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: I have two open MASc positions: click here!**

Current undergraduate and graduate students, and research associates

Juan Arce-Rodriguez
MASc
(co-advisor: Dr. Marie Larocque, UQAM)

Dustin Brown
MASc
(co-advisor: Dr. Rachael Marshall, SVS)

Ahmed Elsayed
Postdoctoral Fellow
(co-advisor: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)

Scott Gardner
PhD
(primary advisory: Dr. Andrew Binns, UofG)

Rachel Lackey
MASc

Ceilidh Mackie
PhD

Elisha Persaud
PhD

Valerie Risch
UofG Undergraduate Research Assistant Award

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"

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)

David Browne (2015-2017)
MASc
"Neonicotinoids in groundwater: Presence and fate in two distinct hydrogeologic settings in Ontario, Canada" 

Rebecca Buetel (2017)
USRA student

Kushan Gandhi (2015)
Summer Research Associate 

Scott Gardner (2015-2017)
MASc
"Groundwater nitrate in three hydrogeologic settings throughout southwestern Ontario"

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

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"

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
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"

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 FLUTe^TM liners for cross-hole hydraulic testing in crystalline bedrock aquifers"

Elisha Persaud (2017-2018)
Research Associate

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
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
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