Seminar Schedule Fa11 – Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands

Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands
Conference Room, Phelps Lab
Wednesdays 11:45 – 12:35 pm

Click on titles to watch the recorded presentations.

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)

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*

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)

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.

Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands