Env Seminars

"The Hydrogen-Based Membrane Biofilm Reactor for Reducing Oxidized Contaminants"
(AEESP Distinguished Lecture presented at Univ of Missouri, Rolla)
To view the movie of Dr. Rittman's AEESP lecture, click here: http://msmovie.umr.edu/public/misc/AEESPLectureF04.wmv


September 3	NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION Meet the Faculty, Academic Procedures EnVESA Picture Shoot and Lab Tours
September 10	Zhengkai Li, Doctoral Thesis Defense, WUStL "Effects of Microbial Iron-Reduction On Anaerobic Biodegradation of Vegetable Oil in Freshwater Sediments"
September 17 (3 pm) Cupples II, 100	Dr. Gary Logsdon, Black and Veatch KAPPE LECTURE (jointly sponsored with S. Ill. Univ., Edwardsville) Avoiding Waterborne Disease Outbreaks by Understanding Prior Outbreaks
September 18 (Saturday, 8 am)	9th Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference MAEEC Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville
September 23 (Thursday ~ 11:00am CuII, 202)	Neil Deardorff, MS Thesis Defense, WUStL "Aerosol Climatology at Reserve, Kansas, a Rural Midwestern Site"
September 24	Ayano Niwa, Canon Corporation (M.S. Thesis Defense, WUStL) "Fine Particle Emissions from Laser Printers: A Mechanistic Evaluation"
September 27 (Monday ~ 2:30pm CuII, 100)	Megan Yu, MS Thesis Defense, WUStL "Particulate Mater Ion Concentrations at the St. Louis – Midwest Supersite: Particle-Into-Liquid Samplers (PILS) Measurements"
October 1	Dr. Y. Otani, Professor, Kanazawa Univ., Japan "Electrostatic Separation of VOC by Ionization"
October 12 (Tuesday, Video Telecast, Lopata 104; 3:30 pm)	Dr. Bruce Rittman, Prof, Northwestern Univ., Member NAE "The Hydrogen-Based Membrane Biofilm Reactor for Reducing Oxidized Contaminants" (AEESP Distinguished Lecture presented at Univ of Missouri, Rolla) To view the movie of Dr. Rittman's AEESP lecture, click here: http://msmovie.umr.edu/public/misc/AEESPLectureF04.wmv
October 15	Dr. Mark Barnett, Asst. Prof., Auburn University "Adsorption, transport, and bioavailability of metals and radionuclides in the subsurface" (jointly with Chemical Engineering)
October 22	Dr. Souhail Al-Abed, USEPA, NRMRL, Cincinnati "Electrochemical Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Water and Sediments"
Thursday, Oct. 28 (3pm) Cupples II, room 100	Dr. Richard McClurg, Asst. Prof., Univ. of Minnesota "Progress in Nucleation Rate Estimation" (jointly with Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering)
November 5 3 pm, Lopata 101	Dr. Charles O'Melia, Prof., Johns Hopkins University; Member NAE 2nd Annual Ryckman lecture "Aquasols: On the Role of Secondary Minima" (jointly with Chemical Engineering) Click here for information on The Ryckman Lecture Series
November 12	Dr. Bala Ramaswami, Post Doctoral Fellow, WUStL "Using bacteriophages to elucidate the sources of phosphorus pollution for Table Rock Lake"
November 19	Dr. Joseph Berry, Prof., University of Denver and Berry & Associates "Moving from Maps to Mapped Data, Spatial Analysis and Beyond: Getting Your Arms Around Geospatial Technology" Jointly with School of Arts & Sciences and University Libraries as part of WU GIS Symposium

November 26	Thanksgiving Holiday
November 29 (2:30) Cupples II, 100	Prakash Kumar, Doctoral Thesis Defense, WUStL "Synthesis, Transport, and Aggregation of Particles in a Magnetic Field" (jointly with Chemical Engineering)

December 3	Marina Smallwood, M.S. Thesis Defense, WUStL "Mercury Capture in Coal Combustion Systems Using In-Situ Generated Sorbents"
December 10	Dr. Kenneth Chilton, Director, Institute for Study of Economics & the Environment, Lindenwood University "Economists and Environmental Engineers -- Strange Bedfellows or Natural Allies"