2023 AEESP Research and Education Conference
June 20-23, 2023 | Boston, MA
Hosted at Northeastern University by a planning team of New England universities.
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Thursday, 22/June/2023 | ||||
7:30am - 5:00pm |
Reg-R: Registration Desk Open Location: Curry Student Center - Main Atrium |
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8:00am - 9:15am |
Plenary 2: The Evolving Role of Environmental Engineers and Scientists in the context of Climate Change Location: Ell Hall - Blackman Auditorium Chair: Caitlyn Butler |
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9:30am - 10:30am |
Networking Coffee Break 2: Networking Coffee Break Location: Curry Student Center - Main Atrium |
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9:30am - 11:30am |
Workshop - R1: Earth Systems to Anthropocene Systems: An Evolutionary, System-of-Systems, Convergence Paradigm for Interdependent Societal Challenges Location: Egan Research Center - Raytheon |
Workshop - R2: Chinese American Professors in Environmental Engineering and Science (CAPEES) Award Ceremony and Workshop on International Collaboration Location: Richards Hall - Room 236 |
Workshop - R3: Enhancing Participatory Equity in the Classroom using Data Analytics and Self-reflection Location: Curry Student Center - McLeod Suites (Room 318-320-322) |
Workshop - R4: New NSF Funding Opportunities: Partnership for Innovation and Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Location: Shillman Hall - Room 305 |
Workshop - R5: Environmental Engineering Program Leaders (EEPL) Workshop Location: Curry Student Center - Room 333 |
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10:30am - 12:30pm |
Posters - Thurs: Thursday Poster Session Location: Curry Student Center - Main Atrium and Ballroom Chair: Matthew Eckelman Silica scaling control by greenly synthesized, affordable MOFs in brackish water desalination processes Renewable biomass reinvigorates sustainable water-energy nexus No silver bullet: assessing the impacts of silver-containing showerheads on the drinking water microbiome A Critical Review of Data Science Applications in Resource Recovery and Carbon Capture from Organic Waste Predicting nutrient recovery efficiency of struvite precipitation using digestate derived from multiple organic feedstocks Tuning the surface functionality of polyamide films via termination reaction in molecular layer-by-layer deposition Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Hydrothermal Waste Sludge Valorization Systems Chemical and Microbial Water Quality Impacts of a Wildland-Urban Interface Fire: Coastal Fire, Orange County, CA The Role of Free-living Amoeba in the Fate and Transport of Multi-drug Resistant Bacteria in Drinking Water Systems Shedding light on the drinking water microbiome and their lifestyles Validating Well Model Estimates in Wake County, NC Assessing the Potential for Remotely Sensed Discharge to Estimate Carbon Fluxes for Ungauged Rivers Monitoring phytoplankton in the Great Lakes using a low-cost autonomous microscope: challenges and opportunity The role of phage communication genes in their life cycle: analysis of metagenomic sequencing data from aerobic and anaerobic membrane bioreactors The Tidal DOMino Effect: Deciphering the Role of Tidal Outwelling in Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in a Salt Marsh Creek Do the products formed as plastics photodegrade in sunlight inhibit aquatic microbes? In situ activated carbon amendment to limit toxic equivalency measure of dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls congeners in contaminated sediment – a mesocosm study with three organisms Economic and Environmental Comparison of Emerging Plastic Waste Management Technologies Stability of Wildfire Ash Particle and Effects on Water Quality Effect of Dissolved Pyrogenic Organic Matter on the Growth of Aquatic Microorganisms The Contribution of Urban Trees to Dissolved Organic Matter Cycling in the Environment Analysis of Throughfall Dissolved Organic Matter Using consumer sales data to improve estimates of when and where plastic enters the environment Evaluation of Physicochemical Treatment Technologies for Landfill Leachate Induced Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (DON) Review of Fungal Pathogens and Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Inhalation Exposure to Coccidioides Spp. Sustainable boron and arsenic removal using nature-based wetland pretreatment in combination with nanofiltration Destationarizing climate signatures in satellite-derived terrestrial water storage anomalies to enable streamflow modeling Sustainable Sorbic Acid Production via Triacetic Acid Lactone from Lignocellulosic Biomass Development of Fluorescent Sensor using MoS2 Nanostructures for Lead Detection Methane Gas Driven Generation of Fixed Nitrogen Using Diazotrophic Methanotroph-Microbial Communities at Elevated Oxygen Concentrations Understanding