University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

UIC/CME: ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
Spring 2006 Schedule

Department of Civil & Materials Engineering
Room 1047ERF
842 West Taylor Street, Chicago
Directions

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
January 13	Krishna R. Reddy Associate Professor	Department of Civil & Materials Engineering, UIC	Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation: An Overview
January 20	Tom Theis Director & Professor	Institute for Environmental Science & Policy, UIC	Life Cycle Assessment Research
January 27	Jennifer Dunn Environmental Engineer	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, Chicago	Technological and Operational Strategies to Reduce Diesel Emissions in the Midwest
February 3	Amid Khodadoust Assistant Professor	Department of Civil & Materials Engineering, UIC	Soil Washing of Contaminated Soils from Wood Preserving Sites
February 10	G. Ali Mansoori Professor	Departments of Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering, UIC	Environmental Aspects of Nanotechnology
February 17	Solenne Grellier Post-Doctoral Fellow & J. Gangathulasi, Ph.D. Student	Department of Civil & Materials Engineering, UIC	Dynamic Water Balance and Geotechnical Stability of Bioreactor Landfills
February 24	Christophe Darnault Assistant Professor	Department of Civil & Materials Engineering, UIC	Transboundary Water Resources Management
March 3	Jean-François Gaillard Professor	Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University	Metals in the Environment: Why do We Need to Better Understand Speciation?
March 10	Phil Carpenter Professor	Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Northern Illinois University	Geophysical Investigations on Landfills
March 17	Jim Olsta Technical Manager	Lining Technologies Group, CETCO, Arlington Heights, IL	Recent Developments in Research and Application of Geosynthetic Clay Liners
March 24	Spring Break
March 31	Jim Mueller Director of Remedial Solutions & Strategies	Adventus Americas, Inc., Bloomingdale, Illinois	In Situ Chemical Reduction Technologies for Remediation of Soil, Sediments and Groundwater Environments
April 7	An Li Associate Professor	Environmental Occupational Health and Safety, School of Public Health, UIC	Rapid Debromination of Decabromodiphenyl Ether by Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron
April 14	Moira L. Zellner Assistant Professer	Department of Urban Planning and Policy, UIC	Impact of Land-Use Patterns on Groundwater Dynamics
April 21	Krishna Pagilla Associate Professor	Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, IIT	Membrane-assisted Wastewater Treatment Technologies for Nutrient Removal
April 28	Mary Ashley Professor	Department of Biological Sciences, UIC	TBA

Open to public; Sponsored by the Department of Civil & Materials Engineering & the Institute for Environmental Science & Policy; Contact Professor Krishna Reddy at kreddy@uic.edu if you have any questions.