Agenda*

8:00 am - Registration

8:45 am - Opening & Welcome

• Elisabeth Ross Eveleigh, AWRA-NCR Section President
• Tolessa Deksissa, Director, Water Resources Research Institute & Professional Science Master’s Water Resource Management Program, University of the District of Columbia
• Sabine O’Hara, Dean, College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability & Environmental Sciences, University of the District of Columbia
• Tamim Younos, President, Green Water-Infrastructure Academy, Washington, D.C.; Symposium Chair & Vice President AWRA-NCR Section; Fellow Member AWRA (download presentation)
  

9:15 am - Keynote

• Dr. Sudhir Murthy, Innovation Chief, DC Water (download presentation)
  

10:00 am - Break

10:30 am - Resilient Solutions for Water Management in Urban Environments: Advances in Research, Technology, Financing and Policy

• Tyson E. Vaughan, PhD, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C.
• Luke Wilson, JD, Deputy Director, The Center for Water Security and Cooperation (download presentation)
  
• Fanny Carlet, PhD, Sustainable Urban Solutions, LLC (download presentation)
  
• Erica Brown, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (download presentation)
  

12:00 pm - Luncheon Speaker

• G. Tracy Mehan, III - Executive Director, Government Affairs, American Water Works Association

1:15 pm - Concurrent Sessions^

• Special Session: Advances in Water Reuse Technology and Implementation
  • Improving water reuse for a healthier Potomac Watershed. Erik Rosenfeldt, PhD, Hazen and Sawyer
  • Hampton Roads Sanitation District’s (HRSD) vision for managed aquifer recharge in Eastern Virginia. Charles Bott, PhD, Hampton Roads Sanitation District
  • New WHO Guidelines for Potable Reuse: Impact on Reuse. Joseph Cotruvo, PhD, BCES, Joseph Cotruvo & Associates LLC.
• Stormwater and Flood Management
  • Flood modeling for major intersections known to flood near WMATA stations outside of the regulatory floodplain. Laurens van der Tak, PE, JACOBS
  • Site evaluation and design challenges of MS4/TMDL restoration projects in the urban environment of Baltimore City. John Shen, PhD, PE, Straughan Environmental, Inc.
  • Catchment-scale evaluation of stormwater green infrastructure using a flexible surface-subsurface interaction model. Mohammad Almadani, King Abdul-Aziz University, Catholic University of America
  • Assessing the effectiveness of urban gardens as green infrastructure in the Washington, DC area. Karen Knee, American University

2:45 pm - Break

3:00 pm - Concurrent Sessions^

• Water and Environment
  • Regulating environmental impacts of ‘fracking’ in the UK: lessons drawn from New York and California. Miriam R. Aczel, Imperial College London
  • Chemical mass balance source apportionment of trace metals in road dust. Matthew Fiala, Texas Southern University
  • Proof of management success in an agriculturally-impacted Delaware Estuary. Gulnihal Ozbay, Delaware State University
  • Developing a salt management strategy for Northern Virginia. Will Isenberg, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
• Resilience and Sustainability
  • Incorporating climate resilience and mitigation planning into asset management for a water and wastewater utility. Laurens van der Tak, PE, JACOBS
• Remote Sensing, Modeling and GIS

5:00 pm - Optional Tour of UDC Campus Green Infrastructure

*For full details, download the 2018 Symposium Program
^When available, presentation slides have been provided.