Biography:

• He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and six books, and has won several academic awards, including Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water.
• He holds the appointment of Distinguished Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Hydrology at Imperial College London where he was head of Environmental and Water Resource Engineering and the first Director of the Imperial College Environment Forum
• Recent appointments include:
  • Member of the Alberta Environment Monitoring Panel, advising on the establishment of a world class monitoring and evaluation system for the Alberta oil sands
  • Chair of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Sustainable Management of Water in the Agricultural Landscapes of Canada
  • Member of the Water Partner Advisory Committee advising the Premiers’ Council of the Federation Water Stewardship
  • Member of an International Court of Arbitration concerning the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty

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Phani is a certified Professional Engineer registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. Before joining the Global Institute for Water Security, he was with the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) for 11 years. During his tenure, he assisted the college in enhancing research intensiveness through development of new partnerships and facilitation of existing collaborations with internal and external stakeholders, industry partners, provincial, federal and international agencies and institutes for pursuing funding opportunities that could support recruitment of highly-qualified personnel, facilitate visits of internal and external faculty members, and development of new programs to support the college's research enterprise.

As part of his professional development, he has published 26 refereed journal articles, three book chapters and has 25 conference proceedings/presentations. In 2009, he was awarded the George Ira Hanson Post-Graduate Award for Energy Research by the U of S College of Engineering. In 2012, the Canadian Society for Bioengineers recognized his research contributions and bestowed him with their PhD thesis award. 

He served as the Vice-President Academic for the U of S Graduate Students Association (GSA) from 1999-2000. Also, he was elected as one of the five Canadian men’s cricket team selection committee members (2009-10), elected as the President of Saskatoon Cricket Association (2005-10) and elected as the Vice-President of Saskatchewan Cricket Association (2007-10).

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Jeffrey J. McDonnell joined the University of Saskatchewan in 2012. Prior to his appointment with the School of Environment and Sustainability and the Global Institute for Water Security, Jeff was the Richardson Chair in Watershed Science and University Distinguished Professor of Hydrology at Oregon State University. His research focuses on new ways to measure, model and understand streamflow generation processes. Jeff has co-authored ~200 articles on watershed hydrology and co-edited the Elsevier textbook “Isotope Tracers in  Catchment Hydrology”. He  has served as the Senior Advisory Editor of the “Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences”, published by John Wiley and Sons and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the IAHS Book Series “Benchmark Papers in Hydrology”.  Jeff is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the International Water Academy and recipient of several awards, including the Dalton Medal from the European Geophysical Union, the Gordon Warwick Award from the British Geomorphological Research  Group, the Nystrom Award from the Association of American Geographers and  a D.Sc. from the University  of Canterbury. Jeff was the 2011 Birdsall-Driess Distinguished Lecturer for the Geological Society of America and 2012 Borland Lecturer for AGU Hydrology Days. 

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Watershed hydrology
Runoff processes
Modelling
Isotope hydrology