Mr. Osman Hamed

Osman Hamed is a final-year PhD candidate in Environmental and Analytical Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, supervised by Professor Craig Williams, Dr. Catherine Duke, and Professor Abdallah Shanbleh. His research focuses on integrating satellite remote sensing (Landsat, Sentinel-2) with NOAA's GNOME trajectory model for advanced oil spill monitoring and prediction. Osman's doctoral work provides a comparative analysis of oil spill behaviour across contrasting marine environments—the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska's cold waters versus the 2017 Al-Khafji spill in the Arabian Gulf's warm waters. His research demonstrates how environmental parameters, particularly water temperature, critically influence oil weathering processes and emergency response effectiveness.