effects of Peracetic acid (PAA) pre-oxidation on disinfection by-product formation Impacts Physical And Biochemical Conditions On Acclimation Of Pilot-Scale Biological Manganese Filters Utilizing Thermal Proteome Profiling (TPP) to detect contaminant degrading enzymes in microorganisms. Engineers Without Borders - Facing the Challenges of Remote Implementation Low-Energy Inland Brackish Water Desalination in Arid Climates through Optimized Reverse Osmosis and Nanofiltration filtration system configurations Effect of biochar on nutrient and contaminant removal processes in activated sludge Polystyrene Nanoplastics Induce Manganese Oxidation under Sunlight Mapping PFAS Occurrence, Fate, and Transport in the Pittsburgh Region Decreasing Toxicity of DBPs in Drinking Water Through Light Driven Reactions Passive Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems for Coastal Communities using Seawater-Flushing Toilets Impacts of Zooplankton Filter Feeding on Sunlight Disinfection Virus log reduction values for secondary biological treatment: Toward regulatory crediting in potable reuse applications Responses of Various C/N Ratios to Nitrogen Metabolic Pathways in Aerobic Granular Sludge Reactor Cleaning Up the Nation’s Hazardous, Radioactive, and Toxic Waste (HRTW) Sites Mechano-enzymatic hydrolysis of poly(ethylene terephthalate) Biocatalytic Depolymerization of Biopolymers Evaluation of adsorbable organic fluorine (AOF) and extractable organic fluorine (EOF) methods for the assessment of total PFASs in water Towards Innovative and Green Wastewater Reclamation with Integrated Constructed Wetlands and Ferrate(VI) Treatment Carbon Valorization Leveraged by a Dual-fiber System for Photocatalysis Feedback Control of Denitrifying Woodchip Bioreactors: Impacts on Cumulative Nitrate Load Reductions Physical and chemical changes of activated carbon in response to oxidative chemical treatments and their influence on electron exchange behavior Systematic Review and Meta-analysis on the Sunlight Inactivation of Enveloped and Nonenveloped viruses in Natural and Laboratory Environment An in-situ soil screening methodology to inform sustainable urban agriculture and minimize human exposure to harmful pollutants Exploring novel strategies for the transformation of sargassum biomass from the Caribbean Sea into high value-added products Concentration and accumulation history of PFAS in Jordan Lake Sediments Producing Caproate from Cattle Manure using Co-Fermentation with Corn Silage Manganese Peroxidase supported by metal-embedded silica sol-gel. How does removing extracellular and "non-viable" cell DNA impact environmental antimicrobial resistance gene host assignment and hazard assessment? Influence of species heterogeneity on overall observed decay rates of indigenous wastewater bacteria Microbial extracellular metabolites: biomethane booster for granular activated carbon amended anaerobic reactors Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Animal Agriculture by Mitigating Methane Emission and Producing Bioproducts from Animal Manure Modelling of Hexavalent Chromium Adsorption in Complex Systems Concerning Mental Health Challenges Among Engineering Students and Their Help-Seeking Imaging and quantifying the biological uptake and transport of nanoplastics using a dual functional model material Sequestering PFAS in concrete made with modified coal fly ash Examining land to water transport of high solubility pesticides using POCIS passive sampling techniques Utilizing Fermentation HAP Air Emissions for Optimizing Ethanol Plant Air Treatment and Operations Photochemical Oxidation of Manganese by Nitrate Photolysis and Mineral Photocatalysis under Oxic and Anoxic Conditions Network synchronization reveals the diffusion and dynamics of fine particulate matters in San Francisco A Rapid Assessment of Drinking Water in the Indiana Uplands Region Ecological factors and processes driving the biogeography of the soil microbiome of the United States Estimating the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Flood Damages Selection of microbial communities and assessment of their potential for aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation of PFAS compounds Plastics and their photochemical fate in the Earth system Assessing the applicability of satellite-derived event rainfall characteristics for Hurricane Florence to identify likely microbial contamination in North Carolina private drinking wells Microplastics and PFAS in yard waste compost: occurrence and degradation Application of Mycoremediation to Reduce Escherichia Coli in Runoff Mechanistic Investigations of Thermal Decomposition of Perfluoroalkyl Ether Carboxylic Acids and Short-chain Perfluoroalkyl Carboxylic Acids Chromium removal from concentrated ammonium nitrate solution: electrocoagulation with iron in a plug-flow reactor Sorption of cytostatic compounds to soils and the implications for mobility in groundwater Coupled Geochemical-geomechanical