2022 EES Symposium Keynote Speakers
Professor in the Department of Geology, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Bruce W. Fouke is a professor in the Department of Geology, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He serves as Director of the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center and holds a Health Innovation Professorship in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park has long served as a natural laboratory for his geobiological studies of life-mineral-mineral interactions. Results have been directly applied to better understand biomineralization processes in hot spring and coral reef ecosystems, the deep subsurface of the Earth’s crust, Roman aqueducts, and the human body.
Senior Vice President, R&D Practice Director at Carollo Engineers
Dr. Jess Brown is Director of Carollo’s Research and Development Practice and leads Carollo’s biological drinking water treatment program. He has 24 years of experience in water, wastewater, and reclaimed water treatment specializing in drinking water processes, applied research, and water quality testing methods.
His work has resulted in over 150 national and international presentations, 34 peer-reviewed publications, and 2 American Water Works Association best paper awards. He has been Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator on 9 Water Research Foundation bio-treatment/biofiltration projects since 2011 and is the primary author of the Water Research Foundation Biofiltration Guidance Manual. He is a former chair of the AWWA Biological Drinking Water Treatment Committee and chair of the 2013 and 2016 AWWA Biotreatment Symposia. Jess has a BA in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard University, and a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
PREVIOUS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Dr. Pratim Biswas, Dean of Engineering at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida & Dawn Taffler, One Water Practice Leader and Vice President at Kennedy Jenks Consultants (2021)
- Prof. Lutgarde Raskin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan & Dr. Issam Najm, Founder and President of WQTS (2019)
- DR. CHARLES N. HAAS, LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering. Head – Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, Drexel University (2018)
- Dr. Menachem Elimelech, Roberto Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Yale University (2017)
- Dr. Carlos Campos-Callao, Senior VP Research and Development of Suez Environment (2016)
- Dr. Ali H. Omar, Physical Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center (2015)
- Dr. Kimberly Jones, Howard University (2014)
- Damon S. Williams (2013)
- Jess Brown, Ph.D., PE (2012)
- Kathryn Mallon, PE (2011)