Hello, my name is Mohammed S. Alfarhan and I am from Saudi Arabia. Currently I am working on my PhD's in 3D Virtual Reality under supervision of Professor Carlos Aiken at The University of Texas at Dallas. I received  Master's in GIS from Geospatial Information Sciences Department at The University of Texas at Dallas in May 2008 and Master's in Geosciences from Geosciences Department at The University of Texas at Dallas in May 2003. Also, I received B.Sc. in Geology from Geology Department in The College of Science at The King Saud University in 1995 from Saudi Arabia. I have been working as an Academic researcher in the Natural Resources & Environment Researches Institute at the King AbdulAziz City for Sciences & Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia since 1997. I like swimming and reading.

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EDUCATION

• PhD, Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Expect 2009

• Master, Geospatial Information Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 2008

• Master, Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 2003

• B.Sc, Geology, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, 1995

• High School, King Saud Secondary, Saudi Arabia, 1990

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INTERESTING RESEARCH

* ArcGIS customization and development

* Integration between 2.5D and 3D virtual reality in ArcGIS Environment

* 3D data capture and modeling

* Remote sensing digital image processing

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1. ALfarhan, Mohammed S., Arafat, Sayed M., and Abdelsalam, Mohamed G., 2006, Interplay Of Cretaceous – Quaternary Faulting and Folding in the South Desert Of Egypt: Insights From Remote Sensing Analysis, South-Central Section–40th Annual Meeting, 6–7 March 2006, Norman, Oklahoma.

2. Alfarhan, Mohammed, Aiken, C. And Xu, X., 2006, “The Use Of A Laser Rangefinder Attached To A Pocket Pc To Capture And Analyze 3d Digital Geologic Data In The Field– A Case Study – Preston Railroad Cut, Texas”, Penrose Conference: "Unlocking 3d Earth Systems - Harnessing New Digital Technologies to Revolutionize Multi-Scale Geologic Models.", 17-21 September 2006, Durham, UK.

3.  Alfarhan, Mohammed, and Aiken , Carlos , 2007, Real Time Integration Of Laser Rangefinders And Arcgis To Capture 3d Geology Features, 17th Annual South Central Arc User Group (SCAUG) Conference, 11-13 April 2007,New Orleans, Louisiana.

4.  Alfarhan, Mohammed S., White, Lionel, and Aiken, Carlos, 2007, “Capturing, Visualizing And Analyzing Outcrops in 3D Using Laser Rangefinders Integrated With Arcgis”, 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting, 28–31 October 2007, Denver, Colorado.

5.  Alfarhan, Mohammed S., White, Lionel, And Aiken, Carlos, 2007, “Capturing, Visualizing, And Analyzing Geological Outcrops With 3d Laser Rangefinders And Terrestrial Laser Scanners And Digital Camera”, the 28th  Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS), 12-16 November 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

6. Alfarhan, Mohammed S.; Ahmed, Tarig M.; White, Lionel; and Aiken, Carlos, “Integrating Digital Close Range Photogrammetry with ArcGIS”, 2008, GSA Joint Annual Meeting, 5-9 October 2008, Houston, USA.

7. Alfarhan, Mohammed, White, Lionel, Cline, Jarvis, Abdelsalam, Mohamed, and Aiken, Carlos, “Arcgis Based Analysis Tool Set For The Study Of Photorealistic Virtual Models Of Geological Outcrops”, 2008 GSA, South-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting , 16-17 March 2009, Dallas, Texas

8. Alfarhan, Mohammed; Deng, Jack; White, Lionel; Meyer, Rudy; Oldow, John; Krause, Federico; Aiken, Carlos; Aguilera, Roberto; “LiDAR Technology as a Means of Improving Geologic, Geophysical and Reservoir Engineering Evaluations: From Rocks to Realistic Fluid Flow Models”, Canadian International Petroleum Conference (CIPC) 2009, 6 – 18 June, 2009, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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1.  Abdelsalam, Mohamed G., Youssef, Ahmed M., Arafat, Sayed M., and Alfarhan, Mohammed, “The Rise and Demise of the New Lakes of Sahara”, 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting, 28–31 October 2007, Denver, Colorado.

2.  Ahmed, Tarig M., White, Lionel S. Jr, Alfarhan, Mohammed, and Aiken, Carlos, 2007, “Digital Close Range Photogrammetry as Part of A Terrestrial Based Digital Geologic Mapping Program”, 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting, 28–31 October 2007, Denver, Colorado.

3.  Biholar, Alex, Tuck, Dean, Burnham, Brian S., Cording, Margie, White, Lionel, Alfarhan, Mohammed, Aiken, Carlos, and Oldow, John, 2007, “Educational Applications Of Photorealistic 3d Modeling When Applied To A Meander Point Bar Sequence Of The Pennsylvanian Hartshorne Formation At The Huckleberry Creek Spillway Arkansas”, 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting, 28–31 October 2007, Denver, Colorado.

