EWR Seminar Schedule for Winter 2003

We are currently in the process of combining the EWR seminar series with AUEI seminar series to offer a new joint seminar series, which is expected to start from Fall 2003. As a temporary arrangement for this semester, the EWR group will try and attend all relevant AUEI seminars. Here is the tentative schedule for the combined EWR/AUEI seminar series for the next two months.

Seminar Date	Venue	Topic
Thursday 3 PM Jan 16, 2003	Library auditorium	Initial anaerobic zones in activated sludge Speaker: Dr. Willie Harper
Thursday 3 PM Jan 23, 2003	Library auditorium	Fate of DNAPL liquids in the environment Speaker: Prof. Jacob Dane
Wednesday 4 PM Jan 29, 2003	Harbert	Environmental faculty staff meeting (only for the teaching faculty). There is no seminar this week!
Wednesday 4 PM Feb 5^th, 2003	Harbert 111	Graduate student seminar Speaker: Dr. Zhao’s students
Thursday 3 PM Feb 13^th, 2003	Library auditorium	Addressing the challenges of the natural environment: How business respond Speaker: Dr. Sarah Stanwick
Thursday 3 PM Feb 20^th, 2003	Library auditorium	Urban sprawl patterns around Auburn and its effects on land cover changes in local watersheds Speaker: Dr. Phil Chaney
Wednesday 4 PM Feb 26^th, 2003	Harbert	Environmental faculty staff meeting. There is no seminar this week!
Wednesday 4 PM March 5^th, 2003	Harbert 111	Graduate student seminar Speaker: Richard Liu Topic: TBA
Thursday, March 13^th, 2003	TBA	Microbial Reduction and Decolorization of Textile Reactive Dyes Speaker: Prof. Spyros G. Pavlostathis Georgia Tech
Wednesday, March 19^th, 2003, 4PM	Harbert 111	Microbial sulfate reduction processes in GW aquifers Prof. Saunders and Dr. Lee
Wednesday, March 26^th, 2003, 4PM	No seminar	Environmental faculty staff meeting. There is no seminar this week!
April 2^nd		Student seminar by Eric
Wednesday April 9^th 4 pm	H-111	Supercritical-Water Oxidation of Chlorinated Wastes Dr. Ram Gupta, Chemical Engineering AU
April 17^th , Thursday at 3 pm H-111		The Dirtying of the River Goddess Ganga: how the gendering of ecology affects wastewater management Dr. Kelly Ally, Anthropology program, AU
April 23^rd	H-111	Environmental faculty staff meeting (only for the teaching faculty). There is no seminar this week! OR Clair Booth talk
May 1^st 2003 Thursday at 3 pm	Library auditorium	Factors affecting availability of pesticide biodegradation Dr. Yucheng Feng
May 8^th 2003 Thursday at 3 pm	Library auditorium	Sustaining biodiversity on managed forests Dr. Mike Mitchell

Please note that this seminar program is an important part of our environmental engineering curriculum; therefore, environmental engineering/ hydraulics graduate students, staff, and faculty are REQUIRED to attend this seminar. Senior undergraduate students, who are interested in the environmental engineering area, are also strongly encouraged to attend this seminar series.

Thanks for your time and support.

Prabhakar Clement

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the EWR seminar coordinator Dr. Clement (clement@eng.auburn.edu) or email the graduate student coordinator: Ms. Ashley Owens (owensja@auburn.edu).