Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Spring 2021 Schedule
Webinar format until further notice, Zoom links will be provided to students.
***The public can view livestreams 11:45am EST and recordings on our YouTube channel.***
Students may register for 1 credit: ENV 6935, SWS 4932, or SWS 6932, contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for SWS section #.
January
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Kimberly Van Meter, Assistant Professor, Ecohydrology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago & |
Wetlandscapes: Land-Use legacies and water quality futures |
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| 20 | James Morris, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, Baruch Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC | The responses of coastal marshes to rising sea level and their strange harmonics in 4D- with a twist: it’s a symphony |
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| 27 | Bregje van Wesenbeeck, Associate Professor, Coastal Engineering and Ecology at Delft University of Technology; Senior researcher at Deltares, Delft, the Netherlands | Nature-based solutions for coastal resilience: from science to implementation |
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February
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Miles Medina, Environmental Scientist/Consultant, Wood, Gainesville, FL |
Seasonal dynamics of terrestrially sourced nitrogen influenced Karenia brevis blooms off Florida’s southern Gulf Coast |
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| 10 | Keryn Gedan, Assistant Professor of Biology, George Washington University, DC | Ghosts of the coast: Ecological investigations of a mid-Atlantic ghost forest |
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| 17 | David W. Johnston, Associate Professor, Marine Conservation Ecology, Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC | Unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) are transforming marine science and conservation |
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| 24 | Anna Armitage, Professor, Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, TX | Climate change and coastal ecosystems: Ecological consequences of mangrove expansion into Gulf of Mexico salt marshes |
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March
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Heida Diefenderfer, Restoration Ecologist, Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sequim, WA |
Applying cumulative effects and long-term ecological research to strategically advance large-scale ecosystem restoration |
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| 10 | Leonardo Bertassello, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, IN | Dynamic spatiotemporal patterns of metapopulation occupancy in wetlandscapes |
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| 17 | Sam Zipper, Assistant Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | No Flow? No Problem! Drivers of flow and long-term change in non-perennial streams |
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| 24 | Lauren Koenig, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT | Taking the “pulse” of river ecosystems: from stream reaches to watersheds |
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| 31 | Alice Besterman, NE CASC Postdoctoral Fellow, Buzzards Bay Coalition, Woodwell Climate Research Center | Buying time – Salt marsh adaptive management to sea level rise using runnels |
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April
| 7 | Samantha Chapman, Professor, Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, PA | Warming and mangrove encroachment alter above- and belowground processes with positive implications for surface elevation maintenance: findings from the WETFEET project |
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