Environmental & Water
Resources Engineering Seminar (CEE 691A)
Fall 2018 - Organized by: Professor Colin Gleason
All are in room 323 of the Elab building starting at 2:30 PM (refreshments at 2:15), unless otherwise noted;
Date |
Name |
Affliation |
Seminar Title |
| 9/14 | Introductory Meeting | ||
| 9/21 | Dave Bjerklie | USGS | How the Hydrologic Cycle Responds to Changing Precipitation and Air Temperature (Poster) |
| 9/28 | Don Park and Merritt Harlan | EWRE grad students | Climate Stress Test - Impact of Climate Change in San Francisco & Arctic Hydrology & Young Scientists Summer Program- Projecting hydrologic changes in the terrestrial Arctic domain |
| 10/4 | Desmond Lawler | UT Austin | FENG LECTURE |
| 10/12 | Amy Pickering | Tufts | Designing for Scale: Passive Chlorination to Increase Access to Safe Water in Low-income Countries |
| 10/19 | Kostas Andreadis | UMass | Towards a data-driven modeling framework for hydrology |
| 10/26 | Griffin Moriarty and Ridwan Siddique | EWRE grad student & post doc | Quantifying Disinfection Byproduct Formation Potential in Near Real-time Using Automated Sensors & Hydrological extremes across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a changing climate |
| 11/2 | Hind Oubanas | IRSTEA Montpellier, France | River discharge estimation from satellite data in ungauged basins using variational data assimilation |
| 11/9 | Frank Magilligan | Dartmouth | The science, politics, and biophysical outcomes of dam removal |
| 11/16 | Soon-Mi Kim and Sam Downes | EWRE grad students | Concerns about N-DBP formation in small community water systems (SCWS) due to occurrence of algal blooms & The Role of Light on the Success, Morphology, and Resiliency of Oxygenic Photogranules |
| 11/30 | Desiree Plata | MIT | The chemical complexity of energy waste streams (Abstract) |
| 12/7 | Nelson Da Luz and Chinedum Eluwa | EWRE grad students | Can sampling for drinking water quality be more effective and how much can it affect water utility decision making? & Managing Water in Tanzania: Mapping Decisions to Outcomes |
The EWRE program was established by Professor Tsuan Hua "Tom" Feng in 1965 under the name of "Sanitary
Engineering". It was changed to "Environmental Engineering" in 1967 and finally to "Environmental and Water Resources Engineering" in 2008. Our first graduate (Henry Hyde) entered the program in the fall of 1965 and graduated with the Class of 1966. Since then over 500 have earned MS or PhD degrees, and in some cases both. The EWRE program is currently served by 10 full-time faculty. All of these faculty have a substantial research focus on water (e.g., natural water, drinking water, wastewater), making the UMass program one of the strongest water engineering programs in the US. Other areas of interest to current and former EWRE faculty include solid & hazardous waste, air pollution, environmental chemistry, microbiology and public health.