Kamal Alsharif

Professor of Environmental Science and Water Policy

Contact

Office: NES 311
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Curriculum Vitae

Bio

I have many years of working experience with formal and non-formal teaching settings. My education and experience cover the management, as well as, the technical aspect of the natural resources. I am an active member with the Association of American Geographers and belong to four specialty groups: Water, Middle East, Environmental Perception and Behavior, and Applied Geography. I enjoy the outdoors and like to go biking and hiking.

Education

  • Ph.D. 泡芙视频app of Minnesota, Twin Cities, St. Paul, Doctor of Philosophy, Water Resources Science, 12/2004.
    Dissertation title: Measuring the Efficiency of Water Use in the Palestinian Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach.
  • M.S. Minnesota State 泡芙视频app, Mankato, Master of Science, Environmental Science, 12/1996.
    Thesis title: Nonpoint Source Pollution of Lake Shetek
  • B.S. St. Cloud State 泡芙视频app, St. Cloud. B.S. in Biology, 11/1992.

Professional Experience

  • 08/25 to current  泡芙视频app. School of Geosciences (Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science & Policy), Professor, Tampa, FL.
  • 08/25 to current 泡芙视频app. School of Geosciences (Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science & Policy), Graduate Director, Geography and Environmental Science and Policy, Tampa, FL.
  • 9/25 to current 泡芙视频app, Affiliated Faculty, Patel College of Global Sustainability, Professor, Tampa, FL.
  • 08/13 to 07/25 泡芙视频app. School of Geosciences (Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science & Policy), Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Water Policy, Tampa, FL.
  • 9/20 to 07/25   泡芙视频app, Affiliated Faculty, Patel College of Global Sustainability, Associate Professor Environmental Science and Water Policy, Tampa, FL.
  • 08/19 to 08/22 泡芙视频app. School of Geosciences (Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science & Policy), Undergraduate Director, Geography and Environmental Science and Policy, Tampa, FL.
  • 08/13 to 2020   泡芙视频app, Associated Faculty, Patel College of Global Sustainability, Associate Professor Environmental Science and Water Policy, Tampa, FL.
  • 08/14 to 2017   泡芙视频app. School of Geosciences (Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science & Policy), Graduate Director, Geography and Environmental Science and Policy, Tampa, FL.
  • 08/07 to 8/13 泡芙视频app. Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning (formerly known as Geography Department), Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Water Policy, Tampa, FL.
  • 08/10 to 08/13 泡芙视频app, Associated Faculty, Global Sustainability Program, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Water Policy, Tampa, FL.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • EVR 2001 - Introduction to Environmental Science
  • EVR 4930 - Environmental Regulations
  • GEO 4284 - Water Resources Management

Graduate

  • EVR 6934 - Environmental Management
  • EVR 6216 - Water Quality Policy/Management

Research

I am a water scientist interested in interdisciplinary water resources policy and watershed management, sustainable domestic water policy, water scarcity and hydropolitics, urban water management, and establishing environmental benchmarks by using Data Envelopment Analysis. I study water on different spatial and temporal scales. More specifically, storm water management, lawn irrigation policy, non-point sources pollution and social indicators, decision support systems, policy evaluation effectiveness, nature based solutions (NBS) and climate change/natural hazardous impact on water.

Graduate Students

鈥� Fautemeh Bami - Ph. D. Dissertation Director
鈥� Nayeema Rashid - Ph. D. Dissertation Co-Director

Specialty Area

Water Resources Management and Policy, Environmental Policy, Sustainability

AWARDS

  • Sabbatical Leave Award, 泡芙视频app 2019
  • Kosove Distinguished Graduate Teaching and Service Award, 泡芙视频app 2021
  • Editor鈥檚 Choice Papers- 鈥楾he importance of traditional ecological knowledge in agroecological systems in Peru鈥� published last 2017 in Int. J. of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. 2017

Journal Articles

Selected Publications (* indicates a graduate 泡芙视频app)

Mbaigoto, Nodjidoumde, Alsharif, Kamal, Landry, Shawn, and Tara Deubel. (2025) 鈥淭he Impacts of Socioeconomic and Demographics Factors on the Implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management in the Lake Chad Basin.鈥�  PLOS One. 9(20).

