Volume 33, No.  2    Published three times yearly by AEEP                    April 1998
								The President's Corner Zen and the Art of Environmental Engineering   hile out driving in the hills around State College, I stopped into a gas station for directions.  I thought to ask the question, "Where am I?" but the attendant asked the more useful question, "Where are you going?"  It was much the same situation at the NSF Workshop, Environmental Engineering (EnvE) Frontiers, held at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California in January of this year.  I stood before the greatest contemporary minds in EnvE: 10 members of the National Academy of Engineers (NAE), four truly outstanding members of AEEP, and the director of the EnvE program at NSF, Ed Bryan.  Prior to the meeting, we had collected our thoughts around several questions, one of which was to define EnvE as a discipline.  Within minutes, we collectively agreed not to focus on the question of where we were, but rather to ask the more relevant one: "Where should we be going?" What are the EnvE frontiers? The discussions surrounding this and other questions was lively and exciting.  Jim Morgan conveyed the image of a frontier as something that is unknown, and therefore, perhaps not definable.  But practically, a frontier can be chosen just based on a need, or desire, when it requires that we explore an unknown area of science or engineering to solve pressing environmental problems.  During the Frontiers meeting, we were able to reach agreement, if not consensus, on new frontiers in EnvE.  Although we have not yet finalized our collective report, it is my hope that this report will stimulate similar, lively and productive conversations among the EnvE community. Although I don't expect that anyone will drop what they are doing and head off to a new "Frontier," it is hoped that the Workshop findings will provide direction and perspective to other EnvEs in their journeys.  While on these journeys, I hope that you will take time to see in all directions, that is, to look at the past to help recognize the accomplishments of your fellow AEEP members.  There are two awards for which we desperately need nominations:  the Outstanding Paper Award, and the Founders' Award.  It should be easy to come up with a list of papers and names for these two awards.  For inspiration, look over to that filing cabinet in your office crammed with research articles and think for two minutes about those papers that influenced you the most or were most useful in your teaching and research.  Then take a few more minutes to e-mail the title and names on those papers to Marc Edwards (edwardsm@vt.edu). The Founders' Award has been given out in the past to some of the original founding members of AEEP, but it is not limited to this group.  The Founders' Award honors an individual who has made sustained and outstanding contributions to environmental engineering education.  Perhaps while you are commuting home you can take a few minutes and identify those people whose activities impressed you and who would deserve this honor. The AEEP awards committee is also developing the criteria for two new awards, one based on a current research paper and another centered more on the efforts of teaching.  Awards like these do more than just puff up a person's ego.  They send a message to our administrators and our (Continued on page 2)
		"AEEP must continue to investigate new ways to help the EnvE academic community, and...to establish itself more as an international and interdisciplinary society."
		In this issue... News and   Announcements.......... 3 In Memoriam................. 4 Organizations of   Interest........................ 6 Employment   Opportunities.............. 8 Book Reviews.............. 10 Conferences................. 13 Publications................. 14 Application for   Membership.............. 15

			(Continued from page 1) universities that the work being done by an EnvE is important and appreciated.  And you can't have too many awards.  Short of winning the Nobel (which is not offered in our field), no award can really make up for all those extra hours late at night, or early in the morning, when time was found to get that extra work done. So please take the time to honor the work of your fellow AEEP members for their achievements, efforts, and dedication to our profession by nominating some of them for these awards. As an organization, AEEP must continue to investigate new ways to help the EnvE academic community, and I believe, to establish itself more as an international and interdisciplinary society.  I have had some feedback on the proposals to expand the scope of AEEP from North America to the global community, and a name change of AEEP to AEESP (or other variations), and almost all of it is positive.  Harvey Ludwig wrote a letter to me expressing his support of more international activities, suggesting further that we form a committee called "AEEP Internationalism."  