Md. Saddam Hossain currently serves as the Repository Logistics Coordinator at the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research (CAESER) within the Herff College of Engineering at the University of Memphis. At CAESER, Saddam is contributing to the establishment of the Mississippi Embayment Research Center (MERC), a new regional geologic sample repository and laboratory facility at the UofM Millington campus. In this role, he manages the development of the comprehensive sediment repository, overseeing proper sample handling, documentation, and long-term preservation to support ongoing and future research. He also trains undergraduate and graduate students in repository management techniques.
Saddam earned his second master’s degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Memphis, where his research focused on the advance understanding of the origin, distribution, characteristics, and hydrostratigraphy of shallow aquifers forming Pleistocene and Pliocene fluvial-terrace and alluvial deposits in west Tennessee.
Prior to his graduate studies in the U.S., Saddam contributed extensively to research in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Delta in South Asia, one of the world’s largest and most dynamic sedimentary systems. His work included reconstructing the delta’s formation history, tracking river migration and tectonic influences, and modeling sediment supply under changing climate and human activity. He also co-developed a field-based sediment budget for the system, an essential tool for predicting long-term environmental change.
By bridging field-based sedimentology, stratigraphy, and hydrogeology, Saddam’s research contributes to advancing understanding of surface–subsurface interactions in fluvial and deltaic systems, with implications for groundwater sustainability, contaminant transport, and long-term environmental resilience.
