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WEF Rocky Mountain WEF Rocky Mountain WEF Rocky Mountain WEF Rocky Mountain

Student ConferenceStudent ConferenceStudent ConferenceStudent Conference Tuesday May 17, 2011

Hosted by the University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM

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Poster PresentationsPoster PresentationsPoster PresentationsPoster Presentations

Sadia Faiza Ground Water-Surface Water Interaction of Biopark Area,

Albuquerque, New Mexico University of New Mexico

Richard Huggins Multi-Objective Optimization of Water Reuse Processes for Operating

Cost Minimization Colorado School of Mines

Chi Bui Application of HEC-HMS 3.4 in Estimating Streamflow of the

Rio Grande under Climate Change Impacts University of New Mexico

Bryce Aaron Dorr

Performance Evaluation of the NanoCeram-PTM Series Filter for Re-

moving Nanoparticle Foulants from Microfiltration Filtrate:

Quantifying Improvements to MF Process Efficiency

University of Wyoming

Stephen W. Brown New Mexico Hydrologic Information System (NMHIS) University of New Mexico

Carrie Harns Mechanistic Assessment of the Mobility of Titanium Dioxide

Nanoparticles through Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Clay Liners University of Wyoming

Cheryl Parker Analysis of Coal Combustion By-Products Disposal Practices at the

San Juan Mine: Hydrologic & Water Quality Issues University of New Mexico

Emily Huth Treatment and Beneficial Reuse of Produced Water Using a Novel

Pervaporation-Based Irrigation Technology University of Wyoming

Janet Leavitt U(VI) adsorption to Geobacter uraniireducens and

Acholeplasma palmae University of New Mexico

Traci Brooks UV Photolysis of Free Chlorine: The Good and the Bad University of Colorado at Boulder

Abdou Harissou

Ouro Bang’na

Nassam (Harris)

Flow within open channels with submerged vegetation: Momentum

and mass exchange between main channel and floodplains University of New Mexico

Martin Dangelmayr The Role of Organic Matter in Biostimulated Uranium Attenuation Colorado School of Mines

Ryan Webb The Impact of Dust Storms on the Snowpack Runoff Patterns University of New Mexico

Leah V. Birgen Synthesis and Evaluation of Magnetic Nano-adsorbents for Selectively

Removing Metals of Value from Reverse Osmosis Reject Streams University of Wyoming

Jeffrey Samson Quantifying the Contribution of Specific Yield Due to a Decrease in

Stream Stage University of New Mexico

Christine Sednek

Preliminary Study to Determine the Bioavailability and Methane

Producing Capacity of Partially Degraded Cellulosic Biomass as a

Selection Process for Cellulosic Natural Gas

University of Wyoming

Tuesday May 17, 2011 Schedule & Oral PresentationsTuesday May 17, 2011 Schedule & Oral PresentationsTuesday May 17, 2011 Schedule & Oral PresentationsTuesday May 17, 2011 Schedule & Oral Presentations 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration Hallway

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Introduction/Keynote Speaker Eddie Livingston of

Livingston Associates, P.C. Consulting Engineers Auditorium

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Break Stamm Commons

Morning Session Track I

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Sarah Bounty Inactivation of Adenovirus using Low Dose UV/H2O2

Advanced Oxidation University of Colorado at Boulder Auditorium

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Josh Kearns Biochar as DIY GAC: The Real "Clean Coal"

University of Colorado at Boulder Auditorium

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Josh Goldman Selective Recovery of Desalination Concentrate Salts

using Interstage Ion Exchange University of New Mexico Auditorium

11:30 AM - Noon Gowtham Chilakapati Removal of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds

(EDCs) from Municipal Wastewater New Mexico Tech Auditorium

Morning Session Track II

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM George Carter Anaerobic Treatment of Wool Scour Effluent, a Highly

Concentrated Industrial Waste University of Wyoming Rm 1032

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Roozbeh Raoufi Impact of Different Primary Effluent Characterizations

of a Municipal Wastewater on the Denitrification Rate University of New

Mexico

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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM David Vuono Next Generation Water Treatment for Effective Resource

Reclamation and Reuse Colorado School of Mines Rm 1032

11:30 AM - Noon

Yunjie Tu Polyphosphate and Glycogen Accumulating Organisms in

Activated Sludge: Biokinetics and Competition for Carbon

University of New Mexico

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Noon - 1:30 PM Poster Evaluation & Lunch Stamm Commons

Afternoon Session I

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Tim Dittrich The Effect of Desorption Kinetics and Unsaturated Condi-

tions on the Colloid-Facilitated Transport on Cesium and Strontium

University of Colorado at Boulder

Auditorium

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Shaina Sabatine An Assessment of the Uncertainty in Sediment

Transport Simulations Due to Parameter Estimation and the Selection

of a Sediment Transport Equation Colorado State University

Auditorium

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Kerri Hickenbottom Membrane Distillation Crystallization for Unconven-

tional Water Sources Colorado School of Mines Auditorium

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Break Stamm Commons

Afternoon Session II

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Dania Zinner Scale-Up Microbial Fuel Cell for Direct Conversion of Food

Waste to Electricity University of Colorado Denver Auditorium

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Zaixing Huang An Evaluation of Various Coal Pretreatment Agents for

the Stimulation of Secondary Biogenic Coalbed Natural Gas

University of Wyoming

Auditorium

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM Iffat R. Arisa Assessment of Water Quality in Dhaka

University of New Mexico Auditorium

Wrap-Up

4:45 PM - 5:15 PM Campus Tour Stamm Commons

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Awards & Closing Auditorium

6:00 PM - End Dinner Auditorium

Meet our Keynote Speaker Meet our Keynote Speaker Meet our Keynote Speaker Meet our Keynote Speaker

Our keynote speaker Eddie C. Livingston, P.E. will be presenting “Potable Reuse is PURe Water for Cloudcroft, NM”. He is the president of Livingston Associates, P.C., a New Mexico based consulting en-gineering firm. He has more than 27 years experi-ence in water resources engineering, including wa-ter and waste water treatment. Mr. Livingston has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from New Mexico State University and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Univer-sity of New Mexico. He has been involved in more than 150 water resource projects both domestically and overseas, including two microfiltration water treatment plants in American Samoa.