It is his belief that we ought to take greater leadership in addressing environmental problems in developing countries.  Tom Keinath, Dean of the College of Engineering & Science at Clemson and President of IAWQ, wrote to express his support of a name change and opening our full membership status to faculty outside of North America [although he requested that such activity be closely coordinated with the Environmental Engineering Education (E3) Specialist Group of the IAWQ].  In the coming months, AEEP committees will be exploring how we can improve interactions and relationships of AEEP with our Sustaining Members and with AAEE on encouraging publications related to EnvE courses and on setting priorities for needed publications.  We will also be busy organizing and planning the next Research Conference, which will be held here at Penn State in the summer of 1999. The conference will have a theme that will build on the EnvE Frontiers workshop, but it will also include an education component (likely through a teaching workshop). As always, please let me or another AEEP board member know if you are interested in participating in these or other committees. Thinking about EnvE frontiers, journeys into the new millennium, and the activities of our 750 AEEP members is heady stuff for all of us.  Perhaps we should recall in our journey Robert Pirsig's message in  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, to enjoy the trip and not just take the shortest path to our destination.  I hope that we can all find the time to enjoy both our journeys as well as our destinations, as we move into new EnvE frontiers.    --Bruce Logan, Penn State University
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	AEEP News and Announcements
		AEEP/WEFTEC '98 Scientists' Luncheon By popular demand, this year's lunch meeting will be held in conjunction with the WEF Scientists' Luncheon.  Dr. Thomas Fontaine of the South Florida Water Management District has agreed to be the speaker for the WEF/AEEP Scientists' Luncheon at WEFTEC '98 in Orlando on Monday, October 5.  Dr. Fontaine will provide an overview of the scientific, engineering, and political issues related to current activities and emerging plans for restoration and management of the Florida Everglades.  Dr. Fontaine has been Director of the SFWMD Everglades Systems Research Division since 1992.k     1998 J.M. Montgomery/AEEP Master's Thesis Awards The annual call for nominations for the 1998 J.M. Montgomery/AEEP Master's Thesis Awards is underway.  Faculty are encouraged to submit Master's theses that contribute to the advancement of Environmental Engineering  for consideration for the 1998 J.M. Montgomery/AEEP Master Thesis awards.  Theses completed in 1997 or early 1998 are eligible.  Three copies of the thesis should be submitted by the faculty advisor along with a short letter of transmittal that includes the student's current address.  The theses will not be returned so inexpensively copied (double sided if possible!!) and bound versions are suggested.  Faculty are urged to nominate no more than one thesis, and self-nominations by students will not be accepted.  Theses will be reviewed for their scientific and technical merit, originality, contribution to the advancement of environmental engineering, and clarity of presentation.  Cash prizes and plaques will be made to the top two students and their advisors [$600/$300 (student/advisor) for first and $400/$200 for second place awards].  Please submit nominations as soon as possible to: Dr. Susan E. Powers, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, W.J. Rowley Laboratories, Clarkson University, Potsdam NY 13699-5710.  Any questions regarding this award or procedures for nominating students can be addressed to Susan Powers via email at sep@draco.clarkson.edu.J
							Correction: Steve Randtke, not Marc Edwards, is the current AWWA representative on the AEEP Liaison Committee.  We received a correction just after sending out the January issue.
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	In Memoriam
		[Editor's note:  The following was published recently in the Journal of Environmental Engineering and is reprinted here with the kind permission of ASCE.]
		Donald J. O'Connor (1922-1997):  Historic Teacher and Scholar of Environmental Engineering
