Previous Members

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Rahim Barzegar, 2020-2023

Professor of Hydrogeology Research Institute for Mines and the Environment (IRME) Research Group on Groundwater (GRES), Université du Québec.

PhD Students

• Gifty Attiah, ReSEC Research Group PhD Student (Defended September 2024)
  Title: “Coupling Remote Sensing and Modelling to Monitor the Spatial Distribution and Trends of Surface Temperature and Ice Thickness on Sub-Arctic Lakes,”
• Michael Dallosch, UW/WLU PhD Student (Defended March 2024)
  Title: “Assessment of Drivers of Algal Biomass in North American Great Lakes via Satellite Remote Sensing,”

Masters Students

• Vivian Gao, Biology/ReSEC Research Group MSc Student (Defended July 2024)
  Title: “Road Dust Impacts on Macroinvertebrates Community Structure in Canadian Artic Lakes,”
• Ali Reza Shahvaran, UW MSc Student (Defended April 2024)
  Title: “Chlorophyll-a Mapping in Oligo-Mesotrophic Waters Using Remote Sensing Imagery: A Case Study of Western Lake Ontario,”
• Ida Moalemi, ReSEC Research Group MSc Student (Defended September 2023)
  Title: “A Machine Learning Approach to Classify Open Water and Ice Cover on Slave River Delta,” link
• Jeremy Harbinson, ReSEC Research Group MSc Student (Defended April 2023)
  Title: “Contrasting seasonal cycling of arsenic in a series of subarctic shield lakes with different morphometric properties,” link
• Alicia Pow, ReSEC Research Group MSc Student (Defended September 2022)
  Title: “Utilizing Ground-Penetrating Radar to Estimate the Spatial Distribution of Snow Depth over Lake Ice in Canada’s Sub-Arctic,” link

Undergraduate 4th Year Thesis Students

• Ariana Mansingh, Undergraduate Thesis Student, NSERC USRA (May 2021 - April 2022)
• Jane Ye, Undergraduate Thesis Student, NSERC USRA (May 2020 - April 2021)
• Jason Skidmore, Undergraduate Thesis Student, NSERC USRA (May 2020 - September 2021)

Research Assistants

• William Bender, UG/NSERC USRA Research Assistant (May 2024 - Aug 2024)
• Aleena Delangen, UG Research Assistant (Jan 2024 - Aug 2024)
• Malcolm Brockett, Research Assistant (Jan 2023 - April 2023)
• Hannah Adams, Research Assistant (May 2020 - April 2021)
• Ishit Ranjan, UG Research Assistant (January 2021 - August 2021)
• Cole Cordeiro Warling, UG Research Assistant (September 2020 - January 2021)
• Ruhi Mahendra, UG Research Assistant (May 2019 - August 2019)
• Jesse Thompson, Research Assistant (September 2018 - September 2020)