Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Fall 2013 Schedule
Wednesdays 11:45 – 12:35 pm, Phelps Lab Seminar Room
The public is welcome & students may register for 1 credit: SOS 6932 or ENV 6935
August
September
| 4 | No seminar | The 14th Annual Soil and Water Science Research Forum was on Friday, September 6 |
| 11 | Simone Athayde, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Center for Latin American Studies, UF | Who owns the rivers? Hydroelectric energy, climate change and the future of the Amazon |
| 18 | Vimala Nair, Research Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | New approaches for predicting phosphorus release from wetland soils |
| 25 | Jane Southworth, Professor, Geography, UF | Climate variability and vegetation change in southern Africa |
October
| 2 | Corene J. Matyas, Associate Professor, Geography, UF | Tropical cyclone rainfall over land |
| 9 | David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences | Evidence for a significant nexus between isolated wetlands and downstream water bodies |
| 16 | Brett Goodman, Senior Project Engineer, Jones Edmunds & Associates , Inc. | Recovery and prevention strategies for the Clay-Putnam area lakes |
| 23 | Shirley Baker, Associate Professor, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF | Preparing for climate change: Bivalve aquaculture in Florida |
| 30 | Peter Frederick, Research Professor, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF | Oyster reef restoration in the southeastern U.S. |
November
| 6 | Neal Beery, PhD Candidate, Soil and Water Science, UF | Floating treatment wetlands as a stormwater best management practice in North Central Florida |
| 13 | Vibhava Srivastava, Water Institute, UF; PhD Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF | Geologic, vegetative and climatic controls on coupled hydrologic processes in a complex river basin: Lessons learned From a fully integrated hydrologic model |
| 20 | Todd Osborne, Assistant Research Professor, Soil and Water Science, UF | Florida’s organic soil crisis: case studies for soil and water quality management |