Global Institute for Water Security

Members

Members and Student and Young Professional Members

Members

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Amira Abdelrasoul PhD, PEng
Assistant Professor

College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


Sven Achenbach
Professor

College of Engineering & Canadian Light Source, SyLMAND


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Hubert Tote Alimezelli
Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan


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Zilefac Elvis Asong
Adjunct Professor

Principal Hydroclimate Scientist and CEO, Climalogik Inc.


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Alan Barr
Research Associate

School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Area(s): inter-annual climatic variability and its influence on the carbon; water and energy cycles of boreal forest ecosystems; understanding the role of hydrology in the southern boreal forest’s response to climate variability and change; improving methodology to process and manage flux-tower data sets


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Helen Baulch
Associate Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability and Global Institute for Water Security

Research Area(s): Water quality; Aquatic ecology; Global change; Biogeochemical cycles; Greenhouse gas emissions; Eutrophication


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Angela Bedard-Haughn
Professor and Dean, College of Agriculture and Bioresources


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Ken Belcher
Professor

College of Agriculture and Bioresources, School of Environment and Sustainability, Department of Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics


Lori Bradford
Assistant Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Markus Brinkmann

Director, Toxicology Centre
Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability


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Sujata Budhathoki
Research Officer

Global Institute for Water Security


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Won Jae Chang
Associate Professor

College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


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Martyn Clark
Professor

Associate Director, Centre for Hydrology and Coldwater Laboratory


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Ajay Dalai
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioenergy and Environmental Friendly Chemical Processes

College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering


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Dirk de Boer
Emeritus Professor

College of Arts and Science, Department of Geography and Planning


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Lorne Doig
Research Scientist

Toxicology Centre


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Mohamed Elshamy
Research Scientist

Global Institute for Water Security


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Amin Elshorbagy
Professor

College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


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Jay Famiglietti
Professor, Arizona State University
Professor Emeritus, School of Environment and Sustainability
Former Executive Director, Global Institute for Water Security
Former Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing


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Grant Ferguson
Professor

College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


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Terry Fonstad
Associate Vice-President Research (Ethics and Infrastructure)
Professor, College of Engineering, Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering


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John Giesy
Distinguished Professor

Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Biomedical Sciences


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Patricia Gober
Professor

Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy


Raea Gooding
Outreach Coordinator

College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan


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Richard Gray
Professor

College of Agriculture and Bioresources, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics


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Carl Gutwin
Professor Department of Computer Science

University of Saskatchewan


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Madison Harasyn
Research Technician

Canmore Coldwater Laboratory


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Markus Hecker
Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Bobbi Helgason
Associate Professor Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan


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Warren Helgason
Associate Professor

College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering


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Jim Hendry
Professor

College of Art and Science, Department of Geological Sciences


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Harvey Hill
Adjunct Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy


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Natacha Hogan
Associate Professor

College of Agriculture and Bioresources, Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences


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Jeff Hudson
Professor

College of Art and Science, Department of Biology


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Dr. Margot Hurlbert
Professor & Canada Research Chair, Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability Policy

Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy


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Andrew Ireson
Associate Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, Global Institute for Water Security


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David Janz
Professor

Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences


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Tim Jardine
Associate Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability and the Toxicology Center


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Paul Jones
Associate Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability


Tara Kahan
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Environmental Analytical Chemistry


Mahdi Kowsari
Environmental Project Officer, Water Security Agency


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Colin Laroque
Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources


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Yanping Li
Adjunct Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Karsten Liber
Professor, Executive Director, School of Environment and Sustainability


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Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
Associate Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability and Global Institute for Water Security


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Matt Lindsay
Associate Professor

College of Arts and Science, Department of Geological Sciences


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Patrick Lloyd-Smith
Assistant Professor

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture and Bioresources


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Steven Mamet
Research Associate

Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan


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Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle
Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society & Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Research Area(s): Conservation planning; Biodiversity; Land-use change; Climate change; Environmental decision-making, prioritization; Water management


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Lawrence Martz
Professor Emeritus and SMC Lead, Knowledge Mobilization


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Jeffrey McDonnell
Professor and Associate Director

Global Institute for Water Security, School of Environment and Sustainability


Dena McMartin
Professor, Associate Provost- IPA


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Kerry McPhedran
Associate Professor

College of Engineering, Environmental Engineering


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Venkatesh Meda
Professor

College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering


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Christy Morrissey
Professor

College of Arts and Science and School of Environment and Sustainability, Department of Biology,


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Bram Noble
Professor

College of Arts and Science, Department of Geography and Planning


Femi Oloye
Project Manager / Research Associate

University of Saskatchewan

Research Area(s): Pollutants; Freshwater; Wastewater; Catalysis; Chemicals; Infectious diseases; LC-MS


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Simon Michael Papalexiou

Adjunct Professor, Civil Geological and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary


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Robert Patrick
Professor

College of Arts and Science, Department of Geography and Planning


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Daniel Pennock
Professor Emeritus

College of Agriculture and Bioresources, Department of Soil Science


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Ingrid Pickering
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Molecular Environmental Science

College of Arts and Science, Department of Geological Sciences


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John Pomeroy FRSC
Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Geography & Planning

Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change,
Director, Global Water Futures Programme,
Director, USask Centre for Hydrology,
Director, USask Coldwater Laboratory, Canmore, Alberta


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Saman Razavi
Associate Professor

Research Area(s): Climate change and water security; Land-water management and environmental change; Hydrologic models development and calibration; Environmental and water resources systems planning and management; Single- and multi-objective optimization, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification; Climate change and impacts on hydrology and water resources; Reconstruction of paleo-hydrology – implications for climate change analysis; Surrogate modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning


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Maureen Reed
Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability


Arcadio Rodriguez-Prado
Adjunct Professor

Chemical Engineering

Research Area(s): Conducting hydrological models using MESH, model streamflow and water level for hydrological basins in Canada and other countries; Wastewater treatment design, feasibility and modelling, using conventional and non-conventional technologies


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Prabin Rokaya
Transboundary Water Sepcialist, Government of Alberta
Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan


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Sara Sadri
Research Scientist


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Corinne Schuster-Wallace
Executive Director, Global Institute for Water Security


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Bing Si
Professor

College of Agriculture and Bioresources, Department of Soil Science


Sukhwinder Singh
Research Assistant


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Jafar Soltan
Professor

College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering


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Raymond Spiteri
Professor

Department of Computer Science, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


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Jean-Pierre St-Maurice
Professor

College of Arts and Science, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics


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Graham Strickert
Assistant Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Garth van der Kamp
Research Scientist

Environment Canada


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Ken van Rees
Professor and Director, Centre for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation


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Cherie Westbrook
Professor

College of Arts and Science, Department of Geography and Planning


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Howard Wheater
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security Laureate, Founding Director of GIWS

Global Institute for Water Security and School of Environment and Sustainability


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Elaine Wheaton
Senior Research Scientist

Climate Scientist, Adjunct Professor, Emeritus Researcher, Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatchewan Research Council


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Colin Whitfield
Assistant Professor

School of Environment and Sustainability and Global Institute for Water Security


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Lee Wilson
Associate Professor

College of Arts and Science, Department of Chemistry


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Omer Yeteman
Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle


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Chris W. Zhang
Professor

College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Research Area(s): Water supply resilience and sustainability; Biosensors for water quality monitoring; Complex network systems (e.g., water system) - interdependency and dynamics; Porous medium modeling for unsaturated ground water system; Robotics for condition monitoring for water systems; Hybrid decision making for water systems


Student members

Mohamed Abdelhamed
Student

Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


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Oghenemise Abirhire
Student

Department of Biology


Razak Abu
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Adedoyinsola Adesokan

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Mostafa Aghbolaghy

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering


Hafiz Ahmed

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering


Eric Akomeah
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Shahabul Alam

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Mahmud Amin

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Mike Amos

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Gervin Apatinga
Student

Department of Geography and Planning

Research Area(s): Water; Population Health; Migration


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James Armstrong

Department of Biology


Maria Armstrong

Department of Geography, Centre for Hydrology


Bennet Awume

School of Environment and Sustainability


Thomas Baer

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Tabata Bagatim

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Edward Bam

School of Environment and Sustainability


Kaitlyn Bell

Global Institute for Water Security/School of Environment and Sustainability


Pamela Berry

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


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Andre Bertoncini
Student

Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


Samantha Bihun

Department of Biology


Lady Bravo-Montero
Visiting Research Student

University of Saskatchewan

Research Area(s): Integrated Water Resources Management; Socio-hydrology; Aquifer recharge; Water and Sowing Harvesting


Keenan Brockman
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Robyn Brown

Department of Biology


Kristin Bruce

Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy


Astri Buchanan

School of Environment and Sustainability


Amanda Burke

School of Environment and Sustainability


David Burlock

Department of Biology


Alex Cebulski
Student

Coldwater Lab, Centre for Hydrology


Rocky Chowdhury

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Carley Coccola

Global Institute for Water Security/School of Environment and Sustainability


Apurba Das

School of Environment and Sustainability


Leila Dehabadi
Student

Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan


Shelby DeMars
Student

College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


Mauro Bevilacqua de Toledo

School of Environment and Sustainability


Kathryn Dompierre

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering


Scott Dudiak

Department of Biology


Nicholas Dylla
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Leila Eamen
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Carlie Elliott
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Kevin Erratt
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Jaivime Evaristo
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Forough Fendereski
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Jannatul Ferdous

Department of Chemical and Bioengineering


Jason Flemke
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Lorelei Ford

School of Environment and Sustainability


Chris Gabrielli

School of Environment and Sustainability


Noel Galuschik

School of Environment and Sustainability


Philip Garvey

Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources


Josh Gibb

School of Environment and Sustainability


Randie Gibson

School of Public Health


Esteban Gillio Meina
Student

Department of Toxicology, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


Jordan Gonda

Department of Civil and geological Engineering


Grace Gowera
PhD Student

Research Area(s): Soil mapping; GIS; Environmental Management


Chantelle Grafton
Student - Master of Water Security Program


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Lijie Guo

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


John Guselle
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Richard Helmle
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Greg Hoenman
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Ya Huang
Student

Global Institute for Water Security


Md Noim Imtiazy

Department of Biology, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


Devin Iuliano
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Hammad Javid
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Mostofa Kamal
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Andrea Knibbs
Student - Master of Water Security Program


Anchit Lakhanpal
Student

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


Zachary Lang
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Nigel Leach
Student

College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


Yiwen Li
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Elisabeta Lika
Student

College of Agriculture and Bioresources, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan

Research Area(s): Non-market valuation; Water Resource Systems Modeling; Irrigation and Drainage; Impact of macroeconomic policies in water sector; Water supply and demand; Natural resource management


Annika Maangold-Doring
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability and the Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany


Samantha Matheson
Student

Department of Geography & Planning


Esther McAleer
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Herbert Mkandla
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Mahtab Nazarbakhsh
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Kevin Newman
Student

College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


Nicholas Phelan
Student

Global Institute for Water Security/School of Environment and Sustainability


Kaixuan Qin
Student

Department of Geological Sciences, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan


Mohammed Rabiul Hasan

College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering


Rashadur Rahman
Student

Agriculture & Bioresources - Economics


Taya Raine
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Yohanne Rita

College of Engineering, Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

Research Area(s): Effect of climate changes in crop production


Behdad Saed
Ph.D. Student

Research Area(s): Water-Energy-Food Nexus; Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM); Climate change impact; Watershed modeling; Socio-Hydrology


Sahar Safaei
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Razi Sheikholeslami
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Kurkute Sopan
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


James Tipman
Student

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan


Binben Wang
Student

Computer Science


Michelle Wauchope-Thompson
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan


Mohanad Zaghloul
Student

University of Saskatchewan


Fan Zhang
Student

School of Environment and Sustainability


Zhe Zhang

School of Environment and Sustainability


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Khaled Zoroufchi Benis
GIWS Graduate Student Member

Research Area(s): Wastewater treatment; Modelling; Optimization; Biotechnology