Twin Cities Seminar Archives

Spring Semester 2020

Spring Semester 2020

Date	Presenter(s)	Organization	Topic	Webinar
January 24, 2020	John Barten	MN Clean Water Council	Research Driven Natural Resources Management – A Local Perspective	Recording
January 31, 2020	Lara Frankson	Masters Student, Water Resources Science	Defining MN Antibiotic Footprint	Recording
February 7, 2020	Jared Willard	Graduate Student, Computer Science and Engineering	Integrating Physical Knowledge into Machine Learning: Applications in Lake Temperature Prediction	Recording
February 14, 2020	Tyler Seidel	Graduate Student, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior	Where are the People in a Linked Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystem?	Recording
February 21, 2020	Leif Olmanson	Dept. of Forest Resources	Using Remote Sensing to Monitor Dissolved Organic Matter in 10,000+ Minnesota Lakes Using an Automated High Performance Computing Environment	Recording
February 28, 2020	Della Schall Young	Owner, Young Environmental Consulting Group LLC	Geomorphic and Habitat Assessments Using Interns
March 6, 2020	John Bilotta	Water Resources Center	Minnesota's Urban Stormwater Research and Technology Transfer Program	Recording

Fall Semester 2019

Fall Semester 2019

September 13, 2019	John Nieber	Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering	Quantifying Terrestrial Water Storage in Central MN	Recording
September 20, 2019	Amit Pradhahanga	Center for Changing Landscapes	Presentation Preparation for the Water Resources Conference	Recording
September 27, 2019	Jasmine Eltawely, Xiang Li, Kasey Rundquist, and Victor Teng	Water Resources Science Students	WRS Science in Seconds Competition
October 4, 2019	Dr. Jordan Suter	Colorado State University	Human Behavior and the Economics of Groundwater Conservation	Recording
October 11, 2019	Srinivas Rallapalli	Visiting Scholar	Comparison of Watershed Modeling Tools to Develop an Effective Decision Support Framework	Recording
October 18, 2019	Holly Menninger	Bell Museum	From Belly Buttons to Basements: Lessons Learned from Engaging the Public in the Study of the Biodiversity in their Daily Lives	Recording
October 25, 2019	Emily Resseger	Metropolitan Council	Localized Flood Vulnerability in the Twin Cities	Recording
November 1, 2019	Matt Berens	Graduate Student, Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering	Monitoring, Enhancement, and Prediction of Subsurface Pollutant Transformation by Fe-bearing Minerals	Recording
November 8, 2019	Alicia Sendrowski	Colorado State University	Process Connectivity in River Deltas: Uncovering system dynamics using information theory and remote sensing
November 15, 2019	Doug Norris	MN Dept. of Natural Resources	Addressing Impacts on Wetland Hydrology in Minnesota	Recording
November 22, 2019	SG Winikoff	Graduate Student, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior	Prairie Pothole Wetlands: How Restoration Strategies Influence Ecosystem Structure and Function in an Agricultural Landscape	Recording
December 6, 2019	John Linc Stine	Freshwater Society	Water Governance in Minnesota – Land of 10,000 Laws?	Recording

Spring Semester 2019

Spring Semester 2019

February 1, 2019	Lu Zhang	Ph.D. Student, Bioproducts and Biosystems Science, Engineering and Management	Hydrologic Impact of Tile Drained Landscape and Isotope Tracer Analysis
February 15, 2019	Jim Stark	Minnesota's Legislative Water Commission	Legislative Water Commission Recommendations for Minnesota Water Resources Protection, Policy and Education	Recording
February 22, 2019	Kenneth Blumenfeld	Minnesota State Climatology Office	Climate Change in Minnesota	Recording
March 1, 2019	Louis Smith	Lawyer, Smith Partners PLLP	Watershed Partnerships: Breakthroughs in Collaboration to Create and Sustain Great Conservation Corridors	Recording
March 8, 2019	Mike Trojan	MN Pollution Control Agency	Do We Have a Chloride Problem in Our Water?	Recording
March 15, 2019	Isaiah Tolo	Graduate Student, Conservation Sciences	Carp Killing Viruses Reach Minnesota! Could it be a Window of Opportunity?	Recording
March 29, 2019	Lark Weller	National Parks Service	Tips for Effective Communication with the Public About Water	Recording
April 5, 2019	Chelsea Delaney	Master's Student, Water Resources Science	Estimating Lake Water Volume Using Scale Similarity Analysis	Recording
April 12, 2019	Judy Sventek, Ali Elhassan, and Kyle Colvin	Metropolitan Council	Met Council's 2040 Water Resources Policy Plan
April 19, 2019	Heather Johnson	MN Department of Agriculture	Minnesota's Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast	Recording
April 26, 2019	Douglas Klimbal	Master's Student, Water Resources Science	Residential Road Salt: A Mass-Balance Study in a Suburban Watershed	Recording
August 27, 2019	Alicia Sendrowski	Water Resources Center	TBD