Alteration of Sandstone in CO2 Sequestration Reservoirs The Detection of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Central, South and South-Central Texas, USA Development of LCMS Methods for PFAS Source Identification Using High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data Evaluating Hydroxyl Radical Generation of Nanobubble Under Ambient Conditions Whole Facility Energy Balances for Anaerobic Treatment Configurations: Shifting Paradigm from Aerobic to Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment Data Driven Approach to Enhance Street Sweeping in Urban Areas Hydrophobic aerogels for the removal of emerging contaminants The effect of pH on anaerobic palmitic acid degradation and growth of Syntrophonomas sp. Neonicotinoid Contamination in Hydrogeologic Systems: The Depth Distribution of Neonicotinoid Insecticides Within the Midwestern Region. Understanding Recent Trends in Microplastics’ Separation and Degradation from Water and Wastewater: Role of Advanced Oxidation Processes Water Quality after the Marshall Fire at the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Mechanisms of PFAS sorption to activated carbon at sorption equilibrium Unlocking Interactions Governing the Adsorption of Emergent Contaminants onto Microplastics: An Integrated Macro-scale Experimental Modeling and Micro-scale Computational Simulation. Treated wastewater reuse for non-direct food consumption crops in Nebraska: barriers and benefits of irrigation lagoons Effects of Diverse Environmental Factors on Polychlorinated Biphenyl Biodegradation Potential and Functional Gene Diversity in Contaminated Sediments Free-Living Amoebae Diversity in Drinking Water and Investigating the Role of Preferential Grazing Hydrologic assessment of the sensitivity of surface water surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in urban watersheds with low sanitation coverage: A case study of Belo Horizonte, Brazil Sustainability evaluation of azelaic acid from techno-economic analysis and environmental life cycle assessment of sustainable Azelaic acid production Influence of age of gas wells and sampling procedure on detection of siloxane in landfill gas Evaluation of PFAS occurrence, transformation and leaching behavior from biosolid-amended soils Shifting Paradigm from Aerobic to Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment: Visualizing Tradeoffs at the Water-Energy Nexus Methane Control to Address Climate Change Impacts of Azoles on Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) Process under Different Substrate Conditions Microbiome of potable reuse treatment train through genome-resolved metagenomics Graphene Oxide (GO)-based 2D Sorbent Materials for the Treatment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Phosphate Evaluating Cooling System Selections and Potential Onsite Water Reuse for Data Centers Impact of geological and operational conditions on heterogeneous subsurface systems: a case study on CO2-driven geothermal utilization systems The Release and Fate of Macroalgal Dissolved and Particulate Organic Matter Ultrasound as a Source Water Reservoir Management Strategy to Control Cyanobacteria Blooms Ultrasonic degradation of PFAS in ion-exchange and membrane filtration waste residuals Use of a Modified Indigo Method to Characterize Nanobubble Ozone Technology Additive manufacturing for nano-enabled water treatment technologies: Opportunities and challenges Ungrading in an introductory Environmental Engineering course to improve student learning and agency. Assessing the Impact of Microplastics on the Bioaccumulation of Silver Nanoparticles in Daphnia magna Using fluorescence spectroscopy for high-frequency and real-time water quality monitoring in urban water systems Examining the Effect of Environmental Systems Conditions on Plastic Degradation Pathway and Inorganic Contaminant Sorption Potential Growth of a nitrogen fixing phototroph Rhodopseudomonas palustris on waste from a commercial compost facility Assessing the impact of iron-based advanced oxidation on natural organic matter Sunlight inactivation of MS2 coliphage in algal matrices Using Life Cycle Assessment to Quantify the Opportunity for Recycling Multilayer Plastic Packaging Waste in New York State Sunlight Photolysis of the Extracellular Antibiotic Resistance Gene ampR in Effluent Organic Matter A low-cost portable air quality monitoring platform for high-res mapping of urban areas The impact of semi-continuous and alternating microbial feeding patterns on methane yield from UASB reactors The NC PFAST Network: Assessing distribution and sources of PFAS compounds in raw drinking waters of North Carolina Plastic block production from the recycling of plastic waste: occupational health and environmental impacts assessment through a life cycle assessment Life Cycle and Techno-Economic Analysis of Stormwater Bioretention Cell Media Compositions Effects of solid residence time (SRT) and nutrient availability on mixed