WSSS Past Events - Tufts University

Past Events
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Event/Speaker	Date/Time	Details
Prof Beatrice Rogers School of Nutrition	Nov 30, 2007	Research Ethics (click for PowerPoint)
Prof Patrick Webb School of Nutrition	Oct 26, 2007	Too Much of a Good Thing: How Water Shocks Contribute to Food Insecurity and Malnutrition (click for PowerPoint)
Dr Moussa Sanon Burkina Faso Institute for Agricultural Research (INERA)	Oct 19, 2007	Crop Modeling and Its Value in Water Management in Burkina Faso (click for PowerPoint)
Prof David Gute School of Engineering	Oct 12, 2007	Epidemiology: the Good, the Bad and the Truly Ugly (click for PowerPoint) Background Reading: An Applied Approach to Epidemiology and Toxicology for Engineers.
Prof Jeffrey Griffiths School of Medicine Prof Rusty Russell School of Arts & Sciences	Sept 28, 2007	Water and Health: An Historical Perspective, Informing Today (click for PowerPoint) Health, Wealth and Water -- Risky Lessons from Federal Regulatory Fountains
Tim Hogan student School of Medicine Karen Kosinski student School of Engineering Patrick Hall student School of Arts & Sciences Douglas Glandon Inst for Global Leadership	Sept 14, 2007	Local Improved Wells: A Clean, Cheap Source for Tanzania (click for PowerPoint) Preliminary Assessments of Water Resources Infrastructure and Urinary Schistosomiasis in Kwabeng, Ghana (click for PowerPoint) A Qualitative Assessment of Water Resource Management in Southern Madagascar (click for PowerPoint) Effects of Household Water Use and Hygiene Behavior on Diarrhea Prevalence
Prof Paul Kirshen and WSSS Student Advisory Committee	Sept 7, 2007	WSSS Orientation
	Aug 30, 2007	WSSS Open House
Dr Peter K. Weiskel U.S. Geological Survey	May 4, 2007	Climate, Landscapes, and People: Hydrology as an Integrative Discipline
Lars Hanson Viktoria Zoltay Rachel Bingham James Limbrunner	April 20, 2007	Graduating WSSS Student Presentations
Prof Kenneth Strzepek University of Colorado	April 13, 2007	4th Annual Water Resources Leadership Lecture The Role of Water in the Economic Development in Africa
Prof Anne Spirn Depts of Architecture and Urban Studies & Planning MIT	March 3, 2007	Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice, and City Planning and Design Prof. Spirn spoke about the West Philadelphia Landscape Project. There's a link to the project website on this page, as well as an article, "Restoring Mill Creek." Her presentation consisted of an abbreviated version of that paper, emphasizing water issues.
Rep James Marzilli Massachusetts State Senate	Feb 9, 2007	How States are Addressing Climate Change and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
Fr David O'Leary University Chaplain Tufts University	Jan 26, 2007	Water and Ethics
Prof Robert Sternberg Dean of Arts & Sciences	Dec 1, 2006	Leadership is a Decision
Timothy Hogan Medical School	Nov 17, 2006	Local Well Construction in Rural Songea, Rivuma District, Tanzania (click for abstract)
Peg Atkisson, PhD Scientific Proposal Specialist Office of the V. Provost	Nov 3, 2006	Proposal Writing Workshop (for WSSS students and interested faculty)
Prof Jonathan Kenny School of Arts & Sciences	Oct 20, 2006	Fluorescence Analysis of Natural Waters and Other Complex Materials Background Reading (PDF): Gregory J. Hall and Jonathan E. Kenny, "Estuarine Water Classification Using EEM Spectroscopy and PARAFAC-SIMCA"
Prof Richard Vogel School of Engineering	Oct 6, 2006	Balancing Human and Ecological Needs for Water Background Reading (PDF): Vogel, R.M., J. Sieber, S.A. Archfield, M.P. Smith, C.D. Apse, and A.Huber-Lee, "Relations among storage, yield and instream flow, Water Resources Research," submitted for publication, June, 2006.
WSSS Orientation and Canoe Trip	Sept 30, 2006	Schedule 12:30-1:00 pm: review of WSSS 1:00-2:00 pm: panel discussion led by Steering Committee on the challenges of interdisciplinary water management in the context of WSSS research 2:30-5:00 pm: canoe trip on Mystic River 5:00-7:00 pm: pizza and ice cream sundaes in Burden Lounge
Mark Smith The Nature Conservancy	Sept 15, 2006	Restoration of Instream Ecological Flows Background Reading (PDFs): A Method for Assessing Hydrologic Alteration within Ecosystems A Framework for Ecologically Sustainable Water Management The Natural Flow Regime
	April 28, 2006	Mystic Watershed Forum: Knowledge Exchange and Implications for Action
Patrick Hall student School of Arts & Sciences Georgia Kayser student Fletcher School Sarah Reich student School of Arts & Sciences Edward Spang student Fletcher School Viktoria Zoltay student School of Engineering	April 21, 2006	Graduating WSSS Student Presentations
Roberto Lenton Chair, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council	March 31, 2006
Eugene Z. Stakhiv Institute for Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers	March 7, 2006	Integrated Water Resources Management in the Midst of Chaos and Caducity: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (Click for Power Point presentation.) Held at MIT, TANG CENTER, 70 Memorial Dr. (E51), Cambridge, MA
Prof Rita Colwell University of Maryland College Park, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health	Feb 10, 2006	Global infectious Diseases, Water, and Human Health: The Cholera Paradigm (click for more information.) Dr. Colwell served as director of National Science Foundation from 1998-2004.
