Serious discussion with my PhD students

A serious discussion with my two PhD students, Mr Fares Yahya from Saudi Arabia and Muchlis from Indonesia. The discussion was about their slide presentations for the National Geological Conference.

My First PhD Student Dr Esmail As Sabahi

Receiving a present from my first PhD Student from Yemen, Dr Esmail As Sabahi. He was graduated in Jun 2010.

SEAWAT Training at National Hydraulic Research Institute Malaysia (NAHRIM)

SEAWAT Training at NAHRIM on January 2011. The trainer was Dr Weixing Guo from Schlumberger, who is also the person that developed the software. Picture shows Dr Guo (in blue t-shirt) with Dr. Saim Suratman (Director for NAHRIM). SEAWAT is a generic MODFLOW/MT3DMS-based computer program designed to simulate 3-D variable density groundwater flow coupled with multispecies solute and heat transport.

site visit to Bukit Tagar Sanitary Landfill

EIA consultant

I have been appointed as an EIA consultant subject specialist by the Department of Environment Malaysia

Site visit to two gold mines in Pahang (Bukit Koman & Penjom)

A big signboard of the Raub Gold Mine (Bukit Koman). Standing next to me is Mr Hiroki Mogami, a japanese postgraduate student from Kyoto University, Japan.

Mr Hiroki is measuring a water quality of a well in a kampung in Raub, Pahang. The well is located upgradient of the mine. The water is fit for drinking

A nice view of open cast Penjom Gold mine in Kuala Lipis Pahang. Gold is associated with carbonaceous rock (black in colour). The cut off grade is 0.8 ppm.

Mr Mogami, myself and Zakaria (senior geologist of Penjom Gold Mine), not in the picture is Ms. Nor Shazwani (my research assistant)

Final Report of the consultation work for NAHRIM

UKM Pakarunding (UKMP) was appointed as a consultant by National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM) to conduct a Desktop Study on Groundwater Contamination at Landfill Sites in Selangor. A total of 20 landfills have been identified in Selangor but only 17 were investigated in this study. The other three landfills are too small and no longer operating. From the 17 landfills, 7 landfills are still in operation while the others were either abandoned or closed. Regardless of the current status of these landfills, they pose significant environmental problems and threats especially to the groundwater system in this state. Photo shows the final reports that were completed and already submitted to NAHRIM. Other consultants of the project were Prof Raihan Taha, Prof Rahim Samsudin, Mr Jasni and myself as a project leader.