WRS Seminar Series

Spring Semester 2008

 

Where:

University of Minnesota - St. Paul Campus
375 Borlaug Hall

When:

Fridays, 3:00-3:50 pm.

Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 25

Dr. Joe Magner
MPCA and Adjunct Assistant Prof., FR and BBE, U Of MN

Surrogate indicators: do they reflect water quality reality?

Feb. 1

Nick Jordan
U of MN Agronomy and Plant Genetics

Implementing Multifunctional Agriculture: Towards a 'Theory of Change'

Feb. 8

Stephen Bortone
Minnesota Sea Grant and UMD Dept. of Biology

An Approach to Establishing Aquatic Organisms as in situ Environmental Bioindicators of Natural Hazards

Feb 15.

Filiz Dadaser-Celik
Ph.D. student, WRS program

Impact of Large-Scale Irrigation on a Closed-Basin Wetland: Water flow alterations and Participatory Irrigation Management Effects on the Sultan Marshes Ecosystem in Turkey

Feb. 22

Mindy Erickson
U of MN Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Perfluorochemicals in Minnesota’s Ambient Environment

Feb. 29

Satish Gupta
U of MN Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate

Sediment Contributions from River Bank Sloughing in Southern Minnesota

Mar 7

Bob Hecky
UMD Dept. of Biology and Large Lakes Observatory

Land Use Impacts on the African Great Lakes: From Watersheds to Fish Ecology

Mar 14

Jeramy Kulesa
U of MN Dept. of Radiology/Center for Magnetic Resonance Research

Relative Influence of Climate Change on Flows in the Minnesota River at Mankato

Mar 28

Yi-wen Chiu
WRS PhD Student

Spatially Explicit Water Budget Analysis Using Stocks-and-Flows Model and GIS

Apr 4

Katsumi Matsumoto
U of MN Dept. of Geology and Geophysics

The Overshoot Scenario: An Attempt to Consider Intergenerational Equity in Future Global Warming

Apr 11

John Downing
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Iowa State University

Distinguished Visitor Series Seminar

Title: Global Limnology: Upscaling from 10,000 Lakes to Planet Earth

*335 Borlaug Hall*

Co-sponsored by the WRS (with funding from the Graduate School), the UMD Center for Freshwater Research and Policy, and the Minnesota Sea Grant Program.

Apr 18

Qiuqiong Huang
U of MN Dept. of Applied Economics

Private or Collective: Comparing the Performance of Different Groundwater Management Institutions in China

Apr 25

Fotis Sotiropoulos
Director, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, and Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Toward the Physics-Based Modeling of Bridge Foundation Scour: Integrating Numerical Simulations with Experiments

May 2

Summer Streets
WRS MS Student

TBA