Contact: Diana Hearit
April 24, 2018
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University graduate student Esayas Gebremichael, geological and environmental sciences department chair Dr. Mohamed Sultan, and co-authors Richard Becker, Mohamed El Bastawesy, Omar Cherif and Mustafa Emil, were published in the Journal Geophysical Research. The article Assessing Land Deformation and Sea Encroachment in the Nile Delta: A Radar Interferometric and Inundation Modeling Approach regarding Gebremichael's research using satellite images to reveal changes in the Nile Delta topography was then chosen as the Eos Research Spotlight.
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