Teaching, conducting and publishing original research, and contributing to the university and wider academic community through service and administration. These duties are fulfilled through a combination of delivering lectures, creating curriculum, mentoring students, writing scholarly articles, securing grants, and participating in departmental and institutional committees. 

• 4 years Project Superfund site (grant of 400,000$) Clean up historical soil lead contamination in residential yards in New Orleans, L.A. by using different phosphate amendments (in-situ remediation). Funded by artist Mel Chen and supervised by Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

• 3 months Project Testing lead concentration levels in soil in Plano, TX.

• 3 months Project Testing lead concentration levels in soil in Fresco, TX.

• 2 years Project Funded and Supervised by US.EPA Field and lab Testing the effectiveness of Phosphate amendment (Apatite II) with different percentages to remediate lead contaminated soil in residential sites. West Oakland, CA.

• 1year collaboration project (SORBENT) with Oil Spill Fix ®™ Ltd. company in testing bio-product effectiveness of bioremediation technique in oil contaminated soil in Sabriya, North Kuwait, 2016. 

• Personal Scanning Electron Microscopy (PSEM) [particle analysis of dust, soils, and sediments].
• Sampling and Analysis of heavy metals [e.g. Lead, As, Cd, Zn].

Soil Remediation in Urban and Rural Areas, Soil Chemistry, Heavy Metals in Seawater Bottom Sediments and Dust, Seawater Quality Assessment, Air Quality Assessment.

1. Undergraduate Courses

Earth & Universe (0460 111)

Physical Geology (0460 101)

Environmental Geology (0460 227) 

Introduction to Environmental Sciences (0466 200)

Geomorphology (0460 320)

Geomorphology - Geography Department (1340 302)

Special Studies (0460 308)

Geology and Desert Geomorphology (0463 301)

Mineralogy (0460107)

2. Graduate Courses

Desertification & Land Degradation (2040-590)

Desert Geomorphology (2095-506)

Natural Hazards (2095-508)

Environmental Geology (0460-562)

Scientific Writing (2095-521)

Special Topic (2095-515)

• Geochemical Options for Immobilizing Lead (Pb) Contamination in Soil (2011). Published

• Lead (Pb) paint bioaccessibility after two years residence in soil columns spiked with phosphate (2011). Published

• Apatite II Immobilization of Lead in Soil – A New Orleans Field Trial (2012). Published

• Reduction of Lead Paint Bioavailability in Soil through Addition of Apatite II (2012). Published

• Geochemical options for immobilizing lead (Pb). A. Hunt, D. Al-Kandary, B. Shirtcliff. (2013).  GSA Annual Meeting in Denver. Published

   

• TPH and heavy metal contents on dust fallout: a case study in educational and industrial areas in Kuwait. Jasem M. Al-Awadhi; Dhary S. Al-Kandary and Wafa’a A. Al-Taisan (2016). Published

• Mapping and Validation of Noise Level in Kuwait City. Jasem M. Al-Awadhi, Dhary S. AlKandary (2017). Published

• Influence of Ambient Air Pollution on Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Score Index. Ahmad Alsaber, Jiazhu Pan, Adeeba Al-Herz, Dhary S. Alkandary, Adeeba Al-Hurban and Parul Setiya on behalf of the KRRD Group. (2020). Published

• Mapping Traffic Noise in Kuwait City. Dhary S. Al-Kandary, Jasem M. Al-Awadhi (2021). Published

• Influence of Ambient Air Pollution on Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Score Index (2020). Published

• Evaluation of various machine learning prediction methods for particulate matter PM10 in Kuwait (2023). Published

• Evaluation of Seawater Quality of Kuwait Bay Using Physio-Chemical Parameters (2023). Published

• Alsahli, M.M.M., Alkandary, D.S. Climate change vulnerability of Kuwait: a cross-sectoral assessment. Arab J Geosci 17, 183 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-024-11992-7. Published

• Abu Doush, I., Sultan, K., Alsaber, A., Alkandari, D., & Abdullah, A. Enhanced Jaya optimization for improving multilayer perceptron neural network in urban air quality prediction. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 33(1), 20230310, (2024). Published