Teale Lecture on March 27: Dr. David Sedlak, “Realizing the Promise of Nature-based Water Treatment in the Age of Climate Change Adaptation”
Please join us for an in-person Teale lecture, on Thursday, March 27 at 4:00pm in the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center for Human Rights on the UConn Storrs campus.
Dr. David Sedlak, Plato Malozemoff Professor of Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and Chair of the Water Science and Technology Board among other honors, will present on “Realizing the Promise of Nature-based Water Treatment in the Age of Climate Change Adaptation”.
David Sedlak is a Vice Chair for Graduate Studies and Plato Malozemoff Professor of Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Sedlak’s research focuses on the fate of chemical contaminants, with the long-term goal of developing cost-effective, safe, and sustainable systems to manage water resources. He is particularly interested in the development of local sources of water. Sedlak’s research has addressed water reuse--the practice of using municipal wastewater effluent to sustain aquatic ecosystems and augment drinking water supplies--as well as the treatment and use of urban runoff to contaminated groundwater from contaminated industrial sites as water supplies. Sedlak also received the Fulbright Specialist Award for New Zealand in 2019 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016, one of the highest honors given to an engineer, among other notable achievements.
In addition to his laboratory and field research, Sedlak is interested in developing new approaches for managing the urban water cycle. He pursues these efforts through research coordinated through the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt), the Berkeley Water Center, and the National Alliance for Water Innovation. Sedlak is also the author of "Water 4.0", a book that examines the ways we can gain insight into current water issues by analyzing the history of urban water systems and "Water for All", a book that assesses water crises and potential solutions in light of a changing climate.
For more information, contact: Institute of the Environment and Energy at environment@uconn.edu