Professor of Water Crisis and Risk Reduction at UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction (RDR). Opinions and views are my own and not my employer's.
London, UK
Joined March 2020
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Groundwater is vital to Bangladesh’s economy and its water and food security. Yet, it remains underrepresented in classrooms and government priorities. In my @NewAgeBD op-ed, I highlight the marginalisation of groundwater.
newagebd.net/post/opinion/26…
#Bangladesh #groundwater
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Job opportunity:
Lecturer (Teaching) in #HumanitarianOperations and #CrisisManagement
ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
Full-time, permanent contract
@UCLRDR @ucl
Closing 28 Feb. 2025
#DRR #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #ScienceJobs #Humanitarianism #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement
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We're celebrating a number of IRDR #promotions this year!
👏 Professor Mohammad Shamsudduha @EarthShams
👏 Associate Professors @DanielHaines1,
Estella Carpi @estycrp, Roberto Gentile, @DrTingSun and @yuliaioffe
👏 Associate Professors (Teaching) Lisa Guppy and Yasmine Sabri.
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Is your home in a toxic hotspot? Living by landfill? Swimming in slurry? Poisoned by PFAS?
We've take a deep dive to produce the most comprehensive map of UK pollution. Find out what you're living next to via our brand new map, out now 👇
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"The global climate crisis is a water crisis" Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha @EarthShams hydrogeologist “Although water salinity in SW Bangladesh is highly seasonal & varies substantially between wet & dry seasons, in recent times, there has been rising salinity"
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Happy to share a review paper that I co-authored has just been published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Thanks to my dear colleague, Prof Abhijit Mukherjee from IIT Kharagpur, India and other co-authors for their efforts.
nature.com/articles/s43017-0…
ALT Geogenic contaminant occurrence in groundwater
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Congratulations to Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha on becoming a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority!
This recognises Dr Shamsudduha's positive #leadership and influence on the practices of others who #teach and support high-quality #learning.
@EarthShams @hea_
Very excited to share a Nature article published today reporting the status of groundwater levels at global scale from monitoring data. Groundwater levels are mostly declining but there are also signs of recovery in some places.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
#Groundwater #global #ucl
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Groundwater levels are declining in numerous aquifers around the world, but it can be reversed in some cases, finds a new study involving Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha @EarthShams @UCLIRDR @uclmaps and Prof Richard Taylor @UCLgeography @UCLSocHistSci
ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jan/glob…
Sharing an opinion piece published in the national daily newspaper, The Daily Star on climate change impacts and groundwater adaptation in Bangladesh.
thedailystar.net/opinion/vie…
#Bangladesh #ClimateCrisis #groundwater
I am delighted to share that I have been appointed as a member of the Scientific Advisory Group at icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) – a world’s leading global health research institute based in Bangladesh.
icddrb.org/about-us/leadersh…
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This year's @uclmaps Faculty #Education Awards recognise #IRDR colleagues @MhariGordon and Dr @EarthShams for "Individual Excellence", Dr Lisa Danquah and Dr @yuliaioffe who were "Highly Commended" and the Assessment UCL Team awarded for "Team Excellence".
Well done all! 🎉
Happy to share a paper on 'Global #water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future' that I co-authored with many excellent researchers in the field.
nature.com/articles/s43017-0…
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🚨New Review
Global #water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future 💧🌍
By Bridget Scanlon et al. @sarahfak @amrateb @Inge_deGraaf @water_undergrnd @GraftonQuentin @ejobbagy @Sefwater
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ALT A schematic 3D block diagram of the water cycle. The figure includes representative values of global annual water storages and fluxes.
Since 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, $26 trillion (63%) of all new wealth was captured by the richest 1%!
The more we talk about reducing inequality globally, the more it increases! The global governing system has to change!
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An op-ed published today in the Daily Star newspapers.
We take groundwater for granted in Bangladesh. However, the fact is that groundwater resource has made Bangladesh a food-secure nation.
#Bangladesh #groundwater #foodsecurity
thedailystar.net/opinion/vie…
A popular English daily newspaper, The Daily Star in Bangladesh has published a story today on their front page about the Bengal Water Machine.
#Bangladesh #water #agriculture #groundwater #science #UCL
thedailystar.net/news/bangla…
The Business Standard newspaper in Bangladesh published my interview on the recent paper in Science on the Bengal Water Machine.
tbsnews.net/features/panoram…
#Bangladesh #groundwater #foodsecurity #climateresilience
Groundwater pumping doesn't always lead to depletion. It could be a useful resource for poverty alleviation and climate adaptation. Listed to a radio interview at Science Friday!
#Groundwater #ClimateAdaptation #FoodSecurity
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