			Environmental Engineering has a history, the roots of which extend many decades into the past, the fruits of which are given to us today through the efforts of our teachers and scholars.  Donald J. O'Connor, who died on April 18, 1997 at the age of 74, is a man who placed into our field the deep roots of exceptional teaching and scholarship, intimately bound with personal love and concern for students and colleagues.     Dr. O'Connor's teaching was legendary at Manhattan College where, for more than forty years, he combined a remarkably clear exposition with an infectious excitement and enthusiasm for Environmental Engineering.  How many of his students marveled at the world that was opened to them in Environmental Engineering through his teaching, research, and practical experience, and then followed him into the profession.  His legacy as a teacher of so many of the members of our profession will stand as a unique achievement.     Dr. O'Connor's work in mathematical modeling of water quality will always stand next to that of the great researchers and practitioners in our field:  Streeter, Phelps, Camp, Fair, to name a few.  The insights gained through carefully constructed analytical models of water quality processes, developed long before the advent of modern computers, and the steadfast insistence on comparison of model to observed data--the necessity of which needs to be conveyed even more today than ever before--are hallmarks of his work.  His Ph.D. thesis produced what is now known as the O'Connor-Dobbins reaeration formula which eliminated one of the two unknown parameters in the Streeter-Phelps model of dissolved oxygen in streams.  His work in streams:  the addition of the photosynthetic source, which introduced the Fourier series solution, and nitrification and benthic sinks, extended the range of applicability of the Streeter-Phelps model. But his most lasting accomplishment was his solution to the estuary problem: how to apply the Streeter-Phelps framework to what appeared to be a hopelessly complex physical setting that included tidal motion, stratification and irregular geometry, to name a few.  His solution was to model the slack water distributions and represent longitudinal mixing using a dispersion coefficient.  This was vintage O'Connor--an insightful manipulation of the data (slack time concentrations translated to mean tide positions) combined with an intuitive leap to a mathematical model (tidal- and density-driven mixing modeled as a dispersion coefficient).  That 1960 paper in the Sanitary Engineering Journal was the beginning of modern water quality modeling.  It was followed by eutrophication modeling in the 1970's and toxic chemical modeling in the 1980's.  Finally, the work from his last
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	Dr. Donald O'Connor's work published in the Journal of Environmental Engineering and the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering:     O'Connor, D. J., & Dobbins, W. W. (1958). Mechanism of reaeration in natural streams. Trans. ASCE, 123, 641-684. O'Connor, D. J. (1960). Oxygen balance of an estuary.  J. Sanit. Engrg. Div., ASCE, 86 (SA3), 35-55.  O'Connor, D. J. (1965). Estuarine distribution of non-conservative substances.  J. Sanit. Engrg. Div., ASCE, 91 (SA1), 23-42. O'Connor, D. J., St. John, J. P., & Di Toro, D. M. (1968). Water quality analysis of the Delaware River Estuary.  J. Sanit. Engrg. Div., ASCE, 94 (SA6), 1225-1252.  O'Connor, D. J., & Muller, J. A. (1970). Water quality model of chlorides in the Great Lakes.  J. Sanit. Engrg. Div., ASCE, 96 (SA4), 955-976. O'Connor, D. J., & Di Toro, D. M. (1970). Photosynthesis and oxygen balance in streams.  J. Sanit. Engrg. Div., ASCE, 96 (SA2), 547-571.  Thomann, R. V., Di Toro, D. M., & O'Connor, D. J. (1974). Preliminary Model of Potomac Estuary Phytoplankton.  J. Envir.  Engrg., ASCE, 100 (2), 699-715. O'Connor, D. J., & Lung, W.S. (1981). Suspended solids analysis of estuarine systems.  J. Envir. Engrg., ASCE, 107 (1), 101-120.  O'Connor, D. J., Mueller, J. A., & Farley, K. J. (1983). Distribution of Kepone in the James River Estuary.  J. Envir. Engrg., ASCE, 109 (2), 396-413. O'Connor, D. J. (1983). Wind effects on gas-liquid transfer coefficients.  J. Envir. Engrg., ASCE, 109 (3), 731-752. O'Connor, D. J., & Mueller, J. A. (1984). Water quality analysis of New York Harbor Complex.  J. Envir. Engrg., ASCE, 110 (6), 1027-1047.  Lung, W.S., & O'Connor, D. J. (1984). Two-dimensional mass transport in Estuaries.  J. Hydr. Engrg., ASCE, 110 (10), 1340-1357.  O'Connor, D. J. (1988). Models of Sorptive Toxic Substances in Freshwater Systems. I: Basic Equations.  J. Envir. Engrg., ASCE, 114 (3), 507-532. O'Connor, D. J. (1988). Models of Sorptive Toxic Substances in Freshwater Systems. II: Lakes and Reservoirs.  J. Envir. Engrg., ASCE, 114 (3), 533-551. O'Connor, D. J. (1988). Models of Sorptive Toxic Substances in Freshwater Systems. III: Streams and Rivers.  J. Envir. Engrg., ASCE, 114 (3), 552-574.  O'Connor, D. J. (1989). Seasonal and long term variations of dissolved solids in lakes and reservoirs.  J. Envir. Engrg., ASCE, 115 (6), 1213-1234. Blumberg, A. F., Galperin, B., & O'Connor, D. J. (1992). Modeling vertical structure of open-channel flows.  J. Hydr. Engrg., ASCE, 118 (8), 1119-1134.  O'Connor, D. J. (1995). Inner region of smooth pipes and open channels.  J. Hydr. Engrg., ASCE, 121 (7), 555-560. O'Connor, D. J. (1998). Chemical reaction and gas transfer in natural waters.  J. Envir. Engrg., ASCE, 124 (2), 85-93.
