M.M. Rahman, M.Sc.

Mohammad Moshiur Rahman joined TU Delft as a Ph.D researcher on 1st of February 2011 in the Water Resources Section, Department of Water Management. Below are the descriptions on his Ph.D. project, education background, work experience, and publications.

Ph.D. Research

Title of the project: Safe drinking water in Bangladesh: an integrated framework assessing acceptability, social-technological feasibility, and sustainability of hand-pump subsurface arsenic removal in diverse settings of rural Bangladesh.

Tasks: Develop a predictive hydrogeological/geochemical model of the hydrogeological/geochemical parameters determining the site-specific applicability of subsurface arsenic removal (SAR) in Bangladesh.

Objectives: the objective is to find out the major hydrogeological and geochemical parameters that affect the applicability of SAR in Bangladesh and to develop a 3D predictive model that can be used to determine site specific effectiveness of SAR.

Education

Lecturer (September, 2010 to Present): North south University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Responsibilities: teaching Introduction to Environmental Science (ENV 107) and Geographical Information systems (ENV 316)

Research Assistant (August 2008 to Present): Project title: Humic Substances and Iron Redox Reactions in Bangladesh aquifers The Environmental Research Project conducted by the ‘Queens College, CUNY, New York and INSTAAR, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado. Supervisor: Yan Zheng, Ph.D. Queens College, CUNY, New York, USA

Responsibilities: Collecting groundwater sample and analyze those to determine anions, cations and fluorescence data.

Adjunct Lecturer, School of earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY, New York, USA (August, 2008 to June 2010). Responsibilities: teaching environmental science 111 lab sections.

Assistant Director, Geological Survey of Bangladesh, and Government of the people’s Republic of Bangladesh (2007 to 2008) Responsibilities: Geotechnical investigation: Soil and sediment sampling for determination of geotechnical characteristics of subsoil. Subsurface Modeling: using geotechnical data with Rockworks 2004 subsurface modeling software

Research Associate (2005 to 2007): Project Title: "Health Hazard and Arsenic Mobilization in Bangladesh Groundwater". The Environmental Research Project conducted by the ‘Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (L-DEO) of Columbia University, New York, USA. Employer: Kazi Matin Ahmed, Ph.D. (kazimatin@yahoo.com), professor, Department of Geology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka– 1000, Bangladesh

Responsibilities:

• Hydrogeological investigation: Water sampling for geochemical and Isotope analysis of groundwater, soil and sediment sampling, groundwater and surface level fluctuation monitoring, relative head measurements and understand the distribution and mobilization of arsenic in the aquifers of the Araihazar Upazila area of Bangladesh. Community well installation for safe drinking water supply.
• Geophysical Investigation for Hydrogeological evaluation: Electro-Magnetic (EM31&) surveying, Resistivity profiling & 2D subsurface imaging, and geophysical logging for Natural Gamma & EM conductivity.

Publications

Natalie mladenov, Yan zheng, Matthew p. Miller, Diana R. Nemergut, Teresa legg, Bailey Simone,Clarrisa Hageman, M. Moshiur Rahman, K. Matin Ahmed, Diane M. Macknight "Dissolved Organic Matter Sources and Consequences for Iron and Arsenic Mobilization in Bangladesh Aquifers" Environmental Science and Technology, 2009

Jessica Leber, M. Moshiur Rahman, M. Tareq Chowdury, Kazi M. Ahmed, Brian Mailloux, Alexander van Geen "Seasonally varying presence of E. coli in shallow aquifers of two geologically contrasting villages of Bangladesh" Ground Water; March 4, 2010

Radloff, K A, A R Manning, B. Mailloux, Y. Zheng, M. M. Rahman, M. R. Huq, K M Ahmed, M Stute, A van Geen, Considerations for conducting incubations to study the mechanisms of As release in reducing groundwater aquifers, Applied Geochemistry , in press March 2008.

van Geen, A., Z. Cheng, Q. Jia, A. A. Seddique, M. W. Rahman, M. M. Rahman, and K. M. Ahmed, Monitoring 51 deep community wells in Araihazar , Bangladesh , for up to 5 years: Implications for arsenic mitigation, Journal of Environmental Science and Health , 42, 1729-1740, 2007.