Water Resources and Environmental Engineering


SPRING 2009 SEMINAR SERIES (click on the title for abstract)


Monday January 12th

Mort Barlaz, Dept. of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering, NCSU.
The Fate of Carbon in Municipal Waste Landfills: Methane, Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Sequestration

Monday January 19th

No seminar (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

Monday January 26th

No seminar (Departmental Faculty Meeting)

Monday February 2nd

Mort Barlaz, Dept. of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering, NCSU.
The Art of Public Speaking: How to Make Effective Oral Presentations

Monday February 9th

Mark Bishop, Hazen & Sawyer.
Water Reclamation and Reuse - Engineering Issues and Case Studies.

Monday February 16th

No seminar (Departmental Faculty Meeting)

Monday February 23rd

Helena Mitasova, Dept. of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, NCSU.
Geospatial analysis and modeling with open source GIS: applications and education

Monday March 2nd

No seminar (Spring Break)

Monday March 9th

Alan Vette, U.S. EPA, National Exposure Research Laboratory, RTP, NC
Exposure Assessment for Air Pollutants: Applications for Mobile Sources

Friday March 13th, 4pm, Mann Hall 216

WREE Graduate Students Spring Symposium Keynote Lecture
Debbie Niemeier, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis.
Maria's House

Monday March 23rd

Marc Deshusses, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University.
Biotrickling filters for Air Pollution Control: Pushing the Limits beyond the Control of Simple Pollutants

Monday March 30th

Jay Cheng, Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, NCSU.
Growing Duckweed to Recover Nutrients from Wastewater and for Biofuel Production

Monday April 6th

Greg Dusek, Dept. of Marine Sciences, UNC Chapel Hill.
Predicting Rips: Utilizing nearshore observational data to improve our ability to forecast rip currents

Monday April 13th

Greg Jennings, Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, NCSU.
Advances in Ecosystem Restoration

Monday April 20th

No seminar (Dead Week)



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Please send your announcements, contributions and comments/suggestions about the seminar series to jie_yu@ncsu.edu