Master of Ceremonies-Jeffrey Koseff, William Alden Campbell and Martha Campbell Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Michael Forman University Fellow in Undergraduate Education; and Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment
Jeff has been instrumental in developing the vision for the interdisciplinary work on environmental issues at Stanford. He joined the CEE faculty in 1984 andhis research has focused on the interdisciplinary domain of environmental fluid mechanics in particular the interaction between physical and biological systems in natural aquatic environments. Long-term research projects include understanding the transport of mass and energy in estuarine systems such as San Francisco Bay, and understanding how coral reef systems of the Red Sea and Hawaii and the kelp forest systems of California function.
Speaker-Perry McCarty, Silas H. Palmer Professor Emeritus
Perry came to Stanford in 1962 when to develop the environmental engineering and science program. From 1980 to 1985 he was Chairman of Stanford's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and from 1989 to 2002 served as Director of the Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1977 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. He received the John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1992 and the Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Water Science and Technology in 1997. In 2007 he was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize. Though nominally retired Perry is leading research on anaerobic secondary treatment that may lead to WWTPs that are net energy producers.