Student Water Research Awards 2019-2020

	eNews Article	Final Report	Full Title	Authors
			Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment of the Rio Mora at the Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge, Mora County, NM	Johnson Adio, Natural Resources Management, NMHU, MS; (Dr. Jennifer Lindline)
			Domestic Wastewater Treatment Using Algal Systems in Winter Climate	Isuru Sachitra Abeysiriwardana Arachchige, Civil Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Nirmalakhandan)
			Electrochemical-Assisted Ultrafiltration Membranes for Simultaneous Removal of As, Cd and Cr	Alireza Bandegi, Chemical & Materials Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Reza Foudazi)
			Wastewater Treatment Using Food Waste Char Obtained from Hydrothermal Liquefaction as a Low-Cost Adsorbent Material	Hengameh Bayat, Chemical & Materials Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Umakanta Jena)
			Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine the Usefulness of Surface Water as a Proxy for Precipitation in a Semi-Arid, Mountainous Environment	Victoria Blumenberg, Animal & Range Sciences, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Amy Ganguli)
			Surface Area of a Local Clay Material to Elucidate Uranium Abatement for Potable New Mexico Water Management	Moticha M. Franklin, Chemistry & Biochemistry, NMSU, BS; (Dr. Antonio S. Lara)
			A Survey: New Mexicans’ Willingness to Pay for Produced Water Treatment for Beneficial Re-Use	Alyssa Latuchie, Economics, UNM, PhD; (Dr. Janie Chermak)
			Tracking CRE in the Rio Grande: Determining Correlation Between the Appearance of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Surface Waters and Local Infection Rates	Kimberly McNair, Biology, NM Tech, MS; (Dr. Linda DeVeaux)
			Developing a 2/3D Model for Improving Fertigation Scheduling Under Salinity Stress for Pecan	Esmaiil Mokari, Plant & Environmental Sciences, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Manoj Shukla)
			Assessment of Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs) Formation in Algae-Treated Wastewater for Safer Reuse in Unrestricted Applications	Srimali Preethika Munasinghe-Arachchige, Civil Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Nirmalakhandan)
			Enhanced Water Recovery and Membrane Scaling Mitigation for Desalination Using Innovative Electromagnetic Field (EMF) and 3D Printed Open Flow Channel Membranes	Juliano Penteado de Almeida, Civil Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Pei Xu)
			Herbicide Phytotoxicity Under Drought Conditions in Warm and Cool Season Turfgrass	Jackson Powers, Plant & Environmental Sciences, NMSU, MS; (Dr. Ryan Goss)
			Modeling Rainfall-Runoff Relationships in Conjunction with Sediment Transport Measurements in Ephemeral Channels	Madeline Richards, Earth & Environmental Sciences, NM Tech, MS; (Dr. Daniel Cadol)
			Monitoring Toxic Metal Uptake by Corn Grown in Agricultural Fields Across Animas and San Juan Rivers	Michael Whiting (Gaurav Jha, student mentor), Geology, NMSU, MS; (Dr. April Ulery)
			Wasterwater-Treatment Algae-Derived Hydrochar for Heavy Metal Adsorption and Recycling	Jiuling Yu, Chemical & Materials Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Hongmei Luo)
			Design of Optimized Produced Water Treatment Units for the Agricultural Irrigation	Muchu Zhou, Chemical & Materials Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Reza Foudazi)