Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
fall 2010 SCHEDULE
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 25 | Mark Brown, Professor, Env. Eng. Sciences Mark Clark, Assistant professor, Soil and Water Sciences | Introduction… food for thought |
| Sept. 1 | Andre Clewell, Ph.D., former FSU faculty, Pres. Emeritus of the Society for Ecological Restoration | Lessons from Howards Prairie: Watershed Degradation and Restoration Approaches |
| Sept. 8 | Roy R. “Robin” Lewis III , President, Lewis Environmental Services, Inc., Salt Springs, FL | Seagrass conservation and restoration in Florida and the Caribbean Sea |
| Sept. 15 | Frank Baker, Environmental Scientist, Florida Watershed Coordinator, EPA | The watershed approach to water quality restoration – everyone is part of the problem, everyone is part of the solution |
| Sept. 22 | Robert Hensley, Ph.D. student, School of Natural Resources and Environment, UF | Morphologic and vegetative controls on solute transport in Florida’s spring-fed rivers |
| Sept. 29 | Mary Paulic, Florida Department of Environmental Protection | The Orange Creek Basin Management Action Plan: A tool for water quality restoration |
| Oct. 6 | Maria Lucia Silveira, Asst. Professor, Soil and Water Science, UF | Pasture fertilization and water quality issues in South Florida |
| Oct. 13 | Bob Swett, Assoc. Professor, Forest Resources and Conservation, UF | Coastal and marine spatial planning in Florida |
| Oct. 20 | Stuart Muller, Ph.D., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF | An adaptive spatially-distributed water-quality model for the coastal Everglades |
| Oct. 27 | Peter Sheng, Associate in Research, Environmental Scientist, The Water Atlas, USF | Effect of wetlands on storm surge and waves |
| Nov. 3 | David Kaplan , Ph.D., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF | An ecohydrological model to assess the restoration potential of a degraded bald cypress (Taxodium distichum [L.] Rich.) floodplain swamp in south Florida (postponed until 01/26/2011) |
| Nov. 10 | Jay Sah, Research Assoc., Southeast Environmental Research Center, FIU | The changing face of endangered species habitat management challenges in the Himalayan Foothill floodplains and Everglades wetland |
| Nov. 17 | Robert Virnstein, Ph.D., Seagrass Ecosystems Analysts | The importance of macroalgae in seagrass ecosystems |
| Dec. 1 | Paul Monaghan, Asst. Professor, Agricultural Education & Communication, UF | Residential landscaping behavior and water quality in Florida: barriers to sustainability and opportunities for change |