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HydroQual, Inc. Presentations at the 2009 SETAC North America 30th Annual Meeting
Friday, November 20th 2009
Session: Fate and Effects of Metals: GeneralSaturday, November 21, 2009
Session: BSAG: Relating laboratory and field bioaccumulation; importance of abiotic and biotic parameters, and use of trophic magnification factorsSunday, November 22, 2009
Session: Fate and Effects of Metals: BLMMonday, November 23, 2009
Session: Aquatic Toxicology - General - Part 2
Presentation at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science
Benjamin Wu made a presentation on A Modeling Approach to Exposure and Risk Assessment at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science in Beijing, China on October 26th 2009

WEF Microconstituents and Industrial Water Quality Conference 2009
HydroQual staff presented at the WEF Microconstituents and Industrial Water Quality Conference, July 26-29, 2009 in Baltimore, MD. Click here for more information.

WERF 2009
Thomas Gallagher was invited to speak at the Water Environment Research Foundation's August 11-12th event on the latest in phosphorus and bioavailability research using the Spokane River as a backdrop for the event. He discussed water quality/nutrient modeling in general but also specifically as it relates to HydroQual's work on the Spokane River TMDL Model for the City of Spokane. Click here for more information.

NCASI 2009 Southern Regional Meeting
At the National Council on Air and Stream Improvement's (NCASI) 2009 Southern Regional Meeting, June 23-25, in Chattanooga, TN, Tom Gallagher will present along with Jim Greenfield of EPA, Chet Thompson of Buckeye, and James Palumbo of NCASI - "Collaborative Approaches to TDML Development Third Party TMDL." This presentation will be available on this website after June 26th.

Thomas W. Gallagher receives the Distinguished Career Award
Tom Gallagher, Principal and a forty year staff member of HydroQual and HydroScience received the Distinguished Career Award at Manhattan College Environmental Engineering Alumni Club Annual Plumbers' Dinner on June 9 2009. A roast of Mr. Gallagher was part of the evening's events with most of the material being provided by James Fitzpatrick also a Principal at HydroQual and part of an unofficial but long standing comedy duo where Mr Gallagher is the straight man. Here is a photo from this event.

NCASI 2009 Northern Regional Meeting
At the National Council on Air and Stream Improvement's (NCASI) 2009 Northern Regional Meeting, May 19-21, in Stevens Point, WI, Andrew J. Thuman and Thomas Gallagher presented "TMDL Nutrient Issues". Click here for presentation.

Joseph G. Cleary receives Heukelekian Award
Joseph G. Cleary, PE, a Principal at HydroQual and a leader of the Process and Design Engineering Practice, received the HEUKELEKIAN AWARD from the New Jersey Water Environment Association at their 2009 Annual Conference. Click here for more information.

Sri Rangarajan Awarded Collaborative Research Fellowship
Sri Rangarajan was awarded a short term Collaborative Research Fellowship through the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on wet weather flow management in Japan. Click here for more information.

TREX Model at Colorada State University
Mark Velleux will be a Guest Instructor conducting a 4-day course on the TREX Model at Colorada State University in Fort Collins in June 2009. Click here for Course Outline.

NJWEA Conference - Industrial Water Quality Workshop - Spring 2009
HydroQual staff were presenters in the following sessions at the NJWEA Conference in Atlantic City, NJ from May 11th - May 14th 2009.

ASCE Met Section Infrastructure Group Seminar
Nicholas Kim will be presenting a paper at the ASCE Met Section Infrastructure Group Seminar Against the Deluge: Storm Surge Barriers to Protect New York City March 30, 2009;
"Hydrodynamics/GIS Simulation of Surge Flooding in the NY/NJ Harbor System". Click here for more information.

Town Hall Meeting on New Jersey's Water Infrastructure
Sri Rangarajan is chairing the "NJ Liquid Assets - The Story of our Water Infrastructure" outreach effort for ASCE.
Town hall meetings on New Jersey's Water Infrastructure will be held on March 17th and April 8th. Click here for more information.

Presentation at the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Solid Waste Techology and Management
Papers to be presented include "Landfill Leachate Plume Foresics Using Minor Ions" by Robert Mutch Jr., P.Hg, P.E. with Richard F. Carbonaro, Ph.D. and "Tritium in MSW Leachate, Gas, and Condensate: Sources, Risks, and Management" by Robert Mutch Jr., P.Hg, P.E. with John Mahoney, Ph.D.

