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2012
Event		Date	Details
	All-WSSS Meeting	January 20, 2012 TBD	First WSSS meeting of the Spring Semester
	All-WSSS Meeting	February 24, 2012 3:00 - 4:30pm Room 102, Cabot Intercultural Center
	Graduate Seminar Series	Febuary 28, 2012 3:00 - 4:15pm Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall	"Canadian and American Collaboration in Dealing with Pollution Issues in Niagara River during the Past 25 Years" Dr. Abdel El-Shaarawi National Water Research Institute and McMaster University Talk on statistical methods used to produce annual joint American and Canadian report on the status of organic contaminants in the Niagara River
	Lexington Public Works Field Trip	March 9, 2012 1:00 - 6:00pm 201 Bedford Street Lexington, MA
	Middle East Practicum	March 20 - 24, 2012 West Bank	Rescheduled to May 11 - 20, 2012
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar	March 27, 2012 3:00 - 5:00pm Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall	“Water in a New Era” Jay Lund Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, Professor of Environmental Engineering University of California, Davis Reception to follow in Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall
	R-Track Meeting	March 30, 2012 3:00-4:00pm TIE Conference Room, Miller Hall	IRB Seminar Martin LaVigne, Institutional Research Board (IRB) Coordinator
	R-Track Meeting	April 6, 2012 3:00-4:00pm Room 208, Eaton Hall	GIS Poster Presentation Barbara Parmenter Lecturer, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy
	All-WSSS Meeting	April 13, 2012 Room 102, Cabot Intercultural Center
	WSSS Symposium	April 27, 2012 8:30am - 5:00pm 51 Winthrop St Medford, MA	Third Annual WSSS Symposium at Tufts University
2011
	IGERT Inaugural Seminar and Reception	December 16, 2011 10:30am - 12:30pm Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall	Cancelled: "Meeting Africa's Water Challenge: The Time is Now" Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, Vice President of the Africa Region, The World Bank Lunch will be served after the seminar.
	All-WSSS Meeting	December 9, 2011 3:00 - 4:30pm Rabb Room, Tisch College	End-of-Semester Social
	WSSS-Retreat	December 2 - 4, 2011 Tufts Loj
	P Track, R Track, and symposium planning meetings	December 2, 2011
	EWRE/EH Seminar	November 29, 2011 3:00-4:00pm Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium	TBD Doug Walker, Tianyi Luo, William Farmer, CEE Graduate students, Tufts University
	P Track, R Track, and symposium planning meetings	November 18, 2011
	WSSS Seminar	November 18, 2011 3:00-4:00pm Crowe Room, Cabot Intercultural Center	"System-wide modeling for strategic insights (Ganges, Nile), Cool Tools for IWRM, Water Resources & Climate Risks" Harshadeep, World Bank Presentation Malawi - Population and Settlements Consequence Table
	P Track, R Track, and symposium planning meetings	November 4, 2011
	WSSS Seminar	November 3, 2011 11:00-12:00pm Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall	"Developing a Climate Informed Decision Analysis: Application to the International Upper Great Lakes Study" Dr. Casey Brown, Professor at UMass Amherst
	EWRE/EH Seminar	November 1, 2011 3:00-4:00pm Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium	"Clean Air or Clean Water? Nitrous Oxide During Engineered Biological Nitrogen RemovalClean Air or Clean Water? Nitrous Oxide During Engineered Biological Nitrogen Removal" Dr. Kartik Chandran, Columbia, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
	All-WSSS Meeting	October 28, 2011 3:00 - 4:30pm Rabb Room, Tisch College	WSSS student TED talks, GIS resources and research at Tufts, and more!
