AREAS OF INTEREST

Environmental Systems Analysis. Mathematical modeling; analysis of uncertainty in environmental simulation models; protocols for model validation; model structure identification, structural error, and structural change; environmental foresight and forecasting environmental change; signal processing, filtering theory, recursive estimation, and time-series analysis. Engineering Process Control. Instrumentation, control and automation of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities; microbial ecosystem control; risk, process reliability, and transient pollution events; high-performance integrated control (H-PIC) of urban wastewater infrastructures; operational watershed management. Policy and Technology Review. Sustainable cities and their wastewater infrastructures; future trends in technologies of environmental protection; strategic issues in Engineering for Sustainable Development; market mechanisms and pollutant trading; adaptive community learning.