Dr. Jerald L. Schnoor
Dr. Jerald L. Schnoor
Dr. Jerald L. Schnoor is Chair in Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Co-Director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at The University of Iowa and is also considered one of the founding fathers of phytoremediation, using plants to help clean the environment. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a member of EPA’s Science Advisory board and the National Institutes of Health National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council.
Dr. Schnoor chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development from 2000-2004. Currently, he is one of three Co-Directors for the National Science Foundation Project Office on a Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER), a $250 million proposal to construct a national environmental observatory network for the sensing, modeling, and forecasting of environmental contaminants beginning in 2011.
In his lecture “Grand Challenges in Environmental Engineering and Science,” he discusses integrating research to solve problems like hormones, antibiotics, and personal care products in our water supply; global climate change and energy choices; loss of biodiversity, and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.
Audio and video recordings of this lecture are not available.
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Distinguished Lecture Series