Dr. Eman Ghoneim is an experienced Egyptian

Egyptians

Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

 geomorphologist with a primary focus on the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing

Remote sensing

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 and the use of Hydrologic modeling in Flash flood

Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas—washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a storm, hurricane, or tropical storm or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields...

 hazard and Groundwater

Groundwater

Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water. The depth at which soil pore spaces or fractures and voids in rock...

 exploration in arid environments.

During her research, she uses satellite images for both detecting subsurface

Subsurface

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 groundwater accumulation and land / submarine springs using the thermal

Thermal

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 ASTER

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer

ASTER is a Japanese sensor which is one of five remote sensory devices on board the Terra satellite launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999...

 and MODIS

MODIS

The Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer is a payload scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999 on board the Terra Satellite, and in 2002 on board the Aqua satellite...

 data. She worked in a project that uses both the GIS and Hydrologic model for groundwater exploration in the northern United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

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, U.S.

United States

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 and the Red Sea

Red Sea

The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...

 area in Egypt.

She received her PhD

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 in 2002 from the School of Geography, University of Southampton

University of Southampton

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. She is also a lecturer in the Geography Department, at Tanta University

Tanta University

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, Egypt.

Dr. Ghoneim joined the Boston University

Boston University

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 Center for Remote Sensing in the beginning of 2003. In 2006 March 2006 she joined Dr. Farouk El-Baz

Farouk El-Baz

Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American scientist who worked with NASA to assist in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, including the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography.Currently, El-Baz is Research...

 in a research that resulted in discovering the Kebira Crater

Kebira Crater

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, a possible impact crater

Impact crater

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 (astrobleme) in the Sahara

Sahara

The Sahara is the world's second largest desert, after Antarctica. At over , it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as Europe or the United States. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean...

. In 2007, while she was investigating different space data, she has discovered an ancient Mega-Lake (30,750 km²) buried beneath the sand of the Great Sahara in the Northern Darfur region, Sudan.