Environmental Engineering CE 5992
Graduate Seminar

Week

Date (Day)

Venue

Speaker, affiliation

Topic/Title

1

1/9/11, Monday

642 Dow

Grad Curriculum Discussion

2

1/16, Monday

642 Dow

No Seminar – MLK Day

3

1/23, Monday

642 Dow

Dr. Martin Auer, MTU, Environmental Engineering

The Myth of Sustainability: Life on a Runaway Planet

4

1/30, Monday

642 Dow

Drs. Alex Mayer & Noel Urban, MTU Environmental Engineering

Water, Sustainability & Climate issues for the Great Lakes

5

2/6, Monday

642 Dow

Marcel Dijkstra, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Engineering, MTU

Modeling the deep chlorophyll maximum in Lake Superior

6

2/13, Monday

642 Dow

Dr. Judith Perlinger, MTU Environmental Engineering

Modeling air-water and air-land transfers of contaminants

7

2/20, Monday

101 Rekhi Hall

S-STEM 1: 

Ethiopian Water Garden & Suriname Water Treatment LCA

8

2/27, Monday

101 Rekhi Hall

S-STEM 2: 

Microbial Fuel Cell & Indoor Air Quality Modeling

BREAK

9

3/12, Monday

642 Dow

Dr. Daya Muralidharan, MTU School of Business

Groundwater sustainability issues in California

10

3/19, Monday

642 Dow

Michelle Banonis, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (MTU alumna)

San Joaquin River Restoration Program

10

3/22, Thursday, 5:30-6:30

U115

Lana Pollack, International Joint Commission

Critical Issues for the Great Lakes

11

3/26, Monday

101 Rekhi Hall

S-STEM 3: 

Bone Char Water treatment & PCMI Assessment

12

4/2, Monday

642 Dow

Dr. Alan Weidemann, Office of Naval Research

Remote optical studies of the Great Lakes

13

4/9, Monday

101 Rekhi Hall

S-STEM 4: 

Great Lakes monitoring & Pilgrim River Watershed Plan

14

4/16, Monday

642 Dow

Drs. Watkins, Griffis, Mayer (MTU CEE Dept.), Katelyn Watson, Ali Mirchi, Rabi Gyawali, Meredith Ballard – doctoral candidates

MUSES:  Water as an economic commodity in the Great Lakes Basin