Our EWC seminar on this Friday, Sep 16, will feature Dr. Jon Hathaway, with a presentation about sustainable development and water management. A title and abstract are included at the end of this message. Please join us in Mann 304 from 11:45am-12:35pm.

The schedule for future seminars is available here:
http://go.ncsu.edu/ewc-seminar-schedule

Title: Sustainable Urban Water and the Rise of Green Infrastructure

Abstract: Global population in urban areas is burgeoning, and sustainable development and water management are critical to ensuring ecological and human health. As healthy waterways are increasingly valued, and the degradation of these waterways by urban stormwater runoff is better understood, major efforts are underway to restore watershed function across the United States, from the Chesapeake Bay to Lake Tahoe; from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. Critical to these efforts is an understanding of how runoff and pollutants travel through the urban environment, and how the effects of urban runoff can be mitigated by green infrastructure. This presentation will give an overview of various research projects being performed at the University of Tennessee to better understand how to sustainably manage stormwater, from small scale observations of green infrastructure function, to watershed scale investigations that identify hotspots of impervious connectivity.

Bio: Dr. Hathaway received his PhD from North Carolina State University in 2010, where he studied the fate, transport, and removal of indicator bacteria in urban stormwater runoff. After a brief research fellowship at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and nearly two and half years at one of the nation’s leading ecological design and consulting firms, he joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Hathaway’s research team focuses on sustainable urban water, the interaction of watershed processes, urban sustainability, and natural systems. His research has been supported by the US Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, and US Geological Survey. Dr. Hathaway is a 2016 recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award.