Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Fall 2016 Schedule
Wednesdays, 11:45 – 12:35 PM, Phelps Lab 101
Brown bag (bring lunch if you’d like), the public is welcome & students may register for 1 credit:
ENV 6935, SWS 6932, or online: contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for section #
August
| 24 | Mark Brown, Professor, EES Mark Clark, Associate Professor, Soil and water Sciences David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, EES | Introduction to the seminar series…food for thought |
| 31 | Nick Ward, Research Scientist, UF Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, FL | Net ecosystem exchange of carbon in the lower Amazon River |
September
| 7 | Eban Bean, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF | Urban stormwater retrofits: So what if it rains a little? |
| 14 | Elizabeth Anderson, co-Director, Tropical Conservation Institute School of Environment, Arts and Society, Florida International University, Miami, FL | Balancing water needs for humans and nature: Lessons from East Africa and the Andean Amazon |
| 21 | Sivaramakrishnan Balachandar, William F. Powers Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UF | Fundamental multiphase flow simulations of sediment transport – Could they be of relevance and use to ecology, coastal engineering and geosystems |
| 28 | Kai Lorenzen, Professor, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF | Between a rock and a hard place: counterintuitive interventions help conserve fisheries in Asian rice farming landscapes |
October
| 5 | Patrick Christopher Wilson, Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Pesticide risk assessments for surface water bodies in southern Florida |
| 12 | Patrick Inglett, Associate Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | What’s in Store?: Interactive effects of warming, nutrient- and carbon-limitation on decomposition and greenhouse gas production in wetlands |
| 19 | Jenet Dooley, Ecologist/Research Analyst, Solstice Canada Corp., Alberta, Canada | The effect of human influence on North Central Florida soundscapes |
| 26 | Kenneth J. Sulak, Lead Scientist – Coastal Ecology & Conservation Research Group, Sturgeon Quest Leader, Wetlands and Aquatic Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL | The primordial Suwanee River ecosystem – A tale of irreversible human impact |
November
| 2 | Otar Akanyeti, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, UF Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, FL | Following the footsteps of fish: Sensing and moving in aquatic environments |
| 9 | Stan Bronson, Executive Director, Florida Earth Foundation | Innovations in Resiliency – Florida’s New Future Legacy |
| 16 | Simone Athayde, Assoc. Research Scientist, Tropical Conservation & Development Program, Center for Latin American Studies, UF. Co-leader, Amazon Dams Network Elineide Marques, Associate Professor, Federal University of Tocantins, Brazil. Co-leader, Amazon Dams Network | Mapping indigenous responses to hydroelectric dam impacts on bio-cultural diversity across the Amazon |
| 30 | Paul Gader, Professor, Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering, UF | Hyperspectral image analysis of coral reef benthic regions |