Marston Research Group
the people behind the research
Landon Marston, PhD, PE
Associate Professor
Appointments
2024 - Present
Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
Civil & Environmental Engineering Department
2020 - 2024
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
Civil & Environmental Engineering Department
2017 - 2020
Assistant Professor
Kansas State University
Civil Engineering Department
2009 - 2013
Hydrologic & Hydraulic Engineer
US Army Corps of Engineers
Louisville District / Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) / International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management
Education
2017
Ph.D in Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2009
M.Eng. in Civil Engineering
Texas A&M University
2008
Master of Business Administration
University of Kentucky
2007
B.S. in Civil Engineering
University of Kentucky
Curriculum vitae
meet the team
Emme Bina
phd student
M.S. Virginia Tech, 2024
B.S. University of Kansas, 2023
Research Interests: water scarcity, water policy, socio-hydrology, environmental sustainability
Musab Waqar
phd student
M.S. Virginia Tech, 2025
B.E. NED University of Engineering and Technology, 2021
Research Interests: remote sensing, spatial data analysis, water resource management, hydro-climatology, machine learning
Sameer Dhakal
phd student
M.S. Virginia Tech, 2025
B.E. Tribhuvan University, 2021
Research Interests: climate change, socio-hydrology, water resources management, and food-energy-water nexus
Sarath Suresh
postdoc
Ph.D. University of Washington, 2026
M.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2021
B.Tech. Civil Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University, India, 2018
Research Interests: satellite remote sensing for terrestrial hydrology, dam operations for flood risk management, large scale geospatial datasets, AI and machine learning for Earth system data, forecast-informed reservoir operations, water-food-climate interactions.
Shutonu Mitra
graduate researcher
M.S. Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2025
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, MIST, Bangladesh, 2022
Research Interests: AI/ML, large language models, agentic AI systems, data extraction, knowledge graphs, geospatial/environmental analytics, and decision support systems.
Gambhir Lamsal
postdoc
Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2025
M.S. Kansas State University, 2020
B.E. Tribhuvan University, 2015
Research Interests: food-energy-water nexus, crop modeling, hydrology
Eric Sjöstedt
postdoc
Ph.D. Northern Arizona University, 2026
M.S. West Virginia University, 2022
B.A. West Virginia University, 2020
Research Interests: complex systems, food-energy-water nexus, hydrologic modelling, trade & supply chain networks, critical infrastructure, data science & machine learning
Solomon Klein
masters student
Research Interests: water policy & management; remote sensing; science-policy interface; data science & machine learning, hydrologic modeling
Mehdi Naderi
phd candidate
M.Sc. Water Resources Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
Research Interests: integrated water resources modeling and management; coupled human-natural systems; water-food-energy nexus; climate change impact assessment and adaptation; probabilistic assessment of extreme events; application of system thinking, remote sensing and machine learning in water resources management and decision making
Paul DeBole
phd student
M.S. Virginia Tech, 2025
B.S. Virginia Tech, 2024
Research Interests: water scarcity, dam and reservoir management, and water-food nexus
Alumni
graduate researchers & postdocs
Kerim Dickson, Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2020) –> United States Bureau of Reclamation
Sam Brown, MS (2021) –> HDR, Inc.
Ben Roston, MS (2021) –> PhD student at Virginia Tech
Karsten Zuidema, MS (2022) –> Dewberry
Jackie McCarthy, MS (2022) –> Bowman Consulting
Yufei ‘Zoe’ Ao, PhD (2023) –> Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University (Jay Famiglietti)
Alex Miller, MS (2023) –> Straughan Environmental
Ben Winter, MS (2023) –> Hazen and Sawyer
Will Tysinger, MS (2023) –> Schnabel Engineering
Nolen Anderson, MS (2023) –> Kimley-Horn
Mandy Smith, MS (2023) –> Langan Engineering
Chung-Yi Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2024) –> Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University (Pat Reed)
Megan Schantz, MS (2024) –> HDR, Inc.
Maria Amaya, Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024) –> Stantec
Md Abu Bakar Siddik, MS (2020), PhD (2024) –> Postdoctoral Fellow at Oak Ridge National Lab
Md Abu Bakar Siddik, MS (2020), PhD (2024) –> Postdoctoral Fellow at Oak Ridge National Lab
Qiuyun “Cecilia” Yu PhD (2025) –> Lecturer at Chengdu Jincheng College, China
Mohammad Yunus Naseri PhD (2025) –> Postdoc at UC Davis (Alvar Escriva-Bou)
Johanna Capone, MS (2025)
Elizabeth Beyer, MS (2025) –> Pursuing PhD at Tufts University
Emme Bina, MS (2024) –> Pursuing PhD at Virginia Tech
Musab Waqar, MS (2025) –> Dean’s Fellowship Program Habib University
Sammer Dhakal, MS (2025) –> Pursuing PhD at Virginia Tech
Paul DeBole, MS (2025) –> Pursuing PhD at Virginia Tech
Gambhir Lamsal, MS (2020), PhD (2025) –> Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech (Landon Marston)
Carly Sear, MS (2026) –> Arcadis
undergraduate researchers
Brady Doyle, Sarah Paz, Paul DeBole, Johanna Capone, Amanda Smith, Megan Schantz, Raqin Siddique, Jacob Shemer, Sara Lindstrom, Caroline Kersey, Alex Brown, Katherine Sullivan, Sarah Birchard, Bethan Heng, Mariana Cruz, Lucas Nunez, Isabelle Frankel, Miguel Perezz, Ryan Rogowski, Alyssa Wherry, Angie Mitchell, Aubrey Busenitz, Bailey Waters, Raul Vera Parzajuk, Elliot Schrag, Julia Keiter, Sam Brown, Kara Hinshaw, Rebecca Andrus
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