Rodrigo Vargas will speak on "Carbon Dynamics and Water Relations from Plots to Continental Scales" on Oct. 9 as part of a fall series sponsored by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

CEE sets seminars

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering announces fall series

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11:04 a.m., Sept. 11, 2015--The University of Delaware Department of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has announced its 2015 Fall Seminar Series. 

All lectures will take place on Fridays at 1:30 p.m. in 350 DuPont Hall.

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Presentations are scheduled as follows:

  • Oct. 2, Mary Reiley, president, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, North America, and senior water research coordinator, Environmental Protection Agency, “From Science to Policy to Results: A Personal Reflection on 30 Years of Bringing Collaborators Together to Create Science-Based-Policy for Environmental Results.”
  • Oct. 9, Rodrigo Vargas, assistant professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, UD, “Carbon Dynamics and Water Relations from Plots to Continental Scales.”
  • Oct. 23, Upal Ghosh, professor, Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “New Advances in Contaminated Sediment Remediation by Controlling Bioavailability.”
  • Nov. 6, Catherine Peters, professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, “Geological Carbon Sequestration: Geochemical Processes and Storage Reliability.”
  • Nov. 13, Chris Gorski, assistant professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, “Quantifying Mineral Redox Properties.”
  • Nov. 20, Kim Bothi, associate director for science and engineering, Institute for Global Studies, UD, “Seeking Sustainability: Linking the Social Sciences Into Technical Design Projects in the Developing World.”

For more information, visit the website.

Article by Diane Kukich

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