Please join us for the upcoming Water Resources Engineering Seminar. Dr. Judith Perlinger of Michigan Technological University, Civil and Environmental Engineering will present “Recovery of Lake Superior from Historical PCB Contamination” on Wednesday, February 13, from noon to 1 p.m. in STAG 111.

About Dr. Perlinger: 

Judith Perlinger is a professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a Sc.D. degree in Environmental Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. She teaches courses in Environmental Engineering Fundamentals, Sustainability, Environmental Organic Chemistry, and Boundary Layer Meteorology. Dr. Perlinger served on the U.S. – Canada International Joint Commission’s Science Advisory Board from 2003-07. Her research examines the transport and transformation of organic pollutants in the environment, focusing on the Laurentian Great Lakes. Most recently, Dr. Perlinger has studied polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compound contamination of air, water, sediment, and fish of Lake Superior and inland lakes in Michigan in order to understand the controls on the PCB concentrations.

The seminar is free and open to the public. 
We hope to see you there!