community membrane photobioreactor performance for wastewater treatment Determining sediment porewater concentrations at the Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund site using ex-situ equilibration with polyethylene passive samplers Towards customized design of plastic media in IFAS systems to meet specific wastewater treatment plant needs. Development of a Bionanoreactor Approach to Accelerate the Carbonation of Calcium Ions for CO2 Sequestration Insights into membrane biofilms and their potential role in enhancing micropollutant degradation during mainstream anaerobic wastewater treatment Kinetic and transcriptomic response of Geobacter lovleyi strain SZ during respiration of tetrachloroethene and uranium Seasonal and Geographical Variations of Antimicrobial Resistance in Oregon Wastewater Detection of Statin Drugs in Fish Near Wastewater Effluent Along the Tygart Valley River Advancing Anaerobic Biotechnologies for Platform Chemical Recovery from Acid Whey Dairy Waste Modeling the Contributions of Major Source Sectors to Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in the United States An Investigation Into Floc Blanket Removal Mechanisms For the Design of Hydraulic Fluidized Bed Clarifiers Assessing the relative sustainability of point-of-use water disinfection technologies Development of novel tube-in-tube Donnan dialysis reactors for sustainable and efficient nutrient recovery Developing a Framework for Sustainable Processing of Food Waste with Existing Anaerobic Digestion Infrastructure Multi-objective optimization of an integrated water-energy microgrid system Time series shotgun metagenomic evaluation of grab, composite, and passive sampling methods for sewage surveillance Assessing distributional effects of coal-fired power plant retirement on pollution and health in the PJM region Thermodynamic and Kinetic Modeling of Lime Stabilized Kaolinite Land management and air pollution impacts from wildland fires in the Southeastern U.S. under a changing climate Multi-Year Simulation of O3 and PM2.5 Using WRF-Chem over the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo URBAN STORMWATER RUNOFF – TESTING ONSITE METHODS FOR PHOSPHORUS MANAGEMENT Continuous Network-level Monitoring of Lead in a Distribution System Microbial growth and horizontal gene transfer in point-of-use water filtration systems Electrochemical defluorination from groundwater Risk assessment of virus-laden aerosols in a classroom under various ventilation conditions using a CFD approach Structural characterization of soil organic compounds that control carbon preservation in soils Improved PM2.5 estimates in urban areas using a hybrid modeling system Closing the Gap: Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Water Efficiencies from Financial Metrics Equity of Access to Living Shorelines in Pinellas County: a GIS analysis Transport of Micro- and Nanoscale Plastics Through Porous Media: Role of Secondary Energy Minima Can Electrodialysis Be a Cost Competitive Alternative to Reverse Osmosis in Brackish Water Desalination? Preparation of low-cost waste-based material for CO2 capture and conversion Transport of Microplastic and Dispersed Oil Co-contaminants: Effect of Salinity and Mineral Concentration in the Ocean Challenges and opportunities in ultra-high pressure reverse osmosis operation Trends of Seasonal and Annual Rainfall in the South-Central Climatic Zone of Bangladesh Using Mann-Kendall Trend Test Chitosan as a Coagulant for Multi-Barrier Point of Use Water Treatment to Reduce Pathogens Study on abundance of MPs in freshwater in and around Dhaka city Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting: Impact of Emissions and Chemical Boundary Conditions Superior Performance of Convolutional Neural Network for Predicting PM2.5 Concentrations and Exceedances under Sparse Data Availability Hydrothermal Liquefaction to Convert Organic Wet Wastes to Transportation Fuels |
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12:00pm - 12:30pm |
Poster Awards: Student Poster Awards Ceremony Location: Curry Student Center - Ballroom Chair: Matthew Eckelman |
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12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch break (Thurs): Lunch break Location: Dining Hall - International Village |
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12:45pm - 1:45pm |
Mentor Lunch: Faculty Mentorship Lunch Location: Curry Student Center - Mezzanine Lunch will be provided at the venue - attendance required RSVP in registration. |
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2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Thurs1-1: Microbiology: Wastewater-1 Location: Snell Engineering Center - Room 108 Chair: Juliet Johnston Microbial encapsulation for enhanced biological nutrient removal Tracking Horizontal Gene Transfer in Wastewater Microbiomes Using RNA Memory Carbon/Nitrogen Ratios Influence Biofilm Formation and Characteristics in Model Wastewater Microbial Cultures Impact of Biological Treatment on Chemical Composition of Wastewater and Associations with Microbial Communities Microbial Competition in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal: Kinetics or Energetics? |
