Event/Speaker

Date

Details

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

Barbara Minsker, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

March 27, 2009

Harnessing the Power of Sensors and Information Technology Towards Real-Time Environmental Observation and Decision Making

Peter Walker
Feinstein International Center

Feb 27, 2009

Prof. Tim Griffin Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Feb 20, 2009

Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change (click to view PDF)

Prof. Beatrice Rogers Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Jan 30, 2009

Research Ethics (click for PDF)

Second Biannual WSSS Student Negotiation

Jan 16, 2009

Long River: Confronting the Challenges of Instream Flow

Event/Speaker

Date

Details

Prof. Rusty Russell
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
School of Arts & Sciences

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

Dr. Paul Epstein
Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment

Oct 17, 2008

Climate Instability: Health Problems and Healthy Solutions (click for PDF)

Stephen Estes-Smargiassi, Director of Planning
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA)

Oct 3, 2008

Climate Change Planning at the MWRA
(MWRA is the regional water supplier and wastewater manager for Metro Boston)

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

Dr Perry McCarty
Recipient of 2007 Stockholm Water Prize

April 11, 2008

Water Challenges: Past, Present and Future (click for PDF)

Prof Steve Chapra
School of Engineering

April 4, 2008

How Engineers Invented Water Quality Modeling and How it Might Inform Climate Change (click for PDF)

Prof Acacia Warren
School of Veterinary Med

March 28, 2008

Prof Elena Naumova
School of Medicine

March 14, 2008

Building Sound Methodology for Analysis of Water and Health Data (click for PDF)

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

Event/Speaker

Date

Details

Prof Beatrice Rogers
School of Nutrition

Nov 30, 2007

Research Ethics (click for PDF)

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 PDF)

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 PDF)

Prof David Gute
School of Engineering

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 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 PDF)

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 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

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

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

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 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

Event/Speaker

Date

Details

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