Fall Semester 2018

Fall Semester 2018

September 14, 2018	Dr. Jeff Havig	Dept. of Earth Sciences	Double Trouble: Harmful cyanobacterial blooms, invasive mussel species, and carbon cycling in lakes and reservoirs	Recording (beginning only)
September 21, 2018	David Burge	WRS Ph.D. Candidate	A Paired Paleolimnological Study on Contrasting Large Shallow Lakes Provides Perspective on Land Use, Point Source Pollutants, Climate, and Lake Recovery	Recording
September 28, 2018	Natalie Ricks	Graduate Student, Land and Atmospheric Science	Mitigating Nitrate Leaching on Irrigated Sandy Soils with Nitrogen Management and Rye Cover Crop	Recording
October 5, 2018	Petrus (Peter) J. van Oevelen	Principal Scientist, USRA and Director, International GEWEX Project office	GEWEX Activities and the Water for the Food Baskets of the World Grand Challenge	Recording
October 12, 2018	Alycia Overbo	WRS Ph.D. Candidate	Chloride Contributions From Water Softners and Other Domestic, Agricultural, and Industrial Sources to Minnesota Waters	Recording
October 19, 2018	Nicole Hayes	Post-Doc, College of Biological Sciences	Individual and Interactive Effects of Climate Change and Nutrient Pollution on Aquatic Ecosystems	Recording
October 26, 2018	Dr. Leif Olmanson	Researcher, Dept. of Forest Resources	Using Satellite-based Remote Sensing Methods for Automated Lake Water Quality and Ice Phenology Mapping	Recording
November 2, 2018	Dr. Xue Feng	Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering	From Ecohydrology to Ecosystem Change: Linking plant water use and plant water status during drought
November 9, 2018	Dr. Amit Pradhananga	Center for Changing Landscapes	Human Dimensions of Water Resource Management: What drives landowners’ conservation behavior?	Recording
November 16, 2018	Dr. Lucy Levers	Water Resources Center	Bio-economic Modeling: Applications in Water Resources	Recording
November 30, 2018	Xiang Li	Graduate Student, Water Resources Science	Baseflow Recession Analysis for 17 Watersheds in Central Minnesota	Recording

Spring Semester 2018

Spring Semester 2018

January 19, 2018	Dr. Vipin Kumar	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering	Big Data in Water: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning	Recording
February 2, 2018	WRS Students	Water Resources Science	3-Minute Thesis Competition
February 16, 2018	Joanne Richardson and Laurie Moberg	Institute for Advanced Study	The River Runs Through Us: River Life Integrates Water, Place, and Community	Recording
February 23, 2018	Joel Larson	Water Resources Center	Laboratories to Landscapes: The Importance of Partnerships in Addressing Water Resource Challenges	Recording
March 2, 2018	Dr. Carrie Jennings	Freshwater Society	Not an Exact Science: The money, people, and politics of water management	Recording
March 9, 2018	Dr. Gary Feyereisen	U.S. Dept. of Agriculture	Bioreactor Research in Minnesota: An update
March 23, 2018	Shawn Schottler	St. Croix Watershed Research Station - Science Museum of Minnesota	Water Quality and Habitat Trends: Making Good Long-term Decisions?	Recording
March 30, 2018	Dr. Hans Paerl	University of North Carolina	Blooms Like It Hot: Combating Cyanobacterial Blooms in a World Experiencing Climate Change	Recording
April 6, 2018	Dr. Lian Shen	St. Anthony Falls Laboratory	Simulation-Based Study of Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Mechanics at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory	Recording
April 13, 2018	Dr. Matt Simcik	Dept of Environmental Health Sciences	Sequestering Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater
April 20, 2018	Patrick Baskfield	MN Pollution Control Agency	Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network: Program Overview and Water Quality Results	Recording
April 27, 2018	Dr. Bo Hu	Dept of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering	Process Development for Nutrients Removal and Recycle from Rural and Agricultural Wastes	Recording

Fall Semester 2017

Fall Semester 2017

Date	Presenter(s)	Organization	Topic	Webinar
September 15, 2017	Brian Bohman	Ph.D. Student, Water Resources Science	Improving Irrigation Scheduling – An Evaluation of Water Balance Calculation Methods for Potato Grown on Sandy Soils in Humid Climates	Recording
September 22, 2017	Dr. Shahram Missaghi	University of Minnesota Extension	Simulated Coolwater Fish Response to Lake Warming
September 29, 2017	Bruce Monson	Minnesota Pollution Control Agency	Identifying the Cause of High Mercury Levels in Fish from N. Minnesota Rivers	Recording
October 6, 2017	Dr. Abdennour Abbas	Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering	Nanotechnology for Clean Water	Recording
October 13, 2017	Dr. Deborah Swackhamer	Professor Emerita, Humphrey School of Public Affairs and School of Public