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Prof.Dr. Mohamed Hammad Atia El-Shakweer
Contact Information
Phone Number: 084   02144029                          
Fax Number: 084   02144029
E-mail Address: mhs01@fayoum.edu.eg
Office: Agriculture Building
Postal Address: Fayoum - Fayoum University - Faculty of Agriculture - Soils and Water Science Department - POBox : 63514
Academic Qualifications
B.Sc. : Agricultural Sciences (Water & Soils) – Alexandria University – 1960
M.Sc. : Agricultural Sciences (Water & Soils) – Alexandria University – 1968
Diploma on Soil salinity and alkalinity , 1973 , UNESCO , Budapest , Hungary .
Ph.D. : Philosophy of Agricultural Sciences (Water & Soils) - Alexandria University – 1976
3 advanced training courses conducted by the International Cooperation of the Energy Conservation & Environment Project (ECEP), Environmental Pollution Prevention Project ( EP3 ) and the U.S.A. titled *Industrial Effluent Management (June 1996 ) *Pollution Prevention Concepts and Applications (Chemicals / Food Canning (July 1996) *ISO 14000 and Environmental Management Systems (October 1996)
Academic Positions
Assistant Researcher: at the Soil salinity and Alkalinity Laboratory, Institute of Soil and Water Researches, Agricultural Researches Center, Ministry of Agriculture - 1964
Researcher: at the Soil Salinity and Alkalinity Laboratory - 1976
Lecturer: at the Soil Science Department, Institute of Agricultural Technology - Abu-Gharaib - Baghdad - Iraq - From 1977 To 1978
Lecturer: at the Department of Soil and Chemistry , El-Fayoum Faculty of Agriculture (Cairo University - El-Fayoum Branch) - 1978
Active Head: of the Department of Soil and Chemistry , El-Fayoum Faculty of Agriculture (Ibid) 1982-1983 .
Associate Professor: at the Department of Soil and Chemistry - from 1982 to 1987
Professor: at the Department of Soil and water Sciences, El-Fayoum Faculty of Agriculture (ibid.), 1987
Associate Professor , then , Professor at the Department of Natural Sciences, College of Education at Madinah Munawarah, King Abdulaziz University (Madinah Branch), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - from 1985 to 1988
Emeritus Professor : Department of Soil and Water Sciences, El-Fayoum Faculty of Agriculture (Cairo University - El-Fayoum Branch), 1998.
Emeritus Professor : at the Department of Soil and Water Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, 2006-up till now
Member of the permanent scientific committee of the supreme council of universities for the promotion of assistant professors and professors in the faculties of agriculture (departments of soils and agricultural engineering) in the egyptian universities ( committee No.45) during the period starting from september 2016 to september 2019.via managing,evaluating and judgment their researches.
Other Academic Activities
Researcher at the Soil Salinity and Alkalinity Laboratory 1976 .
Chairman of the Department of Soil and Water Sciences, El-Fayoum Faculty of Agriculture (Ibid) 1990-1996 .
Manager of the Central Laboratory for Soil , Water and Plant Aalysis at El-Fayoum Faculty of Agriculture 1994-1998.
Professional Activities
Practical Field and Academic Experience in Areas of Rehabilitation and Improvement of Soils Especially Saline, Alkali, Lime and Sand Soils
Experience in the Areas of Organic Farming, Recycling of Organic Material, Biochemistry of Soils and Soil Enzymes and Analyses (1996)
Experience in the use of fertilizers, fertilization treatments and recommendations in various Soils and crops under different weather and environmental conditions
Experience in the establishment, operation and management of labs of analysis of soil, water and plants, with expertise in the preparation and implementation of training programs for each group of employees and the preparation for design of requirements and the cost of construction and follow-up phases of implementation and evaluation, and reporting analyses of soil, water and plants for scientific or analytical or practical areas.
Experience in the systems management, environmental resources, methods of planning and study and analysis of environmental research, amending and following-up and correcting of environmental controls according to the site conditions
Experience in the use of the Computer technologies (computer) in applicable areas whether related to agricultural, academic or environmental development
Experience in the areas of planning, implementation and leadership of analysis work groups which conduct their researches in the labs or in greenhouses or lysimeters or fields. And supervision upon field and applied research as well as analyzing them statistically and formulating them scientifically and preparing for publication
Experience in the supervision upon the scientific research in universities or judging them to determine their viability and participation in the committees of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities to assess research for promotions of faculty members.
Experience in the design and implementation of the judging scientific research in areas in nitrogen-fixing in legumes or pulses, with the possibility of assessing the needs for rhizobia, its measurements and the efficiency of bacterial vaccine used.
Field experience in the areas of soil fertility under conditions of ground water near the soil surface or saturation or salinization or alkalinity conditions in the soil.
Experience in the areas of wastewater reuse after mixing fresh water sources or free-saline water and identification of the appropriate agricultural cycle.
Experience in the areas of environment in terms of testing and analysis and doing the final report, supervising the applied work environmental Systems, examining the pollution of the environment and setting technological methods to prevent pollution and protect the environment.
Research Interests
Reclamation, biochemistry,and improvement of saline , alkaline and water-logged soils. Also, reclamation and improvement of calcareous and sandy soils in new area.
Environmental management systems under ISO 9000 and ISO 14000. Also, pollution prevention techniques and analysis are interested under different sites condition. Planning of applied researches and works on environmental pollution protection, recycling of organic pollutants, management of environmental systems .
Preparing, performing, editing, supervising and evaluating judgement of the scientific researches under different university levels and purposes.
Application of computer technology to the above mentioned fields aiming to update and technology transfer to the sectors of education, agriculture and environment.
Planning , conducting and supervising the researches deal with nitrogen fixation of legume crops. This include the rhizobial requirement, inoculation and measurement of potential nitrogen fixation .
Soil fertility in relation to shallow ground water depths (diagnosis and correction).
Fertilizer recommendations under different soil-water-cropping pattern.
Reuse of salty and drainage water after mixing or desalinization treatments.
Establishment of new laboratories of soil, water and plant analysis. This include the stages of establishment , training its staff , monitoring and evaluation of their efficiency
Activities of E-learning:

