Boshra Salem is a professor, founder and the Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Alexandria University in Alexandria, Egypt. She is president of Unesco's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) International Coordinating Council (ICC)[1] and serves on the International Council for Science (ICSU)'s Committee for Scientific Planning & Review. She has received a number of awards, including being recognized as an outstanding female scientist in the Women in Science Hall of Fame by the Embassy of the United States in Cairo, Egypt.[2]
Education edit
Boshra Salem was awarded her Ph.D. jointly by the University of Alexandria and Imperial College London in 1989. She studied land use in arid lands using remote sensing techniques. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of London (1994) and the University of Maryland (1996) she worked with computational tools and databases for geographic and environmental information management.[2]
Research edit
Salem's major fields of interest are land degradation and desertification in arid environments, and the use of remote sensing, GIS applications and electronic databases to monitor and model changes. She is involved with the development of protected areas and biosphere reserves for biodiversity conservation, environmental impact assessment and strategic environment assessment, and alternative solar energy sources.[2] She developed an international solar desalination project for Bedouin communities.[3][1] She is team leader for Egypt's Omayed Biosphere Reserve project, which received the 1997 Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation for its work in Egypt's Western Desert.[4][5][6] and has worked with Caroline King-Okumu and others on the Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands (SUMAMAD) project.[7][8]
Awards edit
- 1990, UNESCO MAB Young Scientist Award, for "Detection of temporal environmental changes in arid lands by remote sensing. Case study: North coastal desert of Egypt"[9]
- 1997, Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation, to the Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Alexandria (Egypt) for its work with the Omayed Biosphere Reserve[10]
- 2009, UNESCO Young Scientists Awards: Michel Batisse grant for biosphere reserve management case studies[11]
- 2013, Women in Science Hall of Fame, Embassy of the United States, Cairo, Egypt, to honor outstanding female scientists throughout the Middle East and North Africa[12]
References edit
- ^ a b "Dr. Boshra Salem, president of the MAB International Coordinating Council, selected as a new member of the Women in Science Hall of Fame - 2013". Unesco. January 29, 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ a b c "Dr. Boshra Salem inducted into U.S. Department of State's Women in Science Hall of Fame". International Council for Science. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "Combating drought and desertification" (PDF). Science in Africa. Unesco. 2007. p. 12.
- ^ "Biosphere Reserve Information Egypt OMAYED". The MAB Program. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ Salem, Boshra (2003). "Biosphere reserves on north-western Egyptian coast, a site for monitoring biodiversity and integrated water management". In Alsharhan, Abdulrahman S.; Wood, Warren W. (eds.). Water resources perspectives evaluation, management and policy. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0444515087. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ King, Caroline; Salem, Boshra (2013). "Assessing the cost of groundwater degradation in the urbanizing desert area of Wadi el Natrun". In Simpson, Richard; Zimmermann, Monika (eds.). The economy of green cities a world compendium on the green urban economy. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-94-007-1969-9.
- ^ Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands SUMAMAD, Fifth Project Workshop Aleppo (Syria) 12 – 17 November 2006 (PDF). Paris, France: UNESCO. 2007.
- ^ King, Caroline. "Fourth Project Workshop Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands (SUMAMAD) Islamabad (Pakistan) 26 January to 1 February 2006" (PDF). United Nations University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "MAB Young Scientists Awards 1990" (PDF). UNESCO-MAB Young Scientists Awards. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation - the winners" (PDF). Unesco. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "UNESCO awards recognize young scientists' contributions to biodiversity". UN News Centre. 18 February 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "Women in Science Hall of Fame - 2013". Embassy of the United States, Cairo, Egypt. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14. Retrieved 9 July 2016.