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Kazi Matin Ahmed

Kazi Matin Ahmed

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Earth Science

D-Index
67
Citations
19107
World Ranking
1203
National Ranking
1

Overview

Kazi Matin Ahmed is affiliated with the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with extensive work in subfields including environmental chemistry, environmental engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, geochemistry and petrology, and pollution.

Key topics of research addressed by Kazi Matin Ahmed include arsenic contamination and mitigation, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, groundwater and watershed analysis, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, heavy metals in the environment, flood risk assessment and management, and water quality and pollution assessment.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications, with recent papers as follows:

  • Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater, 2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Modeling regional-scale groundwater arsenic hazard in the transboundary Ganges River Delta, India and Bangladesh: Infusing physically-based model with machine learning, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Arsenic contamination of Bangladesh aquifers exacerbated by clay layers, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Sediment delivery to sustain the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta under climate change and anthropogenic impacts, 2023, Nature Communications
  • The Bengal Water Machine: Quantified freshwater capture in Bangladesh, 2022, Science

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Peter S.K. Knappett
  • Alexander van Geen
  • Mahfuzur R. Khan
  • Imtiaz Ahmed Choudhury
  • Prosun Bhattacharya

Kazi Matin Ahmed has published frequently in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, UNC Libraries, HydroShare Resources, Hydrogeology Journal, and Nature Communications.

There is one recorded book publication under the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks titled "Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Arsenic poisoning of Bangladesh groundwater

    R Nickson;J McArthur;W Burgess;K M Ahmed

  • Mechanism of arsenic release to groundwater, Bangladesh and West Bengal

    R.T. Nickson;J.M. McArthur;P. Ravenscroft;W.G. Burgess

  • Arsenic enrichment in groundwater of the alluvial aquifers in Bangladesh: an overview

    K.Matin Ahmed;Prosun Bhattacharya;M.Aziz Hasan;S.Humayun Akhter

  • Redox control of arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh groundwater

    Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;M. Stute;M. Stute;A. van Geen;I. Gavrieli

  • Spatial variability of arsenic in 6000 tube wells in a 25 km2 area of Bangladesh

    A. van Geen;Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;R. Versteeg;M. Stute

  • Groundwater quality and depletion in the Indo-Gangetic Basin mapped from in situ observations

    A. M. MacDonald;H. C. Bonsor;K. M. Ahmed;W. G. Burgess

  • Arsenic in groundwater of the Bengal delta plain aquifers in Bangladesh.

    P. Bhattacharya;G. Jacks;K. M. Ahmed;Joyanto Routh

  • Decoupling of As and Fe release to Bangladesh groundwater under reducing conditions. Part I: Evidence from sediment profiles

    A. Horneman;A. Horneman;A. van Geen;D.V. Kent;D.V. Kent;P.E. Mathe

  • Arsenic in groundwater of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh: Distribution, field relations, and hydrogeological setting

    Peter Ravenscroft;William G. Burgess;Kazi Matin Ahmed;Melanie Burren

  • Recent trends in groundwater levels in a highly seasonal hydrological system: the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta

    M. Shamsudduha;R. E. Chandler;R. G. Taylor;K. M. Ahmed

  • Promotion of well-switching to mitigate the current arsenic crisis in Bangladesh

    Alexander van Geen;Habibul Ahsan;Allan H. Horneman;Ratan K. Dhar;Ratan K. Dhar

  • Groundwater systems of the Indian Sub-Continent

    Abhijit Mukherjee;Dipankar Saha;Charles F. Harvey;Richard G. Taylor

  • Declining groundwater level and aquifer dewatering in Dhaka metropolitan area, Bangladesh: causes and quantification

    Mohammad A. Hoque;Mohammad A. Hoque;M. Mozzammel Hoque;Kazi Matin Ahmed

  • Dissolved organic matter sources and consequences for iron and arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh aquifers.

    Natalie Mladenov;Yan Zheng;Matthew P Miller;Diana R Nemergut

  • The impact of intensive groundwater abstraction on recharge to a shallow regional aquifer system: evidence from Bangladesh

    Mohammad Shamsudduha;Richard G. Taylor;Kazi M. Ahmed;Anwar Zahid

  • Vulnerability of deep groundwater in the Bengal Aquifer System to contamination by arsenic

    W. G. Burgess;M. A. Hoque;H. A. Michael;C. I. Voss

  • Geochemical and hydrogeological contrasts between shallow and deeper aquifers in two villages of Araihazar, Bangladesh: Implications for deeper aquifers as drinking water sources

    Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;A. van Geen;M. Stute;M. Stute;R. Dhar

  • Hydrogeochemical comparison and effects of overlapping redox zones on groundwater arsenic near the Western (Bhagirathi sub-basin, India) and Eastern (Meghna sub-basin, Bangladesh) margins of the Bengal Basin.

    Abhijit Mukherjee;Mattias von Brömssen;Bridget R. Scanlon;Prosun Bhattacharya

  • Targeting low-arsenic aquifers in Matlab Upazila, Southeastern Bangladesh.

    Mattias von Brömssen;M. Jakariya;Prosun Bhattacharya;Kazi Matin Ahmed

  • Hydrological control of As concentrations in Bangladesh groundwater

    M. Stute;M. Stute;Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;P. Schlosser;P. Schlosser;A. Horneman

  • Redox control of arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh groundwater. Appl Geochem 19:201-214

    Y. Zheng;M. Stute;A. van Geen;I. Gavrieli

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Mailloux
Brian J. Mailloux Barnard College
Alexander van Geen
Alexander van Geen Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mohammad Shamsudduha
Mohammad Shamsudduha University College London
Martin Stute
Martin Stute Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Yan Zheng
Yan Zheng Southern University of Science and Technology
Benjamin C. Bostick
Benjamin C. Bostick Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Prosun Bhattacharya
Prosun Bhattacharya Royal Institute of Technology
Gunnar Jacks
Gunnar Jacks Royal Institute of Technology
Peter Schlosser
Peter Schlosser Arizona State University
Abhijit Mukherjee
Abhijit Mukherjee Curtin University

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