2009-10 Mills Scholarship Recipients
The Texas Water Resources Institute awarded Mills Scholarships in 2009-10 to the Texas A&M University graduate students listed below.
- Bhavna Arora, WMHS
- Graduate Advisor: Dr. Binayak Mohanty
- To understand and control contamination in the unsaturated zone, and to prevent transport of harmful chemicals to groundwater.
- Proposal
- Hannah Childress, BAEN
- Graduate Advisor: Dr. R. Karthikeyan
- Characterize and investigate the effectiveness of UV light disinfection in reducing the concentration of tetracycline-resistant genes.
- Proposal
- Chandana Damodaram, CVEN
- Graduate Advisor: Dr. Emily M Zechman
- Research will focus on building a simulation model and modeling approach to study the hydrologic performance of LID
- Proposal
- Takele Dinka, SCSC
- Graduate Advisor: Dr. Cristine Morgan
- To study a spatial and temporal variation of soil shrink-swell activity in a Vertisols catena.
- Proposal
- Celso Ferreira, CVEN
- Graduate Advisor: Dr. Francisco Olivera
- This project will consist of applying a GIS based approach to evaluate damage from global warming scenarios of hurricane related storm surge and riverine flooding over the Corpus Christy area.
- Proposal
- Marcio Hofheinz Giacomoni , CVEN
- Graduate Advisor: Dr. Emily Zechman
- Implementing the Hydrologic Footprint Model to model BMPs and LID and determine downstream effects.
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- Yixiao Liu, LAUP
- Graduate Advisor: Bruce Dvorak
- The research project will explore green roof technology in its effectiveness to mitigate storm water runoff from rooftops at Texas A&M University.
- Proposal
- Di Long, BAEN
- Graduate Advisor: Dr. Vijay P. Singh
- To derive distributions of actual ET over Texas from a remote sensing-based model SEBAL using free MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data products in conjunction with ancillary meteorological data.
- Proposal
- Leonardo Rivera, SCSC
- Graduate Advisor: Cristine Morgan
- The overall objective of this research is to study of the effects of land use.
- Proposal
- Sanjay Tewari, CVEN
- Graduate Advisor: Dr. Bill Batchelor, Arthur McFarland
- This study focuses on desorption of adsorbed ions and regeneration of CA.
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