Highpoints | Volume 31, No. 10 -- October 2015

2016 Excellence in Environmental Engineering & Science

It's time to begin planning your entries for the E3S Competition for 2016. The deadline for entries is February 1, 2016. The submission process is entirely electronic, allowing you to submit your completed entry directly online. Judging is also conducted electronically with an unlimited geographic representation of judges. Entering the E3S competition is a prerequisite for entering the North American category of the IWA PIA Awards.

For entry details, click here. For other information, email JSOlmo@aaees.org.

2015 Annual Meeting

The 2015 Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California on Friday, October 23, 2015 starting at 7:30 AM with a Continental Breakfast.

On Thursday, October 22, the Academy will be hosting an Infrastructure Sustainability Summit at Loyola Marymount University. More information appears below under the heading of AAEES Summit. Following the Summit, the President's Reception and the Installation Dinner will be held at the Renaissance Los Angeles Airport Hotel, 9620 Airport Boulevard, Los Angeles, California from 6 to 9 p.m. The AAEES has a block of rooms at the hotel.

2016 Committee Appointments

Reminder to Committee Chairs - President-Elect Howard LaFever is anxious to receive your recommendations for new committee members and/or chairs to replace those whose terms expire in December 2015. The Academy is seeking volunteers who are interested in helping the Academy through its network of committees. Committee appointments are for three-year terms. Please email your recommendations and letters of interest to the attention of President-Elect LaFever either via email, JSOlmo@aaees.org or via postal mail to Academy Headquarters * 147 Old Solomons Island Road * Suite 303 * Annapolis, MD 21401, at your earliest convenience. For a list of committees and committee members click here.

2016 IWA Project Innovation Awards

The IWA Project Innovation Awards (PIA) aims to highlight innovative water and wastewater engineering projects around the world, thus bringing recognition to these projects as models of engineering excellence and spreading the knowledge of water and wastewater science and management. The awards span six categories: Applied Research, Planning, Design, Small Projects, Operations/Management, and Marketing and Communication. All 2015 and 2016 E3S award winners will be invited to submit their projects online via the IWA PIA website www.iwa-pia.org. More details forthcoming.

Annual Certification Renewal

Renewal notices for the 2016 Certifications will be mailed to you by the end of the year. Upon receipt, please log into the AAEES Center and complete your renewal as soon as possible. Please be sure to review and update your data under "My Information" no later than December 31, 2015. It is important to get corrections on your Member Data to the Academy to ensure those changes are printed in the 2016 edition of Who's Who in Environmental Engineering and Science. If you need assistance, please contact Joyce Dowen at JDowen@aaees.org.

2015 Certification Audit Underway

Each person audited is being asked to supply the Recertification Committee with documentation substantiating at least 40 Professional Development Hours. The PDHs are acquired by continuing professional development activities during calendar years January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2014 to ensure compliance with the continuing professional development requirements for Active and Life Active specialty certification. Those who were audited within the past 10 years are exempt from the current cycle. If you have any questions, please let Joyce Dowen know at JDowen@aaees.org.

Membership Corner

An email blast went out to all members in October about their 2016 Specialty Certification Renewal. If you need a renewal form please contact Joyce Dowen at JDowen@aaees.org or renew online at http://www.aaees.org/members-specialtycertificationrenewal.php.

PDH Online

A special offer has been made to us on all 2200+ online courses and live web seminars. Just use the Coupon Code: PDH4950 in Step 2 of the payment process, and you'll automatically receive a 50% discount off the list price. This coupon code may be used for multiple courses, including courses already on sale. This offer is valid from 9/3/2014 to 12/31/2015, and cannot be applied to prior sales. The coupon code must be entered at the time of online purchase to receive the discount. You have up to one year to complete the courses purchased. Please visit www.PDHonline.com or www.PDHcenter.com to select your courses.

Please feel free to share this special offer with your colleagues and friends.

AAEES Activities

Elevate Your Visibility Today Through the Academy

It's easy and free to host an Academy Workshop or Seminar in your locale - If you would like to learn more, please email Workshops and Seminars Chair Sarah Cwikla at sarah.cwikla@ghd.com, and copy JSOlmo@aaees.org. Be sure to give an approximate date and suggested topic (if any), possible speakers, and possible location. For three easy steps to hosting an event, click here.

2015 WEFTEC - Thank you to all the volunteers at the AAEES booth promoting the Academy. The breakfast was a huge success with Catherine O'Connor, Ph.D., P.E., Director of Engineering at MWRDGC as the keynote speaker. And, thank you to Jeanette Brown for organizing the breakfast.

