Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Spring 2017 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 6932, or online: contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for section #
January
| 4 | Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor, EES Mark Brown, Professor Emeritus, EES Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, EES | Introduction to the seminar series…food for thought |
| 11 | Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, UF | Why is ocean circulation influential on the quality of coastal aquifers? |
| 18 | Paul Gader, Professor, Computer & Information Science & Engineering, UF | Hyperspectral image analysis of coral reef benthic regions (audio only) |
| 25 | Sean Sharp, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School Fellow, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Going hog wild in the marsh: Resilience of southeastern salt marshes to novel disturbance regimes (no audio) |
February
| 1 | Anna Normand, Sea Grant Knauss Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | The real House of Cards from the eyes of a Sea Grant Legislative Fellow |
| 8 | Bill Dunn, Partner and Principal Scientist, Dunn, Salsano & Vergara, LLC | Where is the water? Water budgets can be tricky |
| 15 | Maitane Olabarrieta, Assistant Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, UF | Impacts of Hurricane Matthew 2016 in Matanzas Inlet and adjacent beaches |
| 22 | Mark Clark, Associate Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Joe Rains Beach Living Shoreline and Canal Enhancement: A Demonstration/Mitigation Project in Cedar Key to Mitigate Coastal Erosion and Enhance Ecological Function |
March
| 1 | Savanna Barry, Regional Specialized Sea Grant Agent, Nature Coast Biological Station, Cedar Key, FL | Seagrasses of the Florida Big Bend: Ecology, resilience, and threats |
| 15 | Corey Anderson, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA | Untangling predictors of the spatial occurrence of Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) in the Coastal Plain of Georgia |
| 22 | David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | From salamanders to greenhouse gas emissions: Effects of upland forest management on wetland functions |
| 29 | Thomas Bianchi, Jon and Beverly Thompson Endowed Chair of Geological Sciences , UF | Deltas and Humans: a long real relationship now threatened by global change |
April
| 5 | Laura Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Coastal Ecology, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | Using genetic diversity to increase the success of seagrass restoration |
| 12 | Scott J. Wasman, Research Assistant Professor, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, ESSIE, UF | Coastal geotechnics of re-engineered living shorelines |