Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar

Fall 2014 Schedule

Wednesdays, 11:45 – 12:35 PM, Phelps Lab 101
Brown bag (bring lunch if you’d like), the public is welcome & students may register for 1 credit:
ENV 6935, SWS 4932, SWS 6932, or online: contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for section #

August

27

Mark Brown, Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS

Introduction…food for thought

September

3	Mark Brown, Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF	Systems Ecology/Ecological Engineering at UF: a 40 year retrospective
10	Robert Hensley, Post-Doctoral Associate, School Forest Resources and Conservation, UF	Measuring nitrogen spiraling in large rivers
17	In lieu of a W3 speaker this week, we invite you to view Dr. Peter Groffman’s talk	15th Annual Soil and Water Science Research Forum Keynote talk: The Bio-Geo-Socio-Chemistry of Nitrogen in Urban Watersheds
24	Christine A. Klein, Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law & Director, LL.M. Program in Environmental & Land Use Law, UF	Mississippi River Tragedies: Unnatural River, Unnatural Disaster (no audio)

October

1	Benjamin Baiser, Assistant Professor,Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF	Causes and consequences of the network structure of food webs (no audio)
8	Estelle Robichaux, Program Analyst, Mississippi River Delta Program, Environmental Defense Fund	Mississippi River Delta Restoration
15	Ellen Herbert, Ph.D. candidate, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University	Eutrophication, Salinization, and Sea-Level Rise: Insights into the effects of multiple stressors on the persistence of tidal wetlands (audio only)
22	Christine VanZomeren, Ph.D. candidate, Soil and Water Science, UF	Biogeochemical cycling of organic nitrogen in subtropical wetlands (audio only)
29	Bruce Nodine, Search, Inc., Gainesville, FL	Historical and cultural resources from a Florida spring (no recording)

November

5	Daniel Slone, Research Ecologist, USGS Southeast Ecological Science Center, UF	Discovery, mapping and characterization of seagrass beds using manatee telemetry, spatial modeling, and a camera-based sampling system
12	Subodh Acharya, Post-Doctoral Associate, School Forest Resources and Conservation, UF	Hydrologic feedbacks and the evolution of ridge-slough pattern in the Everglades
19	Sherry Brandt-Williams, Watershed Section Lead, Supervisory Scientist, St. Johns River Water Management District	Exploring the use of watershed scale numeric indices to plan for large river basin restoration and remediation

December

3

Fangli Su, Shenyang Agricultural University, China

Wetland research in Shuangtai Estuary Wetland in China