WRS Seminar Series

Fall Semester 2008

 

Where:

University of Minnesota - St. Paul Campus
375 Borlaug Hall (unless otherwise noted)

When:

Fridays, 3:00-3:50 pm.

Printable Schedule, pdf, 131 KB

Date
Sept. 5

No Seminar

Sept. 12

Spring characterization methods and springshed mapping (View Recording)

Scott Alexander

Dept. Geology & Geophysics

*Welcome social to follow on the Borlaug Patio. Appetizers, desserts, and beverages will be served*

Sept. 19

Iron cycling in the vicinity of deep-sea hydrothermal venting (View Recording)

Brandy Toner

Dept. Soil, Water & Climate

Sept. 26

Water resources sustainability: The holistic view (View Recording)

Roman Kanivetsky

Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering

Oct. 3

Water issues in the Lower Mekong River Basin

Karlyn Eckman

Water Resources Center

Oct. 10

Explaining variability in Minnesota baseflow 

David Lorenz
Hydrologist, USGS

Oct. 14

Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series Seminar

Title: Life in a Changing Climate

Jörg Imberger

Director of the Centre for Water Research at the U of Western Australia

*4:00 p.m., 110 Green Hall*

*Professor Imberger will be available to meet with faculty and students on October 14th and 15th. Contact Bonnie Anderson (ander742@umn.edu or 612-624-7456) to arrange a meeting.*

Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Water Resources Science with funding from the Graduate School, Water Resources Center, Institute on the Environment, Non-Equilibrium Dynamics IGERT, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Large Lakes Observatory, and Center for Freshwater Research and Policy

Oct. 15

Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series Seminar

Title: Real Time, Adaptive Self Learning Management of Aquatic Natural Systems

Jörg Imberger

Director of the Centre for Water Research at the U of Western Australia

*3:30 pm, SAFL Auditorium*

Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Water Resources Science with funding from the Graduate School, Water Resources Center, Institute on the Environment, Non-Equilibrium Dynamics IGERT, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Large Lakes Observatory, and Center for Freshwater Research and Policy

Oct. 17

No Seminar

Attend 10/14 or 10/15 if possible

Oct. 24

Turbidity and TSS relationships with physical characteristics, agroecoregions, and land use

Larry Gunderson

WRS M.S. Student

Oct. 31

Indicators on condition for rocky Great Lakes coasts

Valerie Brady

UMD Natural Resources Research Institute

Nov. 7

Photochemical fate of hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers

Peter Steen

CE/WRS M.S. Student

Nov. 14

Nuisance and harmful algae: A response to invading mussels

Stephanie Guildford

UMD Biology and Large Lakes Observatory

Nov. 21

The Minnesota National Wetlands Inventory update

Joseph Knight

Dept. of Forest Resources

Dec. 5

Combining annual drainage outflow from various subsurface drainage system design with meta-analysis

Sheila Amenumey

WRS Ph.D. candidate