KHOLOUD YOUSEF TAHER MASHAL

Kholoud Yousef Taher Mashal	Associate Professor
Soil chemistry and Environmental pollution	Soil Chemistry and Environmental Pollution
Faculty of Prince AlHasan Bin Talal for Natural Resources and Environment	Department of Land Management and Environment
kmashal@hu.edu.jo	http://staff.hu.edu.jo/kholoud
ORCID ID : 195914216
Office No. : 105	EXT : 4748

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Ph.D.	Washington State University	The United States of America,2003
Master	University of Jordan	Jordan,1994
Bachelor	University of Jordan	Jordan,1989

 • Environmental Soil and Water Chemistry (Trace metal contamination of soils. Surface chemistry of soil clay minerals; and mineral solubility and colloid formation, mineral transformation) 
• Environmental Pollution (Global Environmental management, Fate of Environmental contaminants; colloid and colloid-facilitated transport in the vadose zone and colloidal interaction with radionuclides in soils and sediments)

 Refereed Journal Articles
•	Mustafa Al Kuisi, Abdulkader M. Abed, Kholoud Mashal, Ghazi Saffarini, Fathi Saqhour. 2015. Hydrogeochemistry of groundwater from karstic limestone aquifer highlighting arsenic contamination: case study from Jordan. Arab J Geosci. DOI 10.1007/s12517-015-1919-z.
•	Mustafa Al Kuisi, Mohammad Al-Hwaiti, Kholoud Mashal and Abdulkader M. Abed. 2015. Spatial Distribution Patterns of Molybdenum (Mo) Concentrations in Potable Groundwater in Northern Jordan. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. DOI 10.1007/s10661-015-4264-5.
•	Y Ali, K Mashal, M Mohsen, M Mustafa. 2014. Energy and Environmental Performance: Exploratory Indicators in the Accommodation Sector in Jordan. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research 9 (18), 4467-4480
•	M. Salahat & M. Al-Qinna & K. Mashal & N. Hammouri. 2014. Identifying Major Factors Controlling Groundwater Quality in Semiarid Area Using Advanced Statistical Techniques. Water Resour Manage  28:11, 3829-3841.
•	Kholoud Mashal, Mohammed Salahat, Mohammed Al-Qinna, Yahya Al-Degs. 2015. Spatial distribution of cadmium concentrations in street dust in an arid environment. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. Arab J Geosci 8:3171–3182
•	Ayman A. Issa, Yahya S. Al-Degs, Kholoud Mashal, Ramia Z. Al Bakain. 2014.  Fast activation of natural biomasses by microwave heating. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 21, 230–238.
•	Mustafa Al Kuisi, Kholoud Mashal, Mohammed Al-Qinna, Abdallah Abu Hamad, Armin Margana. 2014. Groundwater Vulnerability and Hazard Mapping in an Arid Region: Case Study, Amman-Zarqa Basin (AZB)-Jordan. Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 6, 297-318. 
•	Kholoud Mashal, Yahya S. Al-Degs, Mohammed Al-Qinna, Mohammed Salahat. 2014. Elucidation of phosphorous sorption by calcareous soils using principal component analysis. Chemistry and Ecology,  30: 2, 133–146.
•	M. Al-Qinna, M. Salahat, K. Mashal. 2014. Solute transport as affected by surface land characteristics in gravely. Arab J Geosci 7:1965–1972 
•	 Kholoud Y. Mashal.  Ziya S. Cetiner. 2010. Experimental investigation of cesium mobility in the course of secondary mineral formations in Hanford sediment columns at 50?C. Environ Monit. Assess. Volume 169, Issue 1: 249 (online) 
•	Kholoud Mashal, Mohammed Al-Qinna, Yahya Ali. 2009. Spatial distribution of lead and zinc in Urban soils and street dusts samples in Al-Hashimeyeh municipality: controlling factors and environmental implications. Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering . Volume 2, 141-150 .  
•	Y. Ali, M. Mustafa, S. Al-Mashaqbah, K. Mashal, M. S. Mohsen, 2008. Potential of Energy Savings in the Hotel Sector in Jordan.  Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 49, Issue11,Nov. 3391-3397 
•	Ziya S. Cetiner, Kholoud Mashal, Markus Flury and James B. Harsh. 2006. Experimental investigation of colloid formation and cesium mobility in Hanford sediment columns. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry. Volume 25, supplement 1/2006 march. Pg 85. 
•	Mashal, K., J.B. Harsh, M. Flury, and A.R. Felmy. 2005. Analysis of precipitates from reactions of hyperalkaline solutions with soluble silica, Appl. Geochem., Volume 20, Issue 7, July 1357-1367
•	Mashal, K., J. B. Harsh, and M. Flury. 2005. Clay mineralogical transformations over time in Hanford sediments reacted with simulated tank waste. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 69,531-538.
•	Mashal, K., J. B. Harsh, M. Flury, A. Felmy, and H. Zhao. 2004. Colloid formation in Hanford sediments reacted with simulated tank waste. Environ. Sci. Technol. 38, 5750-5756.
•	Abu-Sharar, T.,KH. Mashal, and M. Fayyad. 1997. Cadmium adsorption isotherm onto clay separates of a Vermic Cambisol Soil from Central Jordan Valley,  Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation. 11:23-34.

