Pr. M. SHATANAWI is the Dean of faculty of Agriculture and the chairman of the Board of Water and Environment Research Studies Centre (WERSC). He is a UNESCO chair holder and member in the Scientific and Technical Review Panel of the Wetlands Conversion (RAMSAR). Dr. Shatanawi is a professor of water resources and irrigation and has a wide experience as FAO expert in water resources management, as policy advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture and as member of many scientific committees. He has more than 50 publications in water resources and irrigation management, water policy, hydrology and arid region and reuse of wastewater for irrigation. He holds a Ph.D. degree in hydraulic and irrigation engineering, from the University of California, Davis. He will lead the WP1.

Dr. F.M. ZIADAT is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Resources & Environment. He holds a Ph.D. degree in the Application of GIS and Remote Sensing with a good background (M.Sc. and B.Sc.) in soil and irrigation. He recenlty participated in two projects, involving data collection and integration within GIS, use of satellite data for land cover/land use interpretation and land suitability analysis within GIS. He will assist Prof. Shatanawi in WP1.

Selected publications

Shatanawi M. R., 1986, "Efficiency of The Jordan Valley Irrigation System," Dirasat (Agricultural Sciences), 13 (5): 121-142

Shatanawi M. R. et al., 1998, "Water Consumption of Major Crops in Jordan", Water and Environment Research and Study Center, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, Technical Bulletin No. 21

Shatanawi M., Zubi Y. and Jayoussi O., 2003, "Irrigation ManagementDynamics in the Jordan valley Under Drought Conditions" Published in Tools for Drought Mitigation in Mediterranean Regions, edited by Rossi, G. et al., Water Science and Technology Library, Vol. 44. Kluwer Academic Publisher, 243-258

Ziadat F.M., Taylor J.C. and Brewer T.R., 2000, Application of GIS for optimising the use of soil survey data for land suitability analysis in Jordan. Submitted to the International Journal of Geographic Information Sciences

Ziadat F.M., Taylor J.C. and Brewer T.R., 2003, Merging Landsat TM imagery with topographic data to aid soil mapping in the Badia region of Jordan, Journal of Arid Environment, 54: 527-541

Ziadat, F.M., 2005, Analyzing digital terrain attributes to predict soil attributes for a relatively large area, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 69: 1590-1599

Ziadat F.M. and Al-Bakri J.T., 2007, Comparing existing and potential land use for sustainable land utilization, Jordan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2 (4): 372-387

Project publications are available in the library