FALL 2008 SEMINAR SERIES
The Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (WREE)
seminars include presentations and lectures by our faculty, visiting scholars
and engineers from other institutions, faculty and scientists from other departments
at NCSU, as well as our graduate students. While all graduate students in the
WREE program are required to attend, all others are welcome!
The seminars will be held at 4pm, in Mann Hall room 323, unless otherwise
noted.
Monday August 25th
Kickoff/introductory meeting led by Dr. de los Reyes.
Monday September 1st
No seminar (Labor Day Holiday)
Monday September 8th
Lauren Wellborn,
Dept. of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering, NC State University
40lb Portable Lab: Adventures Involving Philippino Groundwater.
Monday September 15th
No seminar (departmental faculty meeting)
Monday September 22nd
Jeffrey Hanson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Field Research Facility
Advancements in Coastal Storm Surge Modeling.
Monday September 29th
Rick Luettich, Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC Chapel Hill
High Resolution Hurricane Storm Surge and Inundation Modeling along the
North Carolina and Gulf Coasts.
Monday October 6th
Brian White, Dept. of Marine Sciences, UNC Chapel Hill
Horizontal exchange processes in shallow
channels with fringing Vegetation.
Monday October 13th
Joe DeCarolis,
Dept. of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering, NC State University
Using energy models to chart a path towards sustainability.
Monday October 20th
James Bowen, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNC Charlotte
Using Turbulence Model Results to Quantify Oxygen Reaeration in an Estuary
Dissolved Oxygen Model.
Monday October 27th
Bernine Khan, EPA
Release of Arsenic to the Environment from
CCA-Treated Wood: Leaching and Speciation during Service and Disposal.
Monday November 3rd
Nancy White, UNC Coastal Studies Institute
Fecal Coliform Export from Four Coastal North
Carolina Areas.
Friday November 7, 1:30pm
Helen Nguyen,
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adsorption Kinetics of Cryprosporidium Parvum
oocysts to Natural Organic Matter: Microscopic Evidence for Secondary Minimum
Deposition.
Monday November 17th
Ruoying He, Dept. of Marine,
Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, NC State University
TBA
Monday November 24th
Hyung-Wook Choi, Dept. of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering, NC State University
Real-World Measurement of Fuel Use and Emissions for a Plug-in Hybrid
Diesel School Bus.
Monday December 1st
No seminar (Dead Week)
Please send your announcements, contributions
and comments/suggestions about the seminar series to jie_yu@ncsu.edu