Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar

Fall 2019 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 #

August
21Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor, EES
Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS
David Kaplan, Associate Professor, EES
Introduction to the seminar series…food for thought
28Mark Clark, Associate Professor
Katie Glodzik, Postdoctoral Associate Soil and Water Sciences, UF
Formation of floating wetlands in the Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas and their detection using an Unmanned Aerial System (aka drone)
September
4Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor Environmental Engineering Sciences, UFTrophic and non-trophic drivers of polychlorinated biphenyl biomagnification in southeastern US estuaries (cancelled due to Hurricane Dorian)
11Katherine Serafin, Assistant Professor Geography, UFCompound flood risk in a changing climate
18Lisa Chambers, Assistant Professor Biology, University of Central Florida, OrlandoSubmerging coastal wetland soils: Biogeochemical causes and consequences
25Rafael Tinoco, Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignEcohydraulics and Ecomorphodynamics: Identifying flow-sediment-biota interactions through laboratory experiments with living organisms (no recording due to technical difficulties)
October
2Jeremiah Henning, Assistant Professor Biology, University of South AlabamaSymbioses in a changing world: Linking observational and experimental approaches to explore plant microbiome response to global change
9Lindsey Reisinger, Research Assistant Professor Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UFCrayfish invasions: Biogeographic variation in behavior and parasitism (no recording due to technical difficulties)
16Simeon Yurek, Ecologist Wetland and Aquatic Research Center USGS, Gainesville, FLPredictive modeling of wetland and reef systems under global change uncertainty (waiting on USGS approval for release of recording)
23Antarpreet Jutla, Associate Professor Environmental Engineering Sciences, UFThe future of flood forecasting
30Elliott White, Jr., Ph.D. Candidate Environmental Engineering Sciences, UFDetecting saltwater intrusion in coastal floodplain swamps using remote sensing
November
6Matt Whiles, Professor and Chair Soil and Water Sciences, UFAssessing the ecological consequences of declining freshwater biodiversity: Impacts of catastrophic amphibian declines on Central American streams
13Lauren Freeman, Oceanographer US Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RICoral reef soundscapes: Bio-acoustic insights to ecosystem state & fish behavior
20Adam Rosenblatt, Assistant Professor Biology, University of North FloridaCan alligators thrive in the Anthropocene?