WELCOME
AQWATEC is a new research center at the Colorado School of Mines. The center was established in 2006 to support the advancement of the campus' thrust areas of water and renewable energy.
MISSION
Advance the science of emerging water treatment processes/hybrids enabling sustainable and energy efficient utilization of impaired water sources for potable and non-potable water supplies
NEWS
AQWATEC Students Win Scholarships
Katie Benko, ESE PhD student, has been awarded the 2007 National Water Research Institute (NWRI) Fellowship for her doctoral research project entitled "Treatment of co-produced water for beneficial use in Western United States using novel membrane systems". Katie has been selected among 70 applicants across the nation to receive this fellowship of up to $10,000 a year to support doctoral graduate research related to water. Katie is working with Professor Drewes as her faculty advisor. For more information click here. Nathan Hancock, ESE MS student, has been awarded a 2007 Rocky Mountain Sction AWWA (RMSAWWA) James B. Warner Scholarship. Nathan is working on an advanced brackish water desalination project funded by California Department of Water Resources (DWR). His faculty advisor is Professor Cath.
Jennifer Teerlink , ESE PhD student, has been awarded a grant from the 2007 Decentralized Systems Unsolicited Research Competition for Graduate Students. JT has been selected among many applicants across the nation to receive this fellowship of $25,000 to support doctoral graduate research related to decentralized systems. JT is working with Professor Drewes as her faculty advisor.
AQWATEC Faculty Win Award
The Rocky Mountain Section of the American Water Works Association (RMSAWWA) announced that Dr. Jorg Drewes from the Colorado School of Mines is the winner of the 2007 Outstanding Research Award. This award is given to recognize outstanding research conducted on water-related topics within the RMSAWWA region of Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Dr. Drewes was selected because of his 6 years of water-related research at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) involving water treatment, reclamation, and reuse using membrane processes and soil-aquifer treatment systems with special emphasis on removal and fate of organic matter and emerging contaminants of concern.
AQWATEC Faculty Member - Invited Speaker at WEFTEC AEESP/WEF Scientist Luncheon
Dr. Jörg Drewes was invited to deliver a keynote presentation on indirect potable reuse at the AEESP/WEF Scientist Luncheon at WEFTEC in San Diego, October 15, 2007.
EVENTS
Upcoming AQWATEC sponsored Brownbag Seminars (Thursday, 12:30-1:30 pm, Coolbaugh Hall 209)
Dr. James Edzwald, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Massachusetts Amherst, Developments in Dissolved Air Flotation for Drinking Water Clarification, September 18, 2008
Dr. Jörg E. Drewes, Colorado School of Mines/ESE, Sabbatical Experience: 8 months down under, October 16, 2008
Dr. Ron S. Faibish, International Energy Resource Cooperation Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), The Energy-Water Nexus: Nuclear Desalination, October 30, 2008
Dr. Tony Fane, The University of New South Wales, Australia, 2008 AEESP Distinguished Lecturer, Hybrid Membrane Systems, February 18 (Wednesday!), 2009, Ballroom C
Dr. David Sedlak, University of
California-Berkeley, Agricultural sources of
endocrine disrupting
compounds (EDCs) and the
fate of EDCs in surface waters, March 26, 2009