Thurs1-2: Wastewater Anaerobic Digestion Location: Robinson Hall - Room 109 Chair: Neha Sharma To what extent can solids retention time be reduced without deteriorating the performance of the thermal hydrolysis pretreatment-enhanced mesophilic anaerobic digestion Integrating high-fidelity real-time in situ electrochemical sensing with soft sensing for system visualization and precision process control of anaerobic digestors (AD). Model-derived insights in a two-phase anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor system for high-rate co-digestion Assessing anaerobic membrane bioreactor suitability for treatment of diverse influent types: A look into effluent antibiotic resistance gene and microbial community variability Stability prediction for co-digestion of sewage sludge and food waste using a modified biomethane potential test |
Thurs1-3: PFAS: Treatment Location: Mugar Life Sciences Building - Room 201 Chair: Onur Apul Advanced oxidation/reduction processes for the degradation of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) using Vacuum UV irradiation Effect of inorganic anions on PFAS removal by granular activated carbon and implications for PFAS adsorption mechanisms The UVC/VUV Boron Nitride Photocatalytic Process for High Efficiency Degradation of Poly-/perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Selective Electrocatalytic Destruction of PFAS using a Reactive Electrochemical Membrane System Harnessing the power of life cycle assessment to comprehensively compare PFAS treatment technologies |
Thurs1-4: Water: Reuse Technology Location: Robinson Hall - Room 409 Chair: Joe Goodwill Low Energy, Low Temperature, Low Scaling Brine Concentration through a Novel Evaporative Ion Exchange (EIX) Process Precision Separation of Lead Ions in Water through Computationally Assisted Capacitive Deionization with Complete Water Reclamation Novel Brine Management to Aid Potable Water Reuse: A comparative Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Assessment. Minimizing N-nitrosodimethylamine Formation During Disinfection of a Wastewater-Seawater Blend for Potable Reuse Understanding Flow Dynamics in Membrane Distillation: Effects of Reactor Design on Polarization |
Thurs1-5: Water: Forensic Analysis Location: Shillman Hall - Room 420 Chair: Wesley Hayes Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Imidacloprid in Drinking Water Supplies Fluorescent dissolved organic matter as a forensic tool to investigate the influences of land use and failing sewer infrastructure on water quality in urban streams Tracking organochlorine pesticides pollution status from sedimentary records of Upper Great Lakes “Unearthing” evidence of sewer exfiltration from soil flushes at a suspect site Reconstruction of sparse stream flow and concentration time-series through compressed sensing |
Thurs1-6: Wastewater Management Location: Churchill Hall - Room 103 Chair: Yudi Wu Defining the opportunity space for a novel modular system for distributed treatment of industrial wastewaters Burn After Reading: The Increasing Need for Uniting Surveillance with Treatment in Wastewater Management Adapting AI: Using Deep Neural Networks to Develop Chemical Anomaly Sensors for Wastewater Collection Networks Resource recovery via cranberry syrup waste and carbon balance in a Sidestream Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (S2EBPR) demonstration facility: An experimental and modeling study Optimizing sample collection methodology and location for effective and equitable wastewater-based epidemiology in West Virginia |
Thurs1-7: Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Location: Hurtig Hall - Room 224 Chair: Tasneem Ahmadullah Machine Learning-Assisted Sustainable Ionic Liquid Screening for High CO2 Absorption Electrifying CO2 Conversion to Valuable Chemicals and Fuels Using Plasma-Activated Reactions with Light Alkanes Underground H2 Storage and the Geochemical Considerations for Safety and Reliability The value of mineralization as a permanent sink for carbon capture and removal Emerging Electrochemical Processes for Carbon Capture and Storage |
Thurs1-8: Education: Teaching Location: Behrakis Center - Room 010 Chair: Nick Tooker Sustainable Food Waste Generation and Management at Universities - Research and Education Contextualizing and connecting “Introduction to Environmental Engineering” concepts to everyday experiences Evaluating the Effectiveness of Empathy Exercises on Student Engagement and Perspective Taking Environmental Engineering Materials: A New Required Course for an Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Program Teaching Sustainability: A Study Abroad Perspective |
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3:15pm - 4:15pm |
