Dr. Alsheikh Bashir

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Full name:  Elsheikh Bashir Ali Abdalmaged

Languages: Arabic (mother language); English

Address: Red Sea University 

Institute of Marine Research 

P.O. BOX 24,

Port Sudan, Sudan

Mobile: + 249 121959022

E- mail: sheikhbashirali@yahoo.com

Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wFdQeI4AAAAJ&hl=en

• One-year training period at Port Sudan Custom laboratory on chemical analysis of organic & inorganic materials, food analysis, water analysis, cements, textiles, and others using the classical methods and analytical instruments i.e. Gas Chromatography (GC), Infra Red (IR), and Ultra Violet (UV) and Atomic Absorption spectrophotometers (AAS) (2003- 2004).
• Appointed as Technical Manager and Chemist at Tasneem Company for Health Water Bottling in Port Sudan (from July to November 2004).
• Appointed a researcher assistant at chemical oceanography unit - Institute of Marine Research (IMR) - Red Sea University (RSU) since Dec 2004.
• Promoted to a researcher (lecturer) in since (2008).
• Participate in regular monitoring and research programs in IMR & preparation of scientific reports since 2004 (on going).
• Participate in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) studies carried out by IMR in the Sudanese Red Sea since 2004.
• Participate in establishment of the new departments (chemical and physical oceanography) at IMR and at Faculty of Marine Science and Fishers (FMSF) at RSU through the collaboration with Geophysical Institute - University of Bergen – Norway.
• Teaching the General Chemistry 1&2, Marine Chemistry, and Climate Change courses at FMSF since 2008 until present.
• Promoted to assistance professor in since (2017).
• Appointed as Director of IMR since January 2019.
• Chief Editor of the Red Sea University Journal of Marine Research and Fisheries (RSUJMRF).

• Participate on the national training course on EIA for development projects in the coastal area (June 2006- Port Sudan). The training course was organized by the Regional Organization for the Protection of Environmental of the Red Sea & Gulf of Aden (PERSGA).
• Participate in the training workshop about the (Quality Control Assurance of Marine Environmental Monitoring Results) the workshop also was organized by PERSGA in Agaba in Jordon from 15th to 17th of Nov 2009.
• Participate in an international workshop “Red Sea Research – Past & Present “at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology campus in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, on 8th to 9th of March 2010. The workshop aims were to promote international collaboration and set the stage for a new area of science and discovery in Red Sea marine research.
• Participate in National Training Workshop on Response to Oil spills (IMO. OPRC - LEVEL 2) organized by PERSGA in Port Sudan from 31st of Oct. 2010 to 4th of Nov. 2010.
• Participate in special training at Chemical Oceanography laboratory of Geophysical Institute – University of Bergen – Norway between 7th of March and 29th of March 2011. During this period, I did several measurements for Salinity, (Ct) and (At) samples. The Instruments used in that measurement are Portable Salinometer Model 8410A for Salinity, A UIC Model CM5012 CO2 Coulometer for (Ct) and Versatile Instrument for the Determination of Titration Alkalinity (VINDTA) model 3S.
• Participate in workshop on methods and tools to assess vulnerability and adaptation to climate change for the Red Sea coastal zone - Sudan. Organized by PERSGA, the Higher Council and Natural Resources, Ministry of Environment – Tourism and Wide Life – Red Sea State, and Red Sea University. The workshop was held in Port Sudan from 24- 26 April 2011.
• Participate in CARBOCHANGE project (final meeting) held in Bergen, Norway (19-22 January 2015).
• Participate in the workshop about the future of the Red Sea biodiversity. The workshop was held in the Red Sea Center - KAUST in Saudi Arabia (23-25 October 2018).
• Participate as teacher in SEACRIFOG Workshop: Training workshop on oceanographic data collection and data managements. The workshop was held in Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway (1-10 April 2019).
• Participate in the training workshop in Ecosystem Approach Fishery Management. The workshop was held in Port Sudan (12-16 September 2021) under the UNIDO project tilted: Building Institutional Capacities for an Ecosystem Approach to Management of Marine Fishery in the Red Sea State, Sudan.
• Patriciate in African Conference on Priority Setting & Partnership Development for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development” Egypt 10th -12th May 2022.
• Participate in workshop on Ocean Governance and Science-Policy Interface. The workshop held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (19-22 July 2022), and delivered by Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of Office of Legal Affairs, United Nation.
• Participate in workshop on the Scoping for the next Assessment (s) of the third cycle of the Regular Process for the Global Reporting and Assessment of the States of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects. The workshop held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (25-27 July 2022) and delivered by Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of Office of Legal Affairs, United Nation.
• Participate in training course in Development and Promotion of the Academic Performance of the Academic Members Staff, (3-13 October 2022), Red Sea University Center for Training and Capacity Building, Red Sea University, Port Sudan.
• Participate as trainer in the National Workshop to discuss the National Action Plan for the Sustainable Management of Marine Litter in the Republic of Sudan, the workshop was organized by PERSGA (29-30 November 2022), Port Sudan, Sudan.
• Participate in National Workshop on Assessing the Resources to Respond to Oil Spills Preparedness and Response. The workshop was organized by PERSGA (6-8th February 2024), Port Sudan, Sudan.
• Participate as teacher in Capacity Building Training Workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework - Early Action Support. The workshop organized by the Higher Council of Environment and Naturel Resources (HCENR) and Wildlife Protection Forces. The workshop was held in Port Sudan (22-24 July 2024).
• Participate in Capacity Building and Development Training in National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) Monitoring System under GEF-7-Global Biodiversity Framework-Early Action Support project (Port Sudan, 22-26 July 2024).
• Participate in Mid-Term Coordination Meeting of the Technical Cooperation (TC) project (RAF7020): Establishing Regional Capacities to Assess the Importance of Carbon Sequestration in Aquatic Systems for Climate Change Mitigation, Environmental Conservation, and Economic Purposes. The meeting was organized by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and was held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 19-22 August 2024.