- The course"land reclamation-E-learning" was approved by the Fayoum university,council in Egypt to start since April 2010 for teaching at the Egyptian universities.Since this date,this course is teaching to the 4th class of the department of soil and water of the faculty of agriculture at the second semester yearly in its Arabic language.Until now, the course introduced electronically in active from on the site of E-learning courses of the Fayoum university

- A Research project of"Remotly Applied E-learning programs extracted from the Accredited E-learning course to improve and update farmers and investors capabilities for reclamation of new land ". Research project presented to Fayoum university at june 2017 and approved at July 2017

Reuse of salty and drainage water after mixing or desalinization treatments.
Publications

1- Barakat, M. A.; Khalil, M. M. and M.H. Atia (1971).“The effect of salinity on the germination of 17 rice varieties.”. Agric. Res. Rev. (Egypt) 49(2) : 219-224

2- Gawaad, A. A.; Hammad, M. and F. H. El-Gayar (1971).“Effect of canal irrigation used in U.A.R. on the persistence of soil insecticide. ” International Pest Control (London), July-August1971: 8-28.

3- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and A.S. Abdel-Ghaffar (1972).“Nitrogen balance studies of salt-affected soils cropped with cotton.”. International Symposium on salt-affected soils. Cairo, December 4-9,1972

4- Gawaad, A. A.; Hammad, M. and F. H. El-Gayar (1972).“Studies on soil insecticides: X-Effect of some soil insecticides on soil microorganisms ”. Zntralblatt, Band 127; Heft 3: 290-295 (in English).

5- Gawaad, A. A.; Hammad, M. and F. H. El-Gayar (1972).“Studies on soil insecticides: XI- Effect of some soil insecticides on nitrogen transformations in treated soils ”. Zntralblatt, Band 127; Heft 3: 296-300 (in English).

