Walter Jacob Weber Jr.

RIP my friend. Remembering the several times we flew a little plane to Oscoda to establish the National Center for Integrated Biological Research and Development, or "NiceBird" as you called it.

My deepest sympathy to all Walt's family for his loss. Walt and I were friends and business partners for over 25 years. He was not only a great educator and scientist but also a gifted entrepreneur. QED Environmental Systems in Dexter is just one of his may legacies. He will be missed by all who knew him
Jim Bennington

I am deeply saddened by hearing about the passing of Dr. Weber, who had a profound impact on my life in many ways. I was one of his Ph.D. students from 1998 to 2002, and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow with him from 2003 to 2006. I cherished the time working with Dr. Weber as a student and as a colleague, and had learned a great deal from him in knowledge and more importantly in the way of thinking. Dr. Weber emphasized critical thinking, always encouraging us to get to the bottom of...

May your hearts soon be filled with wonderful memories of joyful times together as you celebrate a life well lived.

Where to begin. I met him in 1969 as an undergraduate at Michigan when I worked in the Water Resources program doing grunt work pulling data points. Great times working there over the next 4 years. Even was one of the first employees of Environmental Dynamics Inc. No doubt he was a big factor in my becoming an Environmental Engineering professor today. I owe him much.

A fine colleague and mentor for others.

RIP.

I met Walt through our joint mentor, Werner Stumm. Werner was Walt's advisor at Harvard, and they worked on a very important problem, the buffering of natural waters by carbonates. Best of all, I was fortunate to give the Walter J. Weber Jr. Distinguished Lecture at the University of Michigan in 2004. It was then that I spent the most time with Walt one-on-one, and I learned a great deal about sorption chemistry from the master. Always a gentleman, he taught a generation of us what it means...

My condolences are extended to the Weber family. During my 11 year association with Walt via an EPA center, I learned a lot about science and life issues. On occasions we would switch name tags and use each others names during introductions. This side of Walt was symbolic of his love of life and people.

As an environmental engineer, our profession mourns the loss of Walt. He was one of the first generation of environmental engineers who approached the profession and his research from an understanding of the fundamentals associated with the problem; he insisted on competent solutions to the problems he dealt with that were based on the related science of the issues.

I knew Walt from sharing the same career with him, working with him on a project at one time, from studying his...