Seminars
2026-27 NDWRRI Seminar Series
Events will be available via Zoom on the dates listed below. ALL events will be held in AGHILL Room 110 on NDSU's campus and also will be available at the Zoom links below.
| Date | Presenter | Seminar Info |
| Sept. 18, 2026, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., AGHILL 110, NDSU | Ryan Lefers, Ph.D. South Dakota State University |
Navigating South Dakota's Water Future: Agriculture, Resources, and Emerging Opportunities |
| Sept. 28, 2026, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., AGHILL 110, NDSU | Andrew Kirby, Ph.D. University of Wyoming |
Intersecting Supercomputing, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence |
| Oct. 5, 2026 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., AGHILL 110, NDSU |
Junke Guo, Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
General Unit Hydrograph Model and Its Applications Zoom Link |
| Oct. 26, 2026 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., AGHILL 110, NDSU |
Sushant Mehan, Ph.D. South Dakota State University |
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| TBD | Cristian Escauriaza, Ph.D. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
Zoom Link |
| Nov. 9, 2026 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., AGHILL 110, NDSU |
Mishra Harshit, Ph.D. University of Alaska-Fairbanks |
On the turbulent viscosity parameter C𝜇 in the k–𝜖 model Zoom Link |
| Dec. 7, 2026 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., AGHILL 110, NDSU |
Robert Ettema, Ph.D. Colorado State University |
Can Hydraulic Structures Handle Ice? Zoom Link |
| Jan. 25, 2027 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., AGHILL 110, NDSU |
Matthew Dunkle, Ph.D. University of North Dakota |
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| Feb. 8 2027 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., AGHILL 110, NDSU |
Xiaofeng Liu, Ph.D. Penn State University |
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| March 1, 2027 | Marinus Otte, Ph.D. North Dakota State University |
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| TBD | Ali Khosronejad, Ph.D. Stony Brook University |
2025-26 NDWRRI Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker | Seminar details |
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| May 4, 2026 | Admin Husic, Ph.D., Virginia Tech University |
American rivers are shifting toward younger streamflow |
| April 13, 2026 | Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, Ph.D., West Virginia University |
Dynamics of Stormwater Runoff under Climatic and Land Cover Variabilities in Coastal Urban-Natural Environments |
| April 6, 2026 | Taufique Mahmood, Ph.D., University of North Dakota |
Hydrologic and Nutrient Export Changes to Recent Wetting in Cold Region Plains
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| March 23, 2026 | Onur Apul, Ph.D., Penn State University |
Water Treatment to Address Critical Global Challenges in “the Anthropocene Epoch |
| Feb. 23 2026 | Amy Hansen, Ph.D., University of Kansas |
Ecohydrology of wetlands and agriculture in the Midwestern U.S. |
| Feb. 09 2026 | Binh Doan, PhD Vietnamese-German University Vietnam |
"Cumulative impact dams and climate change on the hydrology of the Mekong River" |
| Jan. 26 2026 |
Hien Le, PhD Chuo University, Japan |
"Spatiotemporal Radar Rainfall Bias Correction via CNNs with Continual Learning in Data-Scarce Regions" |
| Dec. 15 2025 |
Takaaki Abe, PhD CERI, Japan |
"Tsunami in ice covered rivers: several attempts for field survey, modeling study and development of countermeasures in Japan" |
| Dec. 3 2025 |
Colin Rennie, PhD U. Ottawa, Canada |
"River Systems: Hydro-morphodynamics, Ice Processes, and Fish Habitat" |
| Nov. 13 2025 |
Arvin Samadi-Koucheksaraee NDSU |
"Development of a novel modeling framework based on weighted kernel extreme learning machine and ridge regression for streamflow forecasting" |
| Nov. 03 2025 |
Tiansong Qi NDSU |
"Improved Watershed-scale Hydrologic Modeling for Characterizing Dynamic Contributing Areas and Threshold-controlled Overland Flow from Depressional Wetlands" |
| Oct. 27 2025 |
Anh Pham, PhD U. Waterloo, Canada |
"Laboratory-and field-scale evaluation of in Situ PFAS Immobilization Using Activated Carbon Barriers" |
| Sept. 22 2025 |
Javad Souri NDSU |
"Mathematical Models for lateral momentum transfer in ice-covered rivers" |
| Aug. 25 2025 |
Odunola Odofin UND |
"Exploring the Biodegradation of PFAS: Current Understanding, Challenges, and Early Research Insights" |
