Poster Displays | Day Two, April 16 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET

Poster Winners


Estimating Future Precipitation Extremes in Ellicott City, MD: Temporal Downscaling, Uncertainty Quantification, and Implementation in Urban Stormwater Infrastructure Design
. Mofan Zhang, Master Student & Research Assistant; Rui Shi, Ph.D. Student; Benjamin Hobbs, Theodore and Kay Schad Professor of Environmental Management, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Mofan Zhang is a research assistant at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently working with Professor Benjamin Hobbs on an extreme precipitation risk and uncertainty evaluation project funded by Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments. Her research interests lie in how decision-making for water resources and energy systems will adapt to the changing environment.



Hardness removal from the extremely hard LRGV tap water using electrically conductive concrete
. Mirza addaito Billah, Graduate Research Assistant; KIM Iqbal, Graduate Student; Jongmin Kim, Assistant Professor; Phillip Park, Lecturer, Civil Engineering Department, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).

Mirza addaito Billah is a graduate research assistant in Environmental Engineering lab of UTRGV. His research focuses on treating water hardness from local tap water using conductive concrete cathode. He will be joining as a PhD candidate in University of Nebraska Lincoln in this summer.

Poster Displays
Breakout Room Access through Main Room #1, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (All times are U.S. Eastern)

Moderator: Devan Mahadevan
  1. COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance at Siena College: Lessons from the Field. Kate Meierdiercks, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences, and Cassidy Hammecker, Biology Major, Siena College, Loudonville, NY
  2. Improvements to an Urban Campus Rain Garden. Felicia Armstrong, Associate Professor; Colleen McLean, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Astronomy, Geology and Environmental Science, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
  3. Estimating Future Precipitation Extremes in Ellicott City, MD: Temporal Downscaling, Uncertainty Quantification, and Implementation in Urban Stormwater Infrastructure Design. Mofan Zhang, Master Student & Research Assistant; Rui Shi, Ph.D. Student; Benjamin Hobbs, Theodore and Kay Schad Professor of Environmental Management, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  4. In-Tree Stem Water Potential Innovations. Michael Davidson PhD, CEO and Avishai Avni-Maya PhD, Chief agronomist, Saturas USA
  5. Hardness removal from the extremely hard LRGV tap water using electrically conductive concrete. Mirza Addaito Billah, Graduate Research Assistant; KIM Iqbal, Graduate Student; Jongmin Kim, Assistant Professor; Phillip Park, Lecturer, Civil Engineering Department, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV)
  6. Assessing the Effect of Clean River Projects on the Downstream Tributaries of the Anacostia River in Washington DC: A Case Study of Escherichia coli. R Mudiyanselage Rathnayake (1), Sania Rose (2) and Tolessa Deksissa (3), (1) Graduate Research Assistant, (2) Project Assistant, (3) Director of Water Resources Research Institute College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences, University of the District of Columbia
  7. Assessing Priority Pollutant Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Metal Elements in the Downstream Tributaries of the Anacostia River in Washington DC. Sania Rose (1), Mudiyanselage Rathnayake (2), Efrain Mauricio Pena Valasquez (2), Sebhat Tefera (3) and Tolessa Deksissa (4), (1) Project Assistant, (3) Graduate Assistance, (3) Project Specialist, and (4) Director of Water Resources Research Institute and Professional Science Master’s Program, (1 ,2, 3) College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences, UDC
  8. COVID-19 Pandemic and Water Demand. Matthew Sweeney, Undergraduate Student and Juneseok Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY.
  9. Statistical Analysis of Water Demand Changes. Robert Sullivan, Undergraduate Student and Juneseok Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY.

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