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Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar
Fall 2015 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 4932, SWS 6932, or online: contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for section #
August
26 | Mark Brown, Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF & Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS |
Introduction to the seminar series...food for thought |
September
2 | Oldemar Carvalho Júnior, Visiting Scholar, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | The role of neotropical and giant otters for conservation and social mobilization in Brazil |
9 | Hal Knowles, III, PhD Candidate, School of Natural Resources and Environment; Change Agent, PREC, UF | Home is where the heart is: Complexity, pattern, and meaning in short interval residential electric Smart Meter Data |
16 | Tom Kay, Director, Alachua Conservation Trust, Gainesville, FL | Restoring the bogs and prairies of Little Orange Creek Preserve |
23 | Nikki Dix, Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ponte Vedra Bch., FL |
The role of a National Estuarine Research Reserve in addressing the science and management of wetlands |
30 | Sanjay Shukla, Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF |
Payment for Water Storage and Treatment Services in the Northern Everglades |
October
7 | David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF | Restore or retreat? Saltwater intrusion and water management in coastal ecosystems |
14 | Jim Jawitz, Associate Chair and Professor, Soil and Water Science, UF | Why is the flow in Silver Springs decreasing? |
21 | Peter Frederick, Research Professor, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department, UF | Restoration of oyster reefs and their ecological services in the Big Bend of Florida |
28 | Jon Martin, Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor, Geological Sciences, UF | Why should we care about Greenland watersheds? Reactions, runoff, and rising sea level |
November
4 | Scott Zengel, Vice President and Director of Environmental Sciences, Research Planning, Inc., Tallahassee, FL | Heavily oiled salt marsh following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, ecological comparisons of shoreline cleanup treatments and recovery |
18 | Josefin Thorslund, Visiting Scholar, Stockholm University, Sweden | Can salinity of wetlands reflect their connectivity? Exploring data from Florida |
December
2 | Carrie Reinhardt-Adams, Associate Professor, Environmental Horticulture, UF | Researching plant invasions and native plant establishment in wetland restoration |