Marston Research Group

the people behind the research

Landon Marston, PhD, PE

Assistant Professor

Appointments

2020 - Present

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

Elizabeth Beyer

masters student

B.S., Biological Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2022
B.A., Spanish, North Carolina State University, 2022

Research Interests: water resources management, water systems, environmental sustainability, socio-hydrology

Emme Bina

masters student

B.S. University of Kansas, 2023

Research Interests: water scarcity, water policy, socio-hydrology, environmental sustainability

Mandy Smith

masters student

B.S. Virginia Tech, 2022 

Research Interests: land development, water scarcity, environmental sustainability, climate change

Sameer Dhakal

phd student

B.E. Tribhuvan University, 2021

Research Interests: climate change, socio-hydrology, water resources management, and food-energy-water nexus

Chung-Yi Lin

postdoctoral associate

Ph.D. Lehigh University, 2023

M.S. National Taiwan University, 2019 

B.S. National Taiwan University, 2017 

Research Interests: human-water systems,  agent-based modeling, water resource management, and climate change risk assessment

Megan Schantz

masters student

B.S. Virginia Tech, 2023

Research Interests: snowmelt hydrology, groundwater and surface water irrigation use for agriculture, and water resources management

Md Abu Bakar 'AB' Siddik

phd student

M.S. Kansas State University, 2020

B.S. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2016

Research Interests: water footprint assessment, water resources system analysis, environmental sustainability 

Gambhir Lamsal

phd student

M.S. Kansas State University, 2020

B.E. Tribhuvan University, 2015

Research Interests: food-energy-water nexus, crop modeling, hydrology

Qiuyun 'Cecilia' Yu

phd student

M.S. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2014

B.E. China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, 2013

Research Interests: environmental sustainability; water resources system analysis, management, and optimization

Lillian Kobe

undergraduate researcher

B.S. Virginia Tech, 2025 (expected)
 

Research Interests: environmental sustainability, systems analysis, sustainable land development

Yunus Naseri

phd student

M.S. Virginia Tech, 2020

B.Eng. Herat University, Herat, Afghanistan, 2015

Research Interests: data driven approaches in hydrology, water flux measurements, industrial water use
(co-advised with Dr. Vinod Lohani)

Paul DeBole

undergraduate researcher

B.S. Virginia Tech, 2024 (expected)

Research Interests: groundwater management, coastal resiliency, flood hazard modeling

Maria Amaya

postdoctoral associate​

B.S. Ohio State University, 2017
Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2022
 
Research Interests: sustainable systems, hydro-economic modeling, socio-hydrology, technological innovation

Johanna Capone

masters student

B.S. Virginia Tech, 2023
 
Research Interests: water resources planning and management, sustainable land development, environmental sustainability

graduate student

Interesting in working with us? Please see the ‘Opportunities‘ tab at the top of this webpage and then email Dr. Marston using the email link below.

Alumni

graduate researchers & postdocs

  1. Kerim Dickson, Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2020) –> United States Bureau of Reclamation

  2. Gambhir Lamsal, MS (2020) –> PhD student at Virginia Tech

  3. Md Abu Bakar Siddik, MS (2020) –> PhD student at Virginia Tech

  4. Sam Brown, MS (2021) –> HDR, Inc. 

  5. Ben Roston, MS (2021) –> PhD student at Virginia Tech

  6. Karsten Zuidema, MS (2022) –> Dewberry

  7. Jackie McCarthy, MS (2022) –> Bowman Consulting

  8. Yufei ‘Zoe’ Ao, PhD (2023) –> Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University (Jay Famiglietti) 

  9. Alex Miller, MS (2023) –> Straughan Environmental

  10. Ben Winter, MS (2023) –> Hazen and Sawyer

  11. Will Tysinger, MS (2023) –> Schnabel Engineering 

  12. Nolen Anderson, MS (2023) –> Kimley-Horn

undergraduate researchers

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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