Thurs2-1: Microbiology: Wastewater-2 Location: Snell Engineering Center - Room 108 Chair: Juliet Johnston Correlative analysis of wastewater trends with clinical cases and hospitalizations through five dominant variant waves of COVID-19 Wastewater surveillance of carbapenem-resistant bacteria and carbapenemase genes: comparison of culture- and ddPCR-based approaches Virus genome degradation in untreated wastewater Subsewershed Surveillance in Rural Central Appalachia Reveals Enteropathogen Signal is Directly Influenced by Inflow and Infiltration Issues Evaluating molecular-based methods for Cryptosporidium spp. wastewater surveillance |
Thurs2-2: Remediation-1 Location: Robinson Hall - Room 109 Chair: Vasiliki Karanikola Distinct Microbial Communities Degrade Cellulose Diacetate Plastics in the Coastal Ocean Biotransformation and microbial community dynamics of 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonate in water-saturated one-dimensional flow-through columns Toward a mechanistic framework linking pharmaceutical biotransformations with microbial methane oxidation and nitrate attenuation Leveraging Plant Nanobionics to Engineer Next-Generation Phytoremediation Technologies Microbially-mediated nitrate-dependent iron oxidation for remediation of selenium and nickel in mining wastewater |
Thurs2-3: PFAS: Occurrence and Exposure Location: Mugar Life Sciences Building - Room 201 Chair: Wensi Chen Characterizing community exposure to emerging, drinking water-associated perfluoroalkyl ether acids Multiscale approach to assessing the contribution of households to PFAS in raw wastewater Action Strategy for Addressing Existing PFAS Sources and Industries with Multi-Media Impacts through Collaboration and Coordination Occurrence and fate of per and polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in municipal solid waste disposal facilities Modified Clay for Adsorption of Multiple Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) |
Thurs2-4: Water: Treatment-1 Location: Robinson Hall - Room 409 Chair: Joe Goodwill Optimizing microorganism inactivation, repair inhibition, and electrical efficiency of multi-wavelength and alternative-energy UV Effect of wavelength and power on photodegradation of Dibromoacetonitrile using UV C LEDs Anilines are Potent Precursors to Haloacetonitriles and Other Small-Molecule Disinfection Byproducts Synthesis of Edge-Tailored Graphene Oxide for Removal of Organic Contaminants from Water and its Regeneration Through Microwave Heating Palladium Single Atom Catalysis for Selective Dehalogenation in Water Treatment |
Thurs2-5: Water: Natural-1 Location: Shillman Hall - Room 420 Chair: Michael Benjamin Eck Apparent Quantum Yield of dissolved black carbon in natural river and coastal water Assessing the formation of disinfection by-products from pyrogenic dissolved organic matter (pyDOM): impact of wildfire on the water quality of forest watershed Quantification of Pyrogenic Organic Compounds in Surface Waters after Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface Phosphorus cycling perturbation by wildfires: immediate changes to P pools and legacy impacts Geospatial distribution of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) precursors in different watersheds: Effect of anthropogenic activities and associations with organic matter fluorescence. |
Thurs2-6: Disasters: Resilience Location: Churchill Hall - Room 103 Chair: Tiffany Tang FloodNet: academic-community-city government partnership for hyperlocal, street-level flood monitoring in New York City Comparing Uncertainties in Flood Delineation Methods and Baseline Data for Well Water Inundation and Contamination Estimates Following Hurricane Florence Post-Wildfire Drinking Water Contamination from Thermal Degradation of Plastics Flood extent uncertainty effects on the prevalence of acute gastrointestinal illness AI-supported bridge system management against long-term deterioration and flooding risk: a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning framework |
Thurs2-7: Energy Location: Hurtig Hall - Room 224 Chair: John Durant Prioritizing and Optimizing County-Level Responses for a Just Energy Transition Leveraging Water Distribution Storage for Energy Services to Decarbonize Water Supply The Impact of State and Federal Decarbonization Policies on Technological Pathways Facilitating Local Electrified Energy and Transportation Services for All Decarbonizing Electric Vehicle Production |
Thurs2-8: Education: Grand Challenges and Curriculum Design Location: Behrakis Center - Room 010 Chair: Karl Rockne Curricular Changes to the BS EnvE Degree to Address the National Academies Environmental Engineering Grand Challenges |
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4:30pm - 5:30pm |
