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
| 21 | Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor, EES Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS David Kaplan, Associate Professor, EES | Introduction to the seminar series…food for thought |
| 28 | Mark 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
| 4 | Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Trophic and non-trophic drivers of polychlorinated biphenyl biomagnification in southeastern US estuaries (cancelled due to Hurricane Dorian) |
| 11 | Katherine Serafin, Assistant Professor Geography, UF | Compound flood risk in a changing climate |
| 18 | Lisa Chambers, Assistant Professor Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando | Submerging coastal wetland soils: Biogeochemical causes and consequences |
| 25 | Rafael Tinoco, Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Ecohydraulics and Ecomorphodynamics: Identifying flow-sediment-biota interactions through laboratory experiments with living organisms (no recording due to technical difficulties) |
October
| 2 | Jeremiah Henning, Assistant Professor Biology, University of South Alabama | Symbioses in a changing world: Linking observational and experimental approaches to explore plant microbiome response to global change |
| 9 | Lindsey Reisinger, Research Assistant Professor Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF | Crayfish invasions: Biogeographic variation in behavior and parasitism (no recording due to technical difficulties) |
| 16 | Simeon Yurek, Ecologist Wetland and Aquatic Research Center USGS, Gainesville, FL | Predictive modeling of wetland and reef systems under global change uncertainty (waiting on USGS approval for release of recording) |
| 23 | Antarpreet Jutla, Associate Professor Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | The future of flood forecasting |
| 30 | Elliott White, Jr., Ph.D. Candidate Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Detecting saltwater intrusion in coastal floodplain swamps using remote sensing |
November
| 6 | Matt Whiles, Professor and Chair Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Assessing the ecological consequences of declining freshwater biodiversity: Impacts of catastrophic amphibian declines on Central American streams |
| 13 | Lauren Freeman, Oceanographer US Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI | Coral reef soundscapes: Bio-acoustic insights to ecosystem state & fish behavior |
| 20 | Adam Rosenblatt, Assistant Professor Biology, University of North Florida | Can alligators thrive in the Anthropocene? |