User:NasrinAbdelghani/sandbox/Hamdi Zurqani

Hamdi Abdalkhaliq Zurqani (Arabic: حمدي عبدالخالق الزرقاني) (born 07 December 1981, Tripoli, Libya) is an Assistant Professor of Geospatial Science in Natural Resource Management and Conservation at the University of Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Arkansas Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, AR, USA.

Education and career
Dr. Zurqani obtained his master of agricultural sciences in 2010 from the Department of Soil and Water Sciences: soil survey genesis and classification, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tripoli. Tripoli, Libya, and received his Ph.D. in 2019 from Clemson University, USA. His thesis title was Application of Geospatial Technologies for Land Use Analysis and Soil Science Education. Dr. Zurqani is a distinguished soil scientist with a wide range of scientific and working experiences in Libya and abroad. His research focuses on the development of applications for new technologies in the field of soil survey and classification, land use management/planning, change detection of landscape degradation, remote sensing, and geographic information system (GIS) models. Dr. Zurqani is a recognized expert as a result of his internationally acclaimed work in the areas of environmental information science, remote sensing, land evaluation, sustainability, pedology, and soil science education. He has conducted research across the world, including the United States of America, and Africa. He has published broadly in many journals (e.g., Nature "Scientific Reports", Geoderma; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation; Journal of Geological Sciences; Land; Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis; and others), and is Editor of the Soils of Libya book. His research experience in analyzing spatial data, remote sensing, geostatistical modeling of environmental changes such as soil erosion, mapping and predicting soil salinity, and land use/land cover changes.