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	Organizations of Interest
		AWRA elects new President Dr. N. Earl Spangenberg, College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has been elected President of the American Water Resources Association for 1998.  Spangenberg received a B.S. in Forest Management from Oregon State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Watershed Management from Colorado State University.  He currently teaches physical water resources and forestry courses at the University of Wisconsin. AWRA awards and scholarships AWRA has selected the first two recipients of scholarships from its Richard A. Herbert Memorial Education Scholarship Fund out of 20 applications received from around the country.  Sharla Benjamin Lovern at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is the recipient of the undergraduate scholarship.  Suzanne P. Wechsler at the State University of New York is the graduate scholarship recipient.  AWRA requests applications for the 1998-99 Richard A. Herbert Memorial Scholarships. Two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded, one to a full-time undergraduate student and one to a full-time graduate student.  Candidates must be enrolled in a water resources program for the 1998-99 academic year.  For more information, contact Stephen Dickman, phone (715) 355-3684; e-mail stdi@ltus.com. AWRA  presented the following awards at its 33rd Annual Conference in Long Beach, California: The William C. Ackermann Medal for Excellence in Water Management was presented to Peter G. Hubbell, Principal, Water Resources Associates, Inc., Tampa, Florida, for his exemplary water management practices in the State of Florida. Selected as Fellow Members of the Association were D. Briane Adams and Michael J. Sale for their outstanding contributions to water resources.  The Icko Iben Award was presented to Alan P. Covich, Director, Dept. of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, for his efforts in fostering dialogue among disciplines concerned with water resources.  The William R. Boggess Award for the "Outstanding Paper in the Association's Journal, the Water Resources Bulletin," was given to Warren A. Gebert and William R. Krug for their paper, "Stormflow Trends in Wisconsin's Driftless Area," published in August 1996.  The President's Award for Outstanding Service was presented to Jeffrey T. Armbruster in recognition of his outstanding contributions to AWRA.  The CAHABA/WARRIOR Student Chapter at the University of Alabama was selected as the Outstanding Student Chapter for 1997 and the Florida State Section was selected as the Outstanding State Section for 1997. Search the IronRefs database				For folks interested in zero-valent metals for use in treatment walls, the old list of references on groundwater remediation with zero-valent metals has been updated and converted to a searchable database.  The new location is <http://cgr.ese.ogi.edu/ironrefs/>.  It's now a much more powerful resource, allowing searches by author, year, title, keywords, etc.  The results may be sorted by author or year.  Return everything in the database or just the latest additions, and more. The total number of entries is now over 200.  For more information, contact Paul G. Tratnyek, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, Oregon. AAAR Annual Meeting The American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) is a nonprofit professional organization for scientists and engineers who wish to promote and communicate technical advances in the field of aerosol research.  The 1998 AAAR Annual Meeting will be held June 22-26 in Cincinnati.  This meeting is the primary activity of the Association and also the activity of greatest potential interest to the AEEP.  This has become a major conference with international representation that includes research papers presented in platform and poster sessions as well as workshops, tutorials, plenary overview papers, and an awards program.  AEEP members interested in more information about the annual meeting or the Association should contact the American Association for Aerosol Research, 1330 Kemper Meadow Drive, Suite 600, Cincinnati, Ohio 45240-1634.  Information can also be obtained at  <http://www.aaar. org/aaar>. The Association fosters the exchange of information among members and with other disciplines through conferences, symposia, and the publication of a professional journal, Aerosol Science and Technology.  AAAR was founded in 1982 by David Ensor, Sheldon Friedlander, Benjamin Liu, and David Shaw.  In recent years, the membership has grown to over 800. ACS National Meeting AEEP will be hosting a reception at the ACS National Meeting in Boston August 23-27.  In concert with this reception, Alan Stone of Johns Hopkins and Janet Hering of the California Institute of Technology are organizing a symposium entitled  "Research and Education Challenges in Environmental Chemistry."  This symposium should be of interest to AEEP members since environmental chemistry is a vital component of environmental engineering.  Research and education in environmental chemistry presents many challenges to the academic community.  These challenges arise from the need for students to obtain both a fundamental grounding in chemistry and an understanding of the environmental systems, both natural and engineered, to which their chemical training will be applied.
