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Global Institute for Water Security

Water-Food and Water-Energy Interactions

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Amin Elshorbagy PhD
Professor Emeritus

USask Affiliation: Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Water Resources Management
  • Water-energy-food nexus
  • Machine Learning in hydrology
  • Hydrologic modeling

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Andrew Ireson PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: SENS

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Soil moisture
  • Frozen soil
  • Cold regions hydrology
  • Land surface modelling
  • Permafrost
  • Soil moisture and crops

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Angela Bedard-Haughn PhD
Dean and Professor

USask Affiliation: Agriculture and Bioresources, Soil Science

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Soil Science

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Anukul Basnet MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: Civil Engineering

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology-land surface modelling
  • Crop yield modelling

Current Graduate Student

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Behdad Saed MSc, EIT
PhD student

USask Affiliation: Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering

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Research Areas / Major Roles

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

Current Graduate Student

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Cody Millar BSc, MES
Laboratory Manager

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security - MOST facility

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Ecohydrology
  • Stable Isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen
  • Plant water extraction techniques
  • Soil water extraction techniques
  • Plant water sourcing
  • Stable isotope analysis
  • Co-extracted organic contamination

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Daniel T. Oyekunle PhD, MEng, BEng
Research Scientist (Graduate Student)

USask Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water and Wastewater Treatment
  • Environmental Science
  • Water Chemistry
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Materials Science
  • Ecology

Current Young Researcher

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Dr. Danqiong Dai
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: SENS

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Groundwater/surface water dynamics interactions with terrestrial water cycle and climate change by using land surface models and Earth system models
  • Climate-Water-Human nexus
  • Arctic-boreal regional climate modelling

Current Young Researcher

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Elliott Skierszkan PhD
Adjunct Professor

Primary Affiliation: Carleton University
USask Affiliation: Geological Sciences

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrogeology
  • Groundwater geochemistry
  • Permafrost
  • Mining

Current Young Researcher

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Grant Ferguson PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: Geological Engineering with cross-appointment to SENS

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrogeology
  • Hydrogeochemistry

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Inimfon Abner Udoetok PhD
Laboratory Manager

Primary Affiliation: Arizona Lithium
USask Affiliation: Chemistry

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Physical Chemistry
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Biopolymer Modification

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John Pomeroy PhD
Distinguished Professor

USask Affiliation: Arts and Science, Geography and Planning; Centre for Hydrology

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Water quality
  • Climate change
  • Instrumentation
  • Prediction

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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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Katayoon Karimzadeh PhD
Research Associate

USask Affiliation: College of Pharmacy and Nutrition

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Biomedical toxicology
  • Aquatic ecotoxicology
  • Water quality
  • Aquatic food web

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Kim Janzen MSc
Technician

USask Affiliation: GIWS/Soil Science

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Isotope labs

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Lee D. Wilson PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: College of Arts & Science, Department of Chemistry

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Green Chemistry
  • Solution Chemistry
  • Colloids & Interfacial Phenomena
  • Adsorption Science & Technology

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Markus Brinkmann
Associate Professor & Director

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability & Toxicology Centre

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Exposure and risk assessment modelling
  • Toxicokinetic modelling
  • Aquatic ecotoxicology
  • Mechanistic toxicology
  • Environmental chemistry

Current Young Researcher

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Marlene Evans BSc (Hon), PhD
Research Scientist

Primary Affiliation: National Hydrology Research Institute, ECCC
USask Affiliation: Environment and Climate Change Canada. Adjunct in Biology

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Conducting research on the distribution, fate and bioaccumulation of persistent organic contaminants in the environment with a focus on mercury and persistent organic contaminants in western and northern Canada
  • Studies in the oil sands area with a focus on PAHs and mercury in fish.
  • Studies of mercury in lakes around major emitters in western Canada
  • Consideration of climate change in affecting mercury trends
  • Working with northern communities in delivery of studies and meeting their interests
  • Past work on zooplankton in saline prairie lakes

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Matthew Lindsay PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: Geological Sciences / Arts & Science

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Environmental geochemistry
  • Groundwater geochemistry
  • Mine closure geochemistry

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Dr. Mohammad Ghoreishi
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water Resources Management
  • Hydrology
  • Complex systems
  • Socio-hydrology
  • Agent-based Modeling
  • System Dynamics

Current Young Researcher

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Mohammad Shirazi MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Resource recovery
  • Membrane technologies
  • Desalination

Current Young Researcher

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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

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Patrick Lloyd-Smith
Associate Professor

USask Affiliation: Agricultural and Resource Economics

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water and resource economics

Current Young Researcher

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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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Ravi Vinasithamby MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Groundwater
  • Water quality
  • Modeling

Current Graduate Student

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Rebeca Magaly Espinosa Cortes MSc
PhD Student

USask Affiliation: Collegue of Engineering

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Groundwater
  • Energy
  • Carbon sequestration
  • Environmental engineering

Current Graduate Student

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Seokbum Ko PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor

USask Affiliation: Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Artificial intelligence
  • IoT sensors
  • Embedded systems
  • Efficient hardware implementation of compute-intensive applications

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Seth Kwaku Amankwah MSc
Lab Manager

USask Affiliation: Global Water Futures Observatories

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Soil Physics

Current Young Researcher

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Shadi Zarei BSc, MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Current Graduate Student

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Shayeb Shahariar BSc, MSc, PhD
Professional Research Associate

USask Affiliation: Colleg of Agriculture and Bioresources, Department of Soil Science

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Biogeochemistry
  • Root-soil-microbe interaction
  • Climate change and land degradation
  • Soil health and quality
  • Agroecosystem greenhouse gas emission quantification and mitigation
  • Soil organic matter dynamics and management
  • Soil salinity management
  • Soil hydrology and water management
  • Nutrient cycling and cropping systems
  • Nutrient use efficiency
  • Synchrotron techniques
  • Environmental metabolomics
  • Sustainable soil management
  • Food security
  • Climate resilient agroecosystem
  • Sustainable agriculture.

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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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Warren Helgason PhD
Associate Professor

USask Affiliation: Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Hydrometeorology
  • Agricultural Water Management
  • Atmospheric boundary layer processes

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Wonjae Chang PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Environmental engineering
  • Environmental remediation
  • Salinity mitigation
  • Environmental functional materials
  • Microbe-mineral interaction for environmental applications

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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

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Yohanne Larissa Gavasso Rita MSc
Ph.D. Student

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

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Research Areas / Major Roles

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

Current Graduate Student

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Zhenhua Li PhD
Research Associate

USask Affiliation: GIWS

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Climate modeling