	P Track, R Track, and symposium planning meetings	October 28, 2011
	All-WSSS Meeting	October 21, 2011 4:00 - 5:30pm Rabb Room, Tisch College	WSSS student TED talks, GIS resources and research at Tufts, and more! - TED Talk by Negin Ashoori and Andrea Brown
	2011 Let's Talk About Water Symposium	October 15, 2011 10am-2pm Northeastern University’s Blackman Auditorium	Free Admission and Free Lunch! http://letstalkaboutwater.com/ Join Northeastern University for an in-depth discussion and critical thinking about the complex water issues facing society, particularly toxic chemical pollution of drinking water. We will be hosting a film screening, followed by informal discussion over lunch, and then an extended moderated panel discussion. Film Screening: “A Civil Action“, a true story about lawyer Jan Schlichtmann (played by John Travolta), who represented a group of families whose children have died due to TCE (a toxic chemical) dumped into their drinking water by a factory. Panel Discussion: Panelists will include: Attorney Jan Schlichtmann Water pollution and environmental health experts: Bob Zimmerman, Charles River Watershed Association Joel Schwartz, Harvard School of Public Health Phil Casanova, Northeastern University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Participants: All are welcome! We encourage students to attend, particularly from host Northeastern University, as well as partners Tufts, UMass Boston, MIT, BU and Harvard.
	WSSS Field Trip	October 14, 2011 Time and location TBA
	All-WSSS Meeting	October 7, 2011 3:00 - 4:30pm Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall	WSSS student TED talks, Engineers Without Borders, and more! - TED Talk by John Parker
	All-WSSS Meeting	September 30, 2011 3:00 - 4:30pm Crane Room, Paige Hall	- Announcements: WSSS Retreat, WSSS Field Trip, etc. - Vladimir Smakhtin: Research for Water Management in a Developing World: Adapting to Increasing Variability and Change - Rick Hooper: Introduction to CUAHSI and Opportunities for WSSS Students - TED Talks by Alex Bedig and John Parker
	All-WSSS Meeting	September 23, 2011 3:00 - 4:30pm Crane Room, Paige Hall	WSSS and the Health Sciences
	All-WSSS Meeting	September 16, 2011 3:00 - 4:30pm Crane Room, Paige Hall Fletcher School Medford campus	WSSS and the Middle East
	All-WSSS Meeting	September 9, 2011 NEW TIME: 3:00 - 4:30pm Crane Room, Paige Hall Note location change Medford campus	Welcome and Orientation
	Water Diplomacy Workshop (WDW)	June 13 - 17, 2011	Cost: $2,950.00 (Including workshop fee and six nights of room and board) This one-week train-the-trainer workshop aimed to create a global network of water professionals who are not only familiar with the theory and practice of water diplomacy but can teach the key ideas and methods to others in their own organizations. Through a highly interactive hands-on program, water professionals and community leaders from around the world learned how to manage water networks and resolve water conflicts at different levels. Visit the workshop website for further information.
	WSSS year-end celebration	May 6, 2011	Prof. Vogel's house 182 Orchard Street, Belmont
	All-WSSS meeting	April 29, 2011	All-WSSS meeting Student presentations "Barriers to Sustainability of Use and Maintenance of Water and Sanitation Facilities in Ethiopian Primary Schools" Gogi Grewal, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Shonda Gaylord, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Jeff Cegan, School of Engineering
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	April 26, 2011	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar "The Geohydrologic Role of Fault Zones on Petroleum Generations and Migration" Byeongju Jung, PhD student, Tufts Univeresity "Uncertainty in Agricultural Water Demand in the West Bank, Palestine" Eric Vaughan, MS/WSSS Student, Tufts University
	Small group meetings	April 22, 2011	Small group meetings - Track P - Track R
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	April 19, 2011	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar "Drinking Water Contaminants: Exposure Assessment Considerations" Michael Wright, Office of Research and Development, US EPA, National Center for Environement Assessment, Cinncinatti, OH
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	April 15, 2011	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar "Risky Business: Water, Climate and Global Supply Chains" Upmanu Lall, Professor of Engineering and Director, Columbia Water Center, Columbia University
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	April 12, 2011	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar "Circulation Changes Conducive for the Observed Trends in Fall Hydroclimate Across the Central United States 1948 - 2006" David Small, Assistant Research Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
	Small group meetings	April 8, 2011	Small group meetings - Track P - Track R - symposium planning group
	All-WSSS meeting	April 8, 2011	All-WSSS meeting
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	April 5, 2011	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar "Stormwater Management Strategies Under Climate Change: A Case Study in Somerville, Massachusetts" Lauren Caputo, MS CEE/WSSS student, Tufts University "Transport of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Porous Media" Jessica Englehart, MS/CEE student, Tufts University
	Annual WSSS Symposium	April 1, 2011	2nd Annual WSSS Symposium "Water in 2050: The Infrastructure to Get There"
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	March 29, 2011	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar "Innovative Stormwater Management in Cambridge, MA" Owen O'Riordan, Cambridge City Engineer Bill Pisano, MWH Americas Inc.
