Ahmed El-Azhari

HS Hydrological Sciences

The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ahmed El-Azhari for the poster/PICO entitled:

Groundwater Salinity Drivers in Arid Endorheic Basins: Insights from Hydrogeochemical and Isotopic Analyses in Bahira, Morocco (El-Azhari, A.; Ait Brahim, Y.; Barbecot, F.; Hssaisoune, M.; Berrouch, H.; Laamrani, A.; Hadri, A.; Brouziyne, Y.; Bouchaou, L.)

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Ahmed El-Azhari is a PhD candidate in cotutelle between the University of Mohammed VI Polytechnic (Morocco) and Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). His research focuses on groundwater mineralization processes, the use of geochemical and isotopic tracers, and integrated hydrological modeling in arid regions. At EGU25, he presented a study on groundwater salinity in an arid endorheic basin, where hydrogeochemical data and stable water isotopes were combined to investigate the processes driving groundwater mineralization and its spatio-temporal dynamics. This work has been recently published in Science of the Total Environment (2025), doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180055.