Water Pollution Mitigation & Aquatic Remediation | Online Seminar Series

The IIES is pleased to offer a new e-course to our online lecture series. This course titled, “Water Pollution Mitigation and Aquatic Remediation” will run every Wednesday from April 11 to June 20. An email will be sent out with a link to the access the lecture. The lectures will be recorded each week and posted below.

Contributing Institutions and Organizations: Trent University (Canada), The University of Edinburgh (Scotland), Arizona State University (USA), University of Hawaii (Hawaii), Johns Hopkins University (USA), Nanjing University (China), National Taiwan University (Taiwan), Sun Yat-sen University (China).

Each week join a faculty member from one of the contributing universities who will share their research and expertise. Lectures run approximately 45 minutes with a Q&A to follow. The lectures are FREE and are available to anyone interested.

Recorded Lectures

Play Video about Lecture 1 Water Pollution

Lecture 1 | Introduction to Water Treatment | Professor Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University (USA)

Lecture 2 | The Formation and Control of Disinfection Byproducts | Professor Xin Yang, Sun Yat-sen University (China)

Unfortunately, there was a technical error during the lecture and it was not able to be recorded. Professor Xin Yang has kindly provided her PPT presentation. To download the PDF please click on the following link:

The Formation and Control of Disinfection Byproducts by Professor Xin Yang

Play Video about Lecture 3 Water Pollution

Lecture 3 | Pollutants in the Water Distribution System | Professor Yi-Pin Lin, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)

Play Video about Lecture 4 Water Pollution

Lecture 4 | Occurrence and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Wastewater Treatment | Professor Carsten Prasse, Johns Hopkins University (USA)

Play Video about Lecture 5 Water Pollution

Lecture 5 | Biological Treatment | Professor Lin Ye, Nanjing University (China)

Play Video about Lecture 6 Water Pollution

Lecture 6 | The Sulphur Associated Wastewater Treatment (SANI) Process | Professor Hui Lu, Sun Yet-sen University (China)

Play Video about Lecture 7 Water Pollution

Lecture 7 | Anaerobic Biotechnology for Bioenergy Production | Professor Samir Kumar Khanal, University of Hawaii (Hawaii)

Play Video about Lecture 8 Water Pollution

Lecture 8 | Groundwater Remediation and Dual-biofilm Barrier for Treatment of Chlorobenzenes | Professor Edward J Bouwer, Johns Hopkins University (USA)

Play Video about Lecture 9 Water Pollution

Lecture 9 | Removal of Organic Contaminants in Water and Wastewater using UV and Ozonation Technologies | Professor Emeritus Chris Metcalfe, Trent University (Canada)

Play Video about Lecture 10 Water Pollution

Lecture 10 | Application Potential of the UV/AA Process in Water Treatment | Professor Shujuan Zhang, Nanjing University (China)

Play Video about Lecture 11 Water Pollution

Lecture 11 | Wastewater Bioremediation with Filamentous Algae | Professor Andrea Semiano, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)