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Ph.D. Graduates

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Kamal Alsharif
Year: 2004
Co-Advisors: Ehsan Feroz (Emeritus) and Andrew Klemer
Thesis Title: Measuring the efficiency of water use in the Palestinian Territories: A data envelopment analysis approach

Sheila Amenumey
Year: 2009
Co-Advisors: Gary Sands & Bruce Wilson
Thesis Title: Meta-Analysis as a Statistical Tool for Evaluating the Hydrologic Effects of Subsurface Drainage Design and Water Table Management

Debra Anderson-Hinterleitner
Year: 2006
Co-Advisors: Howard Mooers and Carl Richards
Thesis Title: Cranberry marsh nutrient and pesticide effect on receiving lake and groundwater

Stanley Asah
Year: 2006
Advisor: Jim Perry
Thesis Title: Empirically understanding social-ecological systems: A case study of agroecological resilience within the Longone floodplain

Adam Birr
Year: 2005
Advisor: Dave Mulla
Thesis Title: Paired watershed studies for nutrient reductions in the Minnesota River Basin

Meghan Brown (Smith)
Year: 2006
Advisor: Donn Branstrator
Thesis Title: The distribution and emergence of Bythotrphes longimanus resting eggs: Defining the role of cumulative environmental stressors in dormancy

Dennis Busch
Year: 2005
Advisor: Jim Anderson
Thesis Title: Nitrate-nitrogen removal in disturbed and undisturbed wetland microcosms subjected to vertical-flow and surface-flow hydrology and the affects hydrology, storage temperature, and incubation temperature exert on denitrification kinetics

Geoffrey Chavula
Year: 2008
Co-Advisors: Pat Brezonik and Tom Johnson
Thesis Title:Development of remote sensing tools to improve understanding and management of Lake Malawi

William Christner
Year: 2009
Advisor: Ken Brooks
Thesis Title: An Assessment of Land Use Impacts on Channel Morphology in a Western Minnesota Watershed

Ronnie Daanen
Year: 2004
Advisor: John Nieber
Thesis Title: Modeling liquid water flow in snow

Filiz Dadaser-Celik
Year: 2008
Co-Advisors: Patrick Brezonik & Heinz Stefan
Thesis title: Impact of Large-scale Irrigation on a Closed Basin Wetland: Water Flow Alterations and Participatory Irrigation Management Effects on the Sultan Marshes Ecosytem in Turkey

Holly Swanson Dolliver
Year: 2007
Advisor: Satish Gupta
Thesis Title: Fate and transport of veterinary antibiotics in the environment

Kathryn Draeger
Year: 2001
Advisor: Jim Perry
Thesis Title: Defining and evaluating watershed organizational effectiveness

Driss Ennaanay
Year: 2006
Advisor: Ken Brooks
Thesis Title: Modeling the effects of perennial vegetation and wetland restoration on the hydrologic regime in watersheds of the Minnesota River Basin

Mindy Erickson
Year: 2005
Advisor: Randal Barnes
Thesis Title: Arsenic in upper Midwest ground water: Occurrence and geochemical mobilization mechanisms

Feng (Andrew) Fang
Year: 2002
Advisor: Patrick Brezonik
Thesis Title: Phosphorus retention by soils and suspended sediments in the Minnesota River Basin

Rebecca Forman
Year: 2009
Advisor: Ray Newman
Thesis Title: Habitat selection and ecological stoichiometry: The role of seston C:P in daphnia daytime spatial location

Mike Friedel
Year: 2002
Advisor: John Nieber
Thesis Title: Simultaneous inverse estimation of coupled water, heat, and solute transport parameters with model validation and predictive analysis: Application to ground-water studies in arid and semi-arid regions of the United States

Mark Green
Year: 2007
Co-Advisors: John Nieber and Dong Wang
Thesis Title: Hydrologic control of stream water nitrogen to phosphorus ratios

