2007 Fellowships
The Institute promotes the education and training of water resources research professionals through its fellowship program. Profiles of each graduate fellow, and summaries of her or his thesis research project, and publications from this project are accessed through the links below. Visitors are invited to contact the student, research advisor, or the Institute Director for further information on the projects.
The North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute announced its Graduate Research Fellowship recipients for the year 2007-2008. The fellowships were awarded to eleven graduate students, who will conduct water resources research at NDSU and UND. These graduate research projects are supported with the annual base (104b) federal grant, and an additional fund from North Dakota State Water Commission.
The 2007-2008 NDWRRI Fellows, and their faculty advisors, academic programs, and research projects are listed as follows:
Breanna Paradeis
Plant Species Composition of Wetlands Located in Restored Native Prairie
Program: Natural Resources Management, North Dakota State University
Advisor: Donald Kirby
Damion Knudsen
An Investigation into Subsurface Sampling and Characterization Efficiency Using a High Resolution GIS Based Earth System
Program: Environmental and Conservation Sciences, North Dakota University State
Advisor: Bernhart Saini-Eidukat
Dan McEwen
Stoichiometry and the transfer of mercury from benthic macroinvertebrates into game fish
Program: Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University
Advisor: Malcolm Butler
Jay Thompson
Iron Nanoparticles for the Treatment of the Herbicides Atrazine, Alachlor and Dicamba in Groundwater
Program: Environmental Engineering, North Dakota State University
Advisor: Achintya Bezbaruah
Mary Schuh
Farm-scale reconnaissance of estrogens in subsurface waters
Program: Soil Science, North Dakota State University
Advisor: Frank Casey
Ryan Klapperich
Analysis of Associated Bedrock-Aquifer System Sediments: Origins of Electron Donor-Rich Aquifers in Eastern North Dakota
Program: Geology, University of North Dakota
Advisor: Scott Korom
Sita Krajangpan
Effective Delivery of Iron Nanoparticles by Amphiphilic Polysiloxane Graft Copolymeric Vehicles for Groundwater Remediation
Program: Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University
Advisor: Achintya Bezbaruah
Thunyalux Ratpukdi
Fractionation of Natural Organic Matter in Water from the Red River and the Moorhead Water Treatment Plant, Minnesota Using a Novel Solid Phase Extraction Technique
Program: Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University
Advisor: Eakalak Khan
Wei Zheng
Classification of Macroinvertebrate Communities across Red River Drainage Basin
Program: Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University
Advisor: Malcolm Butler
William Clark
The examination of Life History Variation in White Sucker (Catostomus commersoni) Populations in North Dakota and Minnesota Drainages
Program: Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University
Advisor: Mark Clark
Yuhui Jin
Rapid and Sensitive Determination of Bacteria in Water Using Nanoparticles
Program: Chemistry, University of North Dakota
Advisor: Julia Zhao