Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Spring 2019 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
| 9 | 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 |
| 16 | Mark Brenner, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, UF | The dynamic paleoenvironment of the Yucatan Peninsula |
| 23 | Bob Knight, Executive Director, Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, High Springs, FL | Springs Basin Management Action Plans – the Sound and Fury |
| 30 | Joshua Papacek, Consultant, United Faculty of Florida, and recent Ph.D. graduate, Soil and Water Sciences, UF | A new normal?: Nutrient trends and harmful blooms in the northern Indian River Lagoon |
February
| 6 | Janie Wulff, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science, FSU | Bottom-up, top-down, and sideways control of tropical marine sponges: consequences for community organization and ecosystem function (No recording) |
| 13 | Mike Annable, Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) releases and environmental impacts |
| 20 | Katherine Todd-Brown, Postdoctoral Fellow, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario | The mathematics of mud: Scaling complexity in soil carbon models |
| 27 | Peter Frederick, Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, UF | Using oyster reefs for hydrological manipulation in the Big Bend of Florida |
March
| 13 | Sean King, Senior Engineer, Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions, Inc., Gainesville, FL | Ecological restoration of Florida spring systems- challenges and opportunities |
| 20 | Jake Hosen, Postdoctoral Associate, School of Forest Resource & Conservation, UF | Time for carbon: Tracing organic matter from watersheds to rivers |
| 27 | Mary Lusk, Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Science, UF/IFAS, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center | Nutrients in urban stormwater runoff: Sources, transport mechanisms and mitigation options |
April
| 3 | Todd Osbourne, Assistant Professor,Soil and Water Sciences Department, Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience, UF | The legacy of phosphorus in Everglades National Park: Is restoration really working? |
| 10 | Tatiana Borisova, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Food and Resource Economics Department, UF | Statewide water demand and supply planning |
| 17 | Laura Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences Dept., UF | Using biodiversity theory to restore submerged aquatic vegetation in Lake Apopka |