Save the date for Friday, March 18th and join the Mason Water Forum in Research Hall for a day highlighting Inter-Disciplinary Water Research and Conservation. Drop in for just one or two sessions or join us for the full day!
Registration extedned to Teusday, March 15th at noon! You must register by this time to receive free lunch. All poster participants must also register with intent to submit by Tuesday, March 15th noon.
The Mason Water Research Symposium highlights intro-institutional and cross-institutional collaborations on water science, research, policy and education across the Mason campus and with regional government, academic and private sector partners. The symposium will showcase and give awards to the brightest and best undergraduate and graduate students' project in water science and engineering as well as lectures from key mason researchers and professors. The symposium will also hosts several invited speakers from government and private sector partners.
Agenda:
8:00 Coffee and Registration
9:00 Provost David Wu (GMU) – Welcome to the Mason Water Symposium
9:10 Paul Houser (GMU-GGS): Mason Water Symposium Logistics
9:20 Maureen Schmelling (DC Water) – Water Quality Management and DC Water
9:40 Dawit Mekonnen (IFPRI) – International Food Policy Research Institute
10:00 Jim Smith (UVA) – Point-of-Use Water Treatment Technologies (Via Skype)
10:20 Coffee Break and Poster Session
10:40 Matt Rodell (NASA) – Water Research and Applications at NASA
11:20 Kendra Russell (USBR) – Water Research at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
11:20 Thomas Faha (VDEQ) – Water Research at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
11:40 Dale Medearis (NVRC) – Water Research at the Northern Virginia Regional Commission
12:00 Dean Peggy Agouris (GMU) – Greeting from the College of Science Dean
12:10 Lunch (provided for registrants)
1:00 Chris Jones (ESP) Potomac Environmental Research & Education Center
1:20 Kim de Mutsert (ESP) Fish Research in Potomac River Tributaries
1:40 Anne E. Paquier (CEIE) Field study of hydrodynamics modification by a coastal wetland of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic
2:00 Donglian Sun (GGS) Automatic near real time flood monitoring using NPP/JPSS VIIRS imagery
2:20 Subhadeep Halder (AOES) Impact of soil moisture variability on the Indian monsoon
2:40 – 3:00 pm BREAK
3:00 Charlie Burgwardt (GGS) Text Mining Archived NOAA Weather Bulletins
3:20 Christine Figan & Taylor Passine (NCC) The WaSH Project: Providing Access to Clean Water in the Peruvian Amazon
3:40 Shannyn Snyder (CHHS) Environmental Racism: Water and the Class Divide
4:00 Cindy Adams (GMU & USGS) Utilizing Molecular Techniques in Assessing Ecosystem Health
4:20 Vicki Blazer (USGS) Contaminants of emerging concern and fish health
4:40 Poster Awards and symposium wrap up
5:30 Film screening: Ribbon of Sand (30 minutes) room 162