4.  Burnham, Brian S., Tuck, Dean, Biholar, Alex, Cording, Margie, White, Lionel, Alfarhan, Mohammed, Aiken, Carlos, and Oldow, John, “Capture And Construction Of Photorealistic 3d Geologic Models Of The Pennsylvanian Hartshorne Sandstone Of Huckleberry Creek Spillway In Central Arkansas”, 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting, 28–31 October 2007, Denver, Colorado.

5.  Cording, Margie B., Tuck, Dean, Burnham, Brian S., Biholar, Alex, White, Lionel, Alfarhan, Mohammed, Aiken, Carlos, and Oldow, John, “The Use Of 3d Photorealistic Models To Correlate The Structure And Statigraphy Of Five Outcrops Of The Austin Chalk/ Eagleford Shale Contact In Cedar Hill, Texas”, 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting, 28–31 October 2007, Denver, Colorado.

6.  Carlos Aiken, Mohammed Alfarhan, Lionel White, Tarig Ahmed, Miao Wang,Prabin Shilpakar, M. Iris Alvarado, “Analyzing 3D Virtual Models built with Terrestrial LiDAR: Now that I have it what do I do with it?”, 2008, UNAVCO Science Workshop, 11-13 March, 2008, Boulder, Colorado.

7.  Biholar, Alex, Burnham, Brian S., Aiken, Carlos, White, Lionel, and Alfarhan, Mohammed S., “Spatially Analyzed Photorealistic 3d Models And Their Application To Teaching In The Geosciences. Case Study: The Meander Point Bar Sequence Of the Pennsylvanian Hartshorne Formation at the Huckleberry Creek Spillway Arkansas”, 2008, GSA South-Central Section - 42nd Annual Meeting. 30 March - 1 April, 2008, Hot Springs Convention Center, Hot Springs, Arkansas

8.  Alvarado, M. Iris, Alfarhan, Mohammed, White, Lionel S. Jr, and Aiken, Carlos L.V., “Geois: A Software To Facilitate Teaching Geosciences K-12”, 2008, GSA South-Central Section - 42nd Annual Meeting. 30 March - 1 April, 2008, Hot Springs Convention Center, Hot Springs, Arkansas

9.  Burnham, Brian S., Biholar, Alex, Aiken, Carlos, White, Lionel, and Alfarhan, Mohammed S., “Digital Spatial Analysis Of Photorealistic 3d Geologic Models Of The Pennsylvanian Hartshorne Sandstone Sequence Of Huckleberry Creek Spillway In Central Arkansas”, 2008, GSA South-Central Section - 42nd Annual Meeting. 30 March - 1 April, 2008, Hot Springs Convention Center, Hot Springs, Arkansas.

10.  Lionel White, Mohammed Alfarhan, Tariq Ahmed and Carlos Aiken, “GeoDimensional Tools-Software Modules to Create and Analyze 3D Virtual Outcrops”, 2008, SEPM Outcrops Revitalized: Tools, Techniques and Applications, 22-28 June 2008, Kilkee, Ireland.

11.  Lionel White, Mohammed Alfarhan, Tariq Ahmed, Alex Biholar, Brian Burnham and Carlos Aiken, “Hands-on Demonstration of GeoDimensional Tools Applied to Outcrops Near  Kilkee, Ireland, and Others”, 2008, SEPM Outcrops Revitalized: Tools, Techniques and Applications, 22-28 June 2008, Kilkee, Ireland.

12.  Lionel White, Mohammed Alfarhan, Tariq Ahmed, Carlos Aiken, “Structural and Orientation Analysis of 3D Virtual Outcrop Models”, 2008, GSA Joint Annual Meeting, 5-9 October 2008, Houston, Texas.

13. Lionel White, Tarig Ahmed, Mohammed Alfarhan, ris Alvarado, Alex Biholar, Brian Burnham, Prabin Shilpakar and Carlos Aiken, “Application of the GeoDimensional Tools ArcGIS Extension for the Analysis of 3D Virtual Models of Outcrops in the Arbuckle Anticline and Other”, 2008, GSA Joint Annual Meeting, 5-9 October 2008, Houston, Texas.

14.  Brian Burnham, Michele Kashouh, Ignacio Pujana, Lionel White, Mohammed Alfarhan, Alex Biholar and Carlos Aiken, “Three Dimensional Model of Type Section of Santonian Limestone (AustinChalk) at Ten Mile Creek, Dallas County, Texas: Applications to Paleontology of 3D Virtual Geologic Methods”, 2008, GSA Joint Annual Meeting, 5-9 October 2008, Houston, Texas.

15.  Lionel White, Mohammed Alfarhan, Tarig Ahmed and Carlos Aiken, “Structural and Orientation Analysis of 3D Virtual Outcrop Models”, 2008, GSA Joint Annual Meeting, 5-9 October 2008, Houston, Texas.

16.  Iris Alvarado, Mohammed Alfarhan, Lionel White and Carlos Aiken, “K-12 Teacher as An NSF RET (Research Experience for Teachers) Participant in the NSF INTERFACE (Interdisciplinary alliance for digital Field data Acquisition and Exploration) Facility at UT-Dallas”, 2008, GSA Joint Annual Meeting, 5-9 October 2008, Houston, Texas.

