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June 2018 President’S Letter Volume 53 No AEESP Newsletter Published three times yearly by the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors June 2018 President’s Letter Volume 53 No. 2 By LINDA WEAVERS The Ohio State University Dear AEESP Members: template the changing role of our field. Another 2 AEESP News initiative has been EES Spotlights that appear in Five years ago AEESP the AEESP newsletter (check out the one on p. 3 adopted Environmental 8 Member News in this newsletter) and in EES as an Editor’s Note. Engineering Science (EES) These Spotlights, authored by the EES editor-in- as its official journal. chief, EES deputy editor, and an AEESP publica- Adopting EES to be the tions committee member, draw attention to official journal of AEESP selected articles in EES. Approximately monthly, was not taken lightly. EES sends out an announcement to the listserv Prior to it being adopted, there were years of dis- with articles that are temporarily available for free cussion by the Board of Directors, an unofficial access. The articles selected are based on down- straw poll of the membership, and an official vote load rates among other indicators of their impact. Highlights and bylaws change. It culminated with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) be- As AEESP and EES just completed the first five tween AEESP and Mary Ann Liebert, the pub- years in their partnership, it is a good time to find President’s Letter PAGE 1 lisher of EES. This MOU is effective for five years out how we are doing. A survey put together by and automatically renews. members of the AEESP Board of Directors and Spotlight PAGE 3 Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor of EES The desire to affiliate with a journal was an out- is available on AEESP’s website at https:// New Faculty Appointments PAGE 5 come of an AEESP strategic planning exercise as aeesp.org/content/strengthening-ees-aeesp-rela- a means to increase AEESP’s global presence. tionship. The goal is the survey is to see how well E3S Awards PAGE 8 EES was the journal identified as it was a journal we are getting word out and to find out what op- without an affiliation and has a broad scope with portunities are ripe for further increasing the in- a breadth of interests represented by AEESP tegration of EES with AEESP as our official membership, including publishing educational journal. Your input is valuable to us, so please content and articles. In the September 2011 complete the survey when it comes out! AEESP Newsletter, Joel Burken, AEESP presi- Need to renew your 2018 dent at that time, discusses the potential affilia- Summer is a nice transition for most of us, allow- AEESP membership? tion with EES (https://aeesp.org/sites/default/ ing us to change focus away from university Go to “Membership > Online Renewal” files/publications/AEESPNL.46.3.2011.pdf). teaching and service and increase our focus on on the AEESP Website: other endeavors. Summer is also a time of tran- The EES-AEESP relationship has resulted in AEESP.org sition for the AEESP Board of Directors. We have many new initiatives. Most notably, Mary Ann three incoming members: Bill Arnold from the Liebert, publisher of EES, is sponsoring a new University of Minnesota, Helen Hsu-Kim from AEESP award, the Mary Ann Liebert Award for Duke University and Amy Pruden from Virginia Publication Excellence in Environmental Engi- Tech. These incoming members will bring a neering Science. This award is given to the au- AEESP Newsletter wealth of knowledge and experience to the Board thors of an outstanding paper published in EES of Directors. They will replace the thoughtful Submissions in the previous year. At least one author must be voices of Paige Novak from the University of an AEESP member to receive the award. Addi- Please send news, conference Minnesota and Greg Lowry from Carnegie Mel- tionally, there have been a number of special is- announcements, job postings, letters lon University and me. As Board of Directors, we sues guest-edited by AEESP members. A recent to the editor, and other contributions work to bring the voice of AEESP members with example is the AEESP Board of Directors en- us to meetings through our interaction with com- to the newsletter to Laura Arias dorsed special issue “Environmental Engineering mittees and issues our field is facing. Chavez at [email protected]. The Science in the 21st Century” edited by Peter next newsletter will appear in Vikesland. It was an outcome of the efforts to The upcoming transition also means it is my final October 2018. bring the AEESP community together to con- Continued on page 2 2 AEESP News AEESP Newsletter June 2018 newsletter as president. As I look back on the tions on our website (aeesp.org/committee-de- year, I am impressed with the variety of activities scriptions) to learn about all of the great work by occurring through our committees. Advocacy our committees. It is also a great start to see how was a particular focus this year. With concerns you can become active in AEESP. Having served