Workshop on Sanitation Policies and Climate Change

Workshop: The impacts of Sanitation Policies on Climate Change Currently 84% of the Brazilian population lives in urban areas where sanitation is critical to the economic and social development. However, the treatment of wastewater is a potential contributor to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Ariane Coelho Brotto, PhD in Environmental Engineering from Columbia University, studies these emissions in several sewage treatment plants in the United States, including New York, Florida and Colorado. In this workshop, Ariane Brotto will share some results made case studies and discuss a sustainable approach to wastewater treatment by developing mitigation mechanisms and the importance of estabilishing an inventory for monitoring these emissions in large cities, such as Rio de Janeiro. Ariane worked with Prof. Kartik Chandran whilst pursuing her PhD at the Department Environmental Engineering of Columbia University. When: June 17 2016, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Where: Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro - Rua Candelária, 9, 301, Centro, Rio de Janeiro Please, Rsvp to riodejaneiro.cgc@columbia.edu The event will be held in Portuguese Ariane Coelho Brotto holds the M.Sc. honors in Geochemistry, B.Sc. and Lic. in Chemistry all from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At SEAS, Ariane earned her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Engineering sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Her research interests lies at the intersection of sanitation, water quality and climate change. As part of her work under the advisement of Dr. Kartik Chandran, she investigated engineered microbial community structure and function in response to operational conditions leading to direct production of greenhouse gases from biological nitrogen removal processes. Recently, Ariane joined the New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection as a Research Scientist.

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