6- Gawaad, A. A.; Hammad, M. and F. H. El-Gayar (1973).“Effect of some soil insecticides on soil microorganisms.”. Agrokemia Es Talajtan (Hungary) 22(1,2):61-168 (In Hungarian with English and Russian Summaries).

7- Gawaad, A. A.; Hammad, M. and F. H. El-Gayar (1973).“Effect of some soil insecticides on the nitrogen transformations in treated soils”. Agrokemia Es Talajtan (Hungary) 22(1,2):169-174 ( in Hungarian with English And Russian Summaries).

8- El-Shakweer, M.H.A.; A.S. Abdel-Ghaffar and M. A. Barakat (1973).“Nitrogen balance studies for different Egyptian soils cropped with corn”. Plant and Soils 39:341-349

9- El-Shakweer, M.H.A., M. A. Barakat and A.S. Abdel-Ghaffar (1973).“Nitrogen balance studies under cotton”. Alexandria J. Agric. Res. 21(2): 309-314

10- El-Shakweer, M.H.A., Gomah, A. M., Barakat and A.S. Abdel-Ghaffar (1976) “Effect of salts on decomposition of plant residues”. International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter Studies. Held on Brunswick, Federal republic of Germany 6-10 September, Vol.1: 205-213.   

11- Abdel-Ghaffar, A.S.; El-Shakweer, M.H.A.; Gomah, A.M. and M.A. Barakat (1976).“Effect of organic matter on the activity of some soil enzymes.” International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter Studies. Held in Brunswick, Federal republic of Germany 6-10 September, Vol.2: 319-324.   

12- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (1981).“The mode of salt inhibition on the decomposition of clover straw added to clay Soil. ” J. Agric. Res. Tanta University (Egypt) 7(2): 313-320.   

13- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and M. A. Barakat (1981).“Effect of Chloride and sulphate salts on growth of peanut and cowpea”. J. Agric. Res. Tanta University (Egypt) 7(2): 321-327.   

14- El-Shakweer, M.H.A.; El-Ghamry, W.M. and M.A. Barakat (1982).“Nodulation, nitrogen fixation and yield of Berseem clover in different Egyptian soils as affected by ground water depth.”. The OAU/STRC Inter-African Conference on Bio-Fertilizers, Held in Cairo, Egypt, 22-26 March 1982.   

15- El-Shakweer, M.H.A., Fathi, A. and M. A. Barakat (1982).“Effect of ground water level on legume crops in Fayoum Governorate: 1-Contribution to evapotranspiration of Vicia faba”. Annals Agric. Sci. Ain Shams University (Egypt) Bull. No.1863, June 1982.   

16- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (1982)“Effect of ground water level on legume crops in Fayoum Governorate: 2- Nodulation, N2-ase activity, nitrogen content and yield of Vicia Faba”. Annals Agric. Sci. Ain Shams University (Egypt) Bull. No.1864, June 1982.   

17- El-Shakweer, M.H.A.; Farah, M. A. and M. A. Barakat (1982).“Effect of some integrated foliar fertilizers on nodulation, nitrogenase activity, nitrogen content and yield of Vicia faba in salinized calcareous soil”. Annals Agric. Sci. Ain Shams University (Egypt) Bull. No.1887, June 1982.   

18- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and M. A. Barakat (1984).    “Nitrogen fixation, phosphorus and water uptake by faba bean as affected by salinity stresses”. The Second General Conference of Agricultural Research Center, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Giza, Cairo, Egypt, 9-11 April 1984

19- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and M. A. Barakat (1984).“Effect of salinity and sodium adsorption ratio of irrigation water on different varieties of Egyptian cotton”. The Second General Conference of Agricultural Research Center, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Giza, Cairo, Egypt, 9-11 April 1984.   

20- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and M. A. Barakat (1984).“Integrated foliar fertilization and ground water depth interaction effect on biological nitrogen fixation by faba bean”. The 9th World Fertilizer Congress of C.I.E.C. on: Fight against Hunger through improved plant nutrition, Held at Budapest (Hungary), 11-16 June 1984.   

