Personnel
Ecological, Water Resources, and Environmental Engineering Program
Director and Team Lead
Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.
Email: oiabdulaziz@mail.wvu.edu
Phone: +1 (304) 293 9929
Post-Doctoral Research Associates
Khandker S. Ishtiaq, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (February 2016 - March 2019)
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.
Mehrnoosh Mahmoudi, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (December 2014 - June 2015)
Applied Research Center
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33174, USA.
Yongzhi Liu, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (September 2013 - August 2014)
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33174, USA.
Doctoral (Ph.D.) Students
Aron K. Gebreslase
Ph.D. Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, January 2018 - May 2022.
Dissertation: Similitude, Scaling, and Prediction of Stream Dissolved Oxygen Across the Contiguous U.S.
Placement (2022): Environmental and Water Resources Engineer (Staff Engineer/Engineer III), InfraTECH Engineering & Innovators, Houston, TX, USA.
Mahmood Khan
Ph.D. Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, August 2015 - May 2022.
Dissertation: Stormwater Runoff Response Under Changing Climate and Land uses Across Gradients of Inland and Coastal Urban-Natural Basins.
Placement (2022): Water Resources Engineer III, WSP, USA.
Erfanul Huq
Ph.D. Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, August 2015 - December 2020.
Dissertation: Large‐Scale Modeling and Assessments of Climate, Land Cover, and Sea Level Change Impacts on Stormwater Runoff in Coastal Urban‐Natural Environments.
Placement (2021): Water Resources Engineer II, Michael Baker International, Columbia, SC, USA.
Mohammad A. Z. Siddik
Ph.D. Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, August 2015 - August 2020.
Dissertation: Scaling-Based Robust Predictions of Periodic Stream Water Quality Variables across the Contiguous U.S.
Placement (2020): Environmental Engineer II, Sarasota County Government, Sarasota, FL, USA.
Current Position (2023): Water Resource Engineer II, WSP, Tampa, FL, USA.
Shakil Ahmed
Ph.D. Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, August 2015 - May 2018.
Florida International University, August 2014 - July 2015.
Dissertation: Spatiotemporal Controls and Scaling of Stream Water Quality across the East Coast of USA.
Placement (2018/19): Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Khandker S. Ishtiaq
Ph.D. Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Florida International University, January 2012 - December 2015.
Dissertation: Robust Modeling and Predictions of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Forest and Wetland Ecosystems.
Placement (2016): Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Placement (2019): Research Associate, Sea Level Rise Solutions Center, Florida International University, Miami, USA.
Current Position (2022): Water/Environmental Engineer, South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), Florida, USA.
Selina J. Sumi
Ph.D. Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, August 2015 - May 2016.
Transferred to the Ph.D. program of Civil and Environmental Engineering at George Mason University (GMU), USA. Graduated from GMU in 2020.
Current Position (2022): Water Resources Engineer, AECOM, Washington DC, USA.
Master's Students
Kazi Mushfique Mohib
Master's (thesis) Student, Erasmus+ Joint Master Degree EuroAquae+
Department of Hydro and Environmental Engineering
Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), September 2023 -July 2024.
Thesis: Underway.
Placement (2024): PhD student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
MD Tanvirul Islam
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, August 2022 -May 2024.
Thesis: Stormwater Responses to Climatic and Land Cover Changes in Lowly Urbanized Subcoastal Environments.
Placement (2024): Design Engineer (Water Resources), Wallace Montgomery, Hunt Valley, MD, USA.
Mohammad S. Abbasi
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Environmental Engineering
Tampere University, Finland, February 2022 - June 2023.
Thesis: Power Law Scaling of Streamflow in Mountainous Basins.
Samira Jahan
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, January 2022 - May 2023.
Thesis: Environmental Controls of Greenhouse Fluxes in Freshwater Wetlands Across the Globe.
Placement (2023): Water Resources Engineer, AECOM, Detroit, MI, USA.
