Global Institute for Water Security

Student members

GIWS Student Members are individuals who are making a significant contribution to water research.

Mohamed Abdelhamed
Student

Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


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Oghenemise Abirhire
Student

Department of Biology


Razak Abu
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Adedoyinsola Adesokan

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Mostafa Aghbolaghy

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering


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Desmond Agyemang MSs
Grad Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Climate change

Current Graduate Student


Hafiz Ahmed

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering


Eric Akomeah
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Gamal Alahmady PhD
PhD Student / Teaching Assistant

USask Affiliation: College of engineering/ Civil Geological and Environmental Engineering

Current Graduate Student


Shahabul Alam

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


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Sergio Alejandro Gomez Munoz MSc
Phd Student

USask Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Ice jam floods
  • Flood hazard
  • Flood risk
  • Hydrology

Current Graduate Student


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Nasrin Aliasgharlou MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: University of saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Waste water treatment
  • Biomass treatment

Current Graduate Student


Mahmud Amin

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Mike Amos

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Gervin Apatinga
Student

Department of Geography and Planning


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Tharaka Aravinda Jayalath MSc
Graduate Student - PhD

USask Affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water Economics
  • Resource Economics
  • Ecosystem service valuation

Current Graduate Student


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James Armstrong

Department of Biology


Maria Armstrong

Department of Geography, Centre for Hydrology


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Arezou Askarian Abyaneh MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: College of Environment and sustainability

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Sustainable development
  • Climate change
  • Water and Wastewater treatment
  • Water quality; Emerging Contaminants
  • Contaminants fate and transport
  • Water reuse

Current Graduate Student


Bennet Awume

School of Environment and Sustainability


Thomas Baer

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Tabata Bagatim

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Edward Bam

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Anukul Basnet MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: Civil Engineering

Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology-land surface modelling
  • Crop yield modelling

Current Graduate Student


Kaitlyn Bell

Global Institute for Water Security/School of Environment and Sustainability


Pamela Berry

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Andre Bertoncini
Student

Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


Samantha Bihun

Department of Biology


Lady Bravo-Montero
Visiting Research Student

University of Saskatchewan


Keenan Brockman
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Robyn Brown

Department of Biology


Kristin Bruce

Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy


Astri Buchanan

School of Environment and Sustainability


Amanda Burke

School of Environment and Sustainability


David Burlock

Department of Biology


Alex Cebulski
Student

Coldwater Lab, Centre for Hydrology


Rocky Chowdhury

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Carley Coccola

Global Institute for Water Security/School of Environment and Sustainability


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Chantal Corriveau
MES Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Current Graduate Student


Apurba Das

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Suvasish Das MSc
Graduate Student (Master in Water Security)

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Climate Change

Current Graduate Student


Leila Dehabadi
Student

Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan


Shelby DeMars
Student

College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


Mauro Bevilacqua de Toledo

School of Environment and Sustainability


Kathryn Dompierre

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


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Ayden Draude BSc
Masters student

USask Affiliation: SENS

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Wetlands
  • Climate Change
  • Salinity

Current Graduate Student


Scott Dudiak

Department of Biology


Nicholas Dylla
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Leila Eamen
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Carlie Elliott
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Kevin Erratt
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Jaivime Evaristo
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Forough Fendereski
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Jannatul Ferdous

Department of Chemical and Bioengineering


Jason Flemke
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Lorelei Ford

School of Environment and Sustainability


Chris Gabrielli

School of Environment and Sustainability


Noel Galuschik

School of Environment and Sustainability


Philip Garvey

Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources


Josh Gibb

School of Environment and Sustainability


Randie Gibson

School of Public Health


Esteban Gillio Meina
Student

Department of Toxicology, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


Jordan Gonda

Department of Civil and geological Engineering


Chantelle Grafton
Student - Master of Water Security Program


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Lijie Guo

Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering,
College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


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Lijie Guo
PhD Candidate

USask Affiliation: College of Engineering

Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Climate change
  • Agricultural land-use change
  • Irrigation

Current Graduate Student


John Guselle
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Richard Helmle
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Greg Hoenman
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Ya Huang
Student

Global Institute for Water Security


Md Noim Imtiazy

Department of Biology, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


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Emily Ireland
Graduate student

USask Affiliation: Geography and Planning

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Ecohydrology

Current Graduate Student


Devin Iuliano
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Aram Jalali Bouraban PhD
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Carbon
  • Lateral Transport
  • Permafrost
  • Hydrology
  • Systems Thinking

Current Graduate Student


Hammad Javid
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Deysi Julieta Venegas Garcia
PhD Student

USask Affiliation: Chemistry

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water treatment
  • Materials

Current Graduate Student


Mostofa Kamal
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Krishna Kolen
Graduate Student

USask Affiliation: Geography and Planning

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Drought-induced poor air quality
  • Climate change
  • Environmental health
  • Indigenous/First Nations health
  • Rural/remote/marginalized/tribal communities
  • Mixed methods/participatory research
  • Health impacts

