Halima Salah, a Somali-Canadian PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at Wayne State University, earned her BSc in Civil Engineering with a minor in Environmental and Water Engineering from the American University of Sharjah (AUS) in 2017. She obtained her M.S. in Civil Engineering from Wayne State University in 2021. Before graduate school, her undergraduate and professional experiences spanned the Water Resources and Wastewater Treatment fields in the U.S., UAE, and Qatar.
She was awarded the 2021-2022 NSF-NRT Transformative Research in Urban Sustainability Training (T-RUST) fellowship at Wayne State University and co-led the seminar-course titled “Emerging Hazards associated with Climate Change” (ESG 5620/BIO 5060). Through T-RUST, her research delves into the interactive effects of air pollution and heat islands on urban agriculture yield and metal concentrations.
In 2022-2023, Halima became the Ralph Cicerone Fellow in Earth System Science Modeling at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)’s Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling (ACOM) lab. Currently, she serves as a research assistant at the Huang Research Lab, focusing on research involving the intercomparisons of commonly used emissions inventories.