Seminars
2026-27 NDWRRI Seminar Series
Events will be available via Zoom on the dates listed below. The first event is a hybrid event taking place via Zoom and at NDSU Zoom links are included under Seminar Info.
| Date | Presenter | Seminar Info |
| Sept. 18, 2026 | Ryan Lefers, Ph.D. South Dakota State University Note: This will be held in AGHILL 110, NDSU |
Navigating South Dakota's Water Future: Agriculture, Resources, and Emerging Opportunities |
| Sept. 28, 2026 | Andrew Kirby, Ph.D. University of Wyoming |
Intersecting Supercomputing, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence |
| Oct. 26, 2026 | 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 | Mishra Harshit, Ph.D. University of Alaska-Fairbanks |
On the turbulent viscosity parameter C𝜇 in the k–𝜖 model Zoom Link |
| Dec. 7, 2026 | Robert Ettema, Ph.D. Colorado State University |
Can Hydraulic Structures Handle Ice? Zoom Link |
| Jan. 25, 2027 | Matthew Dunkle, Ph.D. University of North Dakota |
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| Feb. 8, 2027 | 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" |
