Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Fall 2011 Schedule
Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands
Conference Room, Phelps Lab
Wednesdays 11:45 – 12:35 pm
Click on titles to watch the recorded presentations.
August
24 | Mark Brown, Professor, Env. Eng. Sciences Mark Clark, Assistant professor, Soil and Water Sciences | Introduction… food for thought |
31 | Mark Brown, Professor, Env. Eng. Sciences & Director of the H.T. Odum Center for Wetlands | A floating island pilot project for lake phosphorus removal(PDF, sildes only) |
September
7 | Ravi Srinivasan, Asst. Professor, Rinker School of Building Construction, UF | Re(de)fining NetZero Energy: Renewable emergy balance in environmental building design (slides only) |
14 | Laila Racevskis, Asst. Professor, Food and Resource Economics, UF | Ecosystem services: Understanding values, policies and markets in Florida and beyond (slides only) |
21 | Kathryn Frank, Asst. Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, UF | Everglades ecosystem management initiatives: leaders or followers for climate change and sea level rise adaptation (with audio! recording problem fixed) |
28 | Marie Kurz, Ph.D. candidate, Geology, UF | Influence of autotrophic assimilation and other biogeochemical controls on diel elemental cycling in streams |
October
5 | Kimberly Bohn, Asst. Professor, School of Forest Resources & Conservation; Chair Elect, Florida Society of American Foresters | Regeneration and recovery of cypress-tupelo wetlands following logging |
12 | Christine Overdevest, Asst. Professor, Sociology and Criminology & Law, UF | Predicting risk perceptions of expert stakeholders in a Florida water supply planning process |
19 | Sean King, Ph.D. candidate, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Effects of flow on filamentous algae in Florida springs |
26 | Matteo Convertino, Postdoc Research Assoc., Agricultural & Biological Engineering, UF | Decision model drives enhanced adaptive management in response to econo-climate changes (no recording due to technical difficulties, link is to an abstract for more information about this research) |
November
2 | Daeseok Kang, Associate Professor, Department of Ecological Engineering, Pukyong National University, South Korea | Marine peace park initiative as a tool for the collaborative management of ecological and economic resources in the western transboundary coastal area of South Korea |
9 | Tatiana Borisova, Asst. Professor & Extension Specialist, Water Economics and Policy, Food and Resource Economics, UF | Water Issues in Southern US: A survey of public attitudes in 9 southern states |
16 | Tom Swihart, Author & former head of the Office of Water Policy, FDEP | Florida’s Water: A Fragile Resource in a Vulnerable State |
30 | Dan Dourte, Research & Extension Assoc., Agricultural & Biological Engineering, UF | Water Footprint: metaphor or management tool? |
Students may register for 1 hour credit under SWS 4932/section 7076, SWS 6932/section 1506, or ENV 6935/section 7454.