Department of Geology
Degree Name | Group/Major Subject | Board/Institute | Country | Passing Year |
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Ph.D. | Geology | University of Delaware | United States | 2016 |
Masters | Hydrogeology & Env. Geology | University of Dhaka | Bangladesh | 2010 |
Bachelor | Geology | University of Dhaka | Bangladesh | 2008 |
Title | Organization | Location | From Date | To Date |
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Post-Doctoral Fellow | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observetory, Columbia University | USA | 01, Jul 2016 | 31-12-2016 |
Environemntal Fellow | Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) | Newark, DE 19711, USA | 01, Sep 2014 | 31-05-2016 |
Hydrogeologist | Japan International Cooperation Agency | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 01, Jun 2009 | 31-07-2010 |
Research Assistant | Department of Geology, University of Dhaka | Dhaka | 01, Dec 2008 | 30-06-2009 |
Subject | Description | Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator) |
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Hydrogeology | Groundwater Sustainability, River-Groundwater Interaction, Groundwater Arsenic Contamination, Groundwater Modeling |
Level of Study | Title | Supervisor | Co-Supervisor(s) | Name of Student(s) | Area of Research | Current Completion |
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M.Phil | Vulnerability Assessment of Groundwater Resource in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh due to Influx of Displaced Rohingya Population | Kazi Matin Ahmed | Mahfuzur R Khan | Md. Al-amin | Current Year | |
M.Phil | Groundwater Resource Potenitality Assessment in Goainghat, Sylhet | Kazi Matin Ahmed | Mahfuzur R Khan | Mohammad Jahid Alam | Current Year | |
Masters | Estimation of Groundwater Recharge Potential in Ukhia-Cox's Bazar Region, Bangladesh | Kazi Matin Ahmed | Mahfuzur R Khan | Sumiya Sadeak | 2019 | |
Masters | Assessment of Groundwater Resource Potential for BEZA in Mirasharai Upazila | Mahfuzur R Khan | 1. Majedul Islam Rony | 2018 | ||
Masters | Groundwater resource evaluation and management in St. Martin Island | Mahfuzur R Khan | 1) Md. Al-Amin 2) Asma Keya | 2018 | ||
Masters | Assessing the aquifer sustainability in Patuakhali-Barguna District for the Development Pyra Port | Mahfuzur R Khan | Asim Roy |
Subject | Project Name | Source of Fund | From Date | To Date | Collaboration |
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Hydrogeology | Establishment of groundwater monitoring programmeand creation of groundwater model of the Tipam Sandstone Aquifer, Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh | IOM | 15-06-2019 | Kazi Matin Ahmed | |
Hydrogeology | Water resources zoning using existing data and ongoing programme information for assessing water resources potential and suitable technology within refugee camps and adjacent host community areas in Cox's Bazar | UNICEF | 01-05-2019 | Kazi Matin Ahmed |
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SL | Collaboration & Membership Name | Type | Membership Year | Expire Year |
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1 | International Association of Hydrogeologists | Member | 2012 | 2014 |
2 | Geological Society of America | General Member | 2012 | 2015 |
3 | American Geophysical Union | General Member | 2015 | 2016 |
Book | |
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K. Ahmed, K. Hasan, T. Hasan and M. Khan
Situation Analysis of Arsenic Mitigation 2009.
Dhaka: Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) and JICA Bangladesh, 2010 .
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M. S. Islam and M. R. Khan
Department of Public Health Engineering, Local Government Division, Ministry of LGRD and Co-operatives, Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh.
Dhaka: Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) and JICA Bangladesh, 2010 .
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Yu, W., Voss, C., Michael, H., Ahmed, K., Feinson, L. and Khan M. R.
Implications of Climate Change for Fresh Groundwater Resources in Coastal Aquifers in Bangladesh.
Washington DC: World Bank, 2010 .
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Book Section | |
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Khan, MR, van Geen, A, Ahmed, KM and Michael, HA "Controls of lithology and groundwater pumping on arsenic contamination of deep groundwater in Bangladesh."
Arsenic in the Environment: Bridging Science to Practice for Sustainable Development As2021. Albert van der Wal, Arslan Ahmad, Branislav Petrusevski, Jan Weijma, Dragan Savic, Patrick van der Wens, Erwin Beerendonk, Prosun Bhattacharya, Jochen Bundschuh, Ravi Naidu London: 2024 548 .
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Choudhury R, Mahanta C, Khan MR, Nath B, Ellis T and van Geen A "The role of aquifer flushing on groundwater arsenic across a 35-km transect in the upper Brahmaputra River in Assam, India."
Environmental Arsenic in a Changing World. CRC Press, 2019 34-35 .
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Cross, B., Chowdhury, S.A. and Khan, M.R. "Teachers’ Professional Development in Bangladesh: Issues and Way Forward."
Handbook of Research on Teacher Education. Khine, M.S., Liu, Y. (eds) Singapore: Springer, 2022 885-899 .
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Journal Article | |
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Muhammad Abu Sayed, A.S.M. Maksud Kamal, Abrar Hossain, Mahmudul Hasan, Mahfuzur R Khan, Kazi Matin Uddin Ahmed and Peter S.K. Knappett : Groundwater vulnerability assessment to pollution using GIS-based DRASTIC and GOD methods in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj district, Bangladesh,
Groundwater for Sustainable Development (impact factor:5.9) , vol.23 , pp.100984 , 2023
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Hasan, M.A., Mia, M.B., Khan, M.R., Alam, M.J., Chowdhury, T, Al Amin, M. and Ahmed, K.M.U. : Temporal Changes in Land Cover, Land Surface Temperature, Soil Moisture, and Evapotranspiration Using Remote Sensing Techniques—a Case Study of Kutupalong Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh,
Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis , vol.7 , no.11 Springer Nature , 2023
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Raff, Jessica L., Goodbred, Steven L., Pickering, Jennifer L., Sincavage, Ryan S., Ayers, John C., Hossain, Md. Saddam, Wilson, Carol A., Paola, Chris, Steckler, Michael S., Mondal, Dhiman R., Grimaud, Jean-Louis, Grall, Celine Jo, Rogers, Kimberly G., Ahmed, Kazi Matin, Akhter, Syed Humayun, Carlson, Brandee N., Chamberlain, Elizabeth L., Dejter, Meagan, Gilligan, Jonathan M., Hale, Richard P., Khan, Mahfuzur R., Muktadir, Md. Golam, Rahman, Md. Munsur and Williams, Lauren A. : Sediment delivery to sustain the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta under climate change and anthropogenic impacts,
Nature Communications (impact factor:17.6) , vol.14 , no.1 Springer Nature , pp.2429 , 2023
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Zhongyuan Xu, Mahfuzur R. Khan, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Anwar Zahid, Jayaram Hariharan, Paola Passalacqua, Elisabeth Steel, Austin Chadwick, Chris Paola, Steven L. Goodbred Jr., Anner Paldor and Holly A. Michael : Predicting Subsurface Architecture From Surface Channel Networks in the Bengal Delta,
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (impact factor:4.418) , vol.128 , no.3 AGU-Wiley , pp.e2022JF006775 , 2023
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Sumiya Sadeak, Md Al-Amin, Tareq Chowdhury, Md Bodruddoza Mia, Md Jahangir Alam, Kazi Matin Ahmed and Mahfuzur R. Khan : Comparison of the groundwater recharge estimations of the highly exploited aquifers in Bangladesh and their sustainability,
Groundwater for Sustainable Development (impact factor:5.9) , vol.20 Elsevier , pp.100896 , 2023
