Education

• 2005

  High School degree from , Qurish High School, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2009

  Bachelor degree from Petroleum Geology and SedimentologyFaculty Earth Sciences, Abdulaziz University, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2015

  Master degree from Department Earth SciencesFaculty of Sciences, University Toronto, تورنتو, كـــــــندا

• 2020

  Doctorate degree from School of Earth, Environment and SocietyFaculty of Sciences, McMaster University, هاميلتون, كـــــــندا

Employment

• 2009-2020

  Lecturer, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2020-حاليا

  Assistant Professor, Dept. Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2022-2023

  University's Scientific Forum Connection Officer, Faculty of Earth Sciences, , المملكة العربية السعودية

Research Interests

Research interests

• Micropaleontology and their relationship to study the paleoecology, paleosedimentary environment and the mass extinction events
• Paleosedimentary Environment
• Geological Mapping using the most advance technology and software
• Sedimentology and Stratigraphy in general
• Programming languages in order to implement them in geology and micropaleontology particularly Working on Artificial Intelligence applications that deal with microfossil image classification and recognition systems by applying Neural Networks Applications

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Scientific interests

Majed is a micropaleontologist studying paleoenvironment conditions of the Upper Cretaceous Ferron-Notom Delta, Utah, USA. He is implementing foraminifera and thecamoebians as proxies to investigate the marine influences, transition zones and paleoenvironmental physiochemical of the Ferron-Notom delta. His project is in conjunction with a sequence stratigraphic study conducted on the Ferron Sandstone member to characterize and construct complete deltaic facies and architecture models by Dr. Janok Bhattacharya and his team. The extant understanding of the Ferron “Notom Delta” sequence stratigraphy and its facies associations is well documented and understood. However, this is limited to physical criteria including sedimentology, and lithostratigraphy, but as many as ancient systems are lacking physiochemical criteria, such as salinity, temperature, organic content, oxygen concentrations as well as sea-level fluctuations. In Holocene / Quaternary environments, the integration of both approaches (physical and physiochemical) are attainable; therefore, paleoenvironment reconstructions are possible. On the other hand, ancient systems (e.g., Ferron Sandstone) can be investigated from physical criteria, but it is difficult to subdivide or classify these systems because they have undergone modification by post-depositional diagenetic processes (taphonomic processes), which lead to missing one or more of the physiochemical criteria (Scott et al., 2001). In order to address these knowledge gaps Majed’s study will implement foraminifera and thecamoebians as proxies to investigate Ferron-Notom Delta. This approach will combine sequence stratigraphy with detailed micropaleontological data of mud sediments to refine the understanding of the fluvial-deltaic sedimentary facies with regard physiochemical criteria and use it to identify the Ferron-Notom Delta sub-environments and lay down the foundation for future studies. Both assemblages will help us to determine the paleoenvironmental parameters mentioned above by comparing this study’s species with modern analogs. Taking into consideration the preservation status and other taphonomic processes that may have a direct or indirect impact on the identification of these species to species level so that the morphogroups analysis will be considered. Recent studies showed that it is possible to define sequence systems tract from foraminiferal biofacies general trends; therefore, this can be applied to produce models interpreting the various systems tract of the Ferron “Notom Delta.”

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Courses

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy	111	EPS
Advance Paleontology	631	EPS
Bioststratigraphy	432	EPS
Seminar	604	EPS
Basin Analysis & Sequence Stratigraphy	600	EPS
Geology of the Arabian Shelf	302	EPS
Introduction to Petroleum Geology	202	EPS
Petroleum Systems	415	EPS
Paleontology	331	EPS

Areas of expertise

Biostratigraphy	I am interested in biostratigraphic studies that using foraminifera, pollen and calcareous nannofossils. I am using thses groups to reconstruct the paleoenvironments and their physical and chemcial parameters that affected microfossils distributions.
Paleontologic Analysis	Conducting paleontologic analysis that includes taxonomic, classify, and biostatistics analysis to link fossils to their environments and environmental conditions.
Sequence Stratigraphy	Interested in researching and investigating sequence stratigraphy of various depositional environments, such as deltaic and marginal settings, and all related works including sedimentologic and palentologic analyses and construct sedimentary sections.