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Global Institute for Water Security

Students and Young Researchers

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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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Anukul Basnet MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: Civil Engineering

Additional Website

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

Additional Website

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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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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Dr. Bernd Steiger
Researcher

USask Affiliation: Department of Chemistry

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Biopolymer-based water remediation and materials chemistry

Current Young Researcher

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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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Chantal Corriveau
MES Student

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

Current Graduate Student

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Chloe Krivoshen BSc
Research Assistant

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water quality

Current Young Researcher

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

USask Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability

Additional Website

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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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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Eftychia (Joy) Mitsogianni MSc
Strategic Program Manager

USask Affiliation: Geography and Planning

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Financial planning, forecasting, reporting
  • HR duties

Current Young Researcher

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Elliott Skierszkan PhD
Adjunct Professor

Primary Affiliation: Carleton University
USask Affiliation: Geological Sciences

Additional Website

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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Fei Huo PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for water security

Current Young Researcher

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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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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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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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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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Joyce Lutterodt MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Science

Current Graduate Student

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Katy Nugent BSc
Lab Manager and Field Technician

USask Affiliation: Global Water Futures Observatories

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Lab Manager for the Saskatchewan Water Chemistry and Ecology Laboratory
  • Student training and project development
  • Usask Safety liaison with GIWS and Environment and Climate Change Canada
  • Field technician for the Buffalo Pound and Cumberland House buoy systems, and other water based field equipment/sensors
  • Data management of all buoy and lab output

Current Young Researcher

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Mohammad Shirazi MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

Additional Website

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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Oghenemise Abirhire PhD

Primary Affiliation: Environmental Consulting

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Limnology and phytoplankton dynamics in lakes

Current Young Researcher

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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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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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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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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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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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Dr. Sven Achenbach Ing.
Professor

USask Affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Microfluidics
  • Sensing

Current Young Researcher

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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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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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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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Yanping Li PhD
Adjunct Professor

USask Affiliation: SENS

Current Young Researcher

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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