Sessions
Innovations in Water Technologies
Featured Speakers will discuss advances in technologies specific to improving the physical and biological quality of the earth’s water resources as well as protecting and regulating the public water supplies.
Featured Speakers:
CHAIR
Chairman
Daniel E. Murnick
UV Solutions Inc
Daniel Murnick serves as Chairman of the Board of UV Solutions Inc. in Newark NJ. -a company formed to commercialize highly efficient clean ultraviolet light sources used for water purification and other applications. He received the Ph. D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Inc.) before joining Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey as a Physics Professor. While at Bell Labs, he was elected as a Fellow of The American Physical Society and received the Humboldt Award for Distinguished American Scientists from the government of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1996 he was awarded the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award of the Research and Development Council of New Jersey for developing an instrument called the Laser Assisted Ratio Analyzer (LARA), a device for measuring isotopic ratios in carbon dioxide to high accuracy and at low cost. The same year he was named The Donald H. Jacobs Chair in Applied Physics at Rutgers University. He is the author or coauthor of more than 130 technical papers and holds several patents in the areas of isotope analysis, ultraviolet light production and laser surface modification. He also holds guest appointments at GSI in Darmstadt Germany and MIT in Cambridge Mass. and he has been a consultant and advisor to several industrial companies including Spectra Gases Inc. Branchburg NJ, Diagnostics & Devices, Inc., Bernardsville, NJ, American Standard Medical Systems, Piscataway NJ, Alimenterics Inc., Morris Plains NJ and Titan Systems Inc., San Diego CA.
Mekorot WaTech Commercial Manger -Technological Business Development
Assaf Barnea
Mekorot WaTech
Assaf Barnea is the commercial manager of WaTech, The Entrepreneurship and Partnership Center for Water Technologies at Mekorot Israel's national water company. Previously, he served for 4 years as a director business development at Comverse, a global telecom provider. Prior to Comverse, Barnea was a founder and a board member of Cardiosense, a medical device start up company. He is a certified lawyer, holds law and business degrees from the interdisciplinary center in Herzelia and a political science and psychology degree from Tel Aviv University. In his previous career, Barnea played college basketball and professional basketball at Seton Hall and Israel's top division and was a member of the Israeli national basketball team.
Head of Desalination Unit
Menahem Priel
Mekorot
P.C. Rossin Professor
Arup K. SenGupta
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University
Executive Director, Otto H. York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science
Panasonic Professor of Sustainability
Daniel Watts, PhD
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Daniel Watts is the Executive Director of the Otto H. York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science and the Panasonic Professor of Sustainability at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has been at NJIT since 1983 and is affiliated with the NJIT Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, teaching courses related to pollution prevention, industrial ecology and sustainability, and environmental policy. He has participated in joint research activities with the U.S. Army, primarily at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, for more than 15 years, first in pollution prevention projects, which have evolved into sustainable manufacturing and component design for environmental and performance benefits. His additional research interests include phytochemistry and applications of industrial ecology for policy enhancement, water treatment chemicals, environmental science; operational and regulatory change leading to Pollution Prevention in industrial operations; technical facilitation for environmentally affected communities; and sustainability
He received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana and a Masters degree in Botany from the same institution. His undergraduate work in chemistry and botany was at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Prior to joining New Jersey Institute of Technology he carried out research at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research and the American Can Company.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is also a member of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT), which advises the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, he is participating in two projects for NACEPT related to facilitating the development and deployment of new environmental technology and to facilitating new approaches to securing a sustainable water infrastructure for the nation.
He is the immediate past President of the New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability and the Co-Chair of the New Jersey Sustainable State Institute. He is also a member of the New Jersey Commission on Environmental Education.
