Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
fall 2015 SCHEDULE
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 26 | Mark Brown, Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS | Introduction to the seminar series…food for thought |
| Sept. 2 | Oldemar Carvalho Júnior, Visiting Scholar, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | The role of neotropical and giant otters for conservation and social mobilization in Brazil |
| Sept. 9 | Hal Knowles, III, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Natural Resources and Environment; Change Agent, PREC, UF | Home is where the heart is: Complexity, pattern, and meaning in short interval residential electric Smart Meter Data |
| Sept. 16 | Tom Kay, Director, Alachua Conservation Trust, Gainesville, FL | Restoring the bogs and prairies of Little Orange Creek Preserve |
| Sept. 23 | Nikki Dix, Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ponte Vedra Bch., FL | The role of a National Estuarine Research Reserve in addressing the science and management of wetlands |
| Sept. 30 | Sanjay Shukla, Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF | Payment for Water Storage and Treatment Services in the Northern Everglades |
| Oct. 7 | David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Restore or retreat? Saltwater intrusion and water management in coastal ecosystems |
| Oct. 14 | Jim Jawitz, Associate Chair and Professor, Soil and Water Science, UF | Why is the flow in Silver Springs decreasing? |
| Oct. 21 | Peter Frederick, Research Professor, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department, UF | Restoration of oyster reefs and their ecological services in the Big Bend of Florida |
| Oct. 28 | Jon Martin, Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor, Geological Sciences, UF | Why should we care about Greenland watersheds? Reactions, runoff, and rising sea level |
| Nov. 4 | Scott Zengel, Vice President and Director of Environmental Sciences, Research Planning, Inc., Tallahassee, FL | Heavily oiled salt marsh following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, ecological comparisons of shoreline cleanup treatments and recovery |
| Nov. 18 | Josefin Thorslund, Visiting Scholar, Stockholm University, Sweden | Can salinity of wetlands reflect their connectivity? Exploring data from Florida |
| Dec. 2 | Carrie Reinhardt-Adams, Associate Professor, Environmental Horticulture, UF | Researching plant invasions and native plant establishment in wetland restoration |