Green Infrastructure Webcast Series (Tuesday, May 23)

Event Date: May 23, 2017

Making Stormwater Work for You: 2017 Green Infrastructure Webcast Series

Webinar featuring the 2016 Campus Rainworks Winners

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

1:00- 2:30 pm EDT

Register here.

EPA’s Campus RainWorks Challenge is a national collegiate competition that engages the next generation to design innovative solutions for real-world stormwater pollution problems. EPA invites student teams to compete in two design categories — the Master Plan category, which examines how green infrastructure could be integrated into a broad area of a school’s campus, and the Demonstration Project category, which examines how green infrastructure could be integrated into a particular site on the team’s campus. This webcast will feature the first place teams presenting on their winning submissions for the 5^th annual Campus RainWorks Challenge just announced in April. For additional details on this year’s winning entries, please visit our website.

City College of New York won first place in the master plan project category. Their Castor Project is named after the school’s mascot, Castor canadesis, more commonly known as the beaver. Taking a cue from the beaver’s role as a natural water manager, the team designed a master plan for campus-wide stormwater management. The plan calls for increasing tree canopy 15 percent by adding 89 trees and reducing impervious area 38 percent by adding 23,000 square feet of permeable surface. Additionally, a proposed water storage tank could capture up to 3000 cubic feet of stormwater for gray water uses.

Kansas State University won first place in the demonstration project category. Their Stronger Quinlan project weaves innovative green infrastructure practices into a historic campus green space plagued with problems of flooding and erosion. By installing rainwater harvesting and permeable pavement as well as planting trees and native plants, the students estimate their design could reduce stormwater runoff by 46 percent and capture 597,000 gallons of water per year for irrigation.

Webinar Speakers

CCNY:

Naresh Devineni, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and a Faculty Affiliate at the NOAA-Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center at The City College of New York.

Lawrence Vulis is a senior in Earth Systems Science and Environmental Engineering. Lawrence’s interests in green infrastructure stem from using natural systems to effectively manage human water use.

Agata Bugala is a junior Earth Systems Science and Environmental Engineering student working for the Environmental Engineering Laboratory in the Civil Engineering Department.

Uziel Crescenzi is an MLA candidate at CCNY. He has worked as a horticulturalist, writer, and landscape designer completing horticultural internships at the Arnold Arboretum and Wave Hill Botanical Garden, and an editorial internship at the American Horticultural Society.

Kansas State:

Lee R. Skabelund, PLA, ASLA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture / Regional and Community Planning at Kansas State University (KSU).

Conner Bruns, a 5th year Master's of Landscape Architecture student, is interested in weaving sustainable design into the process of creative placemaking.

Kelsey McDonough, a second-year PhD student, is studying Biological & Agricultural Engineering. Her research focuses on urban stormwater management, hydrologic modeling and ecosystem services.