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Nazia Nawrin, Tahmidur Rahman Junayed, Mahfuzur Rahman Khan, Md Jahangir Alam, Bodruddoza Mia and Kazi Matin Ahmed : A Hydrogeochemical Characterization and Quality Assessment of Groundwater from the Sadar Upazila, Khagrachhari District, Bangladesh for Irrigation and Drinking Uses,
Water (impact factor:3.53) , vol.14 , no.19 MDPI , 2022
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Khan, Mahfuzur R, Michael, Holly A, Bresnyan, Edward W and Yu, Winston : Impacts of basin-wide irrigation pumping on dry-period stream baseflow in an alluvial aquifer in the Kosi Fan region of India and Nepal,
Hydrogeology Journal (impact factor:3.151) , no.1435-0157 Springer Nature , 2022
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Khan, MR, Fuad, H, Islam, M, Chowdhury, M, Sadeak, S, Amin, A, Hossain, F and Ahmed, KM : Potential Impacts of Industrialization on Coastal Fresh Groundwater Resources in Bangladesh,
Sustainability (impact factor:3.889) , vol.14 , no.14 MDPI , 2022
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Mozumder, M.R.H., Michael, H.A., Mihajlov, I., Khan, M.R., Knappett, P.S.K, Bostick, B.C., Mailloux, B.J., Ahmed, K.M., Choudhury, I., Koffman, T., Ellis, T., Whaley-Martin, K., San Pedro, R., Slater, G., Stute, M., Schlosser, P. and van Geen, A. : Origin of groundwater arsenic in a rural Pleistocene aquifer in Bangladesh depressurized by distal municipal pumping,
Water Resources Research (impact factor:4.36) , no.e2020WR027178 , 2020
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Shamsudduha, M., Joseph, G., Haque, S., Khan, M.R., Zahid, A. and Ahmed K.M. : Multi-hazard Groundwater Risks to Water Supply from Shallow Depths: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh,
Exposure and Health (impact factor:4.532) , pp.1-14 , 2019
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M.R. Khan, H.A. Michael, B. Nath, B.L. Huhmann, C.F. Harvey, A. Mukherjee, I. Choudhury, M. Chakraborty, M.S. Ullah, K.M. Ahmed, S.L. Goodbred, P. Schlosser, B.C. Bostick, B.J. Mailloux, T. Ellis and A. van Geen : High‐arsenic groundwater in the southwestern Bengal Basin caused by a lithologically controlled deep flow system,
Geophysical Research Letters (impact factor:4.58) , 2019
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Choudhury R, Nath B, Khan MR, Mahanta C, Ellis T and van Geen A : The Impact of Aquifer Flushing on Groundwater Arsenic Across a 35-km Transect Perpendicular to the Upper Brahmaputra River in Assam, India,
Water Resoures Research (impact factor:4.36) , vol.54 , no.10 , 2018
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Rahman, M, Khan, M.R., Ahmed, K.M., Zahid, A. and Siddique M.A.M. : AN ASSESSMENT OF NITRATE CONCENTRATION IN THE GROUNDWATER OF THE CENTRAL COASTAL REGION OF BANGLADESH,
The Journal of NOAMI , vol.35 , no.1-2 , pp.107-116 , 2018
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Rahman, M., Khan, M.R., Ahmed, K.M. and Hasan M.A. : Relationship of Physiography and Groundwater Chemistry along an East-West Transect on the Ganges Delta in Southwst Bangladesh,
Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences , vol.6&7 , pp.31-40 , 2018
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Knappett, P. S. K., Mailloux, B. J., Choudhury, I., Khan, M. R., Michael, H. A., Mondal, D. R. and van Geen A. : Vulnerability of Low-Arsenic Aquifers to Municipal Pumping In Bangladesh,
Journal of Hydrology (impact factor:3.727) , vol.539 , pp.674-686 , 2016
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Michael, H.A., Scott, K.C., Koneshloo, M., Yu, X., Khan, M.R. and Li K. : Geologic influence on groundwater salinity drives large seawater circulation through the continental shelf: Geology drives seawater circulation,
Geophysical Research Letters (impact factor:4.339) , vol.43 , no.20 , pp.10,782–10,791 , 2016