• Ali, E. B., (2008). The inorganic carbon cycle in the Red Sea, Master’s thesis, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 77 pp.
• Ahmed A. Aziz and Ali, E. B., Climate change signs associated with CO2, temperature, and rainfall pattern at the Sudanese Red Sea coast. Journal of Sociology and Education in Africa, Vol.12, No. 2, June 2014.
• Ali, E. B., (2017). The inorganic carbon cycle in the Red Sea, PhD thesis, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• Ali, E. B., Churchill, J. H., Barthel, K., Skjelvan, I., Omar, A. M., de Lange, T. E., and Eltaib, E. B. A., (2018). Seasonal and interannual variations of hydrographic parameters in the Sudanese coast of the Red Sea, 2009-2015, Regional Studies in Marine Sciences, 18, 1-10.
• Ali, E. B., Skjelvan, I., Omar, A. M., Are, O., de Lange, T. E., Johannessen, T., Elageed, S., (2021), Sea surface pCO2 variability and air-sea CO2 exchange in the coastal Sudanese Red Sea, Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 44.
• Mohammed, S. Y, Marzog, E. M., Alraih, E. E., and E. B., Ali, (2022). Determination of Heavy Metals Concentration in Three Species of Marine Invertebrates from Sudanese Red Sea Coast, Red Sea University Journal of Marine Research and Fisheries, Volume 1, 1-18.

• Member of the Red Sea University Senate, 2019-till present.
• Member of the Council of Deans, Red Sea University, 2019-till present.
• Member of Training Committee for Teaching Staff and Technicians at Red Sea University.
• Member of Research Ethics Committee at Red Sea University.
• Member of Review Committee for Curriculum for Faculty of Marine Sciences and Fisheries - Red Sea University.
• Member of the Higher Council of Environment and Naturel Resources, Red Sea State, Sudan.
• Member of Reconstruction Committee for the Higher Council of Environment and Naturel Resources, Red Sea State, Sudan, 2021.
• Member of the climate change committee in the Red Sea State, High Council for Environment.
• Member of the National Ocean Affairs committee formed by the federal High Council for Environment, 2022.
• Head of Steering Scientific committee of National Environmental Monitoring project. The project oprated by IMR.
• Member of Council of the project titled: Strengthened Protected Areas System and Integrated Ecosystem Management in Sudan (2023-2026), the project financed by Global Environment Facility (GEF) and United Nation Development Program (UNDP).
• National Consultant on Stocktaking of Biodiversity component (Marine Biodiversity) under project titled: GEF-7-Global Biodiversity Framework-Early Action Support (2024).
• National Consultant on component 4 (Biodiversity Finance Activity) under project titled: GEF-7-Global Biodiversity Framework-Early Action Support (2024).
• Head of Marine working group in component-1 (Rapid review of National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) for alignment with the post-2020 Global Biodiversity FRAMEWORK) under project titled: GEF-7-Global Biodiversity Framework-Early Action Support (2024).
• Head of Marine working group in component-2 (Assessment of Monitoring Systems) under project titled: GEF-7-Global Biodiversity Framework-Early Action Support (2024).
• Head of Marine working group in component-3 (Policy and institutional alignment and review for coherence with Global Biodiversity Framework) under project titled: GEF-7- Global Biodiversity Framework-Early Action Support (2024).
• Head of Marine working group in component-4 (Biodiversity Finance Activities) under project titled: GEF-7-Global Biodiversity Framework-Early Action Support (2024).

In laboratory (instrumentation and analysis):

• Physical & chemical analysis on the most of organic and inorganic compounds.
• Familiar with different type of pH meters, oxygen meters, spectrophotometers and others common laboratory instruments.
• Physical & chemical analysis on sediments & water for e.g.:

1. Determination of the nutrients values by using the spectrophotometric methods.
2. Determination of the salinity by using the Precipitation titrimetric methods and salinometer.

• Determination of the dissolved oxygen, the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and the chemical oxygen demand (COD) using Winkler method and others.
• Determination of the petroleum pollutants and heavy metal values in the coastal water sediments by using the classical (extraction) and modern methods (G.C and A. A. S).

In field:

• Working with most of field measurement portable instruments, including CTD (Multi Parameter Probe), DO2, pH, & sensors.

Language:

1. Arabic: mother language.
2. English: Very good in writing, reading and speaking.

Computing the oceanic data and modeling skills:

• Familiar with Excel, Ocean Data viewer and CO2Sys EXCEL Macro (Lewis program) for calculating pCO2 values by using the Ct & At values.
• Some experience with LINUX & UNIX operating system and Matlab program.