Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar

Spring 2011 Schedule

Wednesdays 11:45 – 12:35 pm, Phelps Lab Seminar Room
Public is welcome & Students may register for 1 credit: SOS 6932

January
5Mark Brown, Professor EES Mark Clark, Asst. professor, SWSIntroduction… food for thought
12Andrea Gaughan, PhD candidate, Geography, UFClimate-land interaction in the Okavango-Kwando-Zambezi catchment of southern Africa
19Tom Ankerson, Director, Conservation Clinic, Center for Governmental Responsibility, Law, UFWoody material in Florida streams: science, policy, and proposed Best Management Practices, An Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the College of Law Conservation Clinic and IGERT AMW3
26David Kaplan, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Forest Resources & Conservation, UFAn ecohydrological model to assess the restoration potential of a degraded bald cypress (Taxodium distichum [L.] Rich.) floodplain swamp in south Florida
February
2Ken Krauss, PhD, Research Ecologist, USGS, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LAThe consequences of stress on water use characteristics of tidal freshwater forested wetlands and mangroves of the Southeast (.ppt, no audio)
9Adam Watts, Graduate Fellow, UF Fire Lab, School of Natural Resources and EnvironmentFire in cypress swamps of South Florida
23Anna Cathey, PhD candidate, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFA coupled hydrologic and fish population model for the annually flood pulsed Okavango Delta, Botswana
March
2Chris Martinez, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFOysters or People? An analysis of drought in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) basin, past forecasts, current forecasts, and the NOAA/Drought Forecast Center pilot in the ACF
16Ray Huffaker, Professor, Food and Resource Economics, UFDetecting deterministic structure in historical ecosystems data
23Steve Walsh, PhD, Southeast Ecological Science Center, USGSRole of hydrologic connectivity to conservation and management of aquatic biodiversity in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) basin
30Daniel McLaughlin, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UFInferring ecosystem services of North Florida cypress domes using hydrologic evaluations
April
6Tom Frazer, Professor & Assoc. Director, School of Forest Resources and ConservationBiology, ecology and management of the invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans)
13Casey Schmidt, PhD candidate, Soil and Water Sciences, UFEvaluation of a denitrification wall: Putting microbes to work