The DeRISK Webinar series featured monthly presentations by graduate students affiliated with the three drinking water centers (RESEAU, DeRISK, WINSSS) about their research on small drinking water systems. 

Webinar Links

May 2018

  • Maryam Dezfoolian (RESEAU - University of British Columbia) Successful Field Validation of Biological ion exchange: A new technology for NOM removal from the surface water – The case of Dzit'lain'li First Nations Reserve
  • Sarah Pope (DeRISK-UNH) CO2 removals by pressurized in-line diffused aeration systems
  • Hang Dong (WINSSS - Lehigh University) Removal of Nitrate from Groundwater without Co-Production of High Concentration of Disposable Brine

April 2018

  • Rachel Marshall (RESEAU-University of Guelph) Towards effective First Nations source water protection: a technical and traditional knowledge collaboration
  • Darline Balen (DeRISK-UNH) Enhancing E. coli removals from slow-rate biofilters treating low-nutrient source waters
  • Ki Yeo (WINSSS- University of Texas) Interrelationship of inorganic/organic contaminants and its impacts on metal-based (Al3+, Fe3+) precipitates

December 2017

  • Deanna Ringenberg (WINSSS - Nebraska Department of Natural Resources)  Regulatory Barriers to Approval of New Technologies for Small Drinking Water Systems
  • Nicolas Beauchamp (RESEAU - Université Laval) DBPs in a full-scale drinking water treatment plant: occurrence, reaction rates and differential UV absorbance monitoring

November 2017

  • Soyoon Kum (WINSSS) Coupled ED-NF system to remove disinfection by-product precursors
  • Leigh Gilmore (DeRISK-CU Boulder) Biofiltration Performance: Evaluating and Modeling Effects of Extended Empty Bed Contact Time, Temperature, and Dissolved Organic Matter Character
  • Siddharth Bhartia (RESEAU - UBC) Bio-stability of Vacuum UV Treated Surface Water

April 2017

  • Darline Balen (DeRISK- UNH) Bioregeneration and Enhancement of Schmutzdecke in Slow-Rate Sand Filters.
  • Soon-Mi Kim (WINSSS-UMass Amherst) Impact of Nitrification on the formation of DBPs; Influence of DOC/DON
  • Laleh Dashtban (RES'EAU- University of Montreal) Integrated Pyrolucite Fluidized Bed-membrane Hybrid Process for Iron/Manganese Control in drinking water

March 2017

  • Tyler Kane (DeRisk-UNH) Case Study of a UV System to Expand Applications of Virus Inactivation and Increase Efficiency & Sustainability
  • Ty Bereskie (RESEAU-UBC Okanagan) Risk-based Performance Benchmarking: A Drinking Water Assessment Framework Incorporating Spatiotemporal Water Quality Variability and Degrees of Compliance/Non-Compliance
  • Michal Ziv-El (WINSSS- U Texas)  Removal of trace organic contaminants as a secondary benefit in standard aerobic versus nitrifying drinking water biofilters

February 2017

  • Topher Jones  (DeRISK -UCB) Environmental Sustainability Comparison Between Chlorine and UV Disinfection Alternatives
  • Kerry Black (RESEAU-Guelph) Beyond Technology – The Case of Water & Wastewater in Indigenous Communities in Canada
  • Joshua Cunningham (WINSSS) A pilot-scale assessment of ferrate (Fe(VI)) as an intermediate oxidant in drinking water treatment systems

January 2017

  • Julie Bliss Mullen (WINSSS) Modeling the Relationship of Oxidation Reduction Potential Electrodes and Chlorine for Point-of-Use Water Treatment Sensing
  • Sean McBeath (RESEAU) Electrocoagulation – An Emerging Drinking Water Treatment Technology for Small Systems 
  • Natalie Hull (DeRISK) Ultraviolet wavelength-specific inactivation and molecular damage of MS2

November 2016

  • Heather Stancl (DERISK) Development of a demonstration scale fiber-optic/light emitting diode (FOLED) reactor for nitrate reduction
  • Adrian Serrano (RESEAU)  The effect of temperature on the efficiency of vacuum-UV advanced oxidation
  • Seulki Yeo (WINSSS) Ligand Effects on Amorphous Iron and Aluminum Hydr(oxide) Precipitate Characteristics

October 2016

  • Hamid R. Lotfi Zadeh Zhad (WINSSS) Real time detection of nitrate using silver-modified electrodes
  • Pranav Chintalapati (RESEAU) Degradation of Algal Toxin Microcystin-LR using Vacuum UV
  • Josh Alvey (DeRISK) Applications of ceramic membrane filtration and UV oxidation synergism