Experts can discuss the effects of biological and chemical contaminants and pollutants and the impacts on human and ecosystem health, including beach safety, sewer overflow events, impacts of emerging and legacy contaminants, tracking COVID and other viruses and pathogens in wastewater.


Michael Carvan
  • Shaw Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences
  • Professor Emeritus, Geosciences
Rebecca Klaper
  • Dean and Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences
  • Director of the Great Lakes Genomics Center
  • Professor Emeritus, School of Freshwater Sciences
  • Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences
Ryan Newton
  • Assistant Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences
Melissa Scanlan
  • Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences
  • Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair
  • Director, Center for Water Policy