Other publications: Conference Papers

•	Yahya Ali , Marina Mustafa, Shireen Al-Mashaqbah, Kholoud Mashal, and Mousa Mohsen. 2007. Potential of Energy Savings in the Hotel Sector in Jordan. Proceeding of the Third International Conference on Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications May 21-23, 2007. Amman, Jordan 
•	Kholoud Mashal, Mohammed Al-Qinna, Yahya Ali. 2007. Spatial distribution of lead and zinc in Urban soils and street dusts samples in AL-HASHIMEYEH MUNICIPALITY: controlling factors and environmental implications. Proceeding of the Third International Conference on Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications May 21-23, 2007. Amman, Jordan 
•	Ziya S. Cetiner, Kholoud Mashal, Markus Flury, James B. Harsh. Experimental Investigation of Colloid Formation and Cesium Mobility in Hanford Sediment Columns. Accepted at 7th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, which was held from 24 to 27 September, 2006 in Beijing, China.
•	Mashal, K. 2006. Surface Water Contamination in Zarqa Government: Seil Al-Zarqa. Presented at Environmental situation in Zarqa Governorate: present and future workshop. Ministry of Environment and JICA. March 28/2006.
•	Mashal, Kholoud; Cetiner, Ziya S.; Flury, Markus; Harsh, James B. Colloid formation and cesium mobility in Hanford sediment columns leached with simulated tank waste. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement, Vol. 69, Issue 10, Supplement 1, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2005., p.A816. May /2005.
•	Mashal, K. Cetiner Z. Flury, M. and Harsh, J. 2005. colloid formation and cesium mobility in Hanford sediment columns leached with simulated tank waste. (abstract) submitted to the 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, environmental geochemistry/mineralogy.  May 22.
•	Mashal, K. 2005. Molecular-scale techniques in studying clay mineral transformation. (Abstract) submitted to 5th agricultural scientific conference 9-12 May, Salt, Jordan.  
•	Mashal, K. 2004. Risk of lead exposure to small amount among children. (Abstract) submitted to 3rd Jordanian conference on environment, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan, Dec. 14-15, 35.
•	H Zhao, JB Harsh, M Flury, K Mashal. Alteration of mineralogical and surface properties of Hanford sediments contaminated with tank waste Geochemistry Division Abstracts, 222nd ACS National Meeting, …, 2002
•	Mashal, K., Zhao, H., Harsh, J. B. and Flury, M. 2001 Colloid formation in Hanford sites contaminated with tank waste. (Abstract) submitted to 222nd American chemical society national meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
•	Zhao, H.  J.  B. Harsh,  M. Flury, and K. Mashal. 2001. Alteration of mineralogical and surface properties of Hanford sediments contaminated with tank waste. (Abstract) submitted to 222nd American chemical society national meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
•	Mashal, K., Zhao, H., Harsh, J. B. and Flury, M. 2000. Colloid formation in the vadose zone contaminated with Hanford tank waste. (Abstract) submitted to 2000 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, 81 (48): F405.

  2014-2015                Associate professor, Dept. of Land Management and Environment, Hashemite University, Zarqa Jordan
2014-2015	Department Chair. Dept. of Land Management and Environment, Hashemite University, Zarqa Jordan.
2010-2011	Department Chair. Dept. of Land Management and Environment, Hashemite University, Zarqa Jordan.
2007- 2008	Assistant Dean for Student Affair. Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment.
2006- present	            Radiation Protection Officer, Hashemite University
1999-2003	Research Assistant, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences. Washington State University, Pullman
Jan.-Aug.-1999           Research Assistant, Water and Environment research and study center, University of Jordan
1995-1998	Research Assistant, Environmental Unit, Center for  Strategic Studies, University of Jordan
1993-1994	                  Research Assistant, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Jordan
1990-1993	Research and Teaching Assistant, Soil and Irrigation Dept. University of Jordan

Teaching:
•	Undergraduate courses:
•	Environmental Soil Chemistry
•	Environmental pollution
•	Remediation of Polluted Ecosystem
•	Wastewater treatment
•	Reuse of  treated  Wastewater
•	Fundamentals of soil Science
•	Fundamentals of Environmental Science
•	Soil fertility and plant nutrition
•	Graduate courses:
•	Sustainable Environnemental management
•	Environmental pollution and remediation

 ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP
•	American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, 
Soil Science Society of America (ASA-CSSA-SSSA)
•	Jordan Environment Society (JES)
•	SESAME Jordanian groups
•	Member of the environmental section committee of the Jordan Institution for Standards & Metrology

 Conferences:
• Third International Conference on Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications May 21-23, 2007. Amman, Jordan 
• The 6th agricultural scientific conference 9-12 April, 2007 Jordan University, Amman, Jordan.  
• The 5th agricultural scientific conference 9-12 May, 2005 Salt, Jordan.  
• The 3rd Jordanian conference on Environment. 14-15 December, 2004, Yarmouk University, Jordan. 

Workshops:
• Environmental situation in Zarqa Governorate: present and future. Ministry of Environment and JICA. March 28/2006.
• National Experts Meeting to discuss the "National Implementation Plan (NIP) for Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Ministry of Environment. Oct. 16-2005.
• National Experts Meeting to prepare framework of the strategic plan to rehabilitate Seil-AlZarqa. Ministry of Environment. Nov. 2-2005.
• The 11th Scientific Week, Higher Council for Science and Technology, 18-20/9/2005, Amman, Jordan.
• Capacity building and training workshop for integrated environmental evaluation and preparation for state of environmental report EIR, 6/2005, Amman.
• Urban Wastewater Treatment Technologies and Reuse. June 29-30, 2005, Amman, Jordan.
• National Experts Meetings to activate the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. March 14-2005.
• Hydrocarbon Energy Education and Research Al Sharaka Project. Meeting of University of Oklahoma and Iraqi Universities and GOI Officials. Amman, Jordan, October 8-12-2004.
• Environmental Education. First Arabic Women meeting for Environmental Education. Amman, Jordan, April 2004.
• Towards a Free Environment from Vehicle Emissions. Ministry of environment. Amman, Jordan, June 2004. 
• Environmental Impact Assessment Study for Samra Thermal Power Station Project. Royal Scientific Society, Jordan. March 2004.

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