Fun Experiences in Environmental Engineering

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Fun Experiences in Environmental Engineering!

• Or
• Legal Things You Can Do for Money When You
  Graduate!

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Job Opportunities in Envl Engineering

• Consulting
• Like me
• State Federal Government
• EPA, USGS, State Agencies
• Be a regulator and manage people like me
• Academia
• Talk to your professors!

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Specialties in Envl Engineering

• Water/Wastewater Plant Design
• Water/Wastewater Distribution System Design
• Stormwater Management/Design
• Hazardous Waste Site Characterization
  Remediation
• Contaminant Fate Transport
• What I mostly do
• Work closely with geologists/hydrogeologists

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Site Characterization

• Design of Statistically Defensible Sampling Plans

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Field Work!

• Drive around in a truck and hang out with
  drillers!
• Soil, Subsurface Soil Sediment Sampling
• Swim in Baltimore Harbor!
• Monitoring Well Installation
• GW Sampling

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Contour Maps - Geostatistics

• Kriging w/ Variogram Models
• Groundwater Elevations, Bedrock Surfaces,
  Contaminant Concentrations

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Groundwater Modeling

• What I enjoy the most
• Vadose Zone Saturated Zone
• Litigation Cases
• Stressful, but very interesting
• Evaluating Remedial Alternatives
• Assessing Impacts of Groundwater Extraction

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Movie!