Projects and Activities
- Preparing Strategic Development and Investment Plan for Bethlehem Governorate (Spatial Development Planning).
- Preparing Strategic Development and Investment Plan for Tubas and Qalqeliah Governorates ' Spatial Development Planning).
- Dead Sea Net- Seismic Triangle Project- phase III.
- Pilot Transnational Seismic Network in the Dead Sea Rift (M30 – 023).
- Local Monitoring of Microseismicity and Active Fault Mapping in the Jericho Basin (MERC31-017).
- Support Action for Strengthening Palestinian - administrated Areas capabilities for seismic Risk Mitigation (SASPARM) -2- H2020.
- Support Action for Strengthening Palestinian - administrated Areas capabilities for seismic Risk Mitigation (SASPARM) - EC GA no: 295122.
- Seismic Risk Assessment of UNDP/ PAPP Building in Jerusalem.
- Conservation and consolidation of historical buildings – Capacity building management.
- Dead Sea Research Venue – DESERVE: Geophysical Research on Climate, Water and Solid Earth in the Dead Sea Region.
- Dead sea Rift Transect: An interdisciplinary research project to study the Dead Sea Transform.
- Conducting training courses for Engineers in the design of earthquake resistant structures.
- Publishing bulletins for civil engineers and architects about general recommendations for designing earthquake resistant buildings, and for the public about the guidelines of safety measurements in the event of an earthquake.
- Offering consultation in the field of seismic resistant buildings, site effect, building vulnerability, rehabilitation and retrofitting of buildings, and land use planning.
- Participating in national and international conferences, meetings and workshops in the fields of seismic hazard mitigation, earthquake studies, seismic engineering, applied geophysics, environmental geology, natural hazards and land use policy.
- Offering academic courses for different faculties in the University in applied geosciences and earthquake engineering (Seismic Risk Mitigation, Disaster Management and Emergency support, Applied Geophysics, Geophysical exploration, Earthquake Engineering, Disaster Management and Emergency support and Environmental Geology and Natural hazards).
- Offering consulting services for development projects in the Palestinian community.
- Publishing 'awareness' materials in national journals, as well as radio and TV interviews.
- Conducting geophysical experiments to achieve the following:
- Site effect investigations.
- Landfill investigations.
- Velocity as a guide to rock strength and assessment of rock quality.
- Delineation of bedrock.
- Delineation of potential collapse features.
- Delineation of shallow faults and cavities.
- Groundwater exploration and water quality.
- Delineation of aquifer boundaries in sedimentary layers.
- Mapping boundaries of saline groundwater.
- Mapping chemical pollution.
- Delineation of water-saturated zones in landslide bodies.
- Seepages flow in dams and reservoir floors.
- Producing gravity and magnetic anomaly maps.