Join us for our 2020 AAEES Conference and Awards Ceremony. This year the event will be VIRTUAL so relax at your desk for a couple of hours while you learn about the best of the best in environmental engineering and science. Prepare to be impressed by the innovation that your colleagues have employed in developing solutions for the thorniest problems.

Date: Thursday October 15, 2020 | Time: 12 pm to 2 pm EST

2 PDHs will be earned for attending!

Agenda

• Introduction from AAEES President Dr. James W. Patterson, BCEEM
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell: Climate, Oceans, and Human Health – What Cholera can Teach Us About COVID-19
• AAEES Awards Announcements
• E3S Awards Announcements
• Communication Awards Announcements
• Superior Achievement Award Winner Presentation: LACSD
• Conclusion from AAEES President-Elect Dr. Lilia A. Abron, P.E., BCEE

Keynote Speaker

We will kick off our virtual event with our keynote speaker, a 2018 AAEES Honorary Member, Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell. Dr. Colwell's presentation is entitled: "Climate, Oceans, and Human Health - what Cholera can teach us About COVID-19."

Dr. Colwell is the Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; Global Science Officer and Chairman at CosmosID, Inc.; and Senior Advisor and Chairman Emeritus at Canon U.S. Life Sciences.

Dr. Rita Colwell's interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and Dr. Colwell developed an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world, in collaboration with Safe Water Network, headquartered in New York City.

Awards

We will be announcing the winning entries in the 2020 Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science (E3S), Environmental Communications (EComm) awards.

In addition, we will be honoring the following outstanding individuals in environmental engineering and environmental science who have made significant contributions to the profession and to the people and communities they serve:

Also to be announced are the W. Brewster Snow Award, W. Wesley Eckenfelder Graduate Student Research Award, Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Education Award, and the Paul F. Boulos Excellence in Computational Hydraulics/Hydrology Award.

Superior Achievement Presentation

To close out our event, our Superior Achievement Award winner, Los Angeles County Sanitation District, will be discussing their Tulare Lake Compost Project: Attaining Sustainability in a Nonattainment Area. In this presentation, the project leaders will discuss the engineering challenges -supported by scientific research - that brought the facility to its present operating status. Equally as important is how the project team are planning to move forward to achieve higher throughput while maintaining compliance with environmental regulations that meet both state and Federal mandates.

We hope you can join us!