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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 #.

DatePresenterTitleDetailsLink
Jan. 13Kimberly Van Meter, Assistant Professor, Ecohydrology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago &
Frederick Cheng, PhD Student/Research Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada		Wetlandscapes: Land-Use legacies and water quality futuresMORE INFOWATCH
Jan. 20James Morris, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, Baruch Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SCThe responses of coastal marshes to rising sea level and their strange harmonics in 4D- with a twist: it’s a symphonyMORE INFOWATCH
Jan. 27Bregje van Wesenbeeck, Associate Professor, Coastal Engineering and Ecology at Delft University of Technology; Senior researcher at Deltares, Delft, the NetherlandsNature-based solutions for flood risk reduction: Ecosystem behavior under extremesMORE INFOWATCH
Feb. 3
Miles Medina, Environmental Scientist/Consultant, Wood, Gainesville, FL		Seasonal dynamics of terrestrially sourced nitrogen influenced Karenia brevis blooms off Florida’s southern Gulf CoastMORE INFOWATCH
Feb. 10Keryn Gedan, Assistant Professor of Biology, George Washington University, DCGhosts of the coast: Ecological investigations of a mid-Atlantic ghost forestMORE INFOWATCH
Feb. 17David W. Johnston, Associate Professor, Marine Conservation Ecology, Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NCUnoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) are transforming marine science and conservationMORE INFOWATCH
Feb. 24Anna Armitage, Professor, Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, TXClimate change and coastal ecosystems: Ecological consequences of mangrove expansion into Gulf of Mexico salt marshesMORE INFOWATCH
Mar. 3Heida Diefenderfer, Restoration Ecologist, Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sequim, WAApplying cumulative effects and long-term ecological research to strategically advance large-scale ecosystem restorationMORE INFOWATCH
Mar. 10Leonardo Bertassello, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, INDynamic spatiotemporal patterns of metapopulation occupancy in wetlandscapesMORE INFOWATCH
Mar. 17Sam Zipper, Assistant Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KSNo Flow? No Problem! Drivers of flow and long-term change in non-perennial streamsMORE INFOWATCH
Mar. 24Lauren Koenig, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CTTaking the “pulse” of river ecosystems: from stream reaches to watershedsMORE INFOWATCH
Mar. 31Alice Besterman, NE CASC Postdoctoral Fellow, Buzzards Bay Coalition, Woodwell Climate Research CenterBuying time – Salt marsh adaptive management to sea level rise using runnelsMORE INFOWATCH
Apr. 7Samantha Chapman, Professor, Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, PAWarming and mangrove encroachment alter above- and belowground processes with positive implications for surface elevation maintenance: findings from the WETFEET projectMORE INFOWATCH