Several of us also presented posters at the event. In the poster competition, Wilson Beita-Sandi<\/strong> came in second place (\u201cIon Exchange Resins Effectively Reduce Disinfection Byproducts Precursors in a Single Treatment\u201d<\/em>) whereas I came in third place (\u201cDissolved CO2 \u2013 An Alternative for Cleaning Inorganic Scale from RO Membranes\u201d<\/em>) and \u00c7a\u011fri Utku Erdem<\/strong> received fourth place (\u201cCompositional changes of Dissolved Organic Matter following Prescribed Fire on Forested Watersheds and their effect on Drinking Water Supply\u201d<\/em>).<\/p>\n 1) Jack Chapman; 2) Mahmut Ersan; 3) Wilson Beita-Sandi; 4) Zuo Zhou; 5) Victoria Guerrero; 6) Dr. David Ladner; 7) Rong Yu; 8) Rasna Sharmin; 9) Lucy Zhang; 10) Sarah Hennessy; 11) Joseph Green 12) Erin Hughes<\/em><\/p>\n Not only did the SCEC allowed us to do networking with other water researchers in the state, but it also offered some social events such as a Sunday morning kick-off 5K run\/walk on the boardwalk and beach, several competitions and a cornhole contest.<\/p>\n If I had to describe what the SCEC meant to me in a few words, I would say it was an interesting and fun experience. We got to meet other professionals, we were presented with the opportunity to briefly talk about our future research and we got to learn about what other researchers are currently working on. It was also a nice opportunity to mingle with some students from the University of South Carolina, College of Charleston and Coastal Carolina University on a YP Happy Hour in Margaritaville at Broadway at the Beach and a lunch at an Indian buffet.<\/p>\n What else could I say? Attending conferences should definitely be on every student\u2019s checklist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To continue Clemson\u2019s yearly tradition, our research group was encouraged by our advisor – Dr. David Ladner – to attend[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[34,46,43],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","tag-conference","tag-poster-competition","tag-scec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SCEC2017.png?fit=1419%2C808&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FV6M-hM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cecas.clemson.edu\/ladnergroup\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170313_173808649-1.jpg?resize=690%2C483&ssl=1\")
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