Mazumder, Lubana., Alsharif, Kamal., Landry, Shawn., Mbaigoto, Nodjidoumde., and Nkhoma, Peter. (2025) 鈥淔lood Mitigation and Environmental Equity Concerns in Local Hazard Mitigation and Land Use Plans in Tampa, Florida.鈥� Natural Hazards. 121, 11371鈥�11400 (2025).


Mbaigoto, Nodjidoumde*, Alsharif, Kamal, and Landry, Shawn. (2023) 鈥淎 Review of The Water Governance in Chad and its Impacts on The Implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management.鈥� Sustainable Water Resources Management. 9 (4) 118.

Mazumder, Lubana*, Landry, Shawn, and Alsharif, Kamal. (2022) 鈥淐hanging Demographics and the Environmental Equity of Coastal Floodplain in Tampa, Florida.鈥� International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 10386.

Alsharif, Kamal, Balsam, Gabriella*, Eduful, Michael, Landry, Shawn, and Torres, Hannah. (2022). 鈥淒ecision Support Systems for Water Management in Florida: Investigating Stakeholder Perceptions of System Use.鈥� Southeastern Geographer, 62(1) 38-58.

Sajadi Bami, Fautemeh*, Alsharif, Kamal, and Torres, Hannah. (2021). 鈥淲ater Scarcity in the Face of Hurricanes: Improving the Resilience of Potable Water Supplies in Selected Florida Counties.鈥� Annals of American Association of Geographers. 1-9.

Mazumder, Lubana*, Landry, Shawn, and Alsharif, Kamal. (2021) 鈥淐oastal Cities in Southern US Floodplains: An Evaluation of Environmental Equity of Flood Hazards and Social Vulnerabilities.鈥� Applied Geography.38, 102627.

Nkhoma, Peter, Alsharif, Kamal, Ananga, Erik, Eduful, Michael, and Acheampong, Michael. (2021) 鈥淲here Do We Go From Here: Insights Into Current Understandings of Factors Affecting Recycled Water Reuse Acceptance.鈥� Environmental Conservation, 48(4) 1-9.

Alsharif, Kamal, Rivera, Anamarie*, Van Beynen, Philip. (2020) 鈥淚rrigation with Reclaimed Water in an Urban Watershed and Nutrient Levels in Adjacent Streams鈥� Published online. Water Environment Research, 93(6), 921-933.

Eduful, Michael*., Alsharif, Kamal., Eduful, Alexander., Acheampong, Michael., Eduful, Joyce., and Mazumder, Lubana. (2020). 鈥淭he Illegal Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (Galamsey) 鈥楳enace鈥� in Ghana: Is a Military-Style Approach the Answer?鈥� Resources Policy, 68: 101732.

Eduful, Michael*., Alsharif, Kamal., Acheampong, Michael., and Nkhoma, Peter. (2020). 鈥淢anagement of catchment for the protection of source water in the Densu River basin, Ghana: implications for rural communities.鈥� International Journal of River Basin Management, (1-17)

Torres, Hannah R*., Reynolds Catherine J., Lewis, Anna., Muller-Karger, Frank, Mastenbrook, Katie, Alsharif, Kamal. (2019) 鈥淓xamining Youth Perceptions and Social Contexts of Litter to Improve Marine Debris Environmental Education.鈥� Environmental Education Research, 25(3), 1-16.

Gallagher, Kristopher*, Alsharif, Kamal, Tsegaye, Seneshaw, and van Beynen, Philip. (2019). 鈥淎n Analysis of BMP Siting Tools and Groundwater Vulnerability.鈥� Urban Water Journal, 15:9, 847-857.