US-China Joint Workshop on Water Quality and Technology: Challenges and Opportunities

August 23-24, 2007

Beckman Center, University of California at Irvine, California

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Thursday August 23, 3007

7:30 am REGISTRATION/Continental Breakfast

Opening Session – Welcome

8:00-8:30 / William Cooper, Director, Urban WaterResearchCenter, UCI
Jiuhui Qu, Director, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences

Session 1. Drinking Water and Human Health

Moderator: Betty H. Olson, Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine

8:30 – 8:55 / Areview of drinking water treatment technologies: challenges of trace level contaminants
Mirat Gurol, Blasker Chair Professor Environmental Engineering, San DiegoStateUniversity
8:55 – 9:20 / Advances of aqueous cluster chemistry and technology of inorganic polymer flocculants
Hongxiao Tang, Professor, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China
9:20 – 9:45 / Drinking Water Quality: The Evolution of Public Health Concerns since the Passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1976
Betty H. Olson, Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine
9:45 – 10:10 / Degradation characteristics and DBP formation of humic acid over nanoparticulate FeOxH2x-3/Fe0 with UVA/H2O2
Chun Hu, Professor, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China

10:10 – 10:25 Morning Break

10:25 -10:50 / Source, distribution, and management of high-arsenic concentrations
John Izbicki, Research Hydrologist ,USGS, San Diego
10:50 –11:15 / Arsenic removal from drinking water with ferric and manganese binary oxides: mechanisms study and field tests
Ruiping Liu, Assistant Professor, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China
11:15 –11:40 / Title :TBA
Rick DeLeon, Metropoliton Water District

12:15-1:30 pm Lunch and Keynote Speaker–

Soroosh Sorooshian,Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS), UC Irvine (moderator: Sunny Jiang)

Session 2. Wastewater Management

Moderator: Guann Hwang, Metropolitan Wastewater Department, City of San Diego

1:30 - 1:55 / Fixed film biological nutrient removal processes using deep-bed biofiltration technology
Jeff Chen, AmericanAcademy of Environmental Engineers
1:55 - 2:20 / Removal of parathion from off-gas using a biofilter containing genetically engineered bacteria
Lin Li, Assistant Professor, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China
2:20 – 2:45 / Fate and behavior of estrogens during advanced sewage treatment
Heqing Zhang, Assistant Professor, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China
2:45 – 3:10 / Energy-saving benefits of denitrification
Diego Rosso, UCLA
3:10 – 3:35 / Point source pollution control in California
Jane Qiu, Water Resource Control Engineer; Charles Cheng, Engineering Geologist, CA Regional Water Quality Control Board
3:35 – 4:00 / Introduction of governmental environmental protection agencies in the United States and State of California and water quality protection in Los Angeles area
Weixing Tong, Engineering Geologist, LA Regional Water Board

4:00 – 6:00 Poster presentation, Coffee Break and networking

6:00 – 8:00 Dinner and Keynote Speaker—

Jiuhui Qu, Professor and Director, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences

Moderator: Min Yang (ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences)

Friday August 24, 2007

7:30 AM REGISTRATION/Continental Breakfast

Session 3. Water Quality Control and Water Resource Management

Moderator: Andrew Chang,Professor of Agricultural Engineering, UC Riverside

8:30 – 8:55 / Non-point source pollution: sources, extent, and management
AndrewChang, Professor of Agr. Eng. & Agr. Engineer
Director, Center for Water Resources, UC Riverside
8:55 – 9:20 / Spatially-explicit modeling of river habitat through cellular automata
Qiuwen Chen, Professor, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China
8:20 – 9:45 / Title: TBA
Mike Stenstrom, Professor of Environmental Engineering, UCLA
9:45 – 10:10 / Lake and reservoir eutrophication management – a regulatory perspective
Cindy Li, Engineering Geologist, CA Regional Water Control Board

10:10 – 10:25 Morning Break

10:25 – 10:50 / Restoration of aquatic macrophytes to improve lake-side ecotone health in eutrophic TaihuLake
Weidong Wang, Associate Professor,Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China
10:50 – 11:15 / Evaluating Ground-waterBasin Management Strategies of Coastal Los Angeles
Zhen Li, Hydrologist, USGS, San Diego
11:15 – 11:40 / Water Summit 2008 and Poster Awards
William Cooper, Director, Urban WaterResearchCenter, UCI

12:00-1:30 Lunch and Keynote Speaker –

Celeste Cantu,General Manager of Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority, former Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board (Moderator: Cindy Li)

Session 4. Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment

Moderator: Sunny Jiang, Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine

1:30 –1:55 / Deriving site-specific 2,2-bis(chlorophenyl)-1,1-dichloroethylene (p,p’-DDE) quality criteria of water and sediment for protection of common tern populations
Wei An, Assistant Professor, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China
1:55 – 2:20 / Environmental impacts and effects of pesticide contamination in California
Kean Goh, Agriculture Program Supervisor IV, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Cal/EPA
2:20 – 2:45 / Toxicity changes and effects analyses in chlorination disinfection of reclaimed wastewater
Dongbin Wei, Associate Professor, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China
2:45 – 3:10 / Assessing the linkage between water and sediment quality
David W. Moore, Director, Applied Environmental Science Services, Weston Solutions
3:10 – 3:35 / The emergence of on site biological testing in environmental risk assessments
Bryan Bjorndal, CEO, Assure Controls
3:35 – 4:00 / Collaborations of the USGSCaliforniaWaterScienceCenter with the Hai He River Water Conservancy Commission, and the Ministry of Water Resourcessince 1996: Ground water and surface water studies
Joe Dmagalski, Research Hydrologist,USGS, Sacramento

4:00 – 5:30 Panel Discussion and Conclusion Remarks

Facilitators:

China – Min Yang, Professor and Director, The State Key Laboratory for Water Chemistry, ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences

U.S. - Li-Ming He, Environmental Scientist, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Cal/EPA;President, International Water Environmental Protection Association (IWEPA)

Panelists:U.S. - William Cooper (UCI), Betty Olson (UCI), Eric Reichard (USGS), Andrew Chang (UCR), Mirat Gurol (SDSU)

China - JiuHui Qu, Min Yang,Zhimin Qiang,Qiuwen Chen (ResearchCenter for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China)