Joshua Das Project Manager Public Health Planning, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA)	Jan 27, 2006	Implementing Public Health Policy in the MWRA
Chris Hillbruner student School of Nutrition	Nov 4, 2005	The Water Poverty Index: Developing A Better Indicator of Water Security and Stress
Rachel Bingham student School of Nutrition	Nov 11, 2005	Drop by Drop the Valley is Filled: How Micro-Irrigation is Making a Difference in Northern Ghana
Prof John Durant School of Engineering	Nov 18, 2005	Field Trip Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts
Prof Chris Jost School of Vet Medicine	Oct 7, 2005	Journal Review
Prof Chris Jost School of Vet Medicine Prof Paul Kirshen School of Engineering	Oct 14, 2005	The Climate Forecasting for Agricultural Resources (CFAR) Project, Sahel-Sudan Zone, West Africa
	Oct 28, 2005	Vet Student Presentation
Patrick Ray student School of Engineering	Sept 16, 2005	Water Supply Planning in Greater Beirut, Lebanon
Prof Paul Kirshen School of Engineering	Sept 23, 2005	Reading Discussion: "A Regional, Multi-Sectoral and Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Climate and Socio-Economic Change in the UK, Part 1: Methodology," Climate Change (2005) 71:9-41
Prof Steven Chapra School of Engineering	Sept 30, 2005	Multi-Disciplinary Aspects of Water Quality Modeling
Prof Christopher Field Carnegie Institution Stanford, CA	April 15, 2005	3rd Annual Water Resources Leadership Lecture Global Ecology & the Carbon/Climate/Energy Challenge followed by student meeting with Dr. Field
Ray Powell Exec Director Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) Trust	April 22, 2005	Challenges in Managing Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico VCNP is at the head of the Los Alamos water catchment. It is a specially designated preserve that reports directly to the White House (one of only two in the country). It has a lot of political support and is doing some very interesting research.
Fr David O'Leary University Chaplain Tufts University	March 4, 2005	Water and Ethics Sources: http://www.thewaterpage.com/religion.htm Guha, R. 1999. "Radical American Environmnentalism Revisited" in Witoszek & Brennan eds. Nash, R. 1990. "American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History. Varner, G. 1998. "In Nature's Interest? Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics."
Water Workshop	Feb 26-27, 2005	Water as a Source of Conflict and Cooperation: Exploring the Potential sponsored by WSSS, The Center for International Environmental Resources Policy (CIERP) at The Fletcher School, and the Provost's Office [Click here for a list of workshop participants.]
Prof Sheldon Krimsky School of Arts & Sciences	Feb 18, 2005	Water Ethics: Beyond Riparian Rights (click for Power Point Presentation)
Emily Farr student Nutrition School	Feb 11, 2005	Water, Relief and Development: Examples from Ethiopia and Asia (click for Power Point Presentation)
Peter Walker International Famine Center Tufts University	Feb 4, 2005	Russian Dolls, Weasel Words and the World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction
WSSS Potluck	Jan 21, 2005	Click here for pictures!
Profs Peter Rogers and Gordon McKay Harvard University	Dec 5, 2004	Is There a Global Water Crisis? (click for Power Point Presentation)
Elizabeth Chalecki PhD student Fletcher School	Nov 19, 2004	Water and International Security (click for Power Point Presentation)
Prof William Moomaw Fletcher School	Nov 12, 2004	Cascading Costs: The Effects of Nitrogen Damage in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Charles Vorosmarty Univ of New Hampshire	Oct 22, 2004	Humans transforming the global water cycle (click for Power Point Presentation)
James Limbrunner PhD student School of Engineering	Oct 15, 2004
Stacey Archfield PhD student School of Engineering	Oct 15, 2004	Reliability of reservoir firm yield determined from the historical drought of record (click for Power Point Presentation)
Prof Shafiqul Islam School of Engineering	Oct 8, 2004
Erik Olsen National Resources Defense Council	Oct 1, 2004
Luke Ascolillo PhD student School of Medicine	Sept 17, 2004
Prof Jeffrey Griffiths School of Medicine	Sept 10, 2004	Water and Public Health: Current issues in the US