Students
Please contact me (jlevison@uoguelph.ca) if you would like to start a graduate student position (MASc, MEng, or PhD) in Water Resources Engineering (groundwater focus).
NEW: PhD position (with UQAM) open for January 2025! Click here for details.
Current undergraduate and graduate students, and research associates
Devansh Babla
MASc
(primary advisory: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
Ahmed Elsayed
Postdoctoral Fellow
(co-advisor: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
Cody Fisher
MASc
Ceilidh Mackie
PhD
Olivia Mills
Undergarduate Research Assistant
(co-advisor: Dr. Julie Valie, UofG)
Maham Nawaz
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Elli Pattrick
MASc
(co-advisor: Dr. Andrew Binns)
Valerie Risch
MASc
Sarah Rixon
PhD
(co-advisor: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
Christina Zeuner
PhD
(co-advisor: Dr. Marie Larocque, UQAM)
Past students
Caio Andre (2013)
Science Without Borders Exchange Student (undergraduate)
Reilly Andrews (2013-2018, part-time)
MEng
"An assessment of GAWSER-modelled recharge in the Grand River watershed using the water table fluctuation method"
Juan Arce-Rodriguez (2022-2024)
MASc
(co-advisor: Dr. Marie Larocque, UQAM)
"Nitrogen dynamics conceptualization in a sand plain aquifer in the Lake Erie Basin"
Kim Carolin Barnscheidt (2018)
MITACS Globalink student
Peter Bishop (2016)
Summer Research Associate
Peter Bishop (2016-2017)
MEng
"Using a numerical modelling approach to simulate the hydraulic response to a FLUTe™ liner installation"
Peter Bishop (2018)
Research Associate (based at UQAM)
(primary advisor: Dr. Marie Larocque)
Dustin Brown (2020-2023)
MASc
(co-advisor: Dr. Rachael Marshall, SVS)
"Moving from risk to resilience: A proposal for holistic transformation of source water risk assessment"
David Browne (2015-2017)
MASc
"Neonicotinoids in groundwater: Presence and fate in two distinct hydrogeologic settings in Ontario, Canada"
Rebecca Buetel (2017)
USRA student
Jaclyn Carcasole (2023)
Morwick Undergraduate Research Assistant
Lillian Collis (2024)
Undergarduate Research Assistant
Martina Di Iulio (2023-2024)
Undergradate Research Assistant
Kushan Gandhi (2015)
Summer Research Associate
Scott Gardner (2015-2017)
MASc
"Groundwater nitrate in three hydrogeologic settings throughout southwestern Ontario"
Scott Gardner (2019-2024)
PhD
(primary advisory: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
"Hydrologic, Sediment and Nutrient Dynamics in an Intensively Managed Agricultural Landscape"
Omar Garzon Mogollon (2021-2022)
MEng
(co-advisor: Dr. Emmanuelle Arnaud, UofG)
"Investigation fo land conversion impacts on water dynamics in the Great Clay belt in Norteastern Ontario under climate change scenarios"
Shahrzad Gharabaghi (2019)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
(co-advisor: Dr. Rachael Marshall)
Linus Gummert (2019)
MITACS Globalink student
Yash Gupta (2015)
MITACS Globalink student
Ellen Hachborn (2014-2015)
MEng
(co-advisor: Dr. Aaron Berg, UofG)
"Determining the validity of satellite-based measurements of groundwater level changes in Southern Ontario"
Xander Huggins (2015)
USRA student
Tony Huynh (2024)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
(primary advisory: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
Carla Illman
MEng
(co-advisor: Dr. Andrea Bradford, UofG)
Xiaoyu Jin (2013-2015)
MEng
"Recharge calculations at PGMN wells using the water table fluctuation method"
Carolina Klabunde (2014-2016)
MASc
"Potential impacts on groundwater quality in a fractured sedimentary bedrock aquifer from biosolids application on agricultural fields"
Rachel Lackey (2021-2023)
MASc
"Geochemical determination of anthropogenic sources of elevated chloride in groundwater and surface water across various land uses of an urbanizing watershed"
