Dear colleague: At present I am working to develop a neural network
assessment model to predict various seawater quality variables and to
study the significant correlation between different seawater quality
variables along Gaza-Palestine. The water quality assessment and the
neural network model will help to setup the required management plan
to control and combat marine pollution along Gaza coast. One of my
PhD work articles has been accepted at (Quarterly) Mehran University
Research Journal of Engineering and Technology. The following is a
display of my article.

Title: Application of ANN for Predicting Water Quality Parameters in
the Mediterranean Sea along Gaza-Palestine

ABSTRACT

Seawater pollution problems are gaining interest world wide because
of their health impacts and other environmental issues. Intense human
activities in areas surrounding enclosed and semi-enclosed seas such
as the Mediterranean Sea always produce in the long term a strong
environmental impact in the form of coastal and marine degradation.
This paper is concerned with the use of Artificial Neural Networks
(ANN's) - Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) model for the prediction of pH
and EC in water quality parameters along Gaza city coast. MLP neural
networks are trained and developed with reference to three major
oceanographic parameters (water temperature, wind speed and
turbidity) to predict the values of pH and EC; these parameters are
considered as inputs of the neural network. The data collected
comprised of four years and collected from nine locations along Gaza
coastline. Results show that the model has high capability and
accuracy in predicting both parameters. The network performance has
been validated with different data sets and the result show
satisfactory performance. Results of the developed model have been
compared with multiple regression statistical models and found that
MLP predictions are slightly better than the conventional methods.
Prediction results prove that the proposed approach is suitable for
modeling the water quality in the Mediterranean Sea along Gaza.

Keywords: pH; electrical conductivity; temperature, wind speed,
turbidity, water quality; ANNs, MLP; statistical model.

Best regards,
Hossam Zaqoot
Institute of Environmental Engineering and management
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro-Pakistan
Gaza Strip-Palestine