Current Graduate Student


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Anjan Kumar Das MWS
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water quality-base risk assessment for dreissenid mussel
  • Fish parasites

Current Graduate Student


Anchit Lakhanpal
Student

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


Zachary Lang
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Yohanne Larissa Gavasso Rita MSc
Ph.D. Student

USask Affiliation: The Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering Department

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Climate Change
  • Food Security
  • Crop Production
  • Water Use Efficiency

Current Graduate Student


Nigel Leach
Student

College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


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Lin Li
Student

USask Affiliation: College of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Sediment transport

Current Graduate Student


Yiwen Li
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Elisabeta Lika
Student

College of Agriculture and Bioresources, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan


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Xiuqiang Liu PhD
PhD student

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security

Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Ecosystem Hydrological Processes
  • Environmental Science

Current Graduate Student


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Joyce Lutterodt MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Science

Current Graduate Student


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Xiao Ma
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Climate change
  • Regional climate modeling

Current Graduate Student


Annika Maangold-Doring
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability and the Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany


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Malki Madhuwanthi Manawadu MSc
Master student of MWS

USask Affiliation: SENS

Current Graduate Student


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Rebeca Magaly Espinosa Cortes MSc
PhD Student

USask Affiliation: Collegue of Engineering

Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Groundwater
  • Energy
  • Carbon sequestration
  • Environmental engineering

Current Graduate Student


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Ana María Alvarez Caiza MSc
PhD student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Biogeochemistry in aquatic systems
  • Biogenic greenhouse gas emissions
  • Response of greenhouse gas emissions to stressors

Current Graduate Student


Samantha Matheson
Student

Department of Geography & Planning


Esther McAleer
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Herbert Mkandla
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Rasa Moeini
Graduate student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • River Ice
  • Flood Risk Management
  • System Dynamics

Current Graduate Student


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Alana Muenchrath MWS, BSc (Hons)
PhD Candidate

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Permafrost thaw
  • Hydrogeology
  • Climate change
  • Cold regions hydrology

Current Graduate Student


Mahtab Nazarbakhsh
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Kevin Newman
Student

College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


Nicholas Phelan
Student

Global Institute for Water Security/School of Environment and Sustainability


Kaixuan Qin
Student

Department of Geological Sciences, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


Mohammed Rabiul Hasan

College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering


Rashadur Rahman
Student

Agriculture & Bioresources - Economics


Taya Raine
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Yohanne Rita

College of Engineering, Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering


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Behdad Saed MSc, EIT
PhD student

USask Affiliation: Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus
  • Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
  • Climate change impact
  • Watershed modeling
  • Hydrology

Current Graduate Student


Sahar Safaei
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Ehsan Samimi Sohrforozani MSc
Master of Science Student

USask Affiliation: Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Wastewater Treatment

Current Graduate Student


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Ines Sanchez-Rodriguez BSc, MSc, M.Eng.
PhD Student

USask Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Participatory modelling
  • Hydrological modelling
  • Climate Change adaptation-mitigation
  • Open Collaboration Hydrology
  • Nature Based Solutions
  • Science communication
  • Science - Policy nexus
  • Climate change advocacy

Current Graduate Student


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Allana Santos BSc
Graduate Student

USask Affiliation: Geography and Planning

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Groundwater quality
  • Private well stewardship
  • Mixed methods - interdisciplinary research

Current Graduate Student


Razi Sheikholeslami
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Harvinder Sidhu H.BSc
MSc Student

USask Affiliation: Department of Geography and Planning

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology

Current Graduate Student


Kurkute Sopan
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Danielle Spence MSc
PhD Candidate

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water quality
  • Ecosystem services
  • Economics
  • Climate change
  • Transdisciplinarity

Current Graduate Student


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Nichole-Lynn Stoll MSc
PhD Candidate

USask Affiliation: Arts and Science/Geography and Planning

Current Graduate Student


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Talieh Tajik MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Current Graduate Student


James Tipman
Student

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


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Ravi Vinasithamby MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Groundwater
  • Water quality
  • Modeling

Current Graduate Student


Binben Wang
Student

Computer Science


Michelle Wauchope-Thompson
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Michelle Wauchope-Thompson PhD
Graduate student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Limnology
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Water Quality
  • Sediment chemistry
  • Biology
  • Ecology
  • Phosphorus cycling
  • Nitrogen cycling
  • Major metal cations

Current Graduate Student


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Deepasika Weragodathenna MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Sustainable water resource management

Current Graduate Student


Mohanad Zaghloul
Student

University of Saskatchewan


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Shadi Zarei BSc, MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Current Graduate Student


Fan Zhang
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Zhe Zhang

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Qi Zhao PhD
Ph.D. student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Climate change
  • Regional crop yield simulation
  • Seasonal yield projection

Current Graduate Student


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Khaled Zoroufchi Benis
GIWS Graduate Student Member