17.  Oldow, J S, Alfarhan, M, White, L S, Ahmed, T, Alvarado, M I, Cline, J, Shilpakar, P, Aiken, C L, “Monitoring Growth of the Daisetta, Texas Sinkhole With Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Close Range Digital Photography, and GPS”, 2008 AGU Fall Meeting 15-19 December 2008, San Francisco, California.

18.  Cline, Jarvis, R., White, Lionel, and Al Farhan, Mohammed^{, “}Constraining Georeferenced Control Points By Object To Be Transformed With Application To Terrestrial Laser Scanning”, 2009 GSA, South-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting , 16-17 March 2009, Dallas, Texas

19.  White, Lionel, Alfarhan, Mohammed, Cline, Jarvis, Abdelsalam, Mohamed, and Aiken, Carlos, “Analysis Of Geological Outcrop Virtual Models Using The Arcgis Platform”, 2009 GSA, South-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting , 16-17 March 2009, Dallas, Texas

20.  Aiken, Carlos L.V., Oldow, John S., Alfarhan, Mohammed, White, Lionel S. Jr, and Ahmed, Tarig, “Monitoring Growth Of The Daisetta, Texas Sinkhole With Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Close Range Digital Photography, And GPS”, 2009 GSA, South-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting , 16-17 March 2009, Dallas, Texas

21.  Alvarado, Iris, Wurtz, Michelle, White, Lionel S. Jr, Alfarhan, Mohammed, and Aiken, Carlos L.V., “virtual Model It And They Will Learn”, 2009 GSA, South-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting , 16-17 March 2009, Dallas, Texas

22.  Kashouh, Michele, Burnham, Brian, Alfarhan, Mohammed, White, Lionel, Pujana, Ignacio, and Aiken, Carlos, “Site Documentation of Global Stratigraphic Sections And Points (Gssp) Through Methods Of Three Dimensional Geologic Modeling. Case Study: The Wal-Mart Section Of Ten Mile Creek, Dallas Texas”, 2009 GSA, South-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting , 16-17 March 2009, Dallas, Texas

23.  White, Lionel; Alfarhan, Mohammed; Aiken, Carlos, “The Construction and Analysis of 3D Photorealistic Models of Geological Outcrops”, SPAR Point Research, 2009, “3D Imaging and Positioning for Engineering / Construction / Manufacturing”, 6th Annual Conference on 3D Laser Scanning, Dynamic Survey, Lidar and Dimensional Control, March 30 – April 1, 2009, Denver, Colorado

24.  Lionel White, Sumanta Chatterjee, Miao Wang, Mohammed Alfarhan, Carlos Aiken, Christopher Kendall, “Cyber Mapping of sequence stratigraphic surfaces in outcrops:  LIDAR provides a cutting edge to sedimentary modeling”, AAPG 2009 Annual Convention & Exhibition, 2009, SEPM Research Group for Sequence Stratigraphy,, June 7-10, 2009, Denver, Colorado.

25.  White, Lionel; Alfarhan, Mohammed; Cline, Jarvis; Aiken, Carlos, “Real-time Mapping of Laser Rangefinder to Photograph in ArcMap”, ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC), 2009, July 13–17, 2009, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California.

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1. The Geosciences Network (GEON), 2006, "Digital Data Acquisition Workshop", April 6-8, 2006, San Diego, CA, USA.
2. The Institute of Navigation (ION), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), 2006, the 19^th international Technical meeting, September 26-29, 2006, Fort Worth, Texas.
3. SPAR Point Research, 2007, “Capturing and Documenting Existing-Conditions Data for Design, Construction and Operations”, 4th Annual Conference on 3D Laser Scanning, Dynamic Survey, Lidar and Dimensional Control, March 26-27, 2007, Houston, Texas.

4. The Institute of Navigation (ION), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), 2007, the 20^th international Technical meeting, September 25-28, 2007, Fort Worth, Texas.
5. American Geophysical Union (AGU), December 10–14 2007, San Francisco, CA, USA
6. SPAR Point Research, 2008, “Capturing and Documenting Existing-Conditions Data for Design, Construction and Operations”, 5th Annual Conference on 3D Laser Scanning, Dynamic Survey, LiDAR and Dimensional Control, March 03-05, 2008, Houston, Texas
7. ESRI Developer Summit (DevSummit), 2008, March 17–20, 2008, Convention Center, Palm Springs, California.
8. 2008 ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC), 2008, August 4–8, 2008, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California.
9. ESRI Developer Summit (DevSummit), 2009, March 23260, 2009, Convention Center, Palm Springs, California.

AWARDED

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Mohammed S. Alfarhan
University of Texas at Dallas
Geosciences Department
P.O. Box 830688
Mail Station FO21
Richardson, TX 75083-0688
Mobile (469) 855-8710
Fax (267) 222-4435
e-mail msfarhan@yahoo.com
http://www.utdallas.edu/~msfarhan