Group Members



Muhammad B. Zafar, Graduate Student (Ph.D., Water Resources)
Modeling Floods; Groundwater - Surface Water Interactions


Dawn A. Shively, Research Assistant I
Research Area/Topic: Coastal water quality and beach management; Development and application of statistical models.


Ashley M. Spoljaric, Research Technologist
Research Area/Topic: Coastal water quality and beach management ​


​Phanikumar Mantha, Professor

Former Students / Group Members
(student name, degree, year, last known affiliation)

    Doctoral and Postdoctoral:
  • Saeed Memari, Ph.D. (2023), Colorado School of Mines
  • Chelsea J. Weiskerger, Ph.D. (2020), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Han Qiu, Ph.D. (2019), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
  • Tula M. Ngasala. Ph.D. (2019, coadvised with Prof. Susan Masten), Spicer Group Inc.
  • Ammar Safaie, Ph.D. (2017), Professor, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • Guoting Kang,  Ph.D. (2017), Water resources engineer, SNC-Lavalin-Atkins 
  • Jie Niu, Ph.D. (2013), Professor, Guizhou University, China
  • Chaopeng Shen, Ph.D. (2009), Professor, Pennsylvania State University
  • Tuan D. Nguyen, Ph.D. (2014), International Union for Conservation of Nature, Hanoi
  • Pramod Thupaki, Ph.D. (2011), Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada
  • Irfan Aslam, Ph.D. (2006, coadvised with Prof. Thomas Voice), Frankolin Inc.
  • Lubo Liu (Postdoc), Professor, California State University, Fresno, California
  • Itza Mendoza (Postdoc), Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
  • Zhongfu Ge (Postdoc), American Bureau of Shipping, Texas
    M.S. students:
  • Muhammad B. Zafar, M.S. (2023), Michigan State University
  • Aaron Wendzel, M.S. (2014), Rowe Professional Services Inc.
  • George H. Wimbrow II, M.S. (2012), VP at Bedrock Manufacturing Co.
  • Rammesh Nav, M.S. (2007), Head at Pagaya Technologies
  • Heather Stevens, Geneva Vanlerberg, Jin Jingwei, Khaled Alghafli, Chen Zhao
    Undergraduate students:
  • Nick Nelson,  Rachel Wandmacher, Sina Tafti (Kalamazoo College), Sunayana Nayak

Students in the field

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(a) Guoting Kang measuring baseflow in the Ottawa County using an OTT current meter (2015) (b) Tuan Nguyen getting ready to deploy Lagrangian drifters in the Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron (2011) (c) Han and Ammar deploying an ADCP in the Gull Lake (2015) (d) Han and Yufeng measuring streamflow in the Ottawa County(2015)