Zafer Alasmary

Academic researcher with an emphasis on teaching and research. Capable of providing high-quality education while also encouraging pupils' intellectual development. Trying to build curricula, provide academic assistance, and publish research. Wanting to add new insights to scientific studies and address environmental concerns.

• Taking walks, reading, and spending time with loved ones

Scientific publishing

- Phytostabilization of a contaminated military site using Miscanthus and soil amendments

- Efficient Remediation of Cadmium- and Lead-Contaminated Water by Using Fe-Modified Date Palm Waste Biochar-Based Adsorbents

- Removal of hexavalent chromium from contaminated soil and water by Mg/Fe-layered double hydroxide and its composite with biochar

- Effect of Soil Treatments and Amendments on the Nematode Community under Miscanthus Growing in a Lead Contaminated Military Site

- The long-term assessment of miscanthus× gigantheus cultivation in the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine

- Quality assessment of various bottled waters marketed in Saudi Arabia

- Fate and Transport of Lead and Copper in Calcareous Soil

- Pollution Indexing and Health Risk Assessment of Heavy-Metals-Laden Indoor and Outdoor Dust in Elementary School Environments in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

- Significance of Pyrolytic Temperature, Particle Size, and Application Rate of Biochar in Improving Hydro-Physical Properties of Calcareous Sandy Soil

- Integrated application of biochar and chemical fertilizers improves wheat (Triticum aestivum) productivity by enhancing soil microbial activities

Professional development (attending participation in conferences, seminars, lectures, courses and workshops
1. Alasmary, Z., G.M. Hettiarachchi, K. L. Roozeboom, L.C. Davis, L.E. Erickson, V. Pidlisnyuk, T. Stefanovska, A. Nurzanova, and J. Trogl. 2017. Field-based investigations on stabilization of a contaminated military site via combined use of soil amendments and biofuel crop growth. ASA/SSSA/CSA Annual Meetings, Oct. 2017, Tampa, FL.
2. Hettiarachchi, G.M. Z. Almasary, K. L. Roozeboom, L.C. Davis, L.E. Erickson, V. Pidlisnyuk, T. Stefanovska, A. Nurzanova, and J. Trogl. 2017. Field-based investigations on phytostabilization of a contaminated military site using biofuel crop growth assisted with soil amendments. International Phytotechnolgy Conference, Sep. 2017, Montreal, Canada.
3. Davis L. C., Alasmary Z., Erickson L. E., Hettiarachchi G., Nurzanova A., Pidlisnyuk V., Roozeboom K., Stefanovska T., Trogl J. Using a second-generation biofuel crop for phytostabilization of contaminated military lands. 17 Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society, "Ecological engineering for adaptation in the Anthropocene", May 23-25, 2017, UGA, Athens, Georgia.
4. Alasmary, Z. Growing Miscanthus in Contaminated Soil. Presented as an oral presentation at a conference in CHE 650 Hazardous Waste Engineering conference January 9-11, 2018, at Kansas State University
5 . Alasmary, Z. Field-based investigations on stabilization of a contaminated military site via combined use of soil amendments and biofuel crop growth. Presented as a poster presentation as part of Agronomy Seminar series in Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University.
6. Alasmary, Z. Stabilization of lead in a contaminated military site using a second-generation biofuel crop and phosphate-based soil amendments. Presented an oral presentation as part of Agronomy Seminar graduate student presentations at Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, U.S.A. in spring 2018
7. Alasmary, Z., G.M. Hettiarachchi, K. L. Roozeboom, L.C. Davis, L.E. Erickson. 2018. Stabilization of lead in a contamiated military site using a second‐generation biofuel crop and phosphate‐based soil amendments Oct 1-5, 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia
8. Alasmary, Z., G.M. Hettiarachchi, K. L. Roozeboom, L.C. Davis, L.E. Erickson, V. Pidlisnyuk, T. Stefanovska, A. Nurzanova, and J. Trogl. Field-based investigations on phytostabilization of a contaminated military site using biofuel crop and soil amendments. Presented as a poster presentation at a conference of Multiple benefits of biomass crops on marginal land 20th-21st March 2019, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Katowice, Poland.
9. Alasmary, Z., G.M. Hettiarachchi, K. L. Roozeboom, L.C. Davis, L.E. Erickson, V. Pidlisnyuk, T. Stefanovska, A. Nurzanova, and J. Trogl. Field-based investigations on phytostabilization of a contaminated military site using biofuel crop and soil amendments. Presented as a poster presentation at a conference of the Microbiome of Agriculture and Natural Resources Symposium and Poster on April 23-24, 2019. in the K-State Student Union.
10. Alasmary, Z., G.M. Hettiarachchi, K. L. Roozeboom, L.C. Davis, L.E. Erickson, V. Pidlisnyuk, T. Stefanovska, A. Nurzanova, and J. Trogl. 2019. Phytostabilization of a contaminated shooting range soil using biofuel crop and soil amendments. ASA/SSSA/CSA Annual Meetings, November 10-13, 2019 in San Antonio, TX
11. Alasmary, Z., G.M. Hettiarachchi, K. L. Roozeboom, L.C. Davis, L.E. Erickson, T. Todd, V. Pidlisnyuk, T. Stefanovska, and J. Trogl. 2019. Field-based investigations on hytostabilization of a contaminated military site using biofuel crop and soil amendments. International Conference on Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (ICOBTE), May 2019, Nanjing, China.
12. Alasmary, Z. Laboratory- to field-scale investigations to evaluate phosphate amendments and miscanthus for phytostabilization of lead-contaminated military sites. Presented an oral presentation as part of Agronomy Seminar graduate student presentations at Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, U.S.A. Apr 2020
13. 9Th International Conference on water Resources and Arid Environments