Great Lakes Water Quality Conference

GREAT LAKES WATER QUALITY CONFERENCE
PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET

This faculty workshop will feature overviews by Purdue University-Calumet, Purdue University-West Lafayette, and Argonne National Lab on their existing expertise and selected projects.  Lunch will be provided for registered participants of the faculty workshop.  The general public is invited to attend Dr. Ashok Gadgil's seminar on Global Water Solutions Through Technology at 1:30 P.M.

(All Times Calumet Unless Noted)

Great Lakes Water Quality Conference

Purdue University Calumet

October 23, 2008

9:00 a.m.    Breakfast and Introductions

9:30 a.m.    Welcome address by Ralph Rogers, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

9:40 a.m.    Introduction by George Nnanna, Director of the Purdue Calumet Water Institute

9:50 a.m.    M. Cristina Negri, Agronomist/Environmental Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory, Presentation: Natural Systems for Water Remediation. 

10:10 a.m.  BREAK

10:20 a.m. Dr. Chad Jafvert, Professor of Civil Engineering, Presentation: “Sediment Research at a Former Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) on the Grant Calumet River”

10:40 a.m.  Dr. Chandramouli Viswanathan, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering,

Presentation: “Total Maximum Daily Load for Salt Creek, Indiana”

10:55 a.m.  BREAK

11:05 a.m.  Dr. Ron Turco, Director of the Indiana Water Resources Research Technology Institute and Professor of Agronomy, Presentation: “Overview of Capabilities in Water Sciences and Engineering at Purdue University West Lafayette”

11:30 a.m. Dr. Kathryn L. Rowberg, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Presentation: “Prediction of Aquatic Phototoxicity of Substituted Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons”

11:50 a.m.  Cory Troy, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Presentation: “Measurement and Modeling of Lake Michigan Thermal Structure”

 12:10 p.m.           LUNCH

1:15 p.m.    BREAK

1:30            Dr. Ashok Gadgil, Senior Scientist and Deputy Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Presentation: Global Water Solutions through Technology

2:30            Round Table Network Session