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The CD-ROM version of this course will begin shipping on September 25, 2003.
Drinking water treatment plants and distribution systems have been recognized as key targets for bioterrorism.
This course provides the necessary foundation bioterrorism preparedness. The intended audience includes public health agency employees, drinking water plant operators and managers, environmental health authorities, and emergency response planners at the federal, state, and local levels.
Bioterrorism and Drinking Water Systems outlines key concepts in distribution system targeting, utility planning and preparedness, biological organism survey, fate of biowarfare agents in drinking water systems, challenges faced in detecting biowarefare agents, and the remediation of systems impacted by a biowarfare attack.
Introduction - why distribution systems are a potential target
Utility planning - the steps involved in preparing for bioterrorism
Organisms in bioterrorism
Fate of organisms in drinking water systems
Difficulties in detection
Remediation of systems
Summary
Anne Camper is a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering, Montana State University, where she holds the rank of Associate Professor. She is also an adjunct Associate Professor in Microbiology. Anne has been a member of the Center for Biofilm Engineering, a National Science Engineering Research Center, since its inception in 1990. At present she is also the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Engineering.
Her educational background is diverse; she has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in microbiology and her Ph.D. is in civil/environmental engineering. Before pursuing her Ph.D., she worked as a researcher for over fifteen years investigating bacterial physiology, disinfection of organisms, organisms in industrial settings, and biofilms. These research interests have continued to the present. Over the past seven years, she has been the principle investigator on numerous projects focused on the understanding and control of biofilms in low-nutrient aqueous environments. The majority of the work has been in drinking water systems. In addition, she has been fortunate to begin a research program where the physiology of biofilm bacteria has been targeted. At present, she leads a large research effort to determine the fate and transport of bacterial pathogens in drinking water systems.
She is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation. Within the AWWA, she is presently serving on five national committees.
Honors include the American Academy for Microbiology Foundation Lecturer’s program speaker and the Wiley Award for Meritorious Research at Montana State University. She has given over 50 invited presentations and is the author on over 40 peer-reviewed publications and a number of book chapters. She also serves as a consultant to industries with microbiological issues associated with clean water systems.
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