2024 Salt Symposium
The 2024 Salt Symposium will be held August 6-7, 2024. This event celebrates the optimization of salt use to improve community sustainability and protect vital freshwater systems and infrastructure.
The Salt Symposium brings together leaders from diverse economic sectors to learn about the impacts of chloride and reduction methods. Professionals from across the world will share their expertise on current research initiatives including water softening, wastewater, fertilizer, snow and ice management, and more.
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2024 Speaker Agenda
Tree Browning Monitoring Program
James Morin, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
Improving Softening Efficiency in Multi-family Buildings
Clare Oleksiak, Sustain Dane
Centralized Softening as a Solution to Chloride Pollution: An Empirical Analysis
Baishali Bakshi, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.
Documentation of Prediction of Increasing Groundwater Chloride in the Twin Cities, Minnesota
John McDaris, University of Minnesota
Chloride from Agriculture
Eric Peterson, Illinois State University
Salt Optimization Program
Tim Young, City of Waukesha, Wisconsin
Chloride in Soil: From Nutrient to Soil Pollutant
Christoph-Martin Geilfus, Geisenheim University, Germany
Reducing Residential Salt use in New Construction
Emily Jones, Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District, Wisconsin
Harnessing Solar Energy through Noise Barriers and Snow Fencing
Mijia Yang, North Dakota State University
Relative Effectiveness of Rock Salt, Salt Brine and Beet Brine in Parking Lot Maintenance
Lorna Murison, Credit Valley Conservation, Ontario
Influence of Roads on Chloride Levels
Ryan Sorichetti, Ontario Ministry of the Environment
The Power and Challenges of Acetates
Kim Engle, Cryotech
Panel Discussion on Pavement Monitoring
Tina Greenfield, Iowa Department of Transportation
Bob Miller, City of North Chicago, Illinois
Confirming 3rd Expert
Panel Discussion on Heated Pavements
Amy Hanson, City of Plymouth, Minnesota
Jeff Genova, City of Holland, Michigan
Confirming 3rd Expert
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