IPWE 2012 - American Society of Civil Engineers

SHORT COURSES
Short Course 3: Part 1 - Contaminant
Hydrogeology
8:00 - 11:30, Room: Fes
Bijay Panigrahi (United States), BPC Group Inc.; Udai
Singh (United States), CH2M Hill, Inc.
CONCURRENT TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Technical Session-1
Water Resources Management
8:30 - 10:00, Room: Karam 1
moderator: mark Henry rubarenzya
(70) HEC Software for Water Resources
Management and Projects
Jeff Harris (United States), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(226) Full-2D Rainfall-Runoff Hydraulic Modeling
for Delimitation of Flood-Prone Areas
Luigi Berardi (Italy), Technical University of Bari;
Daniele B. Laucelli (Italy), Technical University of Bari;
Vincenzo Simeone (Italy), Technical University of Bari;
Orazio Giustolisi (Italy), Technical University of Bari
(251) Reflections on Rainfall Transformation
Patterns in Urban Areas—Application to the
Experimental Basin of Tangier in Morocco
Bennani Baiti Hicham (Morocco), EMI-Rabat;
Bouziane Ahmed (Morocco), EMI-Rabat; Driss Ouazar
(Morocco), EMI-Rabat
(107) Representative QDF Predictions of the
Upper Bzlue Nile Basin From Short-Term Data
Meron Teferi Taye (Belgium), Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven; Patrick Willems (Belgium), Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven
Water Supply, Sustainability, and
Sanitation
8:30 - 10:00, Room: Karam 2
moderator: Driss ouazar
Invited Lecture: Multi-Objective Decision Support
for Water Management: How Difficult Can it Be?
Prof. Dragan Savic (United Kingdom), University of
Exeter
ThurSday, 5 January
(53) Sustainable Pumping Station Design for
Rural Ecuadorian Communities
Bruce Rydbeck (Ecuador), HCJB Global; Roberto
Guapi (Ecuador), Vozandes Community Development
(61) Providing Clean Water to Support a
Health Center: Matunda, Kenya
Sean G. Walsh (Kenya), NY Professional Chapter;
Monica L. Louie (Kenya), NY Professional Chapter;
Yurintzy Estrada (Kenya), NY Professional Chapter;
Iana Aranda (Kenya), NY Professional Chapter; Grace
Uang (Kenya), NY Professional Chapter; Tania Zapata
(Kenya), NY Professional Chapter; Chanel Lubin
(Kenya), NY Professional Chapter; Adam Goossen
(Kenya), NY Professional Chapter
(121) Evaluation of Low-Cost Filtration
Systems for Drinking Water Production
Matteo D’Alessio (United States), University of
Hawaii; Gabriel El-Swaify (United States), University
of Hawaii; Bunnie Yoneyama (United States),
University of Hawaii; Chittaranjan Ray (United States),
University of Hawaii
Climate Change Impacts
8:30 - 10:00, Room: Karam 3
moderator: chandra S. Pathak
(87) Global Climate Change Overview—
Impacts, Mitigations and Adaptations with
Special Reference to the New York City’s
Transportation Systems
Sufian Khondker (United States), Dewberry; Geoffrey
Dopsch (United States), Metro-North Railroad;
Douglas Schroeder (United States), Metro-North
Railroad; Ozlen Ozkurt (United States), Dewberry
(78) State-of-the-Art Review on the
Assessment of Impacts of Human Activities
on the Hydrologic Cycle
Hassan Tavakol-Davani (Iran), University of Tehran;
Banafsheh Zahraie (Iran), University of Tehran
(119) Climate Variability and Vulnerable
Communities in the East Mediterranean
Region: Case Study Gaza Strip
Samir Afifi (Palestine), Gaza Islamic University; Khalid
QAHMAN (Palestine), Environment Quality Authority;
Mohammed Eila (Palestine), Environment Quality
Authority
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