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Michael, H.A. and Khan M.R. : Impacts of physical and chemical aquifer heterogeneity on basin-scale solute transport: vulnerability of deep groundwater to arsenic contamination in Bangladesh,
Advances in Water Resources (impact factor:4.49) , vol.98 , pp.147-158 , 2016
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Khan, M. R., Koneshloo, M., Knappett, P. S. K., Ahmed, K. M., Bostick, B. C., Mailloux, B. J., Mozumder, R.H., Zahid, A., Harvey, C.F., van Geen, A. and Michael H. A. : Mega-city pumping and preferential flow threaten groundwater quality,
Nature Communications (impact factor:11.88) , vol.7 , no.12833 , 2016
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Khan, M.R., Voss, C. I., Yu, W. and Michael H. A. : Water Resources Management in the Ganges Basin: A Comparison of Three Strategies for Conjunctive Use of Groundwater and Surface Water,
Water Resources Management (impact factor:3.537) , vol.28 , no.5 , pp.1235–1250 , 2014
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Md Al Amin, Asma Binte Kabir, Md Jahangir Alam, Kazi Matin Ahmed, ASM Maksud Kamal and Mahfuzur R Khan : Assessment of Groundwater Resources and Its Sustainability in the St. Martin’s Island, Bangladesh,
The Dhaka University Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences , vol.10 , no.3 University of Dhaka , pp.63-72 , 2022
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Conference Proceedings | |
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Khan, M. R., Nath, B., Huhmann, B, Chowdhury, I., Mukherjee, A., Ahmed, M., van Geen, A. and Michael H.A. "Origin of Arsenic Rich, Young Groundwater in Deep Tubewells in the Central Southwestern Bengal Basin."
GSA Annual Meeting
, pp. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.841. Baltimore, USA: Geological Society of America, 2015
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Khan M. R. and Michael H. A. "Vulnerability of Deep Groundwater in the Bengal Basin to Contamination: the Role of Physical and Chemical Aquifer Heterogeneity and Pumping."
AGU Fall meeting 2015
San Francisco, CA: American Geophysical Union, 2015
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Nath, B., Khan, M. R., Huhmann, B., Chowdhury, I., Mukherjee, A., Ahmed, K.M., Micahel, H.A. and van Geen A. "Groundwater Chemistry of Deep (>300 Feet) High-As Aquifers across the India-Bangladesh Border."
GSA Annual Meeting
, pp. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.841. Baltimore: Geological Society of America, 2015
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van Geen, A., Khan, M., Nath, B., Huhmann, B., Choudhury, I, Chakraborty, M., Harvey, C. and Ahmed, K.M. "Young High-Arsenic Groundwater Confirmed to 250 M Depth Across the India-Bangladesh Border."
Goldschmidt
Prague, CZ: 2015
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Michael, H., Scott, K. C., Koneshloo, M., Khan, M. R. and Katie L. "The Influence of Geologic Heterogeneity on Groundwater Salinity and Aquifer-Ocean Exchange on the Scale of the Continental Shelf."
AGU Fall Meeting
San Francisco, California: American Geophysical Union, 2015
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Khan, M. R., Koneshloo, M., Knappett, P. S. K., Ahmed, K. M., Bostick, B. C., Mailloux, B. J., ... and Michael H. A. "Effect of Aquifer Heterogeneity on the Sustainability of Deep Groundwater Resources in the Bengal Delta near a Mega-City Pumping Center."
GSA Annual Meeting
Vancouver, Canada: Geological Society of America, 2014
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Knappett, P., Choudhury, I., Barua, S., Mondal, D. R., Steckler, M. S., Ahmed, K.M., Khan, M. R., Michael, H.M. and Mozumder R. H. "Deep Pumping In Dhaka Favors Intrusion of River Water into Rural Drinking Water Aquifers."