21- El-Shakweer, M.H.A., El-Samanoudy, I. and M. A. Barakat (1984).“Interaction effect on Inoculation, NPK-fertilization and ground water depth on biological nitrogen fixation by soybean”. The 9th World Fertilizer Congress of C.I.E.C. on: Fight against Hunger through improved plant nutrition, Held at Budapest (Hungary), 11-16 June 1984.   

22- El-Shakweer, M. H. A. (1984).“Micronutrients foliar fertilization and ground water depth interaction effect on biological nitrogen fixation by faba bean”. The 9th World Fertilizer Congress of C.I.E.C. on: Fight against Hunger Through improved plant nutrition, Held at Budapest (Hungary), 11-16 June, 1984.   

23- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and I. El-Samanoudy (1985).“Effect of ground water level on legume crops in Fayoum Governorate: 3-Relationship between Moisture / air and biological nitrogen fixation by faba bean”. Communications in Science & Develop. Research 10 (91): 37-43.   

24- El-Shakweer, M.H.A (1985).“Effect of ground water level on legume crops in Fayoum Governorate: 4- Soil respiration and enzymes activities associated with faba bean”. Communications in Science & Develop. Research 10 (96): 95-104.   

25- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and I. El-Samanoudy (1985).“Effect of ground water level on legume crops in Fayoum Governorate: 5- Contribution of ground water to evapotranspiration associated with biological nitrogen fixation by soybean”. Communications in Science & Develop. Research 11 (102): 90-103.   

26- El-Shakweer, M. H. A. and I. El-Samanoudy (1985).“Effect of ground water level on legume crops in Fayoum Governorate: 6-Optimum irrigation of faba bean”. Alexandria Science Exchange 6(3): 65-79.   

27- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and M. Farah (1986).“Biological nitrogen fixation and yield of soybean as affected by various growth conditions”. Communications in Science & Develop. Research 13 (148): 183-193.   

28- El-Keiy, O. and M.H.A. El-Shakweer (1987).“Biological nitrogen fixation and associated iron, manganese, phosphorus and sodium absorption ratio by soybean under salinity stress”. J. Agric. Sci. Mansoura University 12(4): 1212-1218.   

29- El-Samanoudy, I.; Askar, F.A. and M.H.A. El-Shakweer (1988).“Suitability of natural soil conditioners for improving hydro-physical and chemical properties of alkaline clayey soil”. International Symposium On The Use Of Soil Conditioners For Reclamation and Farming of Desert Soils. Held at 11-13 October1988, Cairo, Egypt. And Published at 1993 in: Egypt. J. Soil Sci. 33 (1): 35-45.   

30- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (1996). {In Arabic}“Possibilities of development the application of computer technology through the cooperative research between the specialists of soil, water and agricultural engineering”. The 4th Conference for Egyptian Society of Agricultural Engineering titled: “Use of Updated technology and computer in agricultural engineering”. Held at 28 October, 1996 in Alexandria in collaboration with the Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture El-Shatby, Alexandria University, Egypt.

31- Madiha, S.T. El-Taliawy and M.H.A. El-Shakweer (1997).“Interpretation of soil and plant analysis for optimum cooking quality parameters of some grain legumes”. The 5th International Symposium On Soil And Plant Analysis: "The Promise of Precision Past, Present & Future", August 2-7, 1997. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Published in Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 1998, Vol. 29 (No.11-14): p.p. 2089-2108.   

32- El-Shakweer, M. H. A. ; El-Sayad, E. A. and M. S. A. Ewees (1997) .“Soil and plant analysis as a guide for interpretation of the improvement efficiency of organic conditioners added to different soils in Egypt”. The 5th International Symposium On Soil And Plant Analysis: "The Promise of Precision Past, Present & Future", August 2-7, 1997. Minneapolis, Minnesota,USA. Published in Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 1998 Vol. 29 (No.11-14): p.p. 2067- 2088.   

33- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (1998). {In Arabic}“Importance of establishment of information system for rain fed agriculture in Arab Countries”. The Conference of Rain Fed Agriculture in Arabian Countries. Sponsored by the Egyptian Academy of Science and Technology in Collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt , Cairo and Marsa-Matrooh 7-12 March 1998.

34- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (1998). { In Arabic}“Establishment of the central laboratory for soil, water and plant analysis at El-Fayoum Faculty of Agriculture to serve the agricultural sector”. The First National Conference on Marketing of University Services Cairo University, 18-19 March,1998.

35- Abdel-Aal,T.S.; El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and Abdel-Hafeez, A.A.A. (2001).“Significance of argillaceous deposits of El-Fayoum region as a natural soil amendments”. Annals of Agric. Sc. Moshtohor, 39(2):1371-1383.   

36- El-Shakweer.M.H.A. ; Abdel-Aal,T.S. and Abdel-Hafeez, A.A.A. (2001).“Potentiality of local calcareous deposits for ameliorating the sodic–soils in El- Fayoum Governorate, Egypt”. Annals of Agric. Sc. Moshtohor, 39(2):1385-1398.   

37- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (2001).“Pollution prevention of organic wastes accumulation in rural sector”. The 3rd International Conference & Trade Fair for Environmental Management and Technologies. 29-31 October, 2001, Cairo International Fairground, Egypt.Published in: The Conference Proceeding, page: 36-48.   

38- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (2002).“Information System for Reclamation and Development of Salt-affected Soils Working paper presented to: The Second Saudi Symposium on Halophyte Plantation, Riyadh”. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 3-6 Muharrum, 1423H (17-20 March, 2002)

39- El-Shakweer, M. H. A. and Ibrahim, A. M. (2006).“Scheduling Supplementary Drip Irrigation Requirements of Date Palm Trees in Soils Subjected to Contribution from Ground Water Depths Under El-Fayoum Conditions”. Fayoum J. Agric. Res. & Dev., Vol.20 (1): 119-135.   

40- Abdel-Aal, T.S. ; El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and Abdel-Hafeez, A.A.A. (2007). “Evaluation of local calcic formation resources in El-Fayoum Region for reclaiming salt-Affected soils”. Annals of Agric. Sci., Moshtohor, Vol. 45(1): 485-504.   

41- El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and A.A.A. Abdel-Hafeez (2008). “Evaluation of salinity and sodicity hazards due to drainage water reuse for irrigation purposes in El-Fayoum, Egypt”. Alex. J. Agric. Res. 53(2): 119-128.   

El-Shakweer, M.H.A. and A.A.A. Abdel-Hafeez (2009). An information system for combating soil salinity and alkalinity hazards (IS-SAH). Alexandria Science Exchange Journal Vol. 30 (1), January-March :7-21.

El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (2012) Importance of spreading the culture of E-learning in the agriculture sector in Egypt and the potential of activate its applications with farmers and investors in the field of land reclamation and improvement. International Conference on E-Learning in the Arab World, (ICEL), Cairo 9-11 July 2012. The Conference Proceeding Summary pp. 45, The Conference CD pp. 334-246.

El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (2013) Maximizing Applicability of Electronic Learning via Internet For Improving E- Learning Outcomes. Presented at the Conference of: “Oxford Education and Research Symposium”. Held at Oxford University at 17-20 March 2013, Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) .

Hala Hussein R.; El-Shakweer, M. H. A.; Ewees, M.S.A. and Abdel-Hafeez, A.A.A. (2017) Impact of ground water salinity and sodicity on soil chemical properties at soils nearby Quaroun Lake. Fayoum J. Agric. Res.&Dev. , Vol. 31(1) January 2017: 124-135

El-Shakweer, M.H.A. (2017)) Remotely Applied E-Learning programs extracted from the" Accredited E-Learning Course to improve and update farmers and investors capabilities for reclamation of new land" Research project presented to Fayoum University at June 2017 and approved at July 2017

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