Global Institute for Water Security

Students and Young Researchers

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Aamina Batool PhD
Assistant Professor

Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydroclimate extremes
  • Water resources
  • Climate change
  • Nonstationarity


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Achyut Adhikari MEng
Student

Affiliation: Department of civil engineering / Water resources, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Open channel hyrdrualics

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Dr. Adebanji Adegoke PhD

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Geochemistry

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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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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Alex De-Amorim-Teixeira
MWS Student

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Integrated Water Resources Management and Decision Making

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Alima Zhu MSc
Student

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability , University of Saskatchewan

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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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 Escalante Herrera MSc, PhD, DDS
Postdoctoral Fellow

Affiliation: Canadian Center for Rural and Agricultural Health, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Oral Health
  • Oral-Systemic Health
  • Periodonology
  • Oral Microbiology
  • Proteomics
  • Community-Based Participatory Research
  • Environmental health


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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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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


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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 MSc
PhD Candidate

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Cold Region Hydrology
  • Lateral Carbon Transport
  • System Dynamics
  • Agro-hydrology
  • Integrated Water Resources Modeling

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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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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Arooba Aziz Khan
Teaching Assistant

Affiliation: SENS, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Sustainability
  • Civil Engineering


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Ashemir Boticario Velasco
Student

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water-Food Nexus
  • Agricultural Water
  • Groundwater
  • Climate Change


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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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Baolin Yang
Associate Professor

Affiliation: Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Computer Science
  • Deep learning on Flood inundation


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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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Breanna Barrett BSc
Graduate Student

Affiliation: Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Brittany Claeys
Master's Student

Affiliation: Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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César (Cesar) 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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Chantel Chizen PhD
Assistant Professor

USask Affiliation: Agriculture and Bioresources, Soil Science

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Wetland Management
  • Remote Sensing
  • Digital Soil Mapping
  • Soil Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Salinity
  • Soil Data Management

Current Young Researcher


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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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Connor Johnson MSc
Master's Candidate

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrogeochemistry

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Corwyn Shomachuk BSc, BA (Honours)
Master of Science Student

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

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrological modelling

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Dr. Cuauhtémoc T. Vidrio-Sahagún BSc, PhD

Affiliation: Department of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Lab Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water and hydroclimate extremes
  • Statistical hydrology
  • Adaptive water management
  • Climate change

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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Dr. David Kwesi Abebrese

Affiliation: Soil Science , University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Soil and water relationships
  • Soil organic carbon
  • Soil variability studies
  • Sustainable agriculture


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Dayanna Lizeth Jimenez Baron Eng
Environmental engineer

Affiliation: School of Environment & Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydraulics
  • Hydrology


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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


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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


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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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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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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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Dr. Elvira Vergara-Pineda MSc, PhD

Affiliation: Toxicology Centre/SENS, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Aquatic Ecotoxicology
  • Organic Pollutants
  • Mercury Compounds
  • Transcriptomics


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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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Eric Wang MSc
Research Analyst

USask Affiliation: Global Water Futures Observatories

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Data management and web development

Current Young Researcher


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Eunice Salubi PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Affiliation: Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water quality and water-related diseases
  • Climate change and health
  • Spatial analysis of disease patterns and determinants

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Fei Huo PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Global Institute for water security

Current Young Researcher


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Ferdous Wahid Arnob MS.S
Professor

Affiliation: Regenerative Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Biodiversity

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Gamal Alahmady PhD
PhD Student / Teaching Assistant

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

Current Graduate Student


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Hamed Abbasnezhad MSc
Researcher

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Groundwater modeling
  • Surface water modeling
  • Soil salinity
  • Saltwater Intrusion
  • Water Resources Management
  • Hydraulic structures

Current Graduate Student


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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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Hayden Billingy
MSc. Student

Affiliation: Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • GIS


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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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Jude Juventus Aweya PhD

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Host-pathogen-environment interactions and immunomodulation in aquatic organisms (crustaceans)
  • Water security in environmental health


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Julia Flett BSc
MSc. Student

Affiliation: Department Biology , University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Aquatic toxicology
  • Aquatic invertebrates

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Julia Howell Bourner BSc
Research Assistant

Affiliation: Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Julia Janicki RN

Affiliation: Master of Water Security, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Ecological restoration
  • Ecosystem services related to public health
  • Human dimensions of watershed health


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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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Kyla Wynn PhD
Professor

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water Quality


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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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Leila Halakouhi

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Lijie Guo
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability; Centre for Hydrology

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Climate change
  • Agro-hydrology
  • Hydrological effects separation
  • Best management practices (BMPs)
  • Irrigation
  • Water Use Efficiency (WUE)
  • Greenhouse crops
  • Abiotic stress

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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Lizette Villa Alcaraz BEng
PhD Student

Affiliation: Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs)
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • UV-Based Treatment Technologies
  • Ozone and Nanobubble Technologies


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Lorena Giselle Rodríguez Beas
PhD Student

Affiliation: Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Profile Additional Website

