NM WRRI Announces Student Water Research Grants (continued)
By Catherine Ortega Klett, NM WRRI Program Manager
Eastern New Mexico University
Christine C. Gilbertson,Anthropology and Applied Archaeology, MS; (Dr. John Montgomery) Historic and ancient ditch irrigation inform current systems: A cross cultural comparison from Creekside Village of Tularosa, New Mexico
Thanchira Suriyamongkol,Biology, MS; (Dr. Ivana Mali) Monitoring basking activity and assessing water conditions in relation to basking of Rio Grande cooters along the Black River
New Mexico Highlands University
Ryan Mann,Environmental Geology Program, MS; (Dr. Jennifer Lindline) Further investigation of the complex hydrology at La Cienega, Santa Fe County, NM
New Mexico State University
Galathara Lekamalage Chathurika Lakshani Bandara,Civil Engineering, PhD; (Dr. Nagamany Nirmalakhandan and Dr. Pei Xu) Potable water recovery through energy efficient algal wastewater treatment and hybrid membrane processes
Lin Chen,Civil Engineering, PhD; (Dr. Pei Xu) Water reuse and desalination with self-cleaning photocatalytic membrane distillation
Xiaoxiao Cheng,Civil Engineering, PhD; (Dr. Yanyan Zhang) Developing new strategies to mitigate antimicrobial resistance for safe water reuse
Jason Fechner,Plant and Environmental Sciences, BS; (Dr. April Ulery) Gold King Mine Spill: Contaminant removal of San Juan County rivers via phytoremediation
Lei Hu,Civil Engineering, PhD; (Dr. Yanyan Zhang) Recovery of ammonium and magnesium from produced water by struvite precipitation
Khandaker Iftekharul Islam,Geography, and Water Science and Management Program, PhD; (Dr. Christopher Brown) An efficient forecasting of hydrologic extremes under climate change
Gaurav Jha,Plant and Environmental Sciences, PhD; (Dr. April Ulery) Speciation of metal (loids) in agricultural field soils impacted by Animas/San Juan River after the 2015 Gold King Mine Spill
Esmaiil Mokarighahroodi,Plant and Environmental Sciences, PhD; (Dr. Manoj Shukla) Optimizing fertilizer application and leaching under abiotic stresses within and below the root zone of pecan orchards
Jackson Powers,Plant and Environmental Sciences, MS; (Dr. Ryan Goss)Herbicide phytotoxicity under drought conditions in warm and cool season turfgra
New Mexico Tech
Angelica Cave,Biology, MS; (Dr. Linda DeVeaux) Antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment: the effects of different treatment methods on the differential survival of antibiotic resistant pathogens over non-resistant bacteria through the treatment process of two different wastewater treatment plants
Alexandra Pearce,Earth and Environmental Science, PhD; (Dr. Kierran Maher) Mineralogical and Kinetic Considerations for Uranium Leaching
Kyle Stark,Earth and Environmental Science, MS; (Dr. Daniel Cadol) Preparing a sediment monitoring station on an ephemeral channel for summer monsoon flows
University of New Mexico
Holly Brause,Anthropology, PhD; (Dr. David Dinwoodie) The everyday politics of irrigated agriculture and an uncertain future
Jon K. Golla,Earth and Planetary Sciences, MS; (Dr. Laura J. Crossey) Surface water quality implications of Valles Caldera geothermal fluids on Jemez watershed: A holistic hydrogeochemical investigation
Monika Hobbs,ater Resources Program, MWR; (Dr. Rebecca Bixby) Ecological responses in a river with more and less water: a case study of the highly managed Chama River, New Mexico
Suzanne Stradling,Economics, PhD; (Dr. Janie Chermak) Hydroelectric management on the Rio Chama: examining costs and benefits from non-consumptive flow management between the El Vado and Abiquiu reservoirs