 19-Sep | Septriandi Chan | Dr. Ammar Elhusseiny | 2nd |
| Ayman Al-Lehyani | ||||
| KFUPM 5th Senior Design Expo | 19-Dec | - | Dr. Sherif Hanafy | 1st (Geosciences Category) |
| SEG Middle East Challenge Bowl Competition 2023 | 23-Feb | Geosciences Students Team | Dr. Sherif Hanafy | 2nd |