Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Fall 2018 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, or SWS 6932, or online: contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for SWS section #
PDF version for posting on bulletin boards.
August
| 22 | Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor, EES Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS David Kaplan, Associate Professor, EES | Introduction to the seminar series…food for thought |
| 29 | Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF | Are pesticides and other chemical micropollutants at present the large-scale driver of freshwater ecological impairment in Europe? (no recording) |
September
| 5 | Silvia M. M. Gutierre, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of West Florida | Effects of native and non-native fish predators on the Florida native apple snail Pomacea paludosa |
| 12 | Jimmy Liao, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, UF, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, FL | Hydrodynamics of fish locomotion |
| 19 | Julien Martin, Research Wildlife Biologist, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL | Decision analysis for a better integration of science and management (recording not yet available to the public) |
| 26 | Wesley Daniel, Cherokee Nation Technology, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL | Tracking the spread of nonindigenous aquatic species from hurricane storm surge and flooding: a new tool by the USGS NAS database (recording not yet available to the public) |
October
| 3 | Sam Smidt, Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Increased water use intensity and implications for future irrigation management |
| 17 | Basil Iannone, Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF | Stormwater ponds: the role of an abundance engineered ecosystem on plant invasions |
| 24 | Geraldine Klarenberg, Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF | Abundance modeling of Horseshoe Crabs (Limulus polyphemus) in Florida to explore temporal dynamics and the importance of site variability |
| 31 | Ed Camp, Assistant Professor, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF | Model based research and tools supporting fisheries management decisions |
November
| 7 | Nathan Reaver, Graduate Fellow, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Quantifying and predicting three-dimensional heterogeneity in river transient storage using roving profiling |
| 14 | Vincent Lecours, Assistant Professor, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences / Geomatics, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF | What lurks below, or how to better understand benthic habitats |
| 28 | Andrew Altieri, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, ESSIE, UF | Life After Death on Caribbean Coral Reefs |