Mohamed AlMusllami started his academic journey studying Mechatronics engineering and graduated with a BSc in Engineering Management from the Higher Colleges of Technology in the UAE, He then graduated with a MSc of Environmental Science from Sorbonne University with first class honors and currently joined the UAE University college of science as a PhD student in Ecology and Environmental science. Early in his academic journey Mohamed made the first record of a sand tiger shark in the UAE and co-authored a publication on this finding in 2013. Mohamed also joined a team from UAE University in a large scale coral reef, seagrass and Sargassum algae monitoring project for Khalifa port, Mohamed had the role of the lead scientific diver and was in charge of all scuba diving operations. Mohamed trained in the Marine research center in Um Al Quwain and worked with aqua culture scientists for in situ culture of phytoplankton and zooplankton, and the reproduction of local fish species. In 2014 Mohamed was requested to join the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi as an assistant scientist of marine habitats, there he worked on adapting new methodologies of coral monitoring surveys, and worked on the marine mammal monitoring project. Mohamed was also responsible for marine mammal and sea turtle mortality investigations and conducted the annual sea turtle nesting surveys on Abu Dhabi islands. For his Master’s thesis in 2019 Mohamed delivered a crucial paper that focused on the critically endangered juvenile hawksbill turtles stranding on Abu Dhabi’s coastline. His thesis uncovered vital information that affected the regulations of single use plastic and the conservation of hawksbill turtles in Abu Dhabi. Mohamed is currently working on publishing his findings on sea turtle stranding in Abu Dhabi and his findings on the gut content of juvenile hawksbill turtles, he is also part of a long term project with UAE University scientists working on the population dynamics, migration, feeding dynamics and biomass estimation of the critically endangered Socotra cormorants in Abu Dhabi and Um Al Quwain. For his PhD Mohamed plans to focus on the Narrow-barred Spanish Mackerel, as it is a major contributor to UAE’s annual fish harvest yield, and a main source of the country’s protein which makes it a key factor in the country’s food security. Mohamed is studying the population dynamics and seasonal migration patterns, in addition to gut content analysis and otoliths extraction to determine age and size ratio of the specie in the region.

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Specialization

• Marine Ecology 
• Fisheries 
• Conservation Biology