125th GSA Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition
Denver, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 2013
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Khan, M. R., Michael, H. A. and Voss, C. I. "Water Resources Management in the Ganges Basin: A Comparison of Three Strategies for Conjunctive Use of Groundwater and Surface Water."
GSA Annual Meeting
Charlotte, North Carolina: Geological Society of America, 2012
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Sumiya Sadeak and Mahfuzur Khan "Sustainable Groundwater Management by Geological Modeling and Recharge Estimation to Optimize Sudden Stress on the Geologically Complex Aquifer System in the South-Eastern Hilly Region of Bangladesh."
AGU Fall Meeting
New Orleans: American Geophysical Union, 2021
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Mahfuzur Khan, Holly A Michael, Bibhash Nath, Brittany Huhmann, Charles Franklin Harvey, Abhijit Mukherjee, Madhumita Chakraborty, Imtiaz Choudhury, Mohammad Shahid Ullah, Kazi Matin Ahmed and others "Arsenic-contaminated deep groundwater in the Bengal Basin: origin and implications for mitigation."
AGU Fall Meeting 2019
San Francisco: 2019
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Holly A Michael, Mahfuzur Khan, Cliff Voss, Charles Franklin Harvey, Alex van Geen, er and Peter Knappett "Vulnerability to Groundwater Arsenic in the Bengal Basin: The Interplay between Dense Populations, Geologic Complexity, and Large-Scale Geogenic Contamination."
AGU Fall Meeting 2019
San Francisco: AGU, 2019
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Alexander van Geen, M Rajib Hassan Mozumder, Benjamin C Bostick, Brian J Mailloux, Peter Schlosser, Charles F Harvey, Holly A Michael, Mahfuzur R Khan, Imtiaz Choudhury and Kazi Matin Ahmed "HOW EARTH PROCESSES CAN POISON MILLIONS BUT ALSO PROVIDE A SOLUTION: THE CASE OF WELL-WATER ARSENIC IN SOUTH ASIA."
GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis
Indianapolis: GSA, 2018
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Khan, M.R., van Geen, A., Ahmed, K.M. and Michael, H. "Controls of Lithology and Groundwater Pumping on Arsenic Contamination of Deep Groundwater in Bangladesh."
8th International Congress and Exhibition on Arsenic in the Environment ( As2021) Bridging Science to Practice for Sustainable Development
Wageningen: 2021
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Khan, MR, Islam, MM, Hasan, MF and Ahmed, KM "Prospect and Sustainability of Groundwater Resources in Mirsharai Economic Zone, Chattogram, Bangladesh."
National Seminar on Geosciences for Sustainable Development of Bangladesh
, pp. 28. Dhaka: Geological Survey of Bangladesh, 2021
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Rajib Hassan Mozumder, Holly A Michael, Ivan Mihajlov, Mahfuzur R Khan, Imtiaz Choudhury, Brian Justin Mailloux, Benjamin C Bostick, Peter Knappett, Peter Schlosser, Tobias Nicholas Buttersworth Koffman and others "The Role of Recharge Windows in Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Aquifers affected by Large-scale Depressurization."
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
, pp. H34D--06. Washington DC: AGU, 2018
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Sadeak, S and Khan, MR "Estimation of Potential Recharge to the Dupi Tila Aquifer in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar using GIS based Water Balance Method."
National Seminar on Geosciences for Sustainable Development of Bangladesh
, pp. 51. Dhaka: Geological Survey of Bangladesh, 2021
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Award Type | Title | Year | Country | Description |
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Local | Professional Development Award | 2015 | United States | |
Local | Delaware Environmental Institute Fellowship | 2014 | United States | |
Local | University Grant Commission of Bangladesh merit award-2009 | 2010 | Bangladesh | University Grant Commission of Bangladesh merit award-2009 for standing 1st in the Faculty of Earth |