Jabir Hussain Syed

Department of Environmental Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad               

Cell No.: 0092 345 4824777, 

E-mail: jabirshah100@yahoo.com

 

Career Objective _______________________________________________________________

To work in a highly specialized environment in the research and development of technically challenging projects with an aim to contribute positively towards the achievement of their goals with the best of my potential capabilities.

Academic Profile_______________________________________________________________

2009-2013       Ph.DEnvironmental Biology        

                        Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

2007-2009       M.PhilEnvironmental Biology

                       Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

2003-2007       B.Sc. (Hons) Soil Sciences

                               Pir Mehr Ali Shah University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Research Experience____________________________________________________________

§  Residual Status and Air-Soil Exchange Fluxes of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the   Environment of Punjab Province, Pakistan (Ph.D Dissertation) §  Pesticides residues in the surrounding surface soils of Ittehad Chemical Industries, Kala Shah Kaku, Lahore, Pakistan” (M.Phil Dissertation) §  Monitoring of sediment and water quality of riverine ecosystem of Pakistan. §  Field surveys to selected wetlands of Pakistan with “Pakistan Wetland Program” WWF, Pakistan.

Professional Experience_________________________________________________________

§  Research collaboration on “Persistent Organic Pollutants in South Asia” with GIG, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

§  Socio-economic uplifting of fishermen community by giving alternate energy sources on central Indus River System (WWF-Pakistan)

§  Production Technology and application of Statistical Modeling for Cereal Crops at Agricultural Policy Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Islamabad

§  Report Writing and Project Designing at Ministry of Environment, Islamabad

§  Predictive Mapping of Plant species and plant communities using GIS and Landsat data

Major Courses_________________________________________________________________

·         Environmental Pollution ·         Environmental Impact Assessment/Examination ·         Ecotoxicology ·         Aquatic Ecology ·         Air Pollution

Bioethics and dual use Education Edaphology Environmental Chemistry Spatial Analysis in Environmental Biology

Research Publications__________________________________________________________

§  Title: Organochlorine pesticides in air and soil and estimated air-soil exchange in Punjab, Pakistan (Sci. Total Environ. 444 (2013), pp. 491-497.

     Authors: Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik, Di Lui, Yue Xu, Yan Wang, Jun Li, Gan

     Zhang, Kevin C. Jones

§  Title:Occurrence and source identification of organochlorine pesticides in the surrounding surface soils of the Ittehad Chemical Industries Kalashah Kaku, Pakistan (Environ. Earth Sci. 62 (2011), pp. 1311-1321.

            Authors: Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik

§  Title: Levels, Profile and Distribution of Dechloran Plus (DP) and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in the Environment of Pakistan (Accepted)

Authors: Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik, Jun Li, Yan Wang, Yue Xu, Gan Zhang     and Kevin C. Jones

           (Journal: Chemosphere)

§  Title: Levels, Distribution and Air-Soil Exchange Fluxes of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in   the Environment of Punjab Province, Pakistan (Accepted)

     Authors: Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik, Jun Li, Gan Zhang and Kevin C. Jones

     (Journal: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety)

§  Title: Level and Distribution of Selected Organochlorine Pesticides in the Surrounding Soils and Sediments of Lila stream, Lahore Pakistan (Accepted)

     Authors: Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik, Aashiq Muhammad

(Journal: Chemistry and Ecology)

§  Title: Status and Ecological Risk Assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Surface Sediments from the River Ravi, Pakistan (Under Review)

           Authors: Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik, Jun Li, Chakra Chaemfa, Gan Zhang and   

           Kevin C. Jones

           (Journal: Chemosphere)

§  Title: Atmospheric Polychlorinated Naphthanlenes (PCNs) in India and Pakistan (Under Review)

 Authors: Yue Xu, Jun Li, Paromita Chakraborty, Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik,     Yan   Wang, Chongguo Tian, Gan Zhang, and Kevin C. Jones

(Journal: Atmospheric Environment)

§  Title: Applications of Native Flora potential for Phytoremediation: a Review from Pakistan

Authors: Amna, Muhammad Aqeel Kamran, Hassan Javed, Nadia Mubariz, Rabia Mufti, Tariq Javed, Jabir Hussain Syed

Research Publications (In Progress)____________________________________________

§  Title: Organochlorines (OCs) in surface soils from obsolete pesticide dumping site in Hyderabad city, Pakistan: Contamination levels and their potential for soil-air exchange

Authors: Ambreen Alamdar,Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Junwen Liu, Jun Li, Gan Zhang, Kevin C. Jones

§  Title:Assessing the relationship and influence of black carbon on distribution status of organochlorines in coastal sediments from Pakistan

Authors: Usman Ali, Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Junwen Liu, Jun Li, Gan Zhang, Kevin C. Jones

§  Title: Status of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in South Asian Environment: A Review

Authors: Usman Ali, Riffat N. Malik, Jabir Hussain Syed, Athanasios Katsoyiannis,   Kevin C. Jones, Gan Zhang, Jun Li

Conferences and Trainings­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­____________________________________________________

§  International Workshop on Air Quality Monitoring and Global Warming Trends in Pakistan from 15^th to 16^th November, 2012 at National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad

§  12^thNational and 3^rd International Conference of Botany from 1-3^rdSeptember, 2012 at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

§  DAAD International summer school,26-29 march 2012,Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan

§  National Conference on Conservation of Natural Resources and Environment on May 20, 2010 at Agricultural Foundation of Pakistan

§  Training Course on Solid Waste Management on April 6^th to April 11^th, 2009 organized by Ministry of Local Govt., & Rural Development, Islamabad

§  Training workshop on biodiversity data sharing through Internet, 2008 organized by Pakistan Science Foundation at Best Western Hotel, Islamabad.

§  International conference on biological resources of Pakistan; Problems, success and future perspectives at University of Arid Agriculture Rawalpindi. 25-27 April 2007.

References

§  Dr. Riffat Naseem Malik (Ph.D Supervisor)

     Chairperson,

     Associate Professor

            Department of Environmental Sciences,

            Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

            0092 51 90643017

r_n_malik2000@yahoo.co.uk

§  Prof. Dr. Gan Zhang (Ph.D Co-Supervisor)

Professor

            Deputy Director,

            Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry,

            Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

            0086 20 85290805

zhanggan@gig.ac.cn

§  Prof. Dr. Asghari Bano

Chairperson,

Department of Plant Sciences,

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan

0092 51 90643096

banoasghari@gmail.com