October 22, 2015 - Summit: Attaining a Sustainable Wet Infrastructure for Southern California - AAEES has assembled the leadership of the largest public water agencies in the Southern California area for a one-day program designed to provide perspective and insight on the issues they are facing in trying to meet current and future demands on their water infrastructure. This one-of-a-kind event will enable attendees to learn about the strategies that these agencies are employing in addressing the limitations that the current drought is imposing on Southern California and its ability to meet water demands. More importantly, the speakers will also focus on the options available for defining a 'new normal', and what that means for planning, designing, and building a water infrastructure that will accommodate their evolving reality.

The Academy is partnering with the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in presenting this program. The Summit is designed for anyone working in the area of water issues and sustainability. We view the Summit as an opportunity for networking and best practice sharing among sustainability practitioners.

Rather than prepare a structured agenda for the Summit, we have taken the other option of simply developing a suggested theme and having our speakers address that theme in the way they see most appropriate and relevant given the nature of their operations. Our intent in holding the Summit is to cast light on what the individual agencies are doing to meet their sustainability challenges. From that we expect to reveal and discuss areas of cooperation and partnership that might be developed to create new approaches for dealing with the issues being faced across the entire Southern California region.

Register here: http://bit.ly/AAEES2015Summit

2016 AAEES Kappe Lecturer: Dr. Sudhir Murthy, P.E., BCEE

Sudhir Murthy,
Ph.D., P.E., BCEE
Innovations Chief
DC Water

The American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists offers your university the opportunity to have the Academy's 2016 Kappe Lecturer, Sudhir Murthy, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, visit your campus for one or two days during the 2016 fall semester.

The objective of the Kappe Lectures is to share the knowledge of today's practitioners with tomorrow's engineers and scientists. Dr. Murthy has prepared two lectures which are summarized online at http://www.aaees.org/kappelecturer.php. At your option, he is prepared to present one or both in settings of your choosing. In addition, during his stay at your campus, he will be available for informal meetings with you and fellow faculty, students, and area professionals.

To take advantage of this opportunity, please complete the reservation at this link and return it to Academy Headquarters. The registration deadline is February 1, 2016. Please indicate on the form the date or dates when you would like him to appear. We will do everything possible to accommodate your first priority date. You are encouraged to have other area schools participate in the lectures; the number of schools served is one of several selection criteria.

We will select the schools to receive a Lecture by March 1, 2016, and then work with the Lecturer to devise his tour schedule. We will notify you if your university has been selected in early May and the date of the visit as soon as possible thereafter. To confirm your acceptance, we ask that you send us 50% of the Lecture $1,225 fee or $612.50 following selection notification, with the balance being due by September 1, 2016. The fee is used to defray the lecturer's travel expense.

Kappe Lecture 2016 Reservation Form
Kappe Lecture 2016 Brochure
Kappe Lecture Online

AAEES Announces an Environmental Leaders' Summit: Attaining a Sustainable Wet Infrastructure for Southern California

Register Now for the October 22, 2015 event
Click here to see the Summit Program and Speakers

There has never been a session like this! The information shared at the Summit will come directly from the leaders of the organizations who are in charge of defining and implementing the strategies and programs that will drive the future of the water infrastructure in Southern California.

What are your most important colleagues and customers doing to accommodate the unprecedented drought? What are they thinking? Who are they looking to for help?

The American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists, in partnership with Loyola Marymount University, is assembling the leadership of the largest public water agencies in the Southern California area for a one-day Sustainability Summit. The session is designed to provide insight on the issues they are facing in meeting current and expected future demands on their water infrastructure.

This one-of-a-kind event will enable the region's environmental professionals, and the broader environmental community, to learn about these agencies' efforts to assess and address the impact of the current drought on Southern California.

Our featured speakers are:

Martin L. Adams, P.E. Senior Assistant General Manager - Water System Los Angeles Department of Water and Power	Dr. Tina Choe Dean LMU Franklin R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering
James Herberg, P.E., BCEE General Manager Orange County Sanitation District	Grace Hyde, P.E., BCEE Chief Engineer and General Manager Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
Debra C. Man, P.E. Assistant General Manager & COO Metropolitan Water District for Southern California	Michael Markus, P.E., BCEE General Manager Orange County Water District
Richard Nagel General Manager West Basin Municipal Water District	Mark Pestrella, P.E. Chief Deputy Director County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works
James Stahl, P.E., BCEE President - AAEES Senior Strategic Advisor - MWH Global	Robb Whitaker General Manager Water Replenishment District of Southern California
Enrique C. Zaldivar, P.E. Director and General Manager LA Sanitation - City of Los Angeles

The speakers will also focus on the need to define a 'new normal', and what that means for planning, designing, and building a water infrastructure that will accommodate their evolving reality. Most importantly, the speakers will define where they are going to need help and what they will be expecting from their engineering partnerships.

You can't afford to miss this session!

Register now to reserve your seat at the Summit.