CWEA/CASA Presents: Wastewater Based Surveillance – An update on its use and variant tracking - Live Webinar

Recorded On: 10/05/2022

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Live Webinar:  Free to members and non-members

Contact Hours:  1.8 contact hours towards CWEA certifications: ECI, LAB, EIT. 

Updates the wastewater community on recent developments in wastewater based surveillance (WBS) for COVID and its variants. Presenters will be the California Department of Public Health to discuss their program and engagement with WBS: Professor Al Boehm (Stanford University) on her ongoing surveillance work and focus on variants, and Naoko Munakata  (LACSD) to discuss the Districts work with WBS and future plans.

Speakers include:
Greg Kester - CASA – Moderator
Dr. Alex Yu – California Department of Public Health
Dr. Alexandria Boehm – Stanford University
Dr. Naoko Munakata – Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts

If you need contact hours for your certification, here's a great way to pick those up and learn something new. 

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Greg Kester (Moderator)

Director of Renewable Resource Programs

California Association of Sanitation Agencies

Greg serves as both the technical and programmatic contact for CASA members and conduit for emerging issues on state and federal level on all biosolids, renewable energy, recycled water, and related issues. Prior to joining CASA, Greg served as the state biosolids coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He represented all states in the nation, by their election, to USEPA on all biosolids issues. He served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee which evaluated federal biosolids regulations and produced the 2002 report: Biosolids Applied to Land: Advancing Standards and Practices. Greg holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and is a registered PE in Wisconsin.

Naoko Munakata

Supervising Engineer

Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts

Naoko Munakata is a supervising engineer in the Wastewater Research Section at the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts.  Her current and past research projects include work on odor control, food waste co-digestion, composting, and advanced treatment of recycled water, including innovative disinfection methods, advanced oxidation processes, and salt management technologies.  Naoko holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from MIT, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental engineering and science from Stanford University, and is a licensed Civil Engineer in California.  She is a member of the Water Environment Federation and the California Water Environment Association, is a past chair of the WEF Disinfection and Public Health Committee, and currently serves as the vice-chair of the Utilities Community of Practice for the Center for Disease Control’s National Wastewater Surveillance System.  

​Angela Rabe

Wastewater Epidemiologist

California Department of Public Health (CDPH)

Angela Rabe is a Wastewater Epidemiologist for the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). She received her master’s degree from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography where she studied climate change related impacts on water and energy along the CA-Mexico border.  Angela has previous experience in water quality and toxicology as a research assistant at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Facility and scientist for the State Water Resources Control Board. Currently as part of the COVID-19 response, she has been working to coordinate California’s participation in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) since December 2020. She and the CDPH Surveillance of Wastewater Systems team have been working with partners at sanitation districts and local health departments around CA to monitoring wastewater as an enhanced surveillance method for SARS-CoV-2, among other pathogens. Currently she is helping to lead CDPH’s expansion of the wastewater surveillance program to better represent the state of CA.” 

Alexandria Boehm

Professor of Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at Woods Institute of the Environment

Stanford University

Alexandria Boehm is a professor of environmental engineering and senior fellow at Woods Institute of the Environment at Stanford University. She is an associate editor at Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Technology Letters.  She has over 20 years of experience studying sources, fate, and transport of pathogens in natural and engineered systems. Since the start of the pandemic, she has been working with other academics as well as wastewater and public health stakeholders on science and implementation of wastewater-based epidemiology for disease surveillance. 

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