2013 Workshop on Control of Emerging Contaminants
in Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems
University of Waterloo, St Paul's Campus, Westmount Road, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
June 5, 2013
Agenda
8:55am	Welcome and Introductions - Mark Servos, University of Waterloo
	Session Chair - Feisal Rahman,  PhD Candidate, University of Waterloo
	Presenter	Univ.	Collaborators	Topic
9:00	Gerald Tetreault, Research Associate	Waterloo	Mark Servos	Responses of fish to municipal wastewater in the Grand River.
9:20	Amin Reza Rajabzadeh, Post Doctoral Fellow	Waterloo	Ray Legge and Kela Weber	Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of a Subsurface Vertical Flow Constructed Wetland Mesocosm
9:40	Maricor Arlos, MSc	Waterloo	Wayne Parker and Mark Servos	Characterization and modeling of antiandrogens and pharmaceuticals in highly impacted aquatic ecosystem.
10:00	Break
	Session Chair - Emma Shen, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
10:30	Heather Wray, PhD Candidate	Toronto	Robert Andrews, Pierre Berube	Effect of Coagulation and Air Sparging on UF Fouling and Pharmaceutical Removal
10:50	Ding Wang, PhD Candidate	Toronto	Ron Hofmann and Susan Andrews	UV/Chlorine for Advanced Oxidation Treatment
11:10	Anwar Sadmani, PhD Candidate	Toronto	Robert Andrews, David Bagley	Impact of Synergistic Interactions of DOM, Colloidal Particles, and Cations on Nanofiltration of Pharmaceutically Active and Endocrine Disrupting Compounds
11:30	Ehsan Hoque, PhD Candidate	Trent	Chris Metcalfe	Analytical Methods for Monitoring Nanosilver in Water at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations"
12:00	Lunch & Poster Session:  Emma Shen, Heather Wray, Maricor Arlos, Brendan Smith
	Session Chair - Heather Wray, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
1:00	Mohammad Showkatul Islam	Guelph	Hongde Zhou and Richard G. Zytner	Distribution and Degradation Behaviour of Brominated Flame Retardant, Tetrabromo- bisphenol A (TBBPA) in Membrane Bioreactors and Conventional Activated Sludge Process
1:20	Ismail (Syed) Hussain, PhD Candidate	Waterloo	Carol Ptacek and David Blowes	Transport and attenuation of pharmaceutical compounds and Acesulfame-K in a demonstration-scale wastewater treatment system
1:40	Feisal Rahman, PhD Candidate	Waterloo	Peter Huck, Sigrid Peldszus and William Anderson	Analysis PFCs in water and their removal during drinking water treatment
2:00	Tim Fletcher, Ontario Ministry of Environment	Ontario MOE	Sonya Kleywegt and Vince Pileggi	Contaminant Removal Efficacy of 3 Typical Canadian Wastewater Treatment Systems
2:45	Wayne Parker	Discussion and Concluding Remarks
For more information please contact:        Tom Sullivan, University of Waterloo, 519-888-4567 ext. 38599,       tmsulliv@uwaterloo.ca