Seminar Schedule for Spring, 2003:

Jan 31:
Relations of nitrate in ground water and surface water in New Jersey to land use
Dr. Eric F. Vowinkel
U.S. Geological Survey

Feb 7:
Dioxins and Related Substances: Are Regulators Measuring the Right Chemicals?
Simon Litten
New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC)
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Feb 11: 
Altered states: Environmental Science in The Regulatory and Judicial Arena
Dr. Donald Siegel
Geological Sciences
University of Syracuse

Feb 14:
Using Tracers for In-situ Detection of Toxic, Immiscible Liquids within Surficial Aquifers
Dr. Konstantinos Kostarelos
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Polytechnic University

Feb 28:
The New GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM2/LM2
Dr. Stephen Klein
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA

Mar 7:
Unsaturated flow using continuum percolation theory
Allen G. Hunt
Hydrologic Sciences
National Science Foundation

Mar 10:  
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Persistent Toxic Substances(PTS)---New Focal Area of Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Professor Xiaobai Xu
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Mar 11:  
The Role Of Molybdenum In The Nitrogen Cycle Of Soils
Dr. Ann Kraepiel
University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
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Mar 13:  
Organohalogen Compounds In The Environment From The Micro To The Macro Scale
Dr. Lisa Totten
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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Mar 18:  
In-Situ PCB Dechlorination in Sediments Using Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron
Kevin Gardner
Environmental Research Group, University of Hampshire
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Mar 20:  
New Strategies for Implementing Biological and Physical-Chemical Remediation of Contaminated Groundwater
Dr. Jeffrey Cunningham
Stanford University, Stanford, California
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Mar 25:  
Transport of Polydisperse Colloids in Fractured Media
Dr. Scott James
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque New Mexico
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Mar 27:  
Impact of Soil Organic Matter Heterogeneity on Sorption and Sequestration of Organic Pollutants in Environmental Systems
Dr. Weilin Huang
Drexel University, Philadelphia
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Apr 4: 
Fate and transport of viruses in porous media
Dr. Yan Jin
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Delaware

Apr 11:
Bioaerosols and the scientific method
Harriet Burge
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard University

May 2:
Regulation of Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water:  Past, Present, and Future
Dr. Philip Singer
University of North Carolina
The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Distinguished Lecturer for 2003
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