Mohmed Goreish
Year: 2003
Advisor: Dave Mulla
Thesis Title: The hydrological response of small watersheds to climatic, physiographic, and morphological influences in southern Minnesota

Nathaniel Hemstad
Year: 2006
Advisor: Ray Newman
Thesis Title: Evaluation of local and landscape effects of forest harvest on instream habitat and fish communities

Brian Huser
Year: 2005
Co-Advisors: Patrick Brezonik and Ray Newman
Thesis Title: Phosphorus sorption by sediments in eutrophic and acidic lakes

Thomas Jabusch
Year: 2002 Ph.D.
Advisor: Deb Swackhamer
Thesis Title: Mechanistic studies of the bioaccumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls in phytoplankton

Abdul Rafi Khwaja
Year: 2004
Advisor: Patrick Brezonik
Thesis Title: Photochemistry of dissolved natural organic matter and its interactions with methylmercury and inorganic mercury

Randy Lehr
Year: 2005
Advisor: Deb Swackhamer
Thesis Title: Assessment and management of environmental estrogens

Christian Lenhart
Year: 2008
Advisor: Ken Brooks
Thesis Title: The influence of watershed hydrology and stream geomorphology on turbidity, sediment and nutrients in tributaries of the Blue Earth River

Michelle Marko
Year: 2006
Co-Advisors: Ray Newman and Florence Gleason
Thesis Title: The chemical ecology of watermilfoil-weevil interactions

Eric Merten
Year: 2009
Co-Advisors: Jacques Finlay and Heinz Stefan
Thesis Title: Instream Wood Transport and Effects of Forest Harvest on Geomorphology and Fish in Northern Minnesota Streams

Seth Moore
Year: 2008
Advisor: Carl Richards
Thesis Title: Predicting Coaster Brook Trout Distribution Based on Landscapes, Habitats, Fish Communities and Life History Traits

Vinay Nangia
Year: 2005
Advisor: Dave Mulla
Thesis Title: Field- and watershed-scale evaluation of water quality trends due to changes in landscape and management practices

Keith Pilgrim
Year: 2002 Ph.D.
Advisor: Patrick Brezonik
Thesis Title: Evaluation of the benefits and potential adverse effects of alum treatment to remove phosphorus from lake inflows

Lindsay Powers (Oberem)
Year: 2005
Advisor: Tom Johnson
Thesis Title: Calibration and application of a new paleotemperature tool in lacustrine systems: TEX86 for continental paleoclimate reconstruction

Andry Ranaivoson
Year: 2004
Advisor: John Moncrief
Thesis Title: Effect of fall tillage following soybeans and the presence of gravel filters on runoff losses of solids, organic matter, and phosphorus on a field scale.

Carrie Reinhardt (Adams)
Year: 2004 Ph.D.
Advisor: Sue Galatowitsch
Thesis Title: Effectively controlling Phalaris arundinacea L. in wet meadow restorations and subsequent native species establishment

Mark Riedel
Year: 2000
Advisor: Ken Brooks
Thesis Title: Geomorphic impacts of land use on clay channel streams

David Thoma
Year: 2003
Advisor: Satish Gupta
Thesis Title: Assessment of management impacts, and measurements of residue cover and bank erosion in the Minnesota River Basin

Rachel Walker
Year: 2008
Advisor: John Pastor
Thesis Title: Wild Rice: The Dynamics of Its Population Cycles and the Debate Over Its Control at the Minnesota Legislature

Jeffrey Werner
Year: 2006
Co-Advisors: Bill Arnold and Kris McNeill
Thesis Title: Environmental photochemistry of pharmaceutical compounds in aqueous solution and on a clay surface

Yuhu Yan
Year: 2006
Advisor: Mike Sydor
Thesis Title: Water-surface chlorophyll detection by remote sensing and vertical structure of chlorophyll analysis in Lake Superior: Water-surface chlorophyll as an estimate of water-column-integrated chlorophyll