Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Fall 2012 Schedule
Wednesdays 11:45 – 12:35 pm, Phelps Lab Seminar Room
Public is welcome & Students may register for 1 credit: SOS 6932 or ENV 6935
August
| 22 | Mark Brown, Professor, Env. Eng. Sciences
Mark Clark, Assistant professor, Soil and Water Sciences | Introduction… food for thought |
| 29 | Louise Venne, Ph.D. Graduate, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF | Wading bird response to fire in the everglades
(no recording) |
September
| 5 | Lisa G. Chambers, Ph.D. Graduate, Soil and Water Science Department, UF | Coastal wetlands and sea level rise: the biogeochemical effects of increased salinity and inundation on soil carbon |
| 12 | Kathleen McKee, Research Coordinator, Water Institute, UF | Sustainable water in a changing hydrologic cycle |
| 19 | Stefan Gerber, Asst. Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Modeling Effects of Nitrogen Availability and Land-Use on Land Carbon Sequestration |
| 26 | Bob Knight, Director, H. T. Odum Florida Springs Institute & President, Wetlands Solutions, Inc. | HTO’s Springs Legacy |
October
| 3 | Flavio Hazan, Ph.D. candidate, ABE, UF & Program for Resource Efficient Communities | Evaluating master planned communities’ design impacts on water quality using the Watershed Assessment Model (WAM): The Restoration project case study |
| 10 | Angelique Bochnak, Environmental Scientist IV, St. Johns River Water Mgmt District | The impact of water resource management on ecohydrology of peat-based wetland ecosystems |
| 17 | Ann Shortelle, Executive Director, Suwannee River Water Management District | Minimum Flows and Levels: A Wild Ride Down the River |
| 24 | Andrew LoSchiavo, Adaptive Management Coordinator for Everglades Restoration Program, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL | What is Adaptive Management? and How is science used in ecosystem restoration decision? |
| 31 | David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Flow Rating Curves in the Everglades ridge and slough mosaic: Exploring Landscape-Scale Hydraulic Geometry |
November
| 7 | Joseph Delesantro, graduate student, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF | Disentangling the effects of mean water level and hydrologic variation on wetland structure and function |
| 14 | David Pfahler, Ph.D. candidate, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Maximizing sustainable production: Balancing water, carbon, and energy at the watershed scale |
| 28 | Chris Keller, Project Manager & Environmental Engineer, Wetland Solutions, Inc. | Groundwater recharge wetlands |