ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATIONS Global Water and Health Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC October 2011 Poster presentation: Top-Lit Up-Draft (TLUD) Cookstove Biochar: Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Low‑Cost Household Clean Energy, Water Treatment, Agronomic Enhancement, and Distributed CO2 Sequestration American Chemical Society, Denver, CO August 2011 serving developing communities
Rocky Mountain Regional Student Conference Oral presentation: Biochar as DIY GAC: The Real "Clean Coal". American Water Works Association, Savannah, GA November 2010 Water Quality & Technology Conference. Oral presentation: Removal of pesticides from drinking water using indigenous charcoal adsorbents.
iBoP-Asia Innovations Forum, Manila, Philippines October 2010 Innovation for the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (iBoP) Grants Program Innovation Forum, project final report iBoP-Asia Partnership Between the Ateneo School of Government (Manila, Philippines) and the International Development Research Centre (Canada). Oral presentation: Carbon filtration drinking water systems.
American Water Works Association/Water Environment Federation, Boulder, CO May 2010 Rocky Mountain Regional Student Conference Oral presentation: Removal of pesticides from drinking water using indigenous charcoal adsorbents.
American Water Works Association, Seattle, WA November 2009 Water Quality & Technology Conference attendee.
Third International Conference on Gross National Happiness, Bangkok, Thailand November 2007 Oral presentation: Self-reliance in water treatment: Providing safe drinking water to communities using charcoal filtration to remove pesticides.
Information Systems Project Fair, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. December 2005 Poster/kiosk presentation: Product demonstration: a web-based personal Ecological Footprint calculator and interactive sustainability scenario-building interface.
Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark June 2004 Poster presentation: Steady-State Dissolution Kinetics of Mineral Iron Phosphate in the Presence of Desferrioxamine-B and Oxalate ligands at pH = 4-6 and T=11-40 ̊C.
American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, CA December 2003 Poster presentation: Siderophores may simultaneously influence iron and phosphorus bioavailability in soils.
PRESENTATIONS TO UNIVERSITY CLASSES AND SEMINARS
Engineers Without Borders CU-Boulder Student Chapter, University of Colorado-Boulder. Presentation to Engineers Without Borders, CU-Boulder Advancing self-reliance and sustainability in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): working with refugee children’s homes and schools in the Thailand-Burma border region. October 2010 Presentation at the Center for Asian Studies Seminar Series, CU-Boulder.
The relative importance and treatability of agrichemicals in drinking water in “developing communities.” November 2009 Presentation to class “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene,” CU-Boulder.
WASH projects serving a school for displaced children, Thai-Burma border area. Reents N and Kearns J. September 2009 Presentation to class “Sustainable Community Development,” CU-Boulder.
Sustainability and self-reliance in drinking water purification: Using ordinary charcoal to remove pesticides. April 2008 Academic seminar for the Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson University.
Sustainability and self-reliance in drinking water purification: Using ordinary charcoal to remove pesticides. April 2008 Presentation to Engineers Without Borders, North Carolina State University.
The Footprint of a Monk: Sustainability and living the good life in Thailand and around the world. December 2007 Presentation on the Ecological Footprint, economics and well-being to Environmental Studies class, Muhachulalongkorn Buddhist University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Ecological Footprint: Sustainability and Human Well-Being. Spring & Fall semesters 2006 Presentation to classes: Education C193B: Environmental Education. University of California-Berkeley.
Ecological Footprint: Sustainability and Human Well-Being. April 2006 Presentation to class: Environmental Science, Policy & April 2006 Management 150: Navigating the Global Environment: Knowledge, Resources and Risk, Univ. of California-Berkeley.
Ecological Footprint: Sustainability and Human Well-Being. January 2006 Department of Earth & Planetary Science Graduate Student Seminar, University of California-Berkeley.
PRESENTATIONS TO FUNDERS
Advancing self-reliance in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): working with children’s homes and schools in SE Asia. August 2010 Presentation to Rotary Clubs of Statesville, NC.
WASH (water-sanitation-hygiene) projects serving a school for Burmese refugees in Thailand. December 2009 Presentation to Rotary Club of Loveland, CO.
WASH projects serving a school for displaced children, Thai-Burma border area. Kearns J and Geheran J. September 2009 Presentation to the Foundation for Global Community, Palo Alto CA.
Carbon filtration drinking water systems. Project proposal presentation to iBoP-Asia Grants Program Committee, August 2009 Manila, Philippines.
Sustainability and local self-reliance in drinking water purification – the global water challenge and Aqueous August 4, 5, 6, Solutions’ field projects in SE Asia 2009-2010. Presentation to Rotary Clubs of Statesville, NC. August 2009
Providing Safe Drinking Water to Rural Communities in Thailand Using Charcoal Filtration to Remove Pesticides. May 2008 Presentation to Lindbergh Foundation Board of Directors, Atlanta, GA.
Providing safe drinking water to a farm community in Thailand using charcoal filtration to remove pesticides. June 2007 Presentations at three Rotary Club meetings in Statesville, NC.
PRESENTATIONS TO NON-ACADEMIC/NON-TECHNICAL AUDIENCES Appropriate technologies for water and sanitation. February 2012 Presentation and hands-on demonstrations for environmental studies class, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Appropriate technology in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH App-Tech). February 2012 Presentation to Pun Pun Organic Farm community, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. Charcoal filtration: Appropriate technology for water treatment in rural areas. December 2011 Presentation to Pun Pun Organic Farm community, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. Ft Myers, Florida. March 2011
Low-tech approaches to water treatment. Presentation to interns and community members, Pun Pun Organic Farm, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. January 2010
Ecological sustainability and human well-being: what’s economics got to do with it? Presentation to students from Bangkok International High School. Panya Sustainable Living Project, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. February 2009
Intro to environmental biogeochemistry and global systems science for organic farmers. Presentation to Pun Pun Organic Farm, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. December 2008
The global water challenge: providing safe drinking water for the twenty-first century. Presentation to Pun Pun Organic Farm, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. November 2008
Biochar: what is it and why should we care? Presentation on the benefits of gardening with biochar, Panya Sustainable Living Project, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. November 2008
Sustainability and Self-Reliance in Drinking Water Purification. Town of Apex Conservation Days event, Apex, NC. May 2008
A five-gallon bucket filter for rooftop harvested rainwater. Demonstration and home water treatment workshop. April 2008 Residential Rainwater and Greywater Harvesting workshop, Ashevillage Institute, Asheville, NC.
Challenging the Economics of Globalization: Towards Sustainability and Authentic Well-Being. February 2008, Presentation to students from Bangkok International High School. Panya Sustainable Living Project, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
Agrichemical runoff and charcoal filtration: whole systems design for self-reliance in drinking water purification. November 2007 Presentation to permaculture design course. Panya Sustainable Living Project, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
Permaculture organic gardening techniques and earthen building methods. January 2007 A one-day workshop for Burmese refugees and students from Earth Rights International School, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
Ecological Sustainability and Christian Environmental Stewardship. Johnson Memorial United Methodist Church September 2006 Huntington, WV.
Ecological Footprint: Sustainability and Human Well-Being. At Conference - Circles of Hope: Creating Life-Serving Communities. Black Kettle Farm, Essex, NY. August 2006.
Application Possibilities of Ecological Footprint Analysis for Straw Bale Building. For California Straw Building Association, Yorkville, CA. June 2006
Ecological Footprint: Sustainability and Human Well-Being. In class: Social Justice. St. Patrick- St.Vincent High School, Vallejo, CA. April 2006 |