Aleksey Y. Sheshukov

Biography

Sheshukov was a recipient of the Big XII Faculty Fellowship Award (2015), the Above and Beyond Award by the College of Engineering (2009), and ASABE Superior Paper Award (2012). He was a member on the K-State Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy team that was nationally recognized in 2009 by the USDA-NIFA Partnership Award for Mission Integration and the EPA’s Best Watershed Plan in 2011). Sheshukov organized a regional workshop on Soil Erodibility and Jet Erosion Test in 2015, coordinated two international workshops on efforts to mitigate agricultural burning in Moscow, Russia in 2012 sponsored by USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, and organized USDA Scientific Exchange Program on Black Carbon. Sheshukov is a member of two ASABE technical committees and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standards Committee. Graduate students on Sheshukov’s research group were recognized by the awards at the Governor’s Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas in 2014, 2015 , and 2016 , Vietnam Educational Foundation scholarship, Air and Waste Management Association Scholarship, and various travel and education grants from Kansas State University. Sheshukov is a co-developer of the Weather Input for Nonpoint Data Simulation (WINDS) stochastic weather generator, the Watershed Assessment Tool for Environmental Risk (WATER), and state lead of the Daily Erosion Project.

Research Interest

Sheshukov’s research interests include studying fundamentals of hydrological processes at the watershed scale, evaluating best-management practices for sustainable watershed management and restoration, and physically based modeling of flow and coupled heat and mass transport in terrestrial ecosystems. His research group utilizes a variety of watershed modeling tools and develops novel computer models to gain better understanding of climate and land use change impacts on watershed hydrology and water-quality. Specific interests lie in computer modeling and field monitoring of ephemeral gully erosion processes supported by grants of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service and U.S. Geological Survey. He also conducts field and laboratory studies on soil erodibility using Jet Erosion Test (JET). Sheshukov’s research is tightly integrated with his extension activities on providing service and engaging citizens in conservation and protection of Kansas watersheds. He developed watershed assessment plans for 13 HUC-8 watersheds in Kansas and Missouri to mitigate nonpoint source pollution from agricultural fields.