Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
fall 2020 SCHEDULE
Webinar format until further notice, Zoom links will be provided to students.
***The public can view livestreams and recordings on our YouTube channel.***
Students may register for 1 credit: ENV 6935, SWS 4932, or SWS 6932, contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for SWS section #.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 2 | Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor, EES Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS David Kaplan, Associate Professor, EES | Introduction to the seminar series…food for thought |
| Sept. 9 | Cherie Westbrook, Professor, Department of Geography & Planning, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan | Wetlands be dammed? |
| Sept. 16 | John Kominoski, Associate Professor, Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL | Understanding interactions among discrete and continuous disturbances in coastal ecosystems |
| Sept. 23 | Vince Lovko, Senior Scientist and Phytoplankton Ecology Research Program Manager, Mote Marine Lab, Sarasota, FL | Changes in phytoplankton community structure as an indicator of ecosystem disturbance |
| Sept. 30 | Natasha Woods, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Moravian College, Bethlehem PA | Community disassembly and reassembly in maritime forests |
| Oct. 7 | Eric Milbrandt, Marine Laboratory Director, Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation Sanibel, FL | A large hypoxic event in the eastern Gulf of Mexico associated with the 2018 red tide bloom |
| Oct. 14 | Ashley Smyth, Assistant Professor, Department of Soil and Water Sciences, Tropical Research & Education Center, UF | Climate change impacts on ecosystem functions and services of seagrass beds |
| Oct. 21 | Anna Braswell, Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF | Conceptualizing coastal wetlands in a macroscale framework |
| Oct. 28 | Elizabeth Staugler, Extension Agent, Charlotte County, Florida Sea Grant, IFAS/UF | Communicating complex ecosystem science for greater impact at local levels |
| Nov. 4 | Charles Scaife, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA | From soils to catchments: a hydrologic perspective of vegetation-climate interactions across scales |
| Nov. 18 | Amanda Spivak, Associate Professor, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA | Soil organic carbon development and turnover in natural and disturbed salt marsh environments |
| Nov. 2 | Wesley Anderson, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF | Impacts of an invasive ecosystem engineer upon wetlands and aquatic communities across a subtropical agroecosystem |