Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminars
Fall 2026 Schedule
Since 1973, the Center for Wetlands has hosted a weekly seminar every Wednesday from 11:45 AM – 12:35 PM (EST), bringing together research and practice in wetlands, water and watersheds.
The series is open to the public and in person in Phelps Lab and via livestream/recording on YouTube.
Students may enroll for one credit (ENV 6935, SWS 4932 or SWS 6932).
Below is the Fall 2026 seminar schedule.
| Date | Presenter | Title | Details | Video Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 26 | Mark Clark, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Soil & Water Sciences David Kaplan, Ph.D. Professor, Env. Eng. Sciences | Introduction to the seminar series, academic programs, research centers | ||
| Sept. 2 | Mike Osland, Ph.D. Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center | Rapid peat development beneath maturing mangrove forests: ecosystem changes across a 25-year chronosequence | More info | View |
| Sept. 9 | Fangfang Yao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Geosciences, University of South Florida | Understanding the Changing Water Cycle and Water Crises in the Anthropocene: Human and climate threats to global lakes and implications for ecosystems and societies | More info | View |
| Sept. 16 | Miles Medina, Ph.D. President, ECCO Scientific | Water quality trends and eutrophication indicators in a large subtropical estuary: A case study of the Greater Charlotte Harbor system in Southwest Florida | More info | View |
| Sept. 23 | David Lewis, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida | Ecohydrological changes as hallmarks of urbanization in the Tampa Bay region | More info | |
| Sept. 30 | John Bowden, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology, UF Department of Physiological Sciences | Exploring the presence of PFAS in both our natural and built environments | More info | |
| Oct. 7 | Alexis Jackson, Ph.D. Candidate, UF ESSIE/Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands | Connecting hydrologic patterns and vegetation composition to wetland carbon storage across different spatial and temporal scales | ||
| Oct. 14 | Sophia R. Mercurio, Ph.D. Research Scientist, UF ESSIE | Sediment composition and geotechnical characterization of a tidal mudflat in Cedar Key, Florida | ||
| Oct. 21 | Andrew Altieri, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for Coastal Solutions, UF ESSIE | TBA | ||
| Oct. 28 | Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Danfoss Faculty Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering | The role of soil moisture and rainfall in shaping inland flood events | ||
| Nov. 4 | Admin Husic, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Water Resources Engineering, Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory, Virginia Tech | What big data can do for water quality: reconstructing and attributing change in rivers | ||
| Nov. 18 | Oana Dumitru, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, UF | Reconstructing past sea-level changes using fossil corals | ||
| Dec. 2 | Jesús “Chucho” Gómez Vélez, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIHR – Hydroscience and Engineering, Iowa State University | The Global Conveyor: How River Corridor Connectivity Shapes Water Quality |