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Doctoral Students

Chen Shu

Chen Shu

EGIS Lab Manager and Research Assistant for Geography & Environmental Resources Department, SIU

Research Interests: GIS Analysis Remote Sensing City Expansion
Tara L. Giri

Tara L. Giri

Geography & Environmental Resources Program

Research Interests: Floodplain management, flood-loss modeling, and geomorphic change assessment

Christel Johnson

Research Assistant - Geography & Environmental Resources Program

Research Interests: Fate and transport of environmental contaminants, multimedia environmental modeling, human health exposure, and environmental policy

Sowmya Koduru

Sowmya Koduru

Research Assistant - Plant Soil and Agricultural Systems (PSAS)

Research Interests: nutrient management in corn, enhanced efficiency fertilizers, long-term sustainability and global environmental stewardship

Joseph Krienert

Joseph Krienert

Research Assistant, Hydrogeology, SIU

Research Interests: Ground and Surface Water Mixing Contaminant Transport in the Hyporheic Zone
Amina Naliaka

Amina Naliaka

Research Assistant, Geography, SIU

Research Interests: GIS Climate Change Water Resources Management Groundwater Modeling Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management
Wesley Petty

Wesley Petty

ERP GIS/Remote Sensing Lab Manager

Research Interests: Soundscape Ecology Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity Assessment Disturbance Ecology
Sadiat Rasaq-Balogun

Sadiat Rasaq-Balogun

Teaching and Research Assistant Geography & Environmental Resources Program

Research Interests: climate modeling, climate variability, change, and weather and especially heat extremes

Saroj Thapa

Saroj Thapa

Research Interests: Land use / land cover change Watershed modeling Plant functional traits and ecosystem functions
Di Wu

Di Wu

Research Assistant, Geography & Environmental Resources, SIU

Research Interests: GIS Remote Sensing Natural Resource Management
Xiaoyu Xu

Xiaoyu Xu

Research Assistant, Geography & Environmental Resources, SIU

Research Interests: Remote Sensing GIS Natural and Environmental Resources Management
Yao Xue

Yao Xue

Teaching Assistant, Geography & Environmental Resources, SIU

Dissertation Proposal: Analysis of historical and future changes in frost events in the contiguous United States.

Grant Awards

Amina Naliaka

Amount awarded: $14,820

Amina Naliaka, our PhD student, received the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) Graduate Student Grant. This is a competitive grant program to fund graduate student projects that address sustainable agriculture issues. The grant will fund Naliaka’s research on addressing substantial drawdown or depletion of groundwater reservoirs stemming from over-extraction for irrigation. Her project aims to develop a socio-hydrological modeling framework for examining the sustainability of aquifers in irrigation agricultural landscapes and evaluating potential solutions to improve resilience in a changing climate. To develop effective coping strategies, she will conduct social surveys and social-hydrological modeling of the groundwater system and its interaction with water users under the scenarios of future climate challenges.
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