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Research Group Members

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Komlan Koudahe
MS Student, BAE, KSU

Komlan's research is on understanding water irrigation technologies and the benefits of sustainable cotton production in Southwest Kansas.

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Umme Fatema Piu
MS Student, BAE, KSU

Umme Fatema's project relates to implementing novel approaches for assessment of evapotranspiration rates under water-limited crop production in Kansas.

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Dr. Aleksey Sheshukov
Associate Professor, BAE, KSU

Aleksey's passion is on understanding hydrological processes in watersheds, and assessing water-quality impacts of non-point source pollution.

Archived webpage: http://www.bae.ksu.edu/watershed/ashesh/

Previous Group Members

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Md Atiqul Islam (2018-2020)
MS, BAE, KSU

Atiqul's project was on understanding the contribution of physical variables on the occurrence of harmful algal blooms in Kansas lakes and ponds.

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Dereatha Cross
BAE, KSU

Dereatha's interests related to improving and innovating methods needed to solve "long-time-constant" challenges involving the sustainable and equitable use of water resources and associated integrated systems.

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Chinthaka Bandara Weerasekara (2016-2019)
MS
, BAE, KSU

Chinthaka's project related to evaluation of soil losses in agricultural fields using photogrammetry technique and computer modeling. His project is supported with the grant funded by Kansas Water Resources Institute and USGS.

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Tobias Oker (2014-2018)
PhD, BAE, KSU

Tobias's project was on studying benefits of mobile drip irrigation for improving water productivity of corn in Western Kansas. He also used SWAT model to optimize the placement of Best Management Practices in Little Arkansas River watershed in Central Kansas.

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Dr. Yan Zhou (2018-2019)
Postoctoral Research Associate, BAE, KSU

Yan worked on evaluating pollutant runoff in Cheney Lake Watershed by building a SWAT model and using photogrammetry technique. Presently a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Florida International University.

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Dr. Jungang Gao (2014-2016)
Postoctoral Research Associate, BAE, KSU

Jungang used SWAT and GIS to better understand impacts of climate variability and land use change on water resources in Smoky Hill watershed in Western Kansas.

Presently Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University working at the USDA-ARS lab in Temple, TX.

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Dr. Vladimir Karimov (2013-2017)
PhD, BAE, KSU

Vladimir's research was on studying soil erosion processes using physically-based computer modeling and conducting field experiments. A specific interest was in evaluating soil loss from ephemeral gullies.

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Gia Nguyen (2014-2016)
MS, BAE, KSU

Gia's study was on using the Jet Erosion Test (JET) tool to better understand soil erosion properties on fields with contrasting tillage practices.

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Lawrence Sekaluvu (2014-2015)
M.S., BAE, KSU

Lawrence studied the location and length of ephemeral gully occurrence in Central Kansas using six Topographic-Index models. Graduated with a PhD degree at Purdue University.