Research Group

Current

	Hadia Akbar	Phd, Water management, water markets, climate adaptation, sustainability. For my current research, I am studying the feasibility and adaptability of water markets in Cache Valley, UT using decision support tools. I am a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a research assistant at Utah Water Research Lab at Utah State University (USU). In 2019, I got my master’s degree in Water Resources Engineering from USU as a Fulbright student; during which I was also a trainee at Climate Adaptation Science program at USU. Prior to getting the master’s degree, I worked with the National Agricultural Research Center and International Water Management Institute in Pakistan on research projects focusing on water conservation and management. Before starting PhD, I briefly worked as a sustainability specialist in Pakistan. F
	Mahmuder Aveek	Phd, Climate adaptive water management, conservation behavior, behavioral sustenance, residential water use, climate-resilient policy development. A civil engineer with a strong background in water resources management, Mahmud spent most of his career working on big-scale projects focusing on climate-resilient infrastructural development, agricultural water management, and food security. He has had a diverse engineering career; his responsibilities included project planning, infrastructure designing, surveying, and construction monitoring. Mahmud's master's research focused on sustaining water conservation behavior in the residential sector, where he created a framework for a messaging system that could combine psychology and high-frequency water use data. His investigation covered topics related to behavioral psychology, conservation ethics, society and societal influence on human behavior, and communication tactics. He intends to pursue a career in water management, and his research will focus on state, basin, and national-level water conservation policies and management practices.

Graduated!

	Moazzam Rind	MS, Summer 2022, Bugs Buy Steady Releases from Hydropower Producers to Encourage More Synergistic Reservoir Management. Now Phd student at Washington State University.
	Mahmuder Aveek	MS, Spring 2022, Sustain Water Conservation Behaviors Using Nonparametric Ranking and Social Marketing. Now Phd student at USU CEE/UWRL.
	Jian Wang	Post Doc, Fall 2021, Living within our Means: Adapting Colorado River Basin depletions to available water. Now USU Center for Colorado River Studies.
	Leah Meeks	Phd, Summer 2021, Development and Application of a Decision Framework to Support Improved River Basin Water Management. Now U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
	Jacob Everitt	MS, Spring 2020, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District Bottom-Up Climate Vulnerability Study Using RiverWare. Now .
	Adel Abdallah	Phd, Spring 2020, Hydroinformatics to organize and synthesize water management data (WaMDaM). Now Western States Water Council.
	Hadia Akbar	MS, Fall 2019, Ranchers Adapting to Climate Variability in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah. Now Phd student USU CEE.
	Ryan James	MS, Summer 2019, Agent-Based Model to Manage Household Water Use Through Social-Environmental Strategies of Encouragement and Peer Pressure. Now Western States Water Council.
	Nour Attaallah	MS, Fall 2018, Water End-Use Disaggregation for Six Nonresidential Facilities in Logan, Utah. Now Phd student USU CEE.
	Jim Stagge	Post Doc, Summer 2018, Managing droughts on the Bear and Weber Rivers using monthly reconstructed paleo flows. Now Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engienering, The Ohio State University..
	Ayman Alafifi	Phd, Spring 2018, Systems Optimization Models to Improve Water Management and Environmental Decision Making. Now Senior Water Resources Engineer, Brown and Caldwell.
	Freshmen Bear River Fellows (17)	Undergrad, 2015, 2013, and 2012, A unique program for incoming Freshmen who got paid and got credit to do research on the nearby Bear River. Now .
	Omar Alminagorta	Phd, Spring 2015, ystems Optimization Models to Improve Water Management and Environmental Decision Making. Now Research Scientist, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto.
	Adel Abdallah	MS, Spring 2013, Heterogeneous Water and Energy End-Uses and Implications for Residential Water and Energy Conservation and Management. Now Western States Water Council.
	Melina Santos Vanderliner	Undergrad, Spring 2012, Remotely Sensing Vegetation Response and Secondary Succession to Improve Wetland Management. Now Environmental Health and Safety Manager, Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales, CDEEE Dominican Corporation of State Electricity Companies.
	Bereket Tesfatsion	MS, Fall 2011, Managing Water Shortages in the Weber Basin Using the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) System. Now Franson Civil Engineers.
	Francisco Suero	MS, Spring 2010, Estimating and Verifying Household Potential to Conserve Water. Now Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos of the Dominican Republic (INDRHI) and Instituto Technologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC)..

To Join the Group

1. A bit about your self such as background, skills, and prior relevant experience.
2. What about our water management research interests you and why.
3. What you will add to the research group that will advance our work.
4. Attach a C.V.
5. Attach a short sample of your professional writing in English.