April 2012
In April, Primodal will travel to Ottawa to participate in the Annual WEAO conference and Portland Oregon to participate in the National Water Quality Monitoring Council’s (NWQMC) 8th National Monitoring Conference – Water: One Resource – Shared Effort – Common Future to be held in Portland, Oregon from April 30 - May 4, 2012.

March 2012
Primodal presented at the IWA Regional Conference on Wastewater Purification & Reuse, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, March 28 - 30, 2012. Paper: Modeling The Dan Region Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation Project. Belia E., Kraitzer T., Icekson-Tal N. and SelaY. In addition, Primodal was invited to the 2012 Ohio Business Matchmaker at Wright State University Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio on March 20 and 21to build on their success working with the City of Cincinnati and meet other neighboring municipalities and interested parties.

February 2012
Primodal staff attended the 3rd bienniel WWTMOD modelling seminar in Mont Sainte Anne, Quebec, Canada where a paper on influent characterisation co-authored by Dr Copp was presented. Paper: Rethinking Wastewater Characterization Methods –
A Position Paper. Choubert J-M, Rieger L.,Shaw A., Copp J.B., Sperandio M., Soerensen K., Rönner-Holm S., Morgenroth E., Melcer H. and Gillot S. At the same conference, Dr Belia chaired the Good Modelling Practice technical session, was a panel member for the 'Use of Models: Practice versus Academia' group discussion and was elected to the posoition of co-Chair for the 2016 WWTMod modelling seminar by her peers.

January 2012
Primodal staff attended the WEF Mid-Year Meeting in New Orleans, USA. Dr Copp attended the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Design Committee meeting and took part in the Supplementary Carbon Task Force meeting where he has been asked to take the lead on the development of a white paper on modelling supplementary carbon addition for nutrient removal.

December 2012
Primodal travelled to the UK and continental Europe in separate trips to attend project meetings and teach an exclusive modelling course (using WEST) for a French client at their facility.

October 2011
Primodal staff attended and presented at WEFTEC 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Dr Copp co-chaired Workshop 203: Using a Process Model for Plant Upgrades: Modeling 201. Dr Belia chaired Session 82, Process Modeling as an Operational Tool and co-chaired Session 83, Activated Sludge Process Operation and Foam Control. Both Drs Copp and Belia attended several committee meetings while in Los Angeles including a DOUT information session, a MEGA sub-committee meeting and the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Design Committee meeting. Dr Belia is also a member of the WEF Plant Operations & Maintenance Committee and participated in their meeting as well.

September 2011
Dr. Belial travelled to Budapest where she chaired a workshop entitled 'How close to your permit do you design or operate your plant? Effluent regulations, sampling strategies and risk', 11th IWA Specialized Conference “Design, Operation and Economics of Large Waste Water Treatment Plants”, Budapest, Hungary, 06 September 2011.

Dr Copp travelled to the eastern seaboard to teach a dedicated modelling course on the use of BioWin and GPS-X to a client using both software packages.

June 2011
Dr. Copp traveled to St. John's Newfoundland to present a paper on real-time data quality evaluation inside the RSM30 using the PrecisionNow data evaluation module plug-in.

Dr Copp presented 'Capital Cost Savings Through Model-Based Design to Optimize Assets' at the WEAO Whole WWTP Modeling: Overview. Tools & Future Needs seminar in Toronto on June 23, 2011.

Dr. Belia will travel to Europe to attend a DOUT Task Group meeting aimed at finalising the Scientific and Technical Report on model uncertainty. The publication date for the STR is set for later this year or early in 2012.

May 2011
Dr. Copp and Dr Belia had papers accepted for two conferences including Watermatex 2011 in San Sebastian, Spain and Mess- und Regelungstechnik in abwassertechnischen Anlagen 2011 in Fulda, Germany.

January 2011
Dr. Belia attended the Nutrient Recovery and Management 2011conference in Miami
Florida, USA. January 9-12, 2011.

Dr. Belia and Dr. Copp attended the WEF 2011 mid-year meeting in Los Angeles,
USA as members of the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Design Committee, and Plant Operations and Maintenance Committee.

October 2010
Dr. Belia and Dr. Copp attended and presented at WEFTEC 2010 in New Orleans,
USA. Dr Belia Chaired Workshop 203: How will your Wastewater Plant Really Run? Evaluating Risk in Design and Operation, New Orleans, October 3rd. Dr Belia also chaired session 43: Modeling vs. Reality: Applying Ideal Solutions to a Non-Ideal World., Tuesday, October 5, 2010.

Primodal Systems' partner ifak from Magdeburg, Germany will attend the 2nd IFAC
Symposium on Telematics Applications in Timisoara, Romania from October 5th to the
8th, 2010, and present a co-authored paper on the RSM30 monitoring station.
PAPER: Hübner C, Thron M, Copp JB, Rieger L and Vanrolleghem PR (2010) Engineering Challenges and Approaches in Water Quality Monitoring Networks. Proceedings of the 2nd IFAC Symposium on Telematics Applications.Timisoara, Romania, October 5 - 8, 2010.

September 2010
Dr. Belia attended and presented at the IWA World Congress and Exhibition in Montreal, Canada. Dr Belia organised the workshop: Explicitly dealing with uncertainty in WWTP design and operation, September 20th, 2010.

August 2010
Dr. Copp attended the CASE 2010 conference in Toronto, Canada where he Chaired a session on Distributed Networks and presented a paper on the RSM30 monitoring station.
PAPER: Copp JB, Belia E, Hübner C, Thron M, Vanrolleghem PR, and Rieger L (2010) Towards the Automation of Water Quality Monitoring Networks. Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE). Toronto, Canada. August 21-24 2010.

April 2010
Dr. Copp attended the Seventh National Monitoring Conference - Monitoring From the Summit to the Sea from April 25th to the 29th, 2010 in Denver, CO.

March 2010
Dr. Belia and Dr. Copp attended and presented at WWTMOD, the 2nd IWA/WEF Wastewater Treatment Modeling Seminar in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec, Canada. Dr Belia organised a workshop titled: Interdisciplinary Meeting on Uncertainty, March 31st, 2010. Dr Belia chaired the Uncertainty Session.

February 2010
Dr. Belia attended the WEF mid-year meeting in New Orleans where she participated in a number of workshops and break-out sessions.

October 2009
Dr. Belia and Dr. Copp attended and presented at WEFTEC 2009 in Orlando, USA. Dr Copp developed and Co-Chaired with Ken Brischke (MWH) a workshop entitled 'Using Calibrated Models in Treatment Plant Design', on Saturday and on Sunday, Dr Copp presented 'Modeling the Aeration System for Efficiency: More Than Just The Air Flow' during the 'Reducing Your Carbon Footprint and Saving Energy Through System-Wide Optimization' workshop.