	Small group meetings	March 18, 2011	- Track P - Track R - symposium planning group
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	March 15, 2011	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar "Interaction between Soil Mositure and Nitrogen in Ecohydrological Models" Tony Parolari, Ph.D. student, MIT
	Small group meetings	March 11, 2011	- Track P - Track R - symposium planning group
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	March 8, 2011	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar "Development of Environemental Health Information Tools to Assess the effects of Policy Actions in the WHO European Region" Andrey Egorov, World Health Organization
	WSSS Poster-Making Workshop	March 4, 2011
	Small group meetings	March 4, 2011	- Track P - Track R - Symposium planning group
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	February 22, 2011	"Water and Possibilities for cooperation in the Middle East" (click for PDF) Annette Huber-Lee, Visiting Scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	February 18, 2011	"Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Innovative Water Ecosystem in SouthEast Asia" Zaini Ujang, Vice Chancellor and President, University of Technology, Malaysia
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	February 18, 2011	Student presentations "From a Culture of Disaster Response to a Culture of Adaptation: Addressing Flooding and Climate Change in Honduras" (click for PDF) Laura Kuhl, Fletcher School "Agricultural Uncertainty in the West Bank, Palestine" (click for PDF) Eric Vaughan, School of Engineering "Stormwater Management Strategies Under Climate Change: A look at Somerville, MA and Aurora, CO"(click for PDF) Ana Rosner, School of Engineering
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	February 11, 2011	"Anthropogenic Signatures in Biogeochemical Responses of Catchments across Spatio-temporal Scales" (click for PDF) Prof. Nandita Basu, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Iowa College of Engineering Prof. Suresh Rao, Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Agronomy Purdue University
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	February 8, 2011	"Environmental Drivers of Waterborne Infections: National Data Repository Perspective" Elena Naumova, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
	Small group meetings	February 4, 2011	- Track P - Track R - Symposium planning group
	WSSS Faculty Lecture	January 28, 2011	"Drinking Water: Facts, Fears, and the Future"
	All-WSSS Meeting	January 28, 2011	"Anthropogenic Drivers of Coastal Protection on Cape Cod: What factors are driving demand and what are the future alternatives in a dynamic environment" (click for PDF) Peter Kelly-Joseph, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning "Land and Water Management Innovations in Rain-fed Agriculture: The Quesungual Slash-and-Mulch Agroforestry system in Southwestern Honduras" (click for PDF) Alex Bedig, Civil & Environmental Engineering John Parker, Agriculture, Food and Environment
	EWRE/EH/WSSS Seminar	January 25, 2011	"Water-Related Research at the Stockholm Environment Institute" Eric Kemp-Benedict Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
	All-WSSS Meeting	January 21, 2011	Small group meetings: - Track P - Track R - Symposium planning group

2010
Event		Date	Details
	All-WSSS Meeting	December 09, 2010	Institutional Dimensions of River/Reservoir System Modeling: Lessons from Implementation of the Texas Water Availability Modeling System [click for slides] Click to download flyer (PDF) Dr. Ralph A. Wurbs
	All-WSSS Meeting	December 03, 2010	Speakers: Yushiou Tsai, Civil and Environmental Engineering Symposium planning committee Research and practicum track participants
	All-WSSS Meeting	October 29, 2010	WSSS Social Enrollment forms due
	All-WSSS Meeting	October 22, 2010	Speakers: Jeff Griffiths and Elena Naumova, Dept of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine Tim Griffin, Agriculture, Food & Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
	All-WSSS Meeting	October 15, 2010	WSSS Practicum/Mystic river field trip (Click for pictures) Patrick Herron, Mystic Monitoring Network Director, MyRWA Rusty Russell, Dept of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, School of Arts & Sciences
	WSSS Seminar	October 8, 2010	Water Diplomacy in Israel and the Middle East Dr. Uri Shamir, Senior Advisor to the Israel Water Authority Click to download flyer (PDF)
