Maintaining high water quality is very important to maintain healthy aquatic ecosystems. In order to preserve safe water resources and sustainable agriculture by reducing runoff-mediated contamination, best management practices (BMPs) for erosion, chemical, and pathogen control need to be developed and implemented. My research group is focused on developing tools and techniques that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of various BMPs across a range of spatial scales specific to sediment, nutrient, and pathogen transport. This will permit more informed and cost-effective management decision-making. Our research will also provide new insights into the pollutant fate and transport processes and the role of various forcing functions on BMP performance at a range of scales. To gain these insights, we use both computation and experimental approaches. Along with conducting laboratory and field scale studies, our group also works on evaluating, modifying, and developing simulation models for predicting water quantity at the laboratory, field, and watershed scales, considering the possible changes in climate and land use.
Lab members:
- Jacob Wood (PhD student)
- Haribanshsa Timalsina (PhD student)
- Saroj Khanal (MS student)
- Jason Kandume (Field/Lab technician)
- Minha Kim (Visiting student)
Lab Alumni:
- Sudip Gautam (MS, 2016)
- Matt Stoklosa (MS, 2017)
- Alex Goodwin (MS, 2018)
- Rajesh Kandel (MS, 2018)
- Ann Perry-Witmer (PhD, 2018)
- Jacob Wood (MS, 2019)
- Vaskar Dahal (PhD, 2019)
- Chunhwa Jang (PhD, 2020)
- Shailendra Singh (PhD, 2021)
- Rishabh Gupta (PhD, 2022)
- Daniel Kim (PhD, 2023)
- Yufan Zhang (PhD, 2023)
- Manas Khan (PhD, 2024)
- Hongxu Zhou (PhD, 2024)
- Youheng Fan (PhD, 2025)
- Shiyang Li (Visiting scholar/postdoc, 2013-17)
- Hongxu Zhou (Visiting scholar, 2017-18)
- Hanseok Jeong (Postdoc, 2016-19)
- Soonho Hwang (Visiting Scholar/Postdoc, 2021-25)