Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Fall 2017 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 4932, or SWS 6932, or online: contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for SWS section #
August
| 4 | Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor, EES Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, EES | Introduction to the seminar series…food for thought |
| 30 | Greg Kiker, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF Steve Leitman, Waters Without Border; Adjunct Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, FSU, Tallahassee, FL | Can we have our lakes and drink them, too? Water resources modeling in the complex and conflicted Apalachicola / Chattahoochee / Flint River Basin |
September
| 6 | Alexander J. (“AJ”) Reisinger, Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Connectivity and biogeochemistry within urban landscapes: Examples from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study |
| 13 | Jehangir H. Bhadha (Jango), Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF Everglades Research & Education Center, Belle Glade, FL | Phosphorus management through sustainable agricultural practices (cancelled due to Hurricane Irma) |
| 20 | Miles Medina, Ph.D. Candidate, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF | Diagnosing drivers of environmental noncompliance in constructed treatment wetlands: A nonlinear dynamics approach |
| 27 | Masanori Fujimoto, Research Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Nutrient cycles mediated by microbes in the Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas (no recording) |
October
| 4 | James Jawitz, Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Through the hidden veins of the earth: How do water and solutes get to Silver Springs? |
| 11 | Matthew Cohen, Associate Professor, School of Forest & Resources Conservation, UF | On light and limitation: Controls on primary production in flowing waters |
| 18 | Elise Morrison, Ph.D. Candidate, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Microbial community structure within tropical and subtropical peatlands |
| 25 | Nathan Reaver, Graduate Fellow, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Swept Away: Interactions between hydrology and primary producers in Florida Springs |
November
| 1 | Katie Glodzik , Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Saltwater intrusion and hydrologic change impacts to Florida’s Big Bend coastal wetlands |
| 8 | Amy Langston, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Effects of climate change and top-down biotic controls on coastal forest trajectories on Florida’s Big Bend coast |
| 15 | Charlie Martin, Research Assistant Professor, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station, Cedar Key, FL | Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on estuarine fauna and flora: Incorporating an experimental approach to determine coastal resiliency |
| 29 | Jiangxiao Qiu , Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources & Conservation, UF Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, Davie, FL | Alternative futures for ecosystem service dynamics and tradeoffs in an agriculture-dominated watershed |