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	This symposium will highlight the central role that environmental chemistry plays in areas ranging from environmental engineering to toxicology and will explore issues such as future directions of environmental chemistry, curriculum development, and funding prospects.  Speakers may include Joel Baker (Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland), Allen Elzerman (Environmental Engineering Science, Clemson University), Jean-Francois Gaillard (Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern Univ.), Michael Hoffmann (Environmental Engineering Science, Caltech), Susan Larson (Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Illinois), Drew McAvoy (Proctor & Gamble), Nick Nikolaidis (Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Conn.), Lynn Roberts (Geography and Environmental Eng., Johns Hopkins University), and Rhodes Trussell (Montgomery-Watson).   For more information, contact Prof. Janet Hering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Environ. Eng. Sci. (138-78), Pasadena, CA 91125, (tel) 626-395-3644, (fax) 626-395-2940, (e-mail) jhering@cco.caltech. edu; <http://vayu.che.caltech.edu/~ees/Hering.html>.  AGU Hydrology Section  The American Geophysical Union was established in 1919 by the National Research Council and operated as an unincorporated affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences until 1972 when it was incorporated in the District of Columbia. AGU now claims over 35,000 members in more than 115 countries.  The stated mission of AGU is to advance the understanding of Earth and its environment and to disseminate results to the public.  This is accomplished principally through the activities of the AGU Sections and through AGU publications.  The Section activities that are likely to be of most interest to AEEP members are those of the Hydrology Section.  This is AGU's largest section, consisting of over 6000 members.  The principal activity of the Hydrology Section is to organize and promote technical sessions on relevant topics in the hydrologic sciences at the AGU Fall and Spring meetings.  The AGU Fall and Spring Meetings cover all areas of the geophysical sciences, but the high level of participation by the Hydrology Section in breadth, depth, and sheer numbers of papers (over 1000 in Fall 1997) guarantees a critical mass and gives members the feeling of attending a "meeting within a meeting."  Proposed topics and descriptions for Hydrology technical sessions are developed by the Section's eight Technical Committees.  These include:  Erosion and Sedimentation; Groundwater; Large-Scale Field Experimentation; Policy Sciences; Precipitation; Remote Sensing; Snow, Ice and Permafrost; Surface Water; Unsaturated Zone; and Water Quality.  Any AGU member can propose to convene a special session; the session proposal is reviewed and revised by a Technical Committee before being published in Eos.  Abstracts submitted to the meetings do not necessarily have to fit in to one of the advertised special sessions; general hydrology sessions are also organized based on the submissions received.  The AGU Fall Meeting is held in San Francisco every December; the Spring Meeting takes place in Baltimore or an
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			University of Kentucky ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING POST-DOC POSITION.  The Department of Civil Engineering at  the University of Kentucky invites applications for a post-doctoral position in Environmental Engineering working with Dr. Gail Brion beginning July 1, 1998.  Candidates should have an earned Ph.D. degree in civil/environmental engineering, environmental science, or related discipline.  Areas of interest are flexible as Dr. Brion has a varied background.  Dr. Brion is an experimentalist with considerable laboratory skills in basic water chemistry and environmental virology and microbiology.  She is interested in looking at preventing waterborne disease by engineering applications.  Currently Dr. Brion is researching detection and identification of non-point source runoff from urban and agricultural areas, development of methods for recovering encysted protozoa and viruses from environmental waters, disinfection, adsorption-based, point-of-use treatment devices, and water reuse.  An individual with interests in these areas is encouraged to apply, however, any applicant with complementary skills will be considered.  Position  responsibilities include research proposal develop-ment, laboratory supervision of graduate students, and manuscript preparation.  Salary is dependant upon skills.  One great job benefit is working with great mentors, fair people, and intellectually stimulating colleagues.  Another benefit is the laboratory facilities.  The Department is housed in a new building with excellent offices, classrooms, and laboratories. The labs are quite stunning and well-equipped.  Four environ-mental laboratories occupy 5,000 square feet with four environmental chambers and an equipment room containing several gas chromatographs, an ion chromatograph, laminar flow hoods, anaerobic hoods, epifluorescent microscopy equipment, centrifuges, and ultra-cold freezers.  Two environmental and four water resource faculty currently support the rapidly growing program in  Environmental Engineering.  Faculty participate in several campus-wide environmental activities with the Kentucky Water Research and Resources Institute, the Center for Applied Energy Research, the Agricultural Sciences School, and other academic programs.  For more information, view  <http://www.engr.uky.edu/CE/cetmb.html>.  Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.  Applicants should send by e-mail or snail mail a resume, a statement of research interests, and a list of at least three references to: Dr. Gail Montgomery Brion Department of Civil Engineering University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0281 Tel:  606-257-4467 Fax:  606-257-4404 Email: gbrion@engr.uky.edu  The University of Kentucky is an equal opportunity and				affirmative action employer.  Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Water Quality Association Lisle, IL CERTIFICATION OFFICER AND LABORATORY SUPERVISOR.  The Water Quality Association in Lisle, Illinois is seeking a certification officer and labortaory supervisor for its Gold Seal product testing and validation program.  Responsibilities include securing applications from manufacturers for performance testing of household drinking water treatment unit equipment, involving fees for WQA laboratory services, supervision of laboratory personnel and tests of water treatment products, organizing test data results and administration of Certificates of Validation, and participation in industry product performance standards writing.  Requires a B.S. in chemistry or engineering, mechanical and plumbing skills, and knowledge of laboratory instrumentation operations such as atomic absorption spectroscopy and gas chromatography.  Experience with home water treatment technologies a plus.  Salary range $30,000 to $45,000.  Send letter of interest and resume to: Technical Director Water Quality Association 4151 Naperville Rd Lisle, IL 60532-1088 (FAX) 630-505-9637   San Diego State University RESEARCH TECHNICIAN IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING.  FULL-TIME PERMANENT APPOINTMENT. RESPONSIBILITIES:  The incumbent will serve under the supervision of the Blasker Professor of Environmental Engineering to:  1) Operate and maintain all analytical instruments including AA, GC, GC-MS, HPLC, IC, TOC, etc; 2) Manage several environmental engineering laboratories, including chemical ordering/storage, instrument calibration/trouble shooting, laboratory safety, record keeping, and hazardous waste management; 3) Train students in the environmental engineering laboratories; 4) Design and perform experiments for the Water Quality Lab and Unit Operations Lab; and 5) Under supervision, conduct research, co-author peer-reviewed papers and participate in writing research proposals.  The person is also expected to interact with other faculty members in the Environmental Engineering Program.  QUALIFICATIONS:  A Master's degree in analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, or environmental engineering with a minor in environmental chemistry.  At least two years of work experience in an environmental laboratory
