Mahmud Al Noor Tushar

Lecturer

Department of GeologyFaculty of Earth and Environmental SciencesEmail: mant@du.ac.bd; tushar.mahmud.bd94@gmail.com Phone: +880 1762429048

Research Interest

Environmental Geology, Disaster and Climate Change, Engineering Geology, Marine Micropaleontology, Geochemistry


Education

M.Sc. (Disaster and Environment Management, Thesis Group)

Department of Geology, Dhaka University, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh, 2017 (Examination of 2016), Faculty First.


B.Sc. (Honours in Geology)

Department of Geology, Dhaka University, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh, 2016 (Examination of 2015), Faculty First.

Experiences

A. Teaching :

Lecturer of Department of Geology, University of Dhaka , Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh; from 01 October 2019 to Present



B. Scientific Officer (Geology):

Beach Sand Minerals Exploitation Centre, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Kolatoli, Cox's Bazar 4700, Bangladesh; from 01 September 2019 to 30 September 2019


C. Others:

  • Worked as Research Assistant for the project titled "Assessing contemporary community disaster resilience in a coastal region of Bangladesh" from March to June 2018

  • Engineering Geologist, Creative Soil Investigations, GA-27/2/A, ShahJadpur, Gulshan, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh; from July 2018 to August 2019



Research Activities

Student Research Supervision

MS (2018-2019):

  1. Sadia Afrose: working on Multi-hazard Vulnerability Assessment in Response to Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Variation for the Coastal Regions of Bangladesh Using Geospatial Techniques. Jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Subrota Kumar Saha

MS (2019-2020):

  1. Umme Salma Rifa: working on Assessment of Benthic Foraminifera Response to Ecosystem Pollution in the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Coast, Bangladesh. Jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Subrota Kumar Saha

  2. Ishrat Jahan Eva: working on Evaluating the Performance of Stress index on Benthic foraminifera in the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Coast, Bangladesh. Jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Subrota Kumar Saha

Current/Recently Concluded Funded Research Projects

  1. Benthic Foraminifera Response to Ecosystem Pollution and Evaluating Performance of Stress index in the Cox‟s Bazar-Teknaf Coast . Funded by ministry of Science and Technology Bangladesh

  2. Investigating the role of rock weathering and Clay mineralogy in Landslide occurrences within the Tertiary formations in Rangamati area funded under the “BB FEES Research Grant 2020”

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Rahman, M., Tushar, M.A.N., Zahid, A., Ahmed, K.M.U., Siddique, M.A.M. and Mustafa, M.G., 2021. Spatiotemporal distribution of boron in the groundwater and human health risk assessment from the coastal region of Bangladesh. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, pp.1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11682-3

2. Saha, S.K., Muzib, N.I. and Tushar, M.A.N., 2019. Diversity and Abundance of Pteropods along the Saint Martin’s Island and Its Effects on Ecology of Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Science, 45(1), pp.15-33. https://doi.org/10.3329/jasbs.v45i1.46567

3. Tushar, M.A.N., Saha, S.K., and Monsur, M.H., 2018. Paleoenvironmental Significance of Foraminiferal Assemblage from the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Coast. Dhaka University Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 6 & 7, pp.57-69


Books Chapters

Saha, T., Tushar, M.A.N., Debnath, P. and Saha, S.K. (2020). ‘Spatio-temporal distribution of microforams in the Sundarban mangrove forest, Bangladesh: Response to ecological imbalance’, in Mukhopadhyay, A. (ed.) Sundarbans Mangrove Systems: A GeoInformatics Approach, Taylor and Francis Group. (Provisionally accepted)


Conference Proceedings

1. Shuvra Roy, S.K. Saha, Md Golam Rabbani and Mahmud Al Noor Tushar "A PALEO-BIOCLIMATOLOGICAL STUDY ON QUATERNARY PEAT DEPOSITS OF BANGLADESH REFLECTED BY PALYNOLOGICAL APPROACH." GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA - 2019 Geological Society of America, 2019.

2. S.K. Saha, Mahmud Al Noor Tushar and Md. Hussain Monsur "Reconstruction of Holocene Sea Level Change and Paleocoastline for the Eastern Coastal Margin of Bangladesh using Micropaleontological evidences." GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018 Geological Society of America, 2018.


Memberships and Awards

Awards

  1. Dean’s Award 2016 for academic excellence

  2. Prime Minister Gold Medal-2016 for securing the highest CGPA in the Faculty of Earth and Environmental sciences, University of Dhaka on the respective academic session

  3. University Grand Commission Scholarship-2016 for securing the highest CGPA in the Faculty of Earth and Environmental sciences, University of Dhaka on the respective academic session

  4. NST fellowship 2017-2018

  5. Parvez Memorial Scholarship-2015 for securing the highest CGPA at the BS final examination for that academic session

  6. Prof. Abdul Hai and Prof. Manzoor Hasan Scholarship for securing the highest GPA in 3rd Year Final Examination