Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
spring 2018 SCHEDULE
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 10 | 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 |
| Jan. 17 | Gretchen Stokes, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, School of Natural Resources and Environment, UF | Air-breathing and movement ecology of Arapaima sp. in the Amazon |
| Jan. 24 | Eric Sparks, Asst. Extension Professor, Mississippi State University; Extension Program Leader & Coastal Ecology Specialist, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant | Improving the effectiveness of shoreline restoration and conservation |
| Jan. 31 | Jehangir H. Bhadha (Jango), Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF, Everglades Research & Education Center, Belle Glade, FL | Phosphorus management through sustainable agricultural practices |
| Feb. 7 | No seminar, please attend the WI Symposium | Water Institute Symposium |
| Feb. 14 | Alberto Canestrelli, Assistant Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, UF | Numerical modeling of the long term evolution of salt marshes in back-barrier basins |
| Feb. 21 | Ada Bersoza, MS student, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Past and novel approaches for coastal restoration: an overview of oyster reef restoration and a new hybrid living shoreline technique |
| Feb. 28 | John Carroll, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University | Parasites, pests, and predators, Oh My! Biotic influences of oyster populations |
| Mar. 14 | Ashley Smyth, Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, Tropical Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Homestead, FL | Delectable and Beneficial: Oyster restoration, aquaculture and nitrogen removal |
| Mar. 21 | Eban Bean, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF | Urbanization and altered drainage impacts on low-order coastal plain stream quality |
| Mar. 28 | Benjamin Baiser, Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF | Intraspecific trait variation as a driver of broad scale diversity patterns |
| Apr. 4 | Alex Sheremet, Assistant Professor, Civil & Coastal Engineering, UF | Ship waves, oysters and mud |
| Apr. 11 | Mauricio Arias, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, USF, Tampa, FL | Monitoring ongoing environmental change in the Mekong floodplains |
| Apr. 18 | Elise Morrison, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Geological Sciences, UF | The role of priming effects on the conversion of blue carbon to CO2 in the coastal zone |