Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Seminar (CEE 691A)

Fall 2019 - Organized by: Professor David Reckhow

All are in the Elab II Auditorium (Rm 119) starting at 2:30 PM (refreshments at 2:15), unless otherwise noted;

Date	Name	Affiliation	Seminar Title
9/6			Introductory Meeting
9/7 (Sat, 10:45 AM)	Michael Stover	US EPA	Sacred Water: Perspectives from Working with Native American Communities, NEGSWS Keynote (ILC; N151)
9/13	Bob Kortmann	Ecosystem Consulting Service, Inc.	Applied Limnology: A potpourri of experiences from four decades of private practice
9/20	Ngai Yin Yip	Columbia University	Disrupting Desalination: Temperature Swing Solvent Extraction for Hypersaline Brines
9/27	Yuefeng Xie	Penn State Harrisburg	Impact of Marcellus Shale gas production wastewater on disinfection byproduct formation
10/4	Catherine Hoar	Columbia University	Identifying microbial actors and mechanisms involved in bisphenol-A degradation
10/11	Manos Anagnostou	UConn	Taming hazardous storms: from complex terrain and coastal floods to power outages
10/18	Kevin Rose	RPI	Understanding long term trends in oxygen and carbon cycling in lakes globally
10/28 (Mon, 3PM)	Paul Bates	University of Bristol	Modeling River Flood Risk for the Whole Continental US; FENG LECTURE
11/1	Pete Raymond	Yale University	Dissolved Organic Matter in the Connecticut River Watershed
11/8	Kristina Gutchess	MA DCR	Back to the Future: Model results suggest climate drives future reductions in stream Cl
11/15	Salimar Cordero	EWRE Grad Student	A Tale of Two Fractions:Identifying the reactive NOM components responsible for silver nanoparticle deposition
11/22	Andrew Keyser, Josh Soper	EWRE Grad Students	Formation of Low-Molecular-Weight Dissolved Organic Nitrogen in Full-Scale Wastewater Treatment Plants, and, Salting our Wachusett: Modeling the effects of decreased road salt loading on reservoir withdrawal chloride concentrations
12/6	Nicolas Duenas, Bryan Ovelheiro, Pfano Tshindane	EWRE Grad Students & UNISA Visiting Student	TBA

 

 

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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.