Faculty Fellows
The ND Water Resources Research Institute has four NDSU assistant professors currently serving as Faculty Fellows. These experts provide water research leadership and information to NDSU while providing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research-based solutions to water quality and water access problems for the state and the nation.
Trung Le
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: High Performance Computing, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction
Email:trung.le@ndsu.edu
Zhulu Lin
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Environmental systems analysis, Surface and subsurface hydrology and modeling, Soil and water resources management.
Email:zhulu.lin@ndsu.edu

Dane Mataic
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, NDSU
Email: dane.mataic@ndsu.edu

Travis Seaborn
Assistant Professor, Applied Ecology, School of Natural Resource Sciences, NDSU
Research Interest: Management and conservation as species face changing environments, with an emphasis on how our actions can shift outcomes of fish, wildlife, and people. Studies questions scaling from genomes to social-ecological systems and their landscapes, with an emphasis on fishes and amphibians. Current projects include impacts of restoration, invasive species, climate change, land use change, and disease ecology management.
Email: travis.seaborn@ndsu.edu