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Global Institute for Water Security

Climate and Water Resilient Communities, Sectors, and Ecosystems

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Alexey Shevyakov PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: Mathematics and Statistics

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Mathematical modelling
  • Fluid and solid mechanics
  • Complex flows
  • Exact and numerical solution of partial differential equations
  • Symbolic and numerical scientific computation
  • Global optimization

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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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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

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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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Ayden Draude BSc
Masters student

USask Affiliation: SENS

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Wetlands
  • Climate Change
  • Salinity

Current Graduate Student

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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

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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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César Pedrosa Soares BSc, MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Department of Geography and Planning

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Coupled human-water systems
  • Socioenvironmental justice
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Agent-Based Model (ABM)

Current Young Researcher

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Cherie Westbrook PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: Geography & Planning / Arts and Science

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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

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Directing operations and science initiatives for GWF/GWFO

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Cody David
Research Technician

USask Affiliation: GIWS

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Field technician for Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites (BERMS)
  • Terrestrial hydrology
  • Meteorological measurements
  • Flux measurements

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Corinne Schuster-Wallace PhD
Executive Director

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security; Department of Geography and Planning

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Coupled Human-Water Systems
  • Local Water Security for Health
  • Water, Disease, and Climate Change
  • Water for Equitable and Sustainable Development

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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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Duc Hai Nguyen PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Machine learning applied in hydrological problems
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Radar rainfall

Current Young Researcher

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Fei Huo PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for water security

Current Young Researcher

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Helen Baulch MSc, PhD
Professor

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water quality
  • Eutrophication
  • Blooms
  • Climate
  • Source water quality
  • BMPs

Current Young Researcher

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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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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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Kerry Anne Mazurek BSc, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor

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

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Public safety at dams
  • Erosion and sediment transport
  • Urban runoff
  • Stormwater retention ponds
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Hydraulic structures

Current Young Researcher

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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

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Isotope labs

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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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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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Lin Li
Student

USask Affiliation: College of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Sediment transport

Current Graduate Student

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Dr. Mohammad Ghoreishi
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

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

Current Young Researcher

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Monica Morrison BA, MA, MLS, PhD
Knowledge Mobilization Specialist

USask Affiliation: Global Water Futures Observatories

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Information resources management
  • Knowledge user engagement

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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

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Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water and resource economics

Current Young Researcher

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Prabin Rokaya PhD
Adjunct Professor

Primary Affiliation: Government of Alberta
USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Cryosphere
  • Watershed Modelling
  • Flood Risk
  • Transboundary Waters

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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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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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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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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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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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Talieh Tajik MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Current Graduate Student

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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

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

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

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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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Yanping Li PhD
Adjunct Professor

USask Affiliation: SENS

Current Young Researcher

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Zhenhua Li PhD
Research Associate

USask Affiliation: GIWS

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Climate modeling