Terrestrial Environment and Ecosystems of Kuwait (PDF)

for Sustainable Development (EUMISD)". She has also conducted and attended many trainings national and internationally.



Shabbir Ahmad Shahid was embraced with the prestigious Sir William Roberts award to pursue his PhD degree in Soil Science specializing in Soil Micromorphology of Salt-affected Soils at the University of Bangor Wales UK, completed in 1989. He earned BSc (Hons.) and MSc (Hons.) degrees in Soil Science from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan in the years 1977 and 1980, respectively. He has over 42 years of experience as a soil scientist in Pakistan, UK, Australia, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Currently, Dr. Shahid is a Research Scientist in the Desert Agriculture and Ecosystems Program at ELSRC-KISR. He was the technical coordinator in multi-million dollar national soil surveys of the State of Kuwait and Abu Dhabi Emirate and developed a soil survey action plan for the Northern Emirates of UAE and the Republic of Mauritania. Since 1980, he has continued his relentless efforts to create new knowledge in soil science, climate change adaptation and mitigation, food security, agriculture intensification, and informing policymakers and the public at large on the growing problem in food security due to climate change and solutions for dealing with it holistically. At international forums, Dr Shahid has remained intrepid and forthright in expressing his views, and his convictions were driven by the strength of his outstanding scientific expertise. He is respected internationally due to his outstanding contribution to science and is an honored member of the editorial boards of a number of peer-reviewed refereed journals, the member of an executive board, the member of 25 squad councils and the life member of World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC). The international scientific community of soil science recognizes him due to being the creator and co-founder of the unique Emirates Soil Museum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is also the discoverer of the world's first anhydrite-rich soil in UAE and its formal addition in the 12th edition of US Keys to Soil Taxonomy published in 2014. Since he started his career in 1980, he has worked in various capacities: In Pakistan (Lecturer, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor (1980-1998) at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan; a Demonstrator at Bangor University, UK (1985-1989); a Volunteer at the Victoria University, Footscray, Australia (1995-1996); an Associate Research Scientist at KISR, Kuwait (1996-2002) and July 2019 to date; a Manager in the Soil Resources Department at Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi (2002-2004); a Senior Salinity Management Scientist at Dubai-based International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, ICBA (2004-2017) and a Senior Fellow at ICBA (2017-2018). Dr. Shahid is an innovative thinker with a practical, solutions-oriented outlook. He is an experienced soil and water testing laboratory manager, project and program developer, with excellent leadership, coordination, networking, managerial and administrative skills, has effective and confident communication skills in English and has a high degree of computer and IT proficiency. Dr. Shahid is also the prolific author of over 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, scientific magazines, and conference proceedings. He published, edited and co-edited 8 books with the international publisher Springer. His Research Interest Score (RIS) is 2638, h-index 23, i10-index 48 with 2,591 citations, and 170,135 reads globally. His RIS is higher than 97% of all ResearchGate members' scores globally. In addition, his books published by Springer have been downloaded over 400,000 times from the Springer website.