WET - Water & Environmental Technologists

Past Activities:

1999

• Field Tour-USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center
  Date: February 18, 1999
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  
• MU Engineers' Week Lab Exhibits
  Date: March 4, 1999
  Location: Columbia, MO
  Activities: Environmental engineering laboratories tour, WET poster presentation, and Water tasting contest
  
  
• AWWA Satellite Teleconference: "Operations and Maintenance: Tools and Techniques to Protect Water Quality in the Distribution System"
  Date: March 11, 1999
  Location: Jefferson City, MO
  
  
• Missouri WEA Annual Conference
  Date: March 27-30, 1999
  Location: Osage Beach, MO
  
  
• Missouri AWWA Annual Conference
  Date: April 6-9, 1999
  Location: Kansas City, MO
  
  
• Hazardous Waste Research Annual Conference
  Date: May 24-28, 1999
  Locatio: St. Louis, MO
  
  
• EPA Conference: "Subsurface Remediation: Improving Long-Term Monitoring & Remedial Systems Performance"
  Date: June 8-11, 1999
  Location: St. Louis, MO
  
  
• American Water Works Association Annual Conference and Exposition
  Date: June 20-24, 1999
  Location: Chicago, IL
  
  
• The USEPA 6th National Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment Technology Transfer Workshop
  Date: August 2-4, 1999
  Location: Kansas City, MO
  
  
• Missouri Water and Wastewater Conference
  Date: September 21-23, 1999
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  
• WEF Annual Conference
  Date: October 9-13, 1999
  Location: New Orleans, LS
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Missouri Groundwater Virus Study
  Speaker: Mr. Ken Duzan, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Public Drinking Section, Jefferson City, MO
  Date: October 14, 1999
  Location: Rm. N 222/223 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• The Fourth Annual Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference
  Date: October 22-23, 1999
  Location: Rolla, MO
  
  
• AWWA Water Quality Technology Conference
  Date: October 31-November 4, 1999
  Location: Tampa, FL
  
  
• AWWA Satellite Teleconference: "The New Disinfection By-Product and Surface Water Treatment Rules: Operational Issues and Treatment Strategies"
  Date: November 9, 1999
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  

1998

• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Columbia Water Plant Expansion
  Speaker: John Betz, Superintendent, Columbia Water Plant, Columbia, Missouri
  Date: February 12, 1998
  Location: Rm. S16 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• Missouri WEA 69th Annual Meeting
  Date: March 8-10, 1998
  Location: Lake Ozark, MO
  
  
• MU Engineers' Week Lab Exhibits
  Date: March 19, 1998
  Location: Columbia, MO
  Activities: Environmental engineering laboratories tour, WET poster presentation, Water tasting contest, and Environmental quiz.
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Overview of Risk Assesment
  Speaker: Dr. Jake Joyce, USEPA Region VII - Kansas City, KS
  Date: March 12, 1998
  Location: Rm. S16 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• Advanced Water Treatment Workshop
  Topic: Inorganic Contaminants in Water Systems
  Date: March 26, 1998
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Implications of Drinking Water Quality Regulations
  Speaker: Jerry Lane, Head, Public Drinking Water Division, Missouri Department of Natural Resurces
  Date: April 9, 1998
  Location: Rm. S16 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• Missouri AWWA Annual Conference
  Date: April 14-17, 1998
  Location: Lake Ozark, MO
  
  
• USEPA 5th National Wastewater Treatment Technology Transfer Workshop
  Date: May 18-20, 1998
  Location: Kansas City, MO
  
  
• National AWWA Conference
  Date: June 21-25, 1998
  Location: Dallas, TX
  
  
• Graduation Party for Katja Konavec- BBQ and Tennis Games
  Date: August 28, 1998
  Location: Cosmo Park in Columbia, MO
  
  
• Missouri Water and Wastewater Conference, 74th Annual Meeting
  Date: September 30 - October 1, 1998
  Location: Jefferson City, MO
  
  
• National WEF Conference (WEFTEC)
  Date: October 3-7, 1998
  Location: Orlando, FL
  
  
• USEPA Seminar-Monitored Natural Attenuation for Groundwater and Field Trip to Water/Wastewater Treatmen
  Date: October 14-15, 1998
  Location: Kansas City, MO
  
  
• The Third Annual Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference
  Date: October 30-31, 1998
  Location: St. Louis, MO
  
  
• Farm Tour
  Date: November 14, 1998
  Location: Holiday, MO
  Activities: Tour in a local farm to see herbicide application, livestock waste management and pollution prevention and protection, and BBQ in Mark Twain Lake
  

1997

• WET T-Shirt Design Contest
  Design criteria: depiction of water/nature symbolic with name, 3 colors maximum (silk-screen whit blend T's), single image or 2-color back w/front lettering (include: UMC, WET, 1997)
  Prizes: All entries receive either free T-shirts or memberships to AWWA or WEF. The 1st place will be awarded with a $50-gift certificate to Missouri Wilderness Co.
  Deadline: Please submit entries by 03/07/97 in SOAC mailbox WET357 at Brady Commons or at Engineering Building East, Room W1075. Please call Mike, Scott or Jeff at (573)882-5804 for any questions.
  
