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Environmental & Water Resources Engineering (EWRE)

Seminar Dates and Speakers

EWRE Seminar (Virtual)
Time: Fridays 11 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. ET

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For more information contact: Maya Trotz - 510 593 3647
 

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Fall 2026

Honu hub: an adaptive decentralized wastewater infrastructure system (adwis) for island communities.

Danniel H. Yeh, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, LEED AP BD+C, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, ×îÐÂÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

Use of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) as a design tool rather than a validation process for underwater craft

Lakshmi Madavaa Miller, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Oceanography (Hydrography), College of Marine Science, ×îÐÂÌìÃÀ´«Ã½             

Don’t drink the water? Investigating environmental contributors to Iowa’s cancer crisis.

David Cwiertny, Ph.D., Rose and Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination, University of Iowa

Elon Cadogan, Ph.D., Portfolio Management Specialist, UNOPS     

Checking the Pulse: Understanding the effects of contaminants on ecosystem function.

Anna Vincent Lauer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Geosciences, University of South Florida

Kofi Dalrymple, Ph.D., Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Guyana                      

Mobility and remediation of metal mixtures in uranium mine wastes in tribal land

Jose Cerrato Corrales, Ph.D., Professor and Regents' Lecturer, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, The University of New Mexico. President Elect, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors

Digital infrastructure and the overlooked chemical footprint                    

Nirupam Aich, Ph.D., Richard L. McNeel Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

From national trends to local hotspots through model-driven surveillance of wastewater-derived contaminants

Jacelyn Rice-Boayue, Ph.D., Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University

Tracking sargassum, estimating tonnage and predicting pathways

Brian Barnes, Ph.D., College of Marine Science, ×îÐÂÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
Farming with sargassum in the Caribbean

Brittany Mc Intyre, Environmental Science and Policy, University of Miami

Leveraging mucilage to sustainably preserve food

Dawn Fox, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Guyana 

Leveraging 3D printing to advance interfacial solar vapor generation for brine management

Casey De Finnda, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of California Davis

Rachel R. Leads, Ph.D., College of Marine Science, ×îÐÂÌìÃÀ´«Ã½                        

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Past

"Farms, Forests, Flows, and Fish: Stakeholder-Driven Biophysical and Economic Modeling at the Watershed Scale"

David Kaplan, Professor and Director, Center for Wetlands, University of Florida

"Stormwater doctoral research: Hydraulic Modeling of Regenerative Conveyances and Improving the performance of interdependent road and stormwater drainage systems under future conditions"

Gillian Palino, Gulf Research Program Fellow and Chao Ye, CEE PhD Candidate. Sponsored by AWWA

Allison Lewis, Senior Technologist & Project Manager, Jacobs

Sponsored by AWRA

Coastal Ocean Observing, Modeling, and Applications on the West Florida Continental Shelf

Yonggang Liu, PhD/Associate Research Professor/Director, Ocean Circulation Lab/College of Marine Science

"It's not rocket science (actually it's harder). Implementing Nature-Based Infrastructure and Coastal Resilience in Florida's Indian River Lagoon Watershed"

Jason M. Evans, Executive Director, Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience, Stetson University

State of the Solid Waste Industry

Ashley Evans, GHG Reduction & Landfill Capital Management, Waste Management

EWRE faculty – An overview of EWRE faculty research

CEE PhD candidates (Estenia Ortiz, Martha McAllister, Daniel Delgado) – Strong Coasts Doctoral Research

Christopher High, PE, Senior Project Manager at Wade Trim – The Lift Station 87 Wet Weather Flow Transfer project

Elizabeth A. Edwards, Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto – AEESP Distinguished Lecture: Adventures in anaerobic bioremediation

CEE associate researchers (Drs. Erica Dasi and Ananda Bhattacharjee) Sponsored by FWEA – Microbiology Research by CEE’s Early Career Scientists  

Paulo Salles, Director of Coastal Engineering Processing Lab, and Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico – The National Coastal Resilience Laboratory of Mexico

Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos, Associate Professor, University of Miami, Civil & Architectural Engineering – Protecting Coastlines and Preserving Ecosystems - The SEAHIVE® Paradigm

David Tomasko, Director, Sarasota Bay Estuary Program – State of Sarasota Bay