All sessions will take place in the Beacon Room, 2nd floor of RecWell on the U of MN Campus.
Registration 8:15 - 8:45
Assortment of breakfast pastries, bagels, and beverages
8:45 - 9:00
Vuk Mandic, Associate Director, CSE Data Science Initiative
9:00 - 10:30
Moderator: Cara Santelli, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Melissa Pierce, Current, Great Lakes ReNEW: Turning Waste into Wealth
Tianhong Cui, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Low-Cost Ultra-Sensitive Micro Sensors for Detection of Water Pollutants
Vivian Ferry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Optical sensors for detection of chiral pesticides
10:30 - 10:50
UMN Water Research Sparkler
Break 10:50-11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Moderator: Paige Novak, Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota
Brian Chaplin, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Electrochemical Destruction of PFAS using Reactive Electrochemical Membranes
Bridget Ulrich, Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota, Biochar for stormwater management: Is it the silver bullet, snake oil, or just misunderstood?
Nancy Love, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Advancing Source Separation for Efficient Transitions - turning waste flows into an ASSET
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 in MP 2 (across the hall)
1:30 - 3:00
Session 3: Data-Enabled Environmental Monitoring, Modeling, & Management
Moderator: Vipin Kumar, Director, CSE Data Science Initiative
Shyam Boriah, Xylem, Challenges and opportunities in the water sector: an industry perspective
Ardeshir Ebtehaj, Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota, AI for remote sensing and prediction of hydrologic water cycle
Zac McEachran, NOAA, Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning for data assimilation and modeling multiscale processes: An application in Flood Forecasting
Jeff Strock, Southwest Research and Outreach Center, University of Minnesota, Climate Smart Water Management and Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
Break 3:00 - 3:15
3:15 - 4:15
Moderator: Jeff Peterson, Water Resources Center, University of Minnesota
Shyam Boriah, Xylem
Russ Lotspeich, USGS NGWOS
Hannah Molitor, Metropolitan Council
Melissa Pierce, Current