over changes to the EPA Science Advisory four years on the Board of Directors, I thank you Boards, the Board formed a new committee, the for trusting me to lead this organization. I have Environmental Science and Policy Advisory great trust in our field, AEESP as an organization, AEESP Committee. In addition, an ad hoc committee and AEESP members! created an Advocacy Toolkit available as a tab on Linda Weavers our website. Check out the committee descrip- The AEESP Newsletter is published three times a year in February, June, and October 2017-2018 AEESP/EESF Student Video by the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. Issues Competition Announcement of Winners are published online at: AEESP’s Membership and Demographics Committee hosted the third annual AEESP/EESF Student www.aeesp.org/news Video Competition. The theme of this year’s Competition was “The Value of Water.” Each year, the Student Video Competition seeks to highlight environmental engineering and science Newsletter submissions, comments, and to increase awareness about the field and encourage young people to learn more about stewardship of letters to the editor may be sent to: water, land, air, mineral, and energy resources. The Competition was open to undergraduate and grad- uate students studying environmental engineering and science worldwide. Laura Arias Chavez Newsletter Editor Twelve teams from around the country submitted videos on a diverse set of topics. Judging was con- c/o AEESP Business Office ducted by a panel of environmental engineering and science faculty, as well as practicing 1211 Connecticut Avenue, NW engineers. Videos were evaluated based on originality and creativity, content accuracy, and potential Suite 650 to motivate middle and high school students to pursue a career in environmental engineering and Washington, DC 20036 science. Phone: 202-640-6591 The top three teams won prizes of $1,000, $750, and $500. Respectively, they were: [email protected]. “UIUC Water Warriors,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Water Access Through Education and Renewable Energy (WaterE) ,” Arizona State University Letters to the president may be sent to: “The Water Conservers,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Linda K. Weavers For their videos, three teams were awarded Honorable Mentions: Civil, Environmental, and “Hydro Studs,” University of Texas at El Paso Geodetic Engineering “The Knowledge Drops ,”University of Texas at El Paso The Ohio State University 470 Hitchcock Hall “UC Davis Stream Team #Video 2,” University of California, Davis 2070 Neil Avenue AEESP will distribute the prize awards to the winning teams at our Annual AEESP Awards Ceremony Columbus, OH 43210 on Monday, October 1st at WEFTEC in New Orleans. email: [email protected] The Membership and Demographics Committee would like to congratulate this year’s Competition winners and thank all the teams who participated! We hope that everyone enjoys these videos, and Please send address changes to: we encourage you to share them widely to promote the general public’s understanding of environmental engineering and science. They have also been uploaded to AEESP’s YouTube page. Brian Schorr AEESP Business Office 1211 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 650 Washington, DC 20036 phone: (202) 640-6591 email: [email protected] AEESP Membership Application online: www.aeesp.org/membership AEESP Newsletter June 2018 AEESP News 3 AEESP Journal Environmental Engineering Science Spotlight Susan J. Masten (Chair of the AEESP Publications Committee), Catherine A. Peters (EES Deputy Editor), Domenico Grasso (EES Editor-in-Chief) The “spotlight” column draws attention to selected articles in Environmental Engineering Science, the official journal of the Association of Environmental En- gineering and Science Professors (AEESP). Spotlight articles appear regularly in the journal as an Editor’s Note, as well as in the AEESP newsletter. Through publication of high-quality peer-reviewed research, the EES journal helps AEESP achieve its mission of developing and disseminating knowledge in envi- ronmental engineering and science. In this entry, we shine the spotlight on selected articles from the December 2017 issue through the March 2018 issue of EES. Congratulations to all whose work is highlighted. Liang, J.; Bing, C.; Xudong, Y.; Baiyu, Z. (2017) “Wastewater Treat- Richards, C.S.; Fei, W.; Becker, W.C.; Edwards, M.A. (2018) “A 21st Cen- ment Plant Network Design Using a Multi-scale Two-stage Mixed Integer tury Perspective on Calcium Carbonate Formation in Potable Water Sys- Stochastic (MSTMIS) Model” Environ. Eng. Sci. 34, 861. tems” Environ. Eng. Sci. 35, 143. The design of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) networks can be While the formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) has long been a concern complicated by the existence of uncertainties and the multiscale nature in potable water, it is re-emerging as an important issue due to climate change, of the planning process.
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