Women in Water Quality: Investigations by Prominent Female Engineers

209 Pages·2020·6.006 MB·English

by  Deborah Jean O’Bannon

Women in Engineering and Science
Deborah Jean O’Bannon Editor
Women
in Water
Quality
Investigations by Prominent Female
Engineers
Women in Engineering and Science
Series Editor
Jill S. Tietjen
Greenwood Village, CO, USA
The Springer Women in Engineering and Science series highlights women’s
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over the last century. Each subsequent volume is dedicated to illuminating women’s
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Deborah Jean O’Bannon
Editor
Women in Water Quality
Investigations by Prominent Female
Engineers
Editor
Deborah Jean O’Bannon
Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering
University of Missouri–Kansas City
Kansas City, MO, USA
ISSN 2509-6427 ISSN 2509-6435 (electronic)
Women in Engineering and Science
ISBN 978-3-030-17818-5 ISBN 978-3-030-17819-2 (eBook)
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Foreword
Why would we benefit from a book to Women in Water Quality? One of the answers
lies in the benefits of diversity. Having more than one gender contribute to science
and engineering allows for the expansion of viewpoints and foci. This is quite evi-
dent in the text as the reader will discover that the addition of women to this field
helped launch what one might have formerly called sanitary engineering into envi-
ronmental engineering. Many of these springboard efforts are documented in the
chapter on the History Pioneering Women in Water Quality, spanning from the early
1870s to famous women scientists in the 1900s. And then, the text expands to state-
of- the-science chapters covering water quality issues and solutions in both engi-
neered and natural systems.
The chapters on water quality in engineered systems provide a wealth of infor-
mation for scholars and practitioners to use in their work both in the United States
and abroad. These include emerging technologies that allow for a more sustainable
future such as combining engineering and nature-based solutions to stormwater
management, reuse of non-potable water, optimizing bio-based remediation or bio-
films, and novel nutrient separation techniques. The authors bring a global perspec-
tive to these issues also adding international solutions for water quality and
prevention of viral outbreaks. The final chapters focus on modeling and fate of vari-
ous contaminants in natural systems. Understanding how these various chemicals
migrate and react in the natural environment is crucial to being able to develop
effective prevention or remediation techniques. I am honored to be one among the
many women who have dedicated their scholarly endeavors to ensuring improve-
ments in water quality at home and abroad.
Civil and Environmental Liv Haselbach, PE, PhD, F.ASCE, LEED AP BD+C
Engineering
Lamar University
Beaumont, TX, USA
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Preface
Women in Water Quality: Investigations by Prominent Female Engineers is a collec-
tion of scientific papers by 12 women scientists and engineers working in the area
of water quality. The scientific papers are prefaced by our rich history – the women
who came before us in water quality, starting with the first female graduate from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Ellen Swallow Richards. Brief biographies
of Ruth Patrick, Rachel Carson, and Sylvia Earle follow in chronological order.
Ellen Richard’s 1873 chemistry thesis is reprinted in the book’s appendix.
The contemporary and cutting edge research of the book’s technical authors is
divided into two major sections: water quality in engineered systems and water
quality in natural systems. Each technical paper is presented with the author’s
biography.
It has been a privilege to learn about the authors’ ingenuity, technical expertise,
and intrinsic passion for water quality.
Kansas City, MO, USA Deborah Jean O’Bannon
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Contents
Part I History
1 Pioneering Women in Water Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Jill S. Tietjen
Part II Water Quality in Engineered Systems
2 Integrating Engineered and Nature-Based Solutions
for Urban Stormwater Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Laura A. Wendling and Erika E. Holt
3 Improving Drinking Water Quality in Rural Communities
in Mid-Western Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Sara Marks and Rubika Shrestha
4 Water Quality for Decentralized Use of Non-potable
Water Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Sybil Sharvelle
5 Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Early Detection
of Viral Outbreaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Irene Xagoraraki and Evan O’Brien
6 Urine Source Separation for Global Nutrient Management . . . . . . . . 99
Tove A. Larsen
7 Environmental Microbiome Analysis and Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . 113
Courtney M. Gardner and Claudia K. Gunsch
8 Biofilms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Wen Zhang
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Part III Water Quality in Natural Systems
9 The Microbial Ecology and Bioremediation
of Chlorinated Ethene-Contaminated Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Jennifer G. Becker
10 Fate of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals in Agroecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt
11 U nderstanding Soil-Contaminant Interactions:
A Key to Improved Groundwater Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Maria Chrysochoou
Notes on Some Sulpharsenites and Sulphantimonites from Colorado . . . . 197
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
About the Editor
Deborah Jean O’Bannon is a Professor Emerita of Civil Engineering at the

University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). She is also a Professional Engineer,
with registration in Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas. She received her B.S. in civil
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with emphasis in
environmental engineering and learned about Ellen Swallow Richards (see Chap.
1). She then went to work for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental
Quality Engineering (DEQE) (now the Department of Natural Resources), where
she designed water quality surveys and conducted water quality modeling and
wasteload allocations for the Housatonic River, Assabet and Concord Rivers, the
North Shore coastal area, and Boston Harbor. She received her M.Eng. from
Manhattan College, where she worked with Dr. Donald O’Connor and Dr. Robert
Thomann. She returned briefly to the DEQE, before moving to the University of
Iowa to work on her Ph.D. with Dr. Jerry Schnoor and Dr. Forrest Holly. Her doc-
toral research was on the movement of soluble pollutants in a run-of-the-river
impoundment of the Iowa River and was supported in part by a Dissertation
Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. She completed
dye field studies and a 2-D model.
Dr. O’Bannon obtained a faculty position at the University of Missouri in 1989.
She has had research grants and publications in riverine modeling, immunoassay
testing of aquatic pollutants, and urban rain garden systems. She also published and
was supported in the areas of undergraduate pedagogy and engineering leadership.
She routinely taught fluid mechanics, undergraduate water and wastewater treat-
ment design, leadership and ethics, water quality modeling, limnology, computa-
tional hydraulics, design of experiments, and civil engineering capstone design. Dr.
O’Bannon redesigned the capstone class in 2003 to accommodate real-world proj-
ects for industry clients to give the students a design studio that would prepare
them for professional practice. Dr. O’Bannon and UMKC received an award for
connecting professional practice and education from the National Council of
Engineering Examiners in 2009 (the inaugural year of the award).
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