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Warmer waters, heavier storms and nutrient pollution are a triple threat to the Great Lakes cities drinking water. The solution of cutting nutrient releases and installing systems to filter runoff should be implemented. The Great Lakes together hold 20% of the world’s surface freshwater that provides drinking water to over 48 million people. The Great Lakes poorest quality was in the 1970’s, and the best quality was in the 1990’s. Since the 1990’s climate change has increased precipitation carrying growing quantities of nutrient runoff into Lake Erie triggering Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB).
Control of the epidemic requires action at the individual, community, and population levels. CDC has provided
state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments with extensive detailed guidance on contact tracing,
infection control, and a wide range of other prevention and control topics. Recent models suggest that asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission and delays in case recognition can greatly reduce the effectiveness
of contact tracing.
We are proud to announce a new member benefit: the launch of The RAPID Review. This recurring report is available only to members and summarizes the progress of RAPID research projects. The report was inspired by our members, many of whom expressed an interest in more visibility into the research...
RAPID is developing a new student design competition known as the ChemE Cube. This student design competition would challenge students to create a modular chemical process using a non-toxic chemistry that changes annually in a one-foot cube.
Dr. Steele is the Technical Executive at the Electric Power Research Institute in Charlotte, NC, USA of the Combined-Cycle Turbomachinery program (P79). He is involved all aspects regarding industrial gas turbine research and development including hot section/combustor life cycle, compressor/turbine rotor life extension and durability, and combustor monitoring, tuning, and turndown. His expertise is in the area of fuels, combustion fundamentals, and gas turbine combustor design optimization with particular interest in carbon-free fuels, combustion driven pressure dynamics,...Read more
Aijie Wang obtained her doctoral degree from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in environmental engineering in 2000. Currently, she is a professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and the Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences (RCEES), CAS. She served as the Deputy Director of National Engineering Laboratory for Wastewater Treatment and Head of Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology at RCEES, CAS. Dr. Wang is specialized in water pollution control and resource recovery, which includes bio-based technology for highly efficient wastewater treatment and water...Read more
Dr. Su Shiung Lam holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, and is currently a tenured Associate Professor and the Deputy Director of International Centre under the Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and International) of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. Lam serves a number of positions via his appointment as Visiting Professor of Henan Agricultural University (China), Associate Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy, and his affiliation as member of Applied Energy UNILAB: Conversion of Energy and Biochar from Biomass/Solid Waste (EB2W), and International...Read more
