Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar

Fall 2015 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

26

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

Introduction to the seminar series…food for thought

September

2	Oldemar Carvalho Júnior, Visiting Scholar, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF	The role of neotropical and giant otters for conservation and social mobilization in Brazil
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
16	Tom Kay, Director, Alachua Conservation Trust, Gainesville, FL	Restoring the bogs and prairies of Little Orange Creek Preserve
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
30	Sanjay Shukla, Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF	Payment for Water Storage and Treatment Services in the Northern Everglades

October

7	David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF	Restore or retreat? Saltwater intrusion and water management in coastal ecosystems
14	Jim Jawitz, Associate Chair and Professor, Soil and Water Science, UF	Why is the flow in Silver Springs decreasing?
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
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

November

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
18	Josefin Thorslund, Visiting Scholar, Stockholm University, Sweden	Can salinity of wetlands reflect their connectivity? Exploring data from Florida

December

2

Carrie Reinhardt-Adams, Associate Professor, Environmental Horticulture, UF

Researching plant invasions and native plant establishment in wetland restoration