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Extreme environmental events such as droughts, floods, heat waves and violent storms result in global losses that approach $500 billion per year. These events often impact the costs and/or revenues of both public- and private-sector actors, Read More
Late MIT professor Peter S. Eagleson (1928-2021) is widely recognized as one of the founders of modern hydrologic science. Eagleson is remembered for creating an enduring, interdisciplinary paradigm for describing the dynamics of hydrologic processes and Read More
As a coastal city with extensive filled land, Boston is developing and implementing wide-ranging plans to protect the city from sea level rise - but its not as simple as just keeping the sea out. Read More
The worldwide COVID19 pandemic has sparked new interest in using wastewater as a means of population-level disease tracking. Advances in RNA detection now allow wastewater to be used as a snapshot of the health of a community. Read More
This event has been cancelled with the intention of rescheduling in the fall. Please email bscesreg@engineers.org with any questions. Read More
Sponsored by the BSCES John R. Freeman Fund Committee and ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute Boston Chapter Read More
Reducing phosphorus (P) loading is a key management tool for controlling Lake Erie eutrophication. During the 1960s and 1970s, increased phosphorus inputs degraded water quality, stimulated algal blooms, and reduced central basin hypolimnetic oxygen to levels that eliminated thermal habitat vital to cold-water organisms and contributed to the extirpation of important benthic macro invertebrate prey species. Read More
Water scarcity is an increasing problem throughout the world. Desalination has been deployed worldwide to expand the supply of freshwater, especially for coastal populations. But concerns remain about the energy consumption of the process. In this talk, Professor Lienhard will discuss research directed at understanding the causes of energy inefficiency in various desalination processes and efforts to adapt concepts from thermal engineering to improve the design of both thermal and membrane desalination... Read More
Sponsored by the BSCES John R. Freeman Fund Committee and ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute Boston Chapter Read More