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	is required.  A Ph.D. degree in the same disciplines would be preferred.  The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate the capability of handling the analytical instruments listed above and should have extensive knowledge of wet chemistry.  Computer literacy and strong communication skills are required.  SALARY: $43,188--$52,080, commensurate with experience, knowledge, and skills.  APPLICATION PROCEDURE:  Applicants must complete the SDSU employment application for Research Technician III.  Applications are available at San Diego State University, Personnel Services, 3rd Floor, Administration Building, San Diego, CA 92182; phone (619) 594-5836.  Applicants also need to submit a cover letter and resume describing skills, knowledge, abilities, and experience, along with three reference letters.  Review of applications will begin on March 30, 1998 and will continue until a suitable candidate is found.  The position will be available on July 1, 1998.  Applicants with disabilities requiring special application and/or interview arrangements may call (619) 594-4646 or (619) 594-8075.  San Diego State University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age, or disability.  University of Michigan The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Environmental Engineering.  A Ph.D. degree in Environmental or Chemical Engineering or a related field is required.  It is desired to fill the position at the Assistant Professor rank, but truly outstanding individuals at the Associate or Full Professor level will also be considered.  Preference will be given to applicants with research interests and expertise in physical-chemical processes.  Those with a research focus on waste avoidance and minimization or advanced technologies for treatment of gaseous, liquid, or solid wastes are particularly encouraged to apply.  A commitment to excellence in teaching and research is expected.  Responsibilities will include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels and maintaining a creative and vigorous research program.  To apply, please send a resume, a description of teaching and research interests, and the names and addresses of at least three references to:  Dr. Kim F. Hayes, Chairman, Search Committee, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Building, Room 181, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI  48109-2125.  The review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.  EWRE program information and faculty profiles are available on the web at <http://www.engin.umich. edu:80/dept/cee>. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, and especially encourages women and minorities to apply. University of Kentucky DIRECTOR OF THE KENTUCKY WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE.  The University of Kentucky announces a search for the senior leadership position in the					Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute.  The Institute was established in 1964 to stimulate research and education in water resources and water-related environmental topics and has become one of the leading institutes in the country.  (For more information, please access <www.uky.edu/Water Resources>.)  This is a full-time position reporting to the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies.  Qualified applicants must have a Ph.D. in an appropriate field of Science or Engineering, a scholarly record of research and publications, good communication skills, demonstrated management capabilities, and a good record of public and professional society service.  A joint appointment in an appropriate academic department is possible depending on the qualifications and experience of the applicant.  Review of applications will begin April 1,1998 and continue until the position is filled.  All qualified persons should send a resume and a list of at least three references to:  Ms. Kris Hobson, Office of the Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies, 207 Administration Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0032. The University of Kentucky is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer, and actively seeks the candidacy of interested minorities and women.  University of Houston Environmental Engineering Faculty Position, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston.  The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston invites nominations and applications for a tenure-track faculty position at any level effective August 1998 or January 1999.  We will consider emerging and nationally recognized candidates with a Ph.D. and a demonstrated record of scholarship in one of the following areas:  air quality measurement and control, geo-environmental engineering, or water quality measurement and control.  Duties will include undergraduate and graduate teaching and research related to the candidate's area of expertise.  Applicants with an engineering degree and a P.E. license will be given preference.  The search will remain open until the position is filled.  The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering comprises 16 faculty in the areas of geotechnical, materials, structural, environmental, ocean, and water resources engineering.  The UH Environmental Engineering Program comprises 60 graduate students and 5 core faculty from Civil and Environmental Engineering with 30 associated faculty from the Colleges of Engineering, Natural Science and Mathematics, Law, Business, and Social Sciences.  With the recent addition of one million dollars of new analytical instrumentation, the Environmental Engineering Laboratories remain among the best in the world.  The University of Houston is a Research II institution with 31,000+ students located in America's fourth largest city.  The intellectual, social, and artistic environment is outstanding. Applicants should send resumes along with names, addresses, and phone numbers of three appropriate references to: Dr. Dennis A. Clifford, P.E., DEE Chairman and Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Houston Houston, Texas  77204-4791. The University of Houston is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and especially encourages women and minorities to apply.
