The seminar always starts at 3.00 pm in Ames Hall Room 234 unless noted otherwise. For disability information, contact Ms. Denise Nowlin (dnowlin@jhu.edu).
September 4
Prof. Ed Bouwer
Department Orientation
September 11
Prof.
Claudia Gunsch, Duke University
Genetic Bioaugmentation: Using Nature to Engineer More Efficient Bioremediation
Host: Alan Stone
September 18
Dr.
Georgiana Anderson, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Disasters and Health: Case Studies and Opportunities for Collaborative Research between Epidemiology and Environmental Engineering
Host: Seth Guikema
September 25
Prof.
Thomas Meixner, University of Arizona
How Water, Carbon and Energy Drive Evolution of the Critical Zone: The Jemez-Santa Catalina Critical Zone Observatory
Host: Ciaran Harman
October 2
Prof.
Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University
Environmental
Nanotechnology: From Nanoprospecting to Global
Descriptors for Environmental Modeling
October 9
Prof.
Jaehong Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
Two Approaches to Achieve Visible Light Upconversion for Environmental Application
Host: Kai Loon Chen
October 16 (Day after Fall Break Day)
No
seminar
October 23
Prof.
Marcelo Chamecki, Pennsylvania State University
Blowin’ in the Wind: the Fluid Mechanics of Plant Disease Propagation
Host: Grace Brush
October 30
No seminar
November 1 (Thursday 3pm, Mason Hall Auditorium)
The Charles and Mary O’Melia Lecture in
Environmental Science
Prof.
Janet Hering, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic
Science & Technology (Eawag)
Biogeochemical Perspectives on Water Sustainability
November 6
Prof.
Taylor Perron, MIT
Climate, Erosion, and Landscape
Evolution: Lessons from Ocean Islands
Host: Ciaran Harman
November 13 (jointly hosted with the Global Water Program)
Katie
O’Meara, Maryland Institute College of Art
Reversible Urbanism: "Boundaries,
Edges and Centers"
Host: Luke MacDonald
November 20
Prof.
Ciaran Harman
The Hills Are Alive! Topography, Water and Landscape change
November 27
Prof.
Anne Jefferson, Kent State University
Drainage Network
Evolution is Driven by Coupled Changes in Landscape
Properties and Hydrologic Response
Host: Ciaran Harman
December 4
TBA
TBA