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Global Institute for Water Security

Land-Water Management

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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

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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

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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

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Andrea Knibbs MWS
Recent graduate

USask Affiliation: SENS

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Isotope hydrology
  • Green infrastructure
  • Hydrogeology
  • Water resources management
  • Project management

Current Young Researcher

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Andrew Ireson PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: SENS

Additional Website

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

Profile

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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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

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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

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Bob Patrick PhD
Professor and Chair, Regional and Urban Planning

USask Affiliation: Arts and Science/Geography and Planning

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Indigenous planning
  • Source Water Protection
  • Urban Water
  • Nature-based Solutions

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Chantal Corriveau
MES Student

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

Current Graduate Student

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Cherie Westbrook PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: Geography & Planning / Arts and Science

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Ecohydrology
  • Wetlands including peatlands

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Chris DeBeer MSc, PhD, B.Sc. (Hons)
Science and Operations Director, Global Water Futures Observatories

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security and Centre for Hydrology

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Directing operations and science initiatives for GWF/GWFO

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Christy Morrissey PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: Arts and Science/Biology

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Ecotoxicology of birds and wetlands
  • Pesticides
  • Industrial pollutants
  • Oil and gas
  • Sustainable agriculture

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Cody Millar BSc, MES
Laboratory Manager

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security - MOST facility

Profile

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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Colin Laroque PhD, PAg
Professor

USask Affiliation: Ag/Bio

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Dedrochronology
  • Forestry Ecology
  • Climate Change

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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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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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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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Deysi Julieta Venegas Garcia
PhD Student

USask Affiliation: Chemistry

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water treatment
  • Materials

Current Graduate Student

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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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Emily Ireland
Graduate student

USask Affiliation: Geography and Planning

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Ecohydrology

Current Graduate Student

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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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Harvinder Sidhu H.BSc
MSc Student

USask Affiliation: Department of Geography and Planning

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology

Current Graduate Student

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Hongxiu Wang PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Ecohydrology
  • Paleoclimate
  • Stable isotopes of water

Current Young Researcher

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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

Profile Additional Website

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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Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • River ice monitoring and modelling
  • Flood risk hazard and risk assessment
  • Surface water quality modelling

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Kerry McPhedran MSc, PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: Civil, Geological & Environmental Engineering

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Municipal wastewater
  • Industrial wastewater
  • Stormwater
  • Indigenous water-related issues

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Kim Janzen MSc
Technician

USask Affiliation: GIWS/Soil Science

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Isotope labs

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Krystopher Chutko PhD
Assistant Professor

USask Affiliation: Department of Geography and Planning

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Meteorology
  • Education

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Lauren Miranda MES
Research Assistant

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Project management
  • Science translation
  • Field and lab support

Current Young Researcher

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Lee D. Wilson PhD
Professor

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

Profile Additional Website

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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Lijie Guo
PhD Candidate

USask Affiliation: College of Engineering

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Research Areas / Major Roles

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

Current Graduate Student

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Lisa Boyer MES
Research Assistant

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security

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Malki Madhuwanthi Manawadu MSc
Master student of MWS

USask Affiliation: SENS

Current Graduate Student

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Markus Brinkmann
Associate Professor & Director

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability & Toxicology Centre

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

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

Current Young Researcher

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Markus Hecker
Professor and Canada Research Chair

USask Affiliation: SENS/Toxicology

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Aquatic toxicology
  • Fish biology
  • Aquatic ecology
  • Mechanistic toxicology
  • Toxicogenomics
  • New approach methods
  • Environmental risk assessment

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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

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Environmental geochemistry
  • Groundwater geochemistry
  • Mine closure geochemistry

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Merle Massie PhD
Professional Research Associate

USask Affiliation: Canadian Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Health and place
  • Rural and environmental studies
  • Knowledge mobilization
  • Research project management
  • Events

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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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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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Nichole-Lynn Stoll MSc
PhD Candidate

USask Affiliation: Arts and Science/Geography and Planning

Current Graduate Student

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Patrick Lloyd-Smith
Associate Professor

USask Affiliation: Agricultural and Resource Economics

Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water and resource economics

Current Young Researcher

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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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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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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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Dr. Sven Achenbach Ing.
Professor

USask Affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Microfluidics
  • Sensing

Current Young Researcher

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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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Timothy D. Jardine PhD
Associate Professor

USask Affiliation: Toxicology Centre and School of Environment and Sustainability

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydro-ecology
  • River science
  • Aquatic food webs
  • Source and fate of contaminants
  • Social ecological systems

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Warren Helgason PhD
Associate Professor

USask Affiliation: Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering

Profile

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

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

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

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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