Harvard - DRCLAS Brazil Office - David Rockefeller Center for Latin ...

2:00 – 3:30 pm Lecture & Discussion: Water Security and What it Means for the
Mississippi and Brazil. John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the
Practice of Environmental Engineering, SEAS; Professor of the Practice of
Environmental Health, HSPH; Adjunct Faculty, HKS, Harvard University.
Location: HKS Belfer B-Bell, 5 th Floor - 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
3:45 – 5:00 pm Lecture and Discussion: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and
Offshore. Cherry Murray, Dean, John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor
of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SEAS, Harvard University.
Location: MD G 125.
Evening Free. Participants are encouraged to engage in informal activities.
Saturday, January 7 th – Cambridge
10:00 – 11:30 am 1 st Discussion of group research themes for each of the five student Working
Groups. Course faculty will provide information to help students progress in
their thinking over the course of the program.
Location: MD 119.
Afternoon Group lunch.
Evening Free.
Sunday, January 8 th – Cambridge
All Day Free.
Monday, January 9 th – Cambridge
Possible Cultural Outing.
8:30 – 10:30 am Lecture & Discussion: Advanced Water and Wastewater Technologies.
Chad Vecitis, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, SEAS, Harvard
University. Comparative Overview of Brazil’s Solutions for Water and
Wastewater Technologies. José Carlos Mierzwa, Associate Professor of
Environmental Engineering and Water Treatment, Poli, Universidade de São
Paulo. (30-45 minute lecture followed by group questions and discussion).
Location: MD G 125.
10:30 am Depart to Fresh Pond Drinking Water Facility in Cambridge.
11:00 am – 1:30 pm Site Visit: Fresh Pond Drinking Water Facility in Cambridge. (indoors).
Fresh Pond Reservation consists of 162 acres of open space surrounding and
protecting the 155 acre Fresh Pond Reservoir. Water from the drinking water
supply system is purified at the Walter J. Sullivan Water Treatment Facility
adjacent to Fresh Pond Reservoir, and pumped to Payson Park Reservoir in
Belmont. From there it flows back to the city by gravity, providing
drinking water to residents and businesses of Cambridge.
1:30 – 3:15 pm Return to SEAS and lunch at MD Lobby.
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