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water Treatment
  • Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs)
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Pollutant Removal
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Analytical Methods
  • Food Quality and Safety


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Majid Dehghani Sanij MES
Student

USask Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Flood Forecasting

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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Mandira Shrestha

Affiliation: Masters in Water Security, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Performance Study of Wheat Varieties Under Various Different Fertility Levels


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Manizhe Zarei
PhD student

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Flood modelling

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Man-Yin Tsang PhD
Assistant Professor

Affiliation: Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Mineral resources and environmental impact
  • Interactions between water, minerals and living organisms
  • Water in tectonic margins
  • Pore water in sediment

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Marie Krejsova Ing.
Engineer

Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Wind erosion
  • Water erosion
  • Fast growing trees
  • Agroforestry
  • Soil hydrology
  • Soil physics


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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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Mercy Kehinde MSc, PhD
Student

USask Affiliation: College of Medicine

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water and Health
  • Indigenous water governance and management

Current Graduate Student


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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. Mohamed Elshamy MSc, PhD, DIC

Affiliation: GIWS & Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrological Land Surface Models
  • Climate Change
  • Permafrost

Current Young Researcher


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Dr. Mohammad Ghoreishi
Adjunct Professor

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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Neda Rahaei MSc
Student

Affiliation: Chemical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Nelly Ataawomba Afuubi MSs
SENSSA Vice President

Affiliation: School Environment & Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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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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Nikoo Sarmasti MSc
Graduate Student

Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Water and Wastewater Treatment - Machine Learning


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Nunia Jane Nwidadah MSc

Affiliation: College of Graduate and Post Doctoral Studies / Water Security, University of Saskatchewan

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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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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Petr Pavlík (Pavlik) Ing
Visiting Graduate Researcher

Primary Affiliation: Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague
USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology
  • Hydrological Modelling
  • Land surface Modelling
  • Water Resources Management

Current Graduate Student


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Qi Wang
Master of Water Security

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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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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Rachita Shahi MSc, BE
PhD Student

Affiliation: Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology and Water Resources
  • Hydrological Modeling and Prediction
  • Climate Change Impact Assessment
  • Land Use and Land Cover Change Impact Assessment
  • Snow Cover Projection and Analysis
  • Extreme Precipitation and Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP)


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Rafael Carone BSc
MSc Student

Affiliation: Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Irrigation Economics and Water Policy


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Ramiro Villegas Vega
PhD student

Affiliation: Civil Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydroclimate extremes
  • Artificial Intelligence


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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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Rehaan Khan BE
Civil Engineer

Affiliation: Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


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Rezanur Rahman MSc
Ph.D. Student

Affiliation: Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Computational fluid dynamics in stormwater retention pond

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Richa Dhawale
Postdoctoral Fellow

USask Affiliation: Department of Geography and Planning

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Disaster risk management
  • Climate change
  • Vulnerability Assessment

Current Young Researcher


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Roberto Carlos Sanchez Ambrosio
Graduate student

Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Aquatic invertebrates
  • Water quality
  • Ecology
  • Entomology

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Ruwinda Fernando BSc

Affiliation: College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Natural resources economics


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Salman Ahmad Khattak MSc, MEng
Engineer

Affiliation: Department of Civil, Environmental & Geological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Construction Engineering Management
  • Hydrology
  • Ground Water Science
  • Sustainable Water Resource
  • Enviromental Site Assessments


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Sam Lucy Behle MSc
PhD student

Primary Affiliation: Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
USask Affiliation: Department of Geography and Planning

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Limnology
  • Aquatic ecology
  • Aquatic invasive species
  • Aquatic food webs

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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Sharjeel Shakeel PhD
Research Associate

Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability , University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Climate Change
  • Arctic Microplastic Pollution


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Susmita Das Nishu PhD
Masters student in Water Security

Affiliation: Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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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


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Tahlia Cook
Research Assistant

Affiliation: Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan


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Talieh Tajik MSc
Student

USask Affiliation: School of Environment and Sustainability

Current Graduate Student


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Thais do Rosario Botas MSc
Geologist

Affiliation: Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Interstitial water modeling
  • Microbial activity in marine subsoil in polar regions


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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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Trushnamayee Nanda PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Affiliation: SENS, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrological modeling and forecasting
  • Water balance
  • River flood scenario analysis and mapping
  • Large-scale satellite and reanalysis
  • Hydro-meteorological data interpretation and trend analysis
  • Analysis and anomaly detection for resource management
  • Climate projection and impact on future of water

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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Viviana Barrera Nino MSc
Research Coordinator

Affiliation: GIWS, University of Saskatchewan

Profile

Current GIWS-SYR Member


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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 PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Profile

Research Areas

• Relationships between water availability and crop production
• Climate impacts on agricultural productivity
• Shareholder engagement and knowledge co-production
• Agricultural water use behaviour and decision-making
• Interdisciplinary environmental research

Current Young Researcher


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Zoë Johnson

Affiliation: Geography and planning, University of Saskatchewan

Research Areas / Major Roles

  • Hydrology

Current GIWS-SYR Member