Thurs3-1: Microbiology: Water Distribution Location: Snell Engineering Center - Room 108 Chair: John Durant Comparing the fate and transport of E. coli in an intermittent piped water supply to a continuous piped water supply Comparison of Bacterial and Eukaryotic Communities in Full-Scale Drinking Water Distribution Systems with Different Disinfectants Orthophosphate Corrosion Control: The Unintended Consequences on Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in a Full-scale Drinking Water Distribution System Persistence and Free Chlorine Disinfection of Human Coronaviruses and Their Surrogates in Drinking Water Well Exposed: A Comparative Exploration of Chemical Contaminants and Microbial Communities in Municipal Water and Drinking Well Water |
Thurs3-2: Remediation-2 Location: Robinson Hall - Room 109 Chair: Devrim Kaya Nanosecond Bacteria Inactivation Realized by Locally Enhanced Electric Field Treatment Pulsed electrochemical treatment enables long-term effective 1,4-Dioxane pollutant degradation A stepwise potential fast chronoamperometry technique to degrade aminomethyl phosphonic acid (AMPA) Effects of operating parameters and co-contaminant on the efficiency of 1,4-dioxane removal by biological activate filtration process Photolysis of 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one: mechanisms and products |
Thurs3-3: PFAS: Transport Location: Mugar Life Sciences Building - Room 201 Chair: Loretta Fernandez Stabilization of PFAS in soil-plants systems using carbon-based sorbents Data Driven Machine Learning for Estimation of PFAS Partitioning on Various Surface Materials Competitive Adsorption at the Air-Water Interface Influences PFAS Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media Kinetics and mechanisms of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) uptake by ion exchange resins Adsorption of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) onto containers: Role of container polymer, solution type, and temperature |
Thurs3-4: Water: Treatment-2 Location: Robinson Hall - Room 409 Chair: Weiyi Pan Towards New Virus Log Reduction Frameworks for Sub-residual Ozone Treatment Robust bio-sourced composite adsorptive membrane for heavy metal capture Superbridging cellulose fibers for coagulant recovery and contaminant removal in water treatment Nitrate Degradation Using Palladium, Platinum, and Copper Embedded in Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Under the Hydrogen Assisted Catalytic Reduction Immobilization and in-situ biodegradation of microcystins using engineered biofiltration for drinking water production |
Thurs3-5: Water: Natural-2 Location: Shillman Hall - Room 420 Chair: Jessica Gould Tracing the Pathogenic Impacts of Outdoor Recreation on Second and Third Beaches, Olympic National Park Addressing E. coli pollution in streams of Washington D.C. through Microbial Source Tracking Microbial Community Interactions with Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Contamination in Aquatic Systems Microbiome-Scale Identification of Biomarkers in Streams Impacted by Urbanization Lessons from the Fire: Science and Policy Needs for Water Systems Disaster Response and Recovery |
Thurs3-6: Equity: Water Location: Churchill Hall - Room 103 Chair: Kyla Drewry A Community-Engaged Mixed Methods Approach to Monitoring and Managing Drinking Water Quality in Homes Bridging communities upstream and downstream for nitrogen management: an inclusive, people-centered platform and capacity-building initiative The Role of Race in Access to Public Water and Sewer in Halifax County, North Carolina Community engaged research and teaching: Are Union County’s waterways safe for recreation? Reconciling Pursuit of Truth with Social Justice: Experiences from the Flint Water Crisis |
Thurs3-7: Chemistry: Materials Location: Hurtig Hall - Room 224 Chair: Huiyun Wu Chemical functional groups determine pH and concentrations of toxic ions in the nanoporous system Integrating advanced x-ray scattering and in-silico analysis to advance molecular interactions in thermally-switchable solvents Monovalent and Divalent Ions Impair Strength but Enhance Strain of Self-Healing Hydrogels Biodegradable silk nanotube arrays for anti-fouling and oil removal Structural classification and kinetic analysis of complex chemical systems transformational networks at a molecular level |
Thurs3-8: Education: Equity Location: Behrakis Center - Room 010 Chair: Mackenzie Morgan Fiss Community Engaged Research Activity by Environmental Engineering and Science Faculty An Educational Model to Transition Graduate Students into Faculty Positions Engaging early-stage undergraduate students in research through a Science Communication Fellowship Engineering Justice: Integrating Environmental Justice into the Environmental Engineering Curriculum |
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6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Closing BBQ: Closing reception BBQ Location: Centennial Commons Come relax with all of the conference attendees for a closing bbq in the central greenspace of Northeastern campus. |
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