Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Spring 2008 Schedule
Wednesdays 11:45 – 12:35 pm, Phelps Lab Seminar Room
Public is welcome & Students may register for 1 credit: SOS 6932, sec.9241 OR ENV 6935, sec.8391
January
| 9 | Mark Brown, Interim Director, Center for Wetlands | Introduction… food for thought |
| 16 | Katherine C. Ewel, Professor Emerita, UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation | Tropical Coastal Landscapes: Broadening our Horizons |
| 23 | Cynthia Barnett, author, “Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.” | Water scarcity in a land of plenty |
| 30 | Mark Brenner, Assoc. Professor, UF Geological Sciences Department & Director, Land Use and Environmental Change Institute (LUECI) | The Lake Peten-Itza Drilling Program: New Methods for Studying Past Environments |
February
| 6 | H. Carl Fitz, Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology, UF Soil and Water Science Department (Ft. Laud. Res. & Education Center) | Florida Department of Transportation Wetland Mitigation Program at the Southwest Florida Water Management District |
| 13 | Mark M. Brown, PWS, CPSS, Senior Environmental Scientist, SWFWMD & Mitigation Program Manager, FDOT | Florida Department of Transportation Wetland Mitigation Program at the Southwest Florida Water Management District |
| 20 | Mary Jane Angelo, Associate Professor of Law, UF | Recent Developments in Federal Wetlands Law |
| 26 | Roy R. “Robin” Lewis III, Certified Professional Wetlands Scientist; Member, Board of Directors, Putnam County Environmental Council | Changes in the Ocklawaha River Watershed and Their Potential Impact on Forested Floodplain Plant Communities – Request for Research Assistance |
March
| 5 | Danielle Watts, Doctoral candidate, UF School of Natural Resource and Environment | Environmental clues for Everglades alternative stable states: the ridge/slough mosaic |
| 19 | Sherry Brandt-Williams, Ph.D., Environmental Scientist V , St. Johns Water Mgmt. District | Development of pollutant load reduction goals for impaired waters |
| 26 | BJ Bukata, Environmental Scientist Alan Foley, Water Resources Engineer, Jones Edmunds & Associates | Several Stormwater Retrofit Case Studies in Florida Using Treatment Wetlands |
April
| 2 | Jim Jawitz, Associate Professor, UF Soil and Water Science Department | Mechanistic modeling of water and nutrient dynamics in wetlands |
| 9 | Sue Newman, Senior Supervising Environmental Scientist, Marsh Ecology Research Group, Everglades Division, South FL Water Mgmt. District | Can we restore function to nutrient enriched areas of the Everglades?: The Cattail Habitat Improvement Project |
| 16 | Jim Weimer, Biologist, Paynes Prairie Reserve State Park Carol Lippincott Ph.D., Program Manager, St. Johns River Water Mgmt. District | Sweetwater Branch / Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration Project |
| 23 | John Hendrickson, Environmental Scientist, St. Johns River Water Management District | Characterizing N-enriched Spring Run Load Change Following Reservoir Removal and Effect on a N-limited Blackwater River: Developing a Framework for Mitigating the Lower Ocklawaha River Restoration |