UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic partner of the Emerging Contaminants Summit taking place in Westminster, Colorado on March 1-2, 2016. The Summit aims to comprehensively address mitigating the presence of contaminants across all environmental media including surface water, groundwater, drinking water, wastewater, recycled water, soils and sediments.

UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Shaily Mahendra serves on the Emerging Contaminants Summit’s Scientific Advisory Board and will deliver a keynote presentation, “Nanoparticles in Water: Emerging Contaminants or Treatment Agents“.

Four UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate students from Dr. Mahendra’s group will also present posters at the Summit:

Michelle Myers, M.S. Student: Bioaugmented Granular Activated Carbon Treatment of 1,4-Dioxane and CVOCs
Nancy Tseng, Ph.D. Candidate: Fungal Transformation of 6:2 Fluorotelomer alcohol (6:2 FTOH): Peroxidases vs. P450 Oxygenases
Meng Wang, Ph.D. Candidate: Vault Nanoparticles Packaged with Enzymes as an Innovative Contaminant Biodegradation Technology
Shu Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate: The Impact of Hexavalent Chromium on 1,4-Dioxane Biodegradation by Propane Oxidizing Bacteria

Interested in attending or want to learn more? Visit http://www.contaminantssummit.com/.