	WSSS-Sponsored Impact Analysis Workshop	October 1, 2010	Integrated Water Resources Management: Participatory Impact Planning Analysis Dr. Annette Huber-Lee, Civil and Envionmental Engineering Dr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, SEI-US
	All-WSSS Meeting	September 24, 2010	Water, Agriculture, Food and Livelihood Security Dr. Astier Almedom, Institute for Global Leadership Dr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, SEI-US Agricultural Water Demand, West Bank, Palestine Eric S. Vaughan, student, Civil and Envionmental Engineering
	All-WSSS Meeting	September 17, 2010	Water Management in a Changing Environment: Climate Change and Hydromorphology Adaptation Planning Research Dr. Paul Kirshen, Civil and Envionmental Engineering Ana Rosner, student, Civil and Envionmental Engineering Lauren Rose Caputo, student, Civil and Envionmental Engineering Climate Change Adaptation and Flooding in Honduras Laura Kuhl, student, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	September 14, 2010	Presented by Dr. Steve Chapra, Ph.D. "Rubbish, Stink and Death: The Historical Evolution, Present State, and Future Direction of Water-Quality Management and Modeling"
	All-WSSS Meeting	September 10, 2010	Program Orientation Water: Systems, Science and Society Prof Rich Vogel, Civil and Environmental Engineering John Parker, student, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Ellen Tyler, student, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Simcha Levental, student, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
	First Annual Water: Systems, Science & Society Symposium	May 1, 2010	Highlighting interdisciplinary water-related research in the Northeast Click to download flyer (PDF)
	Annual Water Resources Leadership Lecture	April 30, 2010	"The Woburn Trial from the View of an Expert Witness" Prof. George Pinder, University of Vermont WSSS External Advisory Committee member Click to download flyer (PDF)
	External Advisory Committee Meeting	April 30, 2010
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	April 27, 2010	Lina Perelman, Visiting Scholar from the Technion, Israel Zhenying Zhang, Tufts MS student, "Nutrient Mass Balance Model for the Great Lakes"
	All-WSSS Program Meeting	April 23, 2010
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	April 20, 2010	Brian Thomas, Tufts PhD student, "The impact of BMP’s on Boston Groundwater Levels" Xuan Gao, Tufts PhD candidate, "Environmental Flow and Small Reservoirs in Ghana"
	All-WSSS Program Meeting	April 16, 2010
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	April 13, 2010	Melissa Ng, Tufts MS student, "The hydromorphology of two urbanizing watersheds" David Roman, Tufts MS student, "Regional models of suspended sediment transport for the Eastern US"
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	April 6, 2010	Jeff Trull, Tufts MS student, "Impact of atmospheric mixing conditions on near-highway air pollutant gradients" and Christine Sotolongo, Tufts MS student
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	March 30, 2010	Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, Professor and Head, Centre for Development and Environment Policy, Indian Institute of Management, "Calcutta Hydro-diplomacy and Water Future in South Asia"
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	March 16, 2010	Patrick Ray, PhD Defense, "Robust Optimization Using a Variety of Performance Measures: A case study of water system planning under climate and demographic uncertainty in Amman, Jordan"
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	March 9, 2010	Prof. Shafiq Islam, Tufts University, "Know the BOX first and then Think OUTSIDE THE BOX: Three Examples from Water"
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	March 2, 2010	Prof. Jeffrey Griffiths, Tufts University, "Air Pollution and Anemia Interact as Pneumonia Risk Factors? Data from Quito, Ecuador"
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	Feb 23, 2010	Prof. Ellen Douglas, University of Massachusetts, "Increased coastal flooding due to climate change and the potential impacts on Environmental Justice communities"
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	Feb 16, 2010	Prof. Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts, "Decision Scaling: Tailoring Climate Information for Climate Risk Assessment and Management"
	All-WSSS Program Meeting	Feb 12, 2010
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	Feb 9, 2010	James Limbrunner, recent Tufts PhD, "Multiobjective operation of Delaware River basin reservoirs"
	EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	Feb 2, 2010	Sandeep Sathyamoorthy, Tufts PhD Student, "Water Reuse: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions" David Rheinheimer, UC Davis PhD Student, "Optimizing Hydropower Systems for Environmental Flows & Climate Warming in the Western Sierra Nevada"
	Integrated Water Resources Management Workshop	Jan 28 & 29, 2010	WSSS-hosted event for Chinese delegates Visit the IWRM Workshop page for more information
	Introduction to EWRE/WSSS Seminar Series	Jan 26, 2010	Meghan Walter, MS Thesis Defense, "Increasing Trends in Peak Streamflows in the Northeastern U.S. and Their Impacts"

2009
Event		Date	Details
	Weekly Meeting #7	Friday, Dec 4, 2009	Progress Reports Track P Track R Symposium Planning
	Weekly Meeting #6 Program Orientation	Friday, Oct 16, 2009	Featured Programs: Engineering, Arts & Sciences Rich Vogel and John Durant, Civil & Environmental Engineering Nathan Rawding, Arts & Sciences
	Weekly Meeting #5 Program Orientation	Friday, Oct 9, 2009	Featured Programs: CUAHSI, UEP, SEI Rick Hooper, CUAHSI Scott Horsley, UEP Kendall Webster and Jack Melcher, Arts & Sciences Xuan Gao, Civil and Environmental Engineering Eric Kemp-Benedict, SEI
	Weekly Meeting #4 Program Orientation	Friday, Oct 2, 2009	Featured Programs: Nutrition, Public Health Tim Griffin and Jalal Elhayek, Friedman School Jeff Griffiths, School of Medicine Dan Maxwell, Feinstein Center
	Weekly Meeting #3 Program Orientation	Friday, Sept 25, 2009	Featured Programs: Fletcher, Engineering, Arts & Sciences Mieke van der Wansem and Georgia Kayser, Fletcher School Shafiq Islam, Civil & Environmental Engineering Kent Portney, Political Science
	Weekly Meeting #2 Program Orientation	Friday, Sept 18, 2009	Featured Program: Engineers Without Borders Douglas Matson, Mechanical Engineering Jack Melcher, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
	Weekly Meeting #1 Program Orientation	Friday, Sept 11, 2009	Richard Vogel, Civil & Environmental Engineering Rusty Russell, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning Tim Griffin, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
	Graduating WSSS Students Research Presentations	April 10 & 24, 2009	Janice Snow, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning Katie Resnick, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning Justine Treadwell, Fletcher School Georgia Kayser, Fletcher School Jesus Sanchez, Civil & Environmental Engineering Ali Akanda, Civil & Environmental Engineering Ben Bornstein, Civil & Environmental Engineering Karen Kosinski, Civil & Environmental Engineering Allie Quady, Nutrition & Medical Schools
	WSSS Seminar	March 27, 2009	Harnessing the Power of Sensors and Information Technology Towards Real-Time Environmental Observation and Decision Making Barbara Minsker, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
	WSSS Seminar	Feb 27, 2009	Peter Walker, Feinstein International Center
	WSSS Seminar	Feb 20, 2009	Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change (click to view PDF) Prof. Tim Griffin, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
	WSSS Seminar	Jan 30, 2009	Research Ethics (click for PDF) Prof. Beatrice Rogers, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
	Second Biannual WSSS Student Negotiation	Jan 16, 2009	Long River: Confronting the Challenges of Instream Flow

2008
Event		Date	Details
	WSSS Seminar	Nov 14, 2008	The Current Landscape of Climate Change Lawsuits in the U.S., and a follow-up discussion of A Civil Action
	A Civil Action	Oct 31, 2008	Movie screening (click for the flyer)
	WSSS Seminar	Oct 17, 2008	Climate Instability: Health Problems and Healthy Solutions (click for PDF) Dr. Paul Epstein Harvard Medical School, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment Click to download flyer (PDF)
	WSSS Seminar	Oct 3, 2008	Climate Change Planning at the MWRA (MWRA is the regional water supplier and wastewater manager for Metro Boston) Stephen Estes-Smargiassi, Director of Planning Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA)
	WSSS Student/Faculty Canoe Trip on the Mystic River	Sept 20, 2008	Preceded by casual lunch at the Tufts Institute of the Environment, located in the rear basement of Miller Hall (View campus map here)
	First Biannual WSSS Student Negotiation: Water Privatization	Sept 19, 2008	This article provided background information on water privatization issues.