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		THE HEATED DEBATE: Greenhouse Predication versus Climate Reality  by Robert C. Balling, Jr., Pacific Research Institute, San Francisco, 1992 (with introduction by Aaron Wildavsky)  My dad used to say that there are only three ways you can have an argument: 1) one person does not know what he or she is talking about, 2) neither one knows what they are talking about, and 3) they are talking about different things.  The global climate debate is often characterized as a Category 2 argument--the models are simply not good enough to construct knock-down arguments for one side or the other.  But I believe the real problem is that the opponents are talking about different things.  We think the argument is between scientists who predict that the rise in the earth's temperature will be 1o over the next decade, versus the ones who argue that it will be more like a rise of 3o , who all argue with those who say the earth will actually be getting cooler.  But the argument should really be about whether we CARE that such global change occurs.  If we don't care, then it makes little difference what the magnitude of global warming will be. It might even be beneficial to some areas of the earth. But if we care very much that we humans are changing the global ecosystems by our selfish actions, then even a small change is important.  In this Category 3 argument, the book by Balling, a respected climatologist at Arizona State University, is of little use.  He never asks the great question of "should I care?"  But what he does do is provide a great deal of evidence to bolster the scientific arguments of both sides of a Category 2 debate. His purpose is to allow the reader to be better informed and to be able to identify the hollow arguments on both sides.  As Balling says in his first chapter:  The purpose of the book is not to win the reader over to one side or another in the greenhouse debate.  Rather, its purpose is to explore the range of outcomes that may result from the buildup of greenhouse gases....The book is an invitation to (1) drop any rigid attachment to one side of the debate or other, (2) begin to explore the complexities of the debate, (3) learn to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of the various arguments, and (4) place more thought in the climate components of policies that deal with climate change.  This book is valuable to us in a number of ways.  It can be a wonderful supplementary reader in air pollution classes, or it can be a source of great material to spice up lectures, or it can be simply a good summertime read.  I recommend it highly.  With one caveat.  The Introduction is written by Aaron Wildavsky (whoever he is) and this introduction is precisely the crap that Balling tries to diffuse.  Driven by right wing demons,
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						ENVIRONMENTAL ISOTOPES IN HYDROGEOLOGY  by Ian Clark and Peter Fritz, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, 1997 Environmental isotopes are those that occur naturally in abundance in our environment, and include H, C, N, O, and S. These are also the main elements in our hydrological, biological, and geological systems. Using the isotopes to date and trace is a major advantage to us, and this book is a fine introduction to this field. Ian Clark is at the University of Ottawa and Peter Fritz is at Leipzig-Halle. SPREADSHEET APPLICATIONS IN CHEMISTRY USING MICROSOFT EXCEL  by Dermont Diamand and Venita C. A. Hanratty, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1997, $34.95  This book includes a computer disk that can be used to develop the spreadsheet for solving problems.  Particularly interesting is the section on physical chemistry, and the authors show how the spreadsheet can be used to solve kinetics, metal complex equilibria, titration curves, and other problems.  COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING GEOLOGY  by Edward Derringh, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998  The intended audience of this workbook-style book is engineers and scientists taking the first survey course in engineering geology, or a physical geology course with an engineering slant. The most impressive part of this book is the numerous problems that can be used for instruction.  This is not one of your pretty designer books on engineering geology, with full-color pictures of sedimentary rocks, but a true working-class, blue-collar grunt book on how to solve the problems.  If you teach engineering geology, take a look at this one.  Ed Derringh is at the Wentworth Institute of Technology.  FORMULA HANDBOOK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS  by Gabriel Bitton, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1997, $42.95  It is dangerous to write a book listing formulas because it is so easy to test.  Everyone has a pet formula and the first thing they do is see if it is included in the book.  If it isn't, then the book is clearly worthless.  If it is, then it may be useful.  One exclusion and it's all over.  So I tested.  It flunked.  Again I tested.  And it passed.  Then I read the preface and noted that the author intended to collect formulas that deal primarily with biological/biochemical processes.  Don't expect to see formulas on processes.  But for the bio-heads, this would be a good book to have on the shelf when you need just the right formula at 3 a.m. My greatest gripe with the book is the absence of an index. Sometimes you know a formula by the name of a person associated with it, and an index would be invaluable.  Gabriel Bitton is a professor of  Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida.