  
• MU Engineers' Week Lab Exhibits
  Date: February 27, 1997
  Location: Columbia, MO
  Activities: Environmental engineering laboratories tour, WET poster presentation, and Water tasting contest.
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Applications of Reverse Burn Gasification for Hazardous Waste Treatment
  Speaker: Dr. Rhys N. Thomas, President of Fayette Environmental Services, Inc.
  Date: March 6, 1997
  Location: Rm. S203 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• Missouri WEA 68th Annual Meeting
  Date: March 9-11, 1997
  Location: Osage Beach, MO
  
  
• Advanced Water Treatment Workshop
  Topic: Continuous Process Measurements in Drinking Water Systems
  Date: March 27, 1997
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Anatomy of a Remediation Project - Lessons Learned
  Speaker: Tom Buechler, Black & Veatch
  Date: April 3, 1997
  Location: Rm. S16 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• Missouri AWWA Annual Conference
  Date: April 15-18, 1997
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  
• Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Field Trip
  Date: April 24-25, 1997
  Location: Springfield, MO
  
  
• Earth Day Activities
  Date: April 27, 1997
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  
• The 4th Annual Symposium of Insitu and Onsite Bioremediation Conference
  Date: April 28 - May 1, 1997
  Location: New Orleans, LA
  
  
• National Satellite Videoconference: "Source Protection of Drinking Water Supplies"
  Date: May 14, 1997
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  
• The Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Conference
  Date: May 20-22, 1997
  Location: Kansas City, MO
  
  
• National AWWA Conference
  Date: June 15-19, 1997
  Location: Atlanta, GA
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: E. coli in the Environment
  Speaker: Robert J. Kremer, Microbiologist, USDA-ARS-CSWQRU and Associate Professor of Soil Science, MU
  Date: September 11, 1997
  Location: Rm. S203 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• The Second Annual Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference
  Date: September 13, 1997
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Solid Waste Management Planning for Wichita, Kansas -- A Case Study
  Speaker: Tom Brown, Burns & McDonnell Waste Consultants, Inc.
  Date: October 9, 1997
  Location: Rm. S203 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• National WEF Conference (WEFTEC)
  Date: October 18-22, 1997
  Location: Chicago, IL
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Component Design of Sanitary Landfills
  Speaker: Lee Tharp, President of Midwest Environmental Consultants
  Date: November 13, 1997
  Location: Rm. S203 Memorial Union, MU campus
  

1996

• The HSRC/WERC Joint Conference on the Environment
  Date: May 20-24, 1996
  Location: Albuquerque, NM
  
  
• Field Trip to Clarence Cannon Water Treatment Plant and Camping at Mark Twin Lake
  Date: July 26-28, 1996
  Location: Mark Twin Lake, MO
  
  
• The First Annual Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference
  Date: September 27-28, 1996
  Location: Rolla, MO
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Groundwater Remediation Using Passive Adsorption Techniques
  Speaker: William Lindsey, Senior Project Manager, SCS Engineering
  Date: September 12, 1996
  Location: Rm. S203 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Innovative Groundwater Cleanup via Directional Drilling/in Situ-Air Stripping
  Speaker: William Lee, P.E., US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District
  Date: October 10, 1996
  Location: Rm. S203 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• Alpine Tower Team Work
  Date: October 13, 1996
  Location: Columbia, MO
  
  
• WET's Welcome Party for Fall 1996
  Date: October 19, 1996 start at noon
  Location: Antimi Youth Baseball Complex and Dexheimer Shelter, Cosmo Park
  Activities: softball game, BBQ, horseshoe tournament
  
  
• Festival for the Earth
  Date: November 9, 1996 10:00AM-4:00PM
  Location: The Columbia Expo Center
  Activities: The trade show will feature educational activities, vendor booths, environmental entertainment and environmentally oriented seminars and workshops.
  
  
• The Fall Board Meeting of the Missouri Water & Wastewater Conference
  Date: November 13, 1996 start at 9:15 AM
  Location: Columbia Water Treatment Plant
  
  
• Dr. Ira Whitman's 1996 Kappe Lecture Series - " Engineering the Remediation of Brownfield Sites "
  Date: November 13, 1996 7:30 PM
  Location: University of Missouri-Kansas City campus
  
  
• MU Environmental Engineering Seminar
  Topic: Water Pollution Research at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
  Speaker: Carl Orazio, Research Chemist, Midwest Science Center
  Date: November 14, 1996
  Location: Rm. S203 Memorial Union, MU campus
  
  
• Missouri Water Operator Training Seminar
  Date: November 19, 1996 8:00AM-4:30PM
  Location: 1709 S. Prospect Macon, MO (MDNR Office)
  Topics: overview of disinfection, disinfection and DBP monitoring techniques, chlorine safety, disinfection equipment overview and maintenance, and DNR regulatory update.