	Orientation Seminar	Sept 5, 2008	Prof. Paul Kirshen, School of Engineering Allie Quady, Friedman School Jesus Sanchez, School of Engineering Katie Resnick, School of Arts & Sciences
	Student Presentations	May 2, 2008
	WSSS Seminar	April 11, 2008	Water Challenges: Past, Present and Future (click for PDF) Dr Perry McCarty, Recipient of 2007 Stockholm Water Prize
	WSSS Seminar	April 4, 2008	How Engineers Invented Water Quality Modeling and How it Might Inform Climate Change (click for PDF) Prof Steve Chapra, School of Engineering
	WSSS Seminar	March 28, 2008	Prof Acacia Warren, School of Veterinary Medicine
	WSSS Seminar	March 14, 2008	Building Sound Methodology for Analysis of Water and Health Data (click for PDF) Prof Elena Naumova School of Medicine
	CUAHSI Cyberseminar	Feb 15, 2008	Advancing hydrologic predictability in a changing environment through inter-disciplinary synthesis Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne
	Student Advisory Committee	Feb 1, 2008	Discussion of WSSS program

2007
Event/Speaker		Date	Details
	WSSS Seminar	Nov 30, 2007	Research Ethics (click for PDF) Prof Beatrice Rogers, School of Nutrition
	WSSS Seminar	Oct 26, 2007	Too Much of a Good Thing: How Water Shocks Contribute to Food Insecurity and Malnutrition (click for PDF) Prof Patrick Webb, School of Nutrition
	WSSS Seminar	Oct 19, 2007	Crop Modeling and Its Value in Water Management in Burkina Faso (click for PDF) Dr Moussa Sanon Burkina Faso, Institute for Agricultural Research (INERA)
	WSSS Seminar	Oct 12, 2007	Epidemiology: the Good, the Bad and the Truly Ugly (click for PDF) Background Reading: An Applied Approach to Epidemiology and Toxicology for Engineers. Prof David Gute, School of Engineering
	WSSS Seminar	Sept 28, 2007	Water and Health: An Historical Perspective, Informing Today (click for PDF) Prof Jeffrey Griffiths, School of Medicine Health, Wealth, and Water -- Risky Lessons from Federal Regulatory Fountains Prof Rusty Russell, School of Arts & Sciences
	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 PDF) Preliminary Assessments of Water Resources Infrastructure and Urinary Schistosomiasis in Kwabeng, Ghana (click for PDF) A Qualitative Assessment of Water Resource Management in Southern Madagascar (click for PDF) 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 Click to download flyer (PDF)
	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

2006
Event/Speaker		Date	Details
	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
	Mark Smith The Nature Conservancy	Sept 15, 2006	Restoration of Instream Ecological Flows Background Reading (PDFs): A Method for Assessing Hydrologic Alteration within Ecosystems
		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 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 Dr. Colwell served as director of the 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

2005
Event/Speaker		Date	Details
	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
	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 upply 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).
	Fr David O'Leary University Chaplain Tufts University	March 4, 2005	Water and Ethics Sources: 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
	Prof Sheldon Krimsky School of Arts & Sciences	Feb 18, 2005	Water Ethics: Beyond Riparian Rights (click for PDF)
	Emily Farr student Nutrition School	Feb 11, 2005	Water, Relief and Development: Examples from Ethiopia and Asia (click for PDF)
	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

2004
Event/Speaker		Date	Details
	Profs Peter Rogers and Gordon McKay Harvard University	Dec 5, 2004	Is There a Global Water Crisis? (click for PDF)
	Elizabeth Chalecki PhD student Fletcher School	Nov 19, 2004	Water and International Security (click for PDF)
	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 PDF)
	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 PDF)
	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

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