April 26: UDLAPS hosts Holly Michael
Campus invited to UDLAPS Scholar in the Library Series with Holly Michael
8:33 a.m., April 19, 2016--The University of Delaware Library has announced that Holly Michael, associate professor in the departments of Geological Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Unidel Fraser Russell Chair for the Environment, will present “Arsenic in Bangladesh: A Conflict between Water Resources and Dense Populations” at noon, Tuesday, April 26.
The presentation will be held in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room in the Morris Library as part of the University of Delaware Library Assembly of Professional Staff (UDLAPS) Scholar in the Library series.
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The brown-bag luncheon program is open to the public. Light refreshments will be available.
As populations rise worldwide and climates change, stress on water resources increases, and thousands of people die each day from water-related diseases.
In Bangladesh and other areas of southern Asia, widespread contamination of shallow groundwater with naturally-occurring arsenic threatens the health of tens of millions of people who use the water for drinking and irrigating crops.
Michael will talk about water in the world and her work to understand how deep,low-arsenic groundwater can be used as an alternative water source in a sustainable way.
She will address how the geologic structure of the subsurface as well as water use intensity in the megacity of Dhaka can determine how vulnerable water resources are to invasion of arsenic and the risks related to geologic uncertainty.
She will also discuss the interdisciplinary nature of the arsenic problem and how teams of researchers work together to address the questions that span hydrology, chemistry, biology, geology, sociology and economics.