2025 – “Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change for Coastal Massachusetts”

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2024 – “Environmental Financial Risk in Coupled Human-Natural Systems”
Gregory W. Characklis, PhD Director, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES) William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2023 – “The Contributions of MIT’s Peter S. Eagleson”

2022 – “Utility Planning for Climate Change: BWSC’s Role in Boston’s Future”
John P. Sullivan, PE, chief engineer for the Boston Water and Sewer Commission (BWSC), president of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies

2021 – “Perspectives on the Evolution of Wastewater Surveillance”
R. Monina Klevens, DDS, MPH, Director, Research and Evaluation, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Services, Massachusetts Department of Public Health Claire Duvallet, PhD, Data Scientist, Biobot Analytics Steven F. Rhode, Director, Department of Laboratory Services, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) Anna Mehrotra, PhD, PE, Environmental Engineer, CDM Smith

2020 – Cancelled due to Coronavirus pandemic

2019 – “The Role of Models in the Design of the Lower Mississippi River”
Dan Gessler, PhD, PE, D.WRE, Vice President, Alden Research Laboratory, Inc.

2018 – “Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Engineering in International Humanitarian Response: Lessons from Haiti and Worldwide”
Daniele Lantagne, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University

2017 – “Lake Erie’s Death, Resurrection, Re-Death, and the Role of Models in Guiding a Re-Resurrection”
Don Scavia, Ph.D., Professor & Director, Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan

2016 – “Desalination for Water Supply: Is energy consumption manageable?”
Prof. John H. Lienhard, Director, Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2015 – “Shale Gas Development: A Big Environmental Experiment?”
John Cherry, Ph.D., P.E., Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo

2014 – “Capturing Domestic Wastewater’s Resource Potentials”
Perry L. McCarty, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

2013 – “Hurricane Storm Barrier Design and Operation”
Lawrence J. Murphy, P.E., CDM-Smith
Michael Bachand, P.E., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

2012 – “Climate Change and Water Resources”
Dr. Richard N. Palmer Department Head and Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2011 – “Closing the Water Cycle, Recovering Energy and Resources”
Vladimir Novotny, Ph.D., P.E., D.E.E. Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University

2010 – “The Historical Evolution, Present State and Future Direction of Water-Quality Management and Modeling”
Steven C. Chapra, Ph.D. Professor and Berger Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tufts University

2009 – “Big City, Big Aqueduct, Big Challenge: Planning Repairs of NYC’s Leaking Delaware Aqueduct”
Paul V. Rush, P.E., New York City Department of Environmental Protection

2008 – “Singapore’s Marina Barrage Design, evolution and construction”
Brendan M. Harley, CDM Inc.

2007 – “Cape Cod’s Billion Dollar Ground-Water Cleanup”
Denis R. LeBlanc, U.S. Geological Survey

2006 – “Integrated Water Resources Management in the Midst of Chaos”
Eugene Z. Stakhiv, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

2005 – “Global Water Crisis: Myth or Reality”
Peter Rogers, Gordon McKay, Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning

2004 – “Saving Venice from High Tides: The Case for Mobile Gates”
Donald Harleman, MIT and Rafael Bras, MIT

2003 – “The Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh”
Charles Harvey, MIT

2002 – “Security of Metro-Boston’s Water Supply”
Frederick Laskey, MWRA and Kevin Reilly, EPA

2001 – “Water Supply in Palestine.”
Henning Moe, CDM and Sava Nedic, Metcalf & Eddy Inc.

2000 – “What Does the Future hold for Greater Boston’s Water Supply?”
Douglas MacDonald, MWRA

1999 – “Mixing and Transport in Lakes: Consequenses for Water Quality Management.”
Jörg Imberger, U. Western Australia

1998 – “Interactions Among Climate Warming, Acid Rain and Stratospheric Ozone”
David Schindler, U. Alberta

1997 – Cancelled due to snow storm

1996 – “The Big Dam Debate: Are Large Multi-Purpose Dams Sustainable?
Robert Goodland, World Bank, Dai Qing, Author of Yangtze! Yangtze!, and Phillip Williams, International Rivers Network

1995 – “Wells G and H Revisited: Evaluation of routes and amounts of community exposure to toxic metals via municipal water supply”
Harry Hemond, MIT and Bill Thilly, MIT

1994 – “Estuaries in Peril? Case studies of Chesapeak Bay, New York Harbor, Long Island Sound and Mass/Cape Cod Bays”
Dominic DiToro, Hydroqual

1993 – “Disposal of Contaminated Marine Sediments”
Angelos Findikakis, Bechtel, Tom Fredette, Army Corps of Engineers, and Henry Bokuniewiecz, SUNY, Stony Brook

1992 – “Why are we failing in our approach to cleaning up contaminated groundwater?”
John L. Wilson, New Mexico Tech

1991 – “Combined Sewer Overflows in Metropolitan Boston: structural and operational controls”
Gene Suhr, CH2M-Hill, Eric Adams, MIT, Wolfgang Schiller, EAWAG

1990 – “”Water supply planning: a tale of two cities”
Ed Scheader, NYDEP, Paul Levy, MWRA, and Marcis Kempe, MWRA

1989 – “Climate, Hydrology, and Water Supply”
Richard Wetherald, GFD Lab (Princeton), Charles W. Stockton, Lab for Tree Ring Research (U Arizona), and Peter Gleick, Pacific Inst. (Berkeley)

1988 – “Boston Harbor: Engineering and Technical Issues”
Norman Brooks, Cal Tech, Cecil Lue-Hing, Metro Sanitary Comm (Chicago), Richard Fox, MWRA, Jonathan French, CDM, and Donald R. F. Harleman, MIT

1987 – “The Tragedy of Woburn- A Study of Groundwater Stimulation and Litigation.”
George Pinder, Princeton

1982 – “Multiport Diffusers for Heat Disposal- A Summary”
Gerhard H. Jirka

1977 – “The Annual Water Balance, An Introduction to New and Powerful Methods of Hydrology.”
Peter S. Eagleson

1974 -“Heat Disposal in Water Environment.”
Donald R. F. Harleman

1973 – “Hydroelectric Pumped Storage – Some Aspects of the Western European Scene”
Harry Headland

1972 – “Hydrologic Modeling”
Ven Te Chow

1971 – “A New Look at Sediment Transport in Turbulent Streams.”
Arthur T. Ippen

1970 – “Dispersion Phenomena in Coastal Environments.”
Klas Cederwall

1968 – “Unusual Aspects of Hydraulic Transients in Pumping Plants.”
John Parmakian

1967 – “European Experience with the Thermodynamic Method.”
Hans Gerber

1966 – “Jet Diffusion and Cavitation.”
Hunter Rouse