Student Water Research Awards 2019-2020

	eNews Article	Final Report	Full Title	Authors
	August 2019	Final Report	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)
	March 2020	Final Report	Domestic Wastewater Treatment Using Algal Systems in Winter Climate	Isuru Sachitra Abeysiriwardana Arachchige, Civil Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Nirmalakhandan)
	November 2019	Coming Soon	Electrochemical-Assisted Ultrafiltration Membranes for Simultaneous Removal of As, Cd and Cr	Alireza Bandegi, Chemical & Materials Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Reza Foudazi)
	Coming Soon	Final Report	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)
	June 2020	Coming Soon	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)
	June 2020	Final Report	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)
	October 2019	Not Available	A Survey: New Mexicans’ Willingness to Pay for Produced Water Treatment for Beneficial Re-Use	Alyssa Latuchie, Economics, UNM, PhD; (Dr. Janie Chermak)
	February 2020	Final Report	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)
	Not Available	Not Available	Developing a 2/3D Model for Improving Fertigation Scheduling Under Salinity Stress for Pecan	Esmaiil Mokari, Plant & Environmental Sciences, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Manoj Shukla)
	May 2020	Final Report	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)
	September 2019	Final Report	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)
	April 2020	Final Report	Herbicide Phytotoxicity Under Drought Conditions in Warm and Cool Season Turfgrass	Jackson Powers, Plant & Environmental Sciences, NMSU, MS; (Dr. Ryan Goss)
	May 2020	Final Report	Modeling Rainfall-Runoff Relationships in Conjunction with Sediment Transport Measurements in Ephemeral Channels	Madeline Richards, Earth & Environmental Sciences, NM Tech, MS; (Dr. Daniel Cadol)
	January 2020	Coming Soon	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)
	April 2020	Final Report	Wasterwater-Treatment Algae-Derived Hydrochar for Heavy Metal Adsorption and Recycling	Jiuling Yu, Chemical & Materials Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Hongmei Luo)
	December 2019		Design of Optimized Produced Water Treatment Units for the Agricultural Irrigation	Muchu Zhou, Chemical & Materials Engineering, NMSU, PhD; (Dr. Reza Foudazi)