Presentation at the NJWEA Technical Transfer Seminar
Joseph C. Cleary gave a presentation "Optimizing the Digestion Process to Maximize Methane, Power and Payback - A Discussion of Treatment, Co-Generation and the Evolving Methods of Paying Off the System" at the NJWEA Technical Transfer Seminar on March 3, 2009. Click here for a Powerpoint presentation.

HydroQual, Inc. Presentations at the WEFTEC Specialty Conference on UV Disinfection
The WEFTEC Disinfection Conference, held in Atlanta, GA. from February 28-March 3, 2009, provided a forum for professionals concerned with disinfection needs and technologies and focused on all aspects of the disinfection of water, wastewater, reuse water and biosolids. Papers authored or co-authored by HydroQual staff are listed below.
Protocol to Validate UV Reactors by Lagrangian Actinometry Using Dyed Microspheres
O. Karl Scheible, HydroQual, Inc.; Chengyue Shen, Ernest R. Blatchley, III, Eric Cox, Po-Shun Chan
Numerical Methods in Lagrangian Actinometry: Solving for a UV Reactors Dose Distribution
Ernest R. Blatchley, Purdue University; Eric Cox, Jin Xia, Bruce Craig, Chengyue Shen, O. Karl Scheible, Dominic M. Di Toro
Demonstrating 4-log Adenovirus Inactivation in a Medium Pressure UV Reactor
Karl G. Linden, University of Colorado at Boulder; O. Karl Scheible, Chengyue Shen, Gwy-Am Shin, Jung-Keun Lee, Phyllis Posy
Performance Validation of a UV Reactor for High and Low Dose Applications
Bertrand Dussert, Siemens Water Technologies Corp; James Donnellan, Chengyue Shen, O. Karl Scheible

HydroQual, Inc. Presentations at the New York Water Environment Association Annual Meeting
Monday, February 2, 2009 2:00 pm
Session 2: Wet Weather
Greenroof Stormwater Model
Anand Kumaraswamy, , P.E., William M. Leo, P.E., Danielle Hartman, Greg Loosevelt
Monday, February 2, 2009 1:30 pm
Session 3: Hudson River Quadricentennial
New Jersey Dischargers, Partners in the Estuary
Laurie De Rosa, Bridget McKenna
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:00 am
Session 18: TMDL/Water Pollution Control II
Watershed Stewardship in Puerto Rico: A Unique Approach
Richard Caspe, Andrew Thuman, P.E.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 10:30 am
Session 18: TMDL/Water Pollution Control II
Development of a Pathogen Allocation Tool for NY/NJ Harbor
Charles Dujardin, Anand Kumaraswamy, , P.E.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 2:30 pm
Session 19: Environmental Science
Landfill Plume Forensics using Minor Ions
Rich Carbonaro, Ph.D., Robert D. Mutch, Jr., P.E.

HydroQual, Inc. Presentations at the Fifth International Contaminated Sediment Conference
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Platform Session B1: Modeling for Site Characterization and Assessment
Chairs and Moderators: Kevin Farley, Ph.D., Edward Garland
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Platform Session B2: Sediment Dynamics: Stability and Transport
Cap Erosion and Flooding Analyses in the Lower Passaic River
Nicholas B. Kim, James F. Fitzpatrick, H. Li, T. Singh, C Zeiner, and S. Thompson

HydroQual, Inc. Presentations at the New England Water Environment Association 2009 Annual Conference
Development of A Regional Model to Predict the Impact of Unplanned Bacterial
Discharges
Charles Dujardin, Anand Kumaraswamy, , P.E.

Town Hall Meeting on New Jersey's Water Infrastructure
Patricia M. Kehrberger, a HydroQual Associate, had an article published in the January/February 2009 Newsletter of the Association of Environmental Authorities. The article, New Jersey Nutrients and Surface Water Quality Standards News: Management, Research, Enhancement Plan, SWQ5 Proposals, provides a summary of the information presented at a stakeholders meeting on the Nutrient Criteria Enhancement Plan and Surface Water Quality Standards run by the NJDEP’s Bureau of Water Quality Standards Assessment on January 22, 2009. Click here to read.