Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
In Cooperation with Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Rutgers University – Newark Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Monday, September 17th,
210 Colton Hall 11:30 to 1 pm
Water and Environment - A Strategy for Indian Climate to Combat Water Scarcity
B. Venkateswara Rao, Ph.D.Professor & Head, Centre for Water Resources, Institute of Science and Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological UniversityKukatpally Hyderabad-500072, India

Wednesday, October 10th
373 Tiernan Hall 11:30 to 1 pm
Microbial Dechlorination of Dioxins and PCBs 
Donna E. Fennell, Ph.D. Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Monday, October 22th
373 Tiernan Hall, 11:30 to 1 pm
Synchrotron-based in situ Time-resolved Studies of Advanced Functional Nanomaterials: the Active Sites for the Water Gas Shift Reaction Over Cu-CeO2 Nanoparticles 
Xianqin Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology 

Monday, October 29th 
210 Colton Hall 11:30 to 1 pm  
Engineering to Resist Earthquakes: Case Studies from Pakistan and Turkish Earthquakes
Mohiuddin Ali Khan, Ph.D., P.E.Chief Structural Engineer, JMT Inc., Mt. Laurel, NJ 

Monday, November 5th 
373 Tiernan Hall 11:30 to 1 pm 
A Different Kind of Cholesterol:  Biomarkers for Harmful Algae
Jose-L. Giner, Ph.D.Associate Professor, State University of New York - ESF307 Stadium Place, Syracuse, NY 

Tuesday , November 27th 
373 Tiernan Hall,  11:30 to 1 pm 
Geomorphology of unvegetated sandy deposits and horseshoe crab habitat in Delaware Bay 
Nancy Jackson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Director of the graduate program in Environmental Policy, New Jersey Institute of Technology 

Monday, December 3rd 
210 Colton Hall 11:30 to 1 pm  
Topic; to be announced.
John PaczkowskiDirector, Port Authority Office of Emergency Management

For additional information, contact Professor Lisa Axe, 973-596-2447, email: axe@njit.edu