Project Summary

This project establishes the Kamal Ewida Earth Observatory
(KEEO).

KEEO will combine the expertise and be a jointly managed initiative of two of Egypt’s largest and most venerable institutions of higher learning:
Cairo University and Al Azhar University,
both based in Cairo, Egypt (a NATO Mediterranean Dialogue country), with established environmental observatories in two NATO countries:
the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI) at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey and the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory (PTO) at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

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Project Directors

Partner Country Project Director (PPD)
Prof. Dr. Madgy M. Abdel WAHAB
Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Astronomy & Meteorology
Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

NATO Country Project Director (NPD)
Gilbert L. ROCHON, Ph.D., MPH
Director, Purdue Terrestrial Observatory
Chief Scientist, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
Assoc. Vice President for Collaborative Research
Purdue University, Information Technology at Purdue (ITAP),
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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Project Co-Directors

Prof. Dr. Gülay ALTAY
Director, Kandilli Observatory & Earthquake Research Institute Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Dr. Gamal Salah EL AFANDI
Lecturer, Al Azhar University, Faculty of Science
Dept. of Astronomy & Meteorology
Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Okan K. ERSOY, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical/Computer Engineering,
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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