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Welcome to EVEN 1000 Introduction to Environmental Engineering

Welcome to EVEN 1000 Introduction to Environmental Engineering. Prof. Joe Ryan Engineering Center OT 517 joseph.ryan@colorado.edu 303 492 0772. Today’s Outline. Your instructor The course (via the web) A review of the readings Quiz. Your Instructor. Grew up in NJ

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Welcome to EVEN 1000 Introduction to Environmental Engineering

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  1. Welcome to EVEN 1000Introduction toEnvironmental Engineering Prof. Joe Ryan Engineering Center OT 517 joseph.ryan@colorado.edu 303 492 0772

  2. Today’s Outline • Your instructor • The course (via the web) • A review of the readings • Quiz

  3. Your Instructor • Grew up in NJ • (exit 14 off the Turnpike)

  4. Your Instructor • Higher Education • B.S., 1983, Geological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ • M.S., 1988,Ph.D., 1992, Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  5. Your Instructor • University of Colorado • 1992, Post-doc • 1993, Assistant Professor • 2000, Associate Professor • 2004, Professor

  6. Your Instructor • Affiliations • Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering • Environmental Engineering Program (EVEN) • Environmental Studies Program (ENVS) • Center of the American West • Center for Science and Technology Policy Research

  7. Your Instructor • Teaching • EVEN 1000 • CVEN 3454 Water Chemistry • CVEN 4424/5424 Aquatic Organic Contaminants • EVEN 4830/ENVS 5100 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Abandoned Mine Remediation • CVEN 6414 Aquatic Surfaces and Particles

  8. Your Instructor • Research • contaminant transport in natural waters • colloids • microbes • mercury • metals from abandoned mines • ORVs

  9. Your Instructor • Family • Martha, Odelia (7), and Henry (6)

  10. Your Instructor • What I did this summer…

  11. The Course • And now, back to your regularly scheduled course… EVEN 1000

  12. First Reading • Silent Spring • Rachel Carson • 1962 • DDT

  13. Rocky Mountain Arsenal

  14. Arsenal

  15. Arsenal

  16. Second Reading • Our Stolen Future • Colburn, Dumanoski, and Myers, 1996 • endocrine-disrupting compounds • “gender-bending” • web site: Our Stolen Future • counter web site: Science Without Sense

  17. Third Reading • Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American Town • Gillian Klucas, 2004 • mining history • EPA • remediation

  18. Leadville

  19. Fourth Reading • Engineering, Ethics, and the Environment • P. Aarne Vesilind • environmental engineer, Bucknell • Alastair Gunn • philosopher, Waikato University, New Zealand • 1996

  20. First Writing Assignment • “Why Environmental Engineering?” • 150-250 words • 12 point font, 1” margins • submit electronically (email) • any aspect of this topic • choice as a major • choice as a class • possible interest • …

  21. Quiz Whose license plate is this? Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Director of Research, Masry & Vititoe, Environmental Lawyers

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