Julia Leith (2021-2022)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
(primary advisor: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
Zexia Li (2018-2021)
MSc
(primary advisor: Dr. Emmanuelle Arnaud, UofG)
Graeme MacDonald (2013-2015)
MASc
"Developing novel techniques for measuring in situ groundwater nitrate concentrations, vertical geochemical profiling, and real-time remote groundwater quality monitoring"
Ceilidh Mackie (2017-2019)
MASc
"Groundwater-surface water interactions and agricultural nutrient transport in a Great Lakes clay plain system"
Rachael Marshall (2014-2018)
PhD
(co-advisor: Dr. Ed McBean, UofG)
"Towards effective First Nations' source water protection: a technical and Indigenous Knowledge collaboration"
Alexandre Martin (2016-2017)
PhD - based at UQAM
(primary advisor: Dr. Marie Larcoque, UQAM)
Hannah May (2020-2022)
MASc
(primary advisor, Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
"Investigating Relationships between Climate Controls and Nutrient Flux in Surface Waters, Sediments, and Subsurface Pathways in an Agricultural Clay Catchment of the Great Lakes Basin"
Marley McKenzie (2024)
Undergradate Research Assistant
Brayden McNeill (2020)
Research assistant
Nishant Mistry (2013-2017)
MASc
Dan Noble (2018-2020)
MSc
(primary advisor: Dr. Andrew MacDougall, UofG)
"Temporal and spatial dynamics of nutrient retention on conventional farms in southwestern Ontario"
Ryan Osman (2015-2017)
MASc
(co-advisor: Dr. Marie Larocque, UQAM)
"Water use conflict: a characterization and water quantity study in an agriculturally stressed subcatchment in Southwestern Ontario"
Laura Perron (2016)
MITACS Globalink Research Internship
Elisha Persaud (2014)
UofG Undergraduate Research Assistant Award
Elisha Persaud (2015-2017)
MASc
"Innovative application of FLUTeTM liners for cross-hole hydraulic testing in crystalline bedrock aquifers"
Elisha Persaud (2017-2018)
Research Associate
Elisha Persaud (2018-2023)
PhD
"Understanding Watershed Functioning and Vulnerability in an Intensively Managed Agricultural Landscape"
Valerie Risch (2022-2023)
UofG Undergraduate Research Assistant Award
Sarah Rixon (2016-2018)
MASc
(co-advisor: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
"Agricultural nutrient transport through various water pathways in a Great Lakes clay plain system"
Michelle Robinson (2019)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
(primary advisor: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
Shoaib Saleem (2014-2018)
PhD
(co-advisor: Dr. Beth Parker, UofG)
"Impacts of future climate and agricultural land use changes on groundwater nitrate concentrations in southern Ontario"
Nina Sattolo (2020-2021)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
(primary advisor: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
Emily Stahl (2014-2017, part-time)
MEng
"Identification, review and management of chloride impacts on municipal drinking water sources"
Geneva Starr (2013-2014)
UofG Undergraduate Research Assistant Award
Madeleine Streich (2017-2018)
Visiting MSc student from Technical University of Berlin
Ammar Syed (2014)
UofG Environmental Engineering Student
Faran Vahedian (2019-2021)
MASc
(primary advisor: Dr. Beth Parker, UofG)
"Simulating open borehole hydraulic cross-connection in a multi-layered bedrock aquifer system informed by high-resolution datasets"
Lisa van Waterschoot (2013-2014)
Undergraduate (co-op) Research Assistant
Spencer Walls (2017-2019)
MEng
(primary advisor: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)
"Prediction of actual evapotranspiration by artificial neural network models using data from a Bowen ratio energy balance station"
Lucas Velloso Alves (2014)
MITACS Globalink Research Internship
Ally Zaheer (2020-2021)
President's Research Assistant (Undergraduate)
Christina Zeuner (2021)
Research Associate