2022 Fellowships

The Institute promotes the education and training of water resources research professionals through its fellowship program. Profiles of each graduate fellow, and summaries of her or his thesis research project, and publications from this project are accessed through the links below. Visitors are invited to contact the student, research advisor, or the Institute Director for further information on the projects.

The North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute has announced its Graduate Research Fellowship recipients for 2022-2023. The fellowships, ranging from $1,000 to $14,614, were awarded to five doctoral and four master’s degree students.

The students will conduct water resources research at NDSU and the University of North Dakota. Fellows, their academic programs, university, faculty advisers and research projects are:

Biraj Saha

Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances removal from landfill leachate by coagulation
Program: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Advisor: Syeed Md Iskander

Christine Cornish

Reconstructing glyphosate use in the Prairie Pothole Region: A paleolimnological approach
Program: Environmental and Conservation Sciences/Biological Sciences
Advisor: Marinus Otte and Jon Sweetman

Fafa Tackie-Otoo

Treatment and reuse of produced water through the measurement and elimination of coagulated petrochemicals/hydrocarbons in inorganic and organic aqueous solutions
Program: Mechanical Engineering, UND
Advisor: Hallie Boyer Chelmo

Himani Yadav

Landfill leachate plastics: occurrence, transformation, fate, and environmental implications
Program: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Advisor: Syeed Md Iskander

Malachi Graupman

Environment Friendly Phosphate Removal and Recovery from Surface and Agricultural Waters
Program: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Advisor: Achintya Bezbaruah

Mosammat Mustari Khanaum

Assessing the role of wetlands in reducing sediment and nutrient loads from an impaired watershed in North Dakota
Program: Environmental and Conservation Sciences and Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Advisor: Xuefeng Chu and Marinus Otte

Nadhem Ismail

Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Novel Carboxyl-Based Grafted Polyacrylamide fibers for Ions Removal from Produced Water (PW)
Program: Chemical Engineering, UND
Advisor: Ali Alshami

Rehnuma Mobin Maisha

Building NRCS Technical Capacity in Irrigation Water Management for Variable Rate Irrigation
Program: Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU
Advisor: Dean Steele

Whitney Sauskojus

Aquatic macroinvertebrates as indicators of restoration success in Prairie Pothole Region wetlands
Program: Environmental and Conservation Sciences and Biological Sciences, NDSU
Advisor: Marinus Otte and Jon Sweetman