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		"Protecting Water Quality in the Distribution System: What is the Role of Disinfectant Residuals?" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 26-28, 1998 AWWA, in conjunction with IWSA, is hosting this special conference.  For conference program and registration information, see the web site <http://www.awwa.org/tande/disnfect.htm>. "Water Quality Modelling of Lakes, Rivers and Catchments" Imperial College, London June 10-12, 1998 Conducted by Steve Chapra, University of Colorado, and Paul Whitehead, University of Reading, at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, U.K., the workshop is described in detail at the web site <http://ewre-www. cv.ic.ac.uk/wqmwshop.html>.  Registration information (cpd@ic.ac.uk) and technical information (s.chapra@ic.ac.uk) can be obtained via e-mail.  For additional information, contact Prof. Steven C. Chapra, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Civil Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London SW7 2BU, United Kingdom. Environmental Engineering Division Program, American Society of Engineering Education 1998 National Conference, Seattle, Washingtion June 28-July 1, 1998 Sunday, June 28 (12:30-5:00 pm) NEW this year!  Teaching Workshop for Environmental Engineering Design in Introductory and Senior Level.  Monday, June 29 (7 pm) Division Dinner/Social Meeting (Location TBA) EED Technical Program consists of four sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday including a session sponsored jointly with the Civil Engineering Division.  See details for times, locations, and topics at the conference web site, <http://www.asee.org/conferences/html/annual.htm>. Wednesday, July 1 (12:30 pm) Environmental Engineering Division Annual Business Meeting For additional information contact Marilyn Barger, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, 22525 Pottsdamer St., Tallahassee, FL 32310-6046; phone (850) 487-6121, fax (850) 487-6142, e-mail
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	Publications
		New from EESI Publishing... ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY WRAP-UP REPORT 105TH Congress, First Session The Wrap-Up Report on the First Session of the 105th Congress provides information on the major issues--from air pollution to utility deregulation--in play during 1997.  To order, contact EESI Publishing, 122 C St., NW #700, Washington, DC  20001; phone 1-888-884-EESI or 202-628-6500; fax 202-628-1825.
			Members receive 20% off AA Press AEEP members will receive 20% off the following Ann Arbor Press publications when they mention the AEEP Newsletter: Chemistry of Drinking Water Treatment, Second Edition, by Samuel D. Faust and Osman M. Aly Pesticides in the Atmosphere, edited by Michael S. Majewski and Paul D. Capel Pesticides in Surface Waters, by Steven J. Larson, Paul D. Capel, and Michael S. Majewski Pesticides in Ground Water: Distribution, Trends, and Governing Factors, edited by Jack E. Barbash and Elizabeth A. Resek Practical Manual of Wastewater Chemistry, by Barbara Hauser Advances in Modeling the Management of Stormwater Impacts: Volume 5, edited by William James Watershed Hydrology, Second Edition, by Peter E. Black Proceedings of the 51st Purdue Industrial Waste Conference (1996), edited by Ronald F. Wukasch and Cynthia S. Dalton Proceedings of the 50th Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, edited by Ronald F. Wukasch and Cynthia S. Dalton EPA Environmental Assessment Sourcebook, edited by J. Russell Boulding EPA Environmental Engineering Sourcebook, edited by J. Russell Boulding Chlorine and Chlorine Compounds in the Paper Industry, edited by Victor Turoski Metals in Surface Waters, edited by Herbert E. Allen, A. Wayne Garrison, and George W. Luther III Metal Contaminated Aquatic Sediments, edited Herbert E. Allen Subsurface Restoration, edited by C.H. Ward, John A. Cherry, and Marion R. Scalf To order any of the books listed, call 1-800-858-5299.
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