NDWRRI Affiliate Faculty

Achintya Bezbaruah

Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Environmental Sensors, Small Community Treatment, Micropollutants
Email:a.bezbaruah@ndsu.edu

Frank Casey

Associate Director of North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and Professor of Soil Physics, NDSU
Research Interests: Transport of Bioactive Chemicals in Soil-Water Systems, Soil Water Flow Measurement
Email:Francis.Casey@ndsu.edu

Xuefeng (Michael) Chu

Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Watershed Hydrologic Modeling, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Wetlands
Email:Xuefeng.chu@ndsu.edu

Larry Cihacek

Professor, Department of Soil Science, NDSU
Research Interests: Effects of management on carbon sequestration in soils, Fertilizer management in alternative crop systems and in reduced tillage systems, Effects of cropping systems on soil nutrient cycling
Email:larry.cihacek@ndsu.edu 

Shawn DeKeyser

Professor, Range/NRM, NDSU
Research Interests: Rangeland Ecology, Grazing Management, Wetland Ecology and Assessment
Email:edward.dekeyser@ndsu.edu

David Delene

Research Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, UND
Research Interest: Aerosol-Cloud Interaction, Precipitation Development, Weather Modification, Remote Sensing, Airborne Measurements, Statistical Analysis
Email:david.delene@UND.edu

Thomas DeSutter

Professor of Soil Science, NDSU
Research Interests: Application of industrial by-products to soils; soil salinity and sodicity; fate and transport of manure-borne hormones in swine production facilities; distribution of mercury in surface and subsurface soils
Email:Thomas.Desutter@ndsu.edu

Mahmut Selim Ersan

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, UND
Research Interests: Emerging Contaminants; Environmental Sensing Technologies; Innovative Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies; Sustainable Water Reuse Applications; Nano-enabled and Conventional Adsorbents
Email: mahmut.ersan@und.edu

Iris (Xiaoyu) Feng

Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Nutrient management, air&water quality, manure treatment, environmental control systems, GHGs, smart livestock
Email: xiaoyu.feng.1@ndsu.edu

Christina Hargiss

Associate Professor/Interim Director, School of Natural Resource Sciences, NDSU
Research Interests: Water Use, Water Quality, Wetland Ecology, Environmental Education, Effects of energy development on natural resources in North Dakota
Email:christina.hargiss@ndsu.edu 

Robert R. Hearne

Professor of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, NDSU
Research Interest: Water Policy and Institutions, Water Markets, Valuation of Non-market Environmental Goods and Services

Email:Robert.Hearne@ndsu.edu

I-Hsuan Ho

Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, UND
Research Interest: Energy Geotechnics, Pavement Heating, Slope Stability, Computational Geomechanics, Load Reduction Methods for Buried Culverts, Gr. Improvement
Email:ihsuan.ho@UND.edu

David G. Hopkins

Professor of Soil Science, NDSU
Research Interests: Interactions among landscape; soil morphology, soil properties and environmental aspects of land use
Email:david.hopkins@ndsu.edu

Syeed Iskander

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Reseach Interest: Municipal Solid Waste Management, Organic Waste Management, Plastics Pollution, Landfilling, and Landfill Leachate Management
Email:syeed.iskander@ndsu.edu

Mark A. Kaemingk

Assistant Professor of Aquatic Ecology, Department of  Biology, UND
Research Interests: Spatiotemporal dynamics, Social-ecological systems, Recreational fisheries, Aquatic ecology, Fish ecology.
Email:  mark.kaemingk@und.edu

Benjamin Laabs

Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Sciences, NDSU
Research Interest: Geologic records of past glaciation, Response of surface processes to climate change, Field mapping, Spatial analysis with GIS, Cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating of sediments and landforms
Email:benjamin.laabs@ndsu.edu

Chau Le

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Applied Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Critical Infrastructure System, Infrastructure Asset Management, and Construction Management & Engineering. 
Email: chau.le@ndsu.edu

Trung Le

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: High Performance Computing, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction
Email:trung.le@ndsu.edu

Howe Lim

Professor of Civil Engineering, UND
Research Interests: Open channel hydraulics and hydrologic runoff in cold regions, Flood frequency analysis and implications in changing climates, Streambank assessments and stabilizations, Revitalization of urban streams
Email:Yeo.Lim@und.nodak.edu

Zhulu Lin

Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Environmental systems analysis, Surface and subsurface hydrology and modeling, Soil and water resources management
Email:zhulu.lin@ndsu.edu

Shuning Lu

Assistant Professor, Communications, NDSU
Emailshuning.lu@ndsu.edu

Lindsay Malone

Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resource Sciences, NDSU
Research Interests: Climate Smart Approaches in agriculture, emphasizing resilience, soil health, and data-driven conservation management.
Email: lindsay.malone@ndsu.edu

Taufique Mahmood

Associate Professor, Department of Geology & Geological Engineering, UND
Research Interest: Monitoring and assessment of agricultural hydrology and water quality, developing conceptual model for nutrient transport, spatial controls on watershed and hillslope scale hydrologic responses
Email:taufique.mahmood@UND.edu

Marinus Otte

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NDSU
Research Interest: Wetlands, Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Ecophysiology, Biogeochemistry
Email:Marinus.Otte@ndsu.edu

Dane Mataic

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, NDSU
Emaildane.mataic@ndsu.edu

John McEvoy

Professor, Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences, NDSU
Research Interests: Cryptosporidium virulence factors and mechanisms of pathogenesis
Email:john.mcevoy@ndsu.edu

Peter Oduor

Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Sciences, NDSU
Research Interest: Geographic Information Systems, Groundwater Flow Modeling, Groundwater Contamination
Email:Peter.Oduor@ndsu.edu

Kelly Rusch

Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Decentralized Wastewater Treatment, Surface Water Quality Management and Modeling, Microalgal-based Biofuels and Bioproducts, Industrial Waste
Email:kelly.rusch@ndsu.edu

Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat

Professor, Deptartment of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Sciences, NDSU
Research Interests: Environmental Geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, Economic Geology, Pedagogical Methods
Email:Bernhardt.Saini-Eidukat@ndsu.edu

Travis Seaborn

Assistant Professor, Applied Ecology, School of Natural Resource Sciences, NDSU
Research Interest: Management and conservation as species face changing environments, with an emphasis on how our actions can shift outcomes of fish, wildlife, and people. Studies questions scaling from genomes to social-ecological systems and their landscapes, with an emphasis on fishes and amphibians. Current projects include impacts of restoration, invasive species, climate change, land use change, and disease ecology management.

Email: travis.seaborn@ndsu.edu

Craig Stockwell

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NDSU
Research Interests: Conservation Biology, Evolutionary Ecology of Native Fishes, Human-Wildlife Interactions
Email:Craig.Stockwell@ndsu.edu

Dean Steele

Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU
Research Interest: Development of water management practices and tools for improved crop production and natural resource management, Computer aided analysis and design
Email:dean.steele@ndsu.edu

Gregory Vandeberg

Professor of Geography, UND
Research Interests: Surface water quality; nutrients and heavy metals, fluvial and glacial geomorphology, disturbed land reclamation, GIS and remote sensing applications
Email:gregory.vandeberg@email.und.edu

Jiale Xu

Assistant Professor, , Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Water and Wastewater Treatment, Wastewater Reuse, Water Quality in Agriculture, De Facto Reuse, Produced Water Treatment, Photocatalytic Water Treatment, Membrane and Electrochemical Technologies, and Disinfection Byproducts
Email: jiale.xu@ndsu.edu>

Joseph Zeleznik

Extension Forester, School of Natural Resources, NDSU
Research Interests: Dendrochronology of ponderosa pine and bur oak, Bur oak regeneration, Riparian forest restoration
Email:Joseph.Zeleznik@ndsu.edu

Julia Zhao

Professor of Chemistry, UND
Email:julia.zhao@UND.edu

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