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DoGEE Alumni Day: September 29th, 2007
On Saturday, September 29th, 2007, DoGEE hosted an Alumni Day on the JHU
Homewood Campus. A lot has been happening in the careers and lives of
the DoGEE family during these last few years and it was wonderful to
reconnect with you and find out how you've been doing since you've left
Hopkins!
During the day, there were three keynote speakers and talks by faculty,
students, and other alumni. Ames Hall and the laboratories were open
after lunch for tours and reminiscing. Finally, to cap off this
wonderful day, we ended with a reception honoring Dr. Charles O'Melia,
former Chair of the Department, as he begins his retirement!
Check back soon for photos of this wonderful event!
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 Senior Design Students and External Consultants
The Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE) will proudly
graduate its first four undergraduate students in May 2005. In the Spring
semester, these students have been involved in a Senior Design Class where
they interacted with external consultants to plan a treatment upgrade for
nutrient removal at the Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant in Baltimore. The
students and external consultants shown in the photograph are Ray Schulte (JMT
Engineering), Mitch Buck (DoGEE senior), Rica Enriquez (DoGEE senior), Joel
Weitzman (DoGEE senior), Amanda Hughes (DoGEE senior), Sam Grant (City of
Baltimore), Bob Wimmer (JMT Engineering), and Pete Thomson (KCI Technologies,
Inc.). DoGEE is particularly grateful to the external consultants for their
expertise, time and enthusiasm on this project. Faculty organizing the 2005
Senior Design Class were Hedi Alavi, Bill Ball, Edward Bouwer, and Charlie
O'Melia.
Ozone Research by DoGEE Grad is Subject of
VOA Radio Broadcast
Former DoGEE graduate Dr. Michelle
Bell (currently on the faculty at the Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies) recently completed and published (together with
colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) a study
in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, that looks at the
connection between high ozone pollution levels and death rates in the U.S. The
study was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to
assess its current standards for ozone pollution. In it, scientists looked at
14 years of ozone and death records from 95 American cities -- approximately
40 percent of the population of the U.S. A close link is found betweent ozone
pollution -- which comes primarily from traffic and power plant emissions --
and mortality. The study was the subject of an interview by the "Voice of
America" radio broadcasting network. More information is available
here.
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