Date Time Speaker Affiliation Title Meeting Location / Link

Seminar Series

Jan. 18   Professor Aditi Bhaskar CEAE, CU Boulder Seminar cancelled on account of CU closure due to inclement weather NA

WATER 
(BOASE series)

Jan. 19 12:30-1:30 p.m. Cliff Davidson Syracuse University  The Interactions of Airborne Particles with Surfaces SEEC S228
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
EVEN
Jan. 25 11:15 a.m.-
12:15 p.m.
Rich Koehler, PhD, PH
 
CEO, Visual Data Analytics, LLC, Erie, CO Using Temporal Configuration to Visualize and Analyze
Streamflow Properties — Theory and Application
Abstract
ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
Jan. 26 12:30-1:30 p.m. TBD—Air Quality Faculty Search   Air Quality Candidate Virtual
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
EVEN
Jan. 27 1-2 p.m. Asaad Faramerzi   TBD ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
Feb. 1 11:15 a.m. -​12:15 p.m. Assistant Professor Ryan Webb Department of Civil, Architectural and
Construction Management,
University of Wyoming, Laramie
Extending the Vadose Zone: Characterizing the Role of Snow
for Liquid Water Storage and Transmission in Streamflow Generation   Abstract
ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
Feb. 2 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Emily Barnes Franklin

Colorado State University

Dynamics of Anthropogenic Influence on Aerosol Formation and Composition
from Remote to Urban Environments: Advancing DataScience-Driven Chemical Analysis for Climate and Public Health

Virtual
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
 
EVEN
Feb. 3 1-2 p.m. Prof. Trevor Carey     ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
Feb. 3 12-1 p.m. panel discussion of community organizers,
fair housing advocates and social science researchers from West Street Recovery, Texas
Housers, and the University of Colorado Boulder
  "Hurricane Harvey Aid and Recovery Equity for
People of Color Communities"
Register for this webinar Climate Justice Series
Feb. 8 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Ms. Carolyn Gombert,
hydraulic engineer
Sedimentation & River Hydraulics Group,
USBR, Denver
Go with the flow (hyporheic, that is): Processes Controlling
Thermal Regimes in Secondary Channel Features on the
Willamette River
Abstract
ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
Feb. 9 12:30-1:30 p.m. Jessica Oakes Air Quality Candidate Respirable Particles in the Lung: From Wildland Fires to Treatment of Pulmonary Diseases Virtual
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
 
EVEN
Feb. 10 1-2 p.m. Prof. Farshid Vahedifard     ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
Feb. 15 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Professor Aditi Bhaskar CEAE, CU Boulder Hydrologic Changes with Urban Development
in the Denver Metropolitan Area
Abstract
ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
Feb. 16 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Tianren Wu

 

Human-Oriented Built Environment Lab (HOBEL)
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)

A Breath of Indoor Air: Interactions of indoor air pollutants with building systems and occupants Virtual
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
 
EVEN
Feb. 17   Professor Ian Moore PhD, PEng, FRSC, FCAE, FEIC, FCSCE 

Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Queen's University

Buried but not forgotten: experiments examining the geomechanics of backfill erosion and trenchless pipe installation

ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
Feb. 22 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Assistant Professor Nishant Malik School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology

Complex Networks-based Analysis of Spatiotemporal Climate  Abstract

ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
Feb. 23 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Kelvin Bates, PhD

Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group (ACMG) at Harvard University
NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow

Particulate pollution as miniature chemical reactors: balancing the budgets of organic aerosol, reactive nitrogen and organic acids in the atmosphere.  Abstract

Virtual
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
EVEN
Feb. 23

1-2 p.m.

Ryan Hurley*

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Using X‐rays to Study the Micromechanics of Granular Materials Across Time and Length Scales
Abstract

ECAD 109 (Clark Conference Room) GEGM
(BOASE series)
Feb. 24 1-2 p.m.

Nicholas Brink

Geotechnical Engineer, Stantec

An overview of geotechnical modeling in major civil projects
Abstract

ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
March 1 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Associate Professor Paul Block
Mr. Max Beal, PhD candidate
Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Leveraging Hydroclimatic Processes and Satellite Remote Sensing for Monitoring and Forecasting of Harmful Algae in Small Inland Lakes
Abstract
ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
March 2 12:30-1:30 p.m. Assistant Professor Joshua Jack University of Michigan Decarbonizing the built environment: Waste
CO2 valorization and resource recovery
via integrated electrochemical-biological
technologies
TBD EVEN
March 3 1-2 p.m. Prof. Giuseppe Buscarnera     ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
March 8 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Andrew Verdin, PhD
hydrologic scientist
Stantec, Minneapolis, MN Innovative Flood Mitigation Planning and Modeling to Address Climate Change and Extreme Precipitation ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
March 9 12:30-1:30 p.m. Nick Clements Air Quality Candidate TBD TBD EVEN
March 10 1-2 p.m. Associate Professor Ben Mason Research civil engineer at the USGS’s Geologic Hazards Science Center and associate professor at Oregon State University’s College of Engineering Geotechnical observations from the 18 September 2022 M6.9 Chihshang, Taiwan earthquake ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
March 15 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Assistant Professor Katherine Lininger Fluvial Geomorphology Group,
Department of Geography, CU Boulder
The Hard Science of “soft” Geomorphology: Ecogeomorphology and Carbon Dynamics in River Corridors ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
March 16 12:30-1:30 p.m. Emmalee Biesiada EVEN graduate student Introducing PEGI (Peroxide Enhanced Germicidal Irradiation): A Radical New Method for Disinfection of the Built Environment SEEC S228
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
EVEN
March 17 1-2 p.m. Aaron Leopold     ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
March 22 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Ms. Danielle Tijerina,
PhD candidate
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Princeton University
Using Intercomparison to Evaluate Continental-Scale Hydrological Models ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
March 23  

Sangsuk Lee 

 

Brooke Marten 

 

EVEN Graduate Students

Investigation of organic solute rejection in reverse osmosis and nanofiltration with machine learning and molecular fingerprints 

Sustainable Resource Recovery from Organic Waste: Developing and Evaluating Novel Strategies for Municipal Solid and Liquid Wastes 

   
March 29       Spring Break   WATER 
(BOASE series)
April 5 11:15 a.m. -
12:15 p.m.
Matt Lurtz,
PhD Candidate
Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, CSU, Fort Collins
  ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
April 6 12:30-1:30 p.m. Assistant Professor Lauren Stadler Rice University From Drain to Data: The Power of Wastewater 
Monitoring for Disease Surveillance
SEEC S228
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
 
EVEN
April 7 1-2 p.m. Prof. Bret Lingwall     ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
April 12 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
    Hydrologic Sciences Symposium ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
April 13 12:30-1:30 p.m. Jacqueline Gerson, PhD postdoc CU Boulder, assistant professor MSU (fall 2023) The fate, transport, and impact of mercury from
artisanal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon
TBD EVEN
April 14 1-2 p.m. Prof. Manolis Veveakis     ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
April 19 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Scott Potter vice president, chief hydrogeologist,
Arcadis, Newtown, Pennsylvania
  ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
April 20 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Nadia Jorgenson 

Anna Ulanova

EVEN graduate students

GAC adsorption of preformed DBPs for wastewater reuse 

EcoGenoRisk: Computational Tool For Synthetic Biology Risk Assessment 

SEEC S228
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
EVEN
April 21   Prof. Kevin Franke     ECCE 1B47
 https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93942333019
GEGM
(BOASE series)
April 26 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Professor Shemin Ge Dept. of Geological Sciences, CU Boulder   ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)
April 27 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Bryan Liu

Tehya Stockman 

EVEN graduate students

Enhancing Contaminant Degradation Using
Low Wavelength Driven AOPs in Water Treatment

TBD

SEEC S228
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23
EVEN
May 3 11:15 a.m. -
​12:15 p.m.
Professor Mary HIll Department of Geology,
The University of Kansas
  ECCE 1B41 (Engineering Building)
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98861379124
meeting ID: 988 6137 9124
password: water
WATER 
(BOASE series)

May 4

12:30-1:30 p.m.    

Ayush Shahi and
Katie Frankhauser 

EVEN graduate students Improving ion exchange for drinking water processes

TBD

SEEC S228
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/99881943281   Passcode: Spring23

EVEN

Key

EngSci = Engineering Science
EVEN = Environmental Engineering
GEGM = Geotechnical Engineering & Geomechanics
RISE = Resilient Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity
SESM = Structural Engineering & Structural Mechanics

*Special joint seminar with the Rocky Mountain Mechanics Seminar Series in the mechanical engineering department.

More information about the BOASE series