Nusrat Nasrin Khan
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, January 2021 - July 2022.
Thesis: Climatic and Land Cover Sensitivities of Stormwater Runoff in a Coastal Natural-Urban Basin of Texas, USA.
Placement (2022): PhD Student, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University.
Md Faisal Razy
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, January 2021 - July 2022.
Thesis: Stormwater Sensitivities to the Climatic and Land Cover Drivers in a Heavily Urbanized Coastal Basin along the Northern Gulf of Mexico, USA.
Placement (2022): Civil Engineer (Drainage) II, Bowman Consulting, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Filmon Araya
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, January 2017 - May 2018.
Thesis: Environmental Controls, Similitude, and Scaling of Stream Dissolved Oxygen across the Pacific Coast of USA.
Current position (2022): Civil Engineer, Davido Consulting Group, Inc., Seattle, WA.
Aron K. Gebreslase
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, August 2016 - December 2017.
Thesis: Relative Linkages of Stream Dissolved Oxygen with the Environmental Drivers across the Gulf Coast of USA.
Placement (2018): PhD Student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, WVU.
Mohammed T. Zaki
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, August 2016 - December 2017.
Thesis: Climatic and Ecohydrologic Linkages of Net Ecosystem Exchanges (NEE) across Diverse Ecosystems.
Placement (2018): PhD Student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, WVU.
Tasnuva Mahjabin
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Florida International University, January 2014 - August 2015.
Thesis: Long-term Trends in Magnitude and Frequency of Extreme Rainfall Events in Florida.
Placement (2015): Ph.D. Student of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (PSU), College Park, USA. Graduated from PSU in 2020.
Current position (2022): Water Resources Engineering II, Atkins, Raleigh, NC.
Mohammad S. Islam
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Florida International University, January 2014 - August 2015.
Thesis: Impacts of Climate, Land Cover and Hydrologic Changes on Stormwater Runoff in Central Florida.
Placement (2015): Water Resources Engineer, Miami, FL.
Current position (2022): Water Resources Engineering II, Atkins, Raleigh, NC.
Shams Al-Amin
Master's (thesis) Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Florida International University, January 2012 - August 2013.
Thesis: Climate, Land Use and Hydrologic Sensitivities of Stormwater Quantity and Quality in Complex Coastal-Urban Watersheds.
Placement (2013): Ph.D. Student of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, USA. Graduated from NCSU in 2017.
Current position (2022): Water Resources Engineer, HNTB, Raleigh, NC.
Nicole Anderson
Master's Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Florida International University, January 2012 - August 2013.
Thesis: Non-thesis.
Current position (2022): Engineer, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA.
Undergraduate Researchers/Interns
Nolan Fisher
BS Student
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
West Virginia University, January 2024 - present.
Sarah Rizer
BS Student
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
West Virginia University, August 2023 - May 2024.
Kara Cunningham (WVU, 2018)
Noah Cremeans (WVU, 2018)
Brittany Brush (WVU, 2017)
Anthony Chen (WVU, 2017)
Oluwafemi Adenaike (WVU, 2017)
Ethan Gartin (WVU, 2017)
Stephen Chen (WVU, 2016)
Jacob Nichols (WVU, 2016)
Arlene LaRocque (FIU, 2015)
Shaquon Samuel (FIU, 2015)
Woudeline Lucdor (FIU,2015)
Ynaja Juste (FIU, 2015)
Antoine Leroy (FIU, 2015)
François Kerhoas (FIU, 2015)
Brenda Dantas (FIU, 2015)
Paulo Lucas (FIU, 2015)
Amanda Santos (FIU, 2015)
Raissa B. Silva (FIU, 2015)
Sabrina Mendes (FIU, 2014)
Alysson Kildary (FIU, 2014)
Milton Reinoso (FIU, 2014)
Hugues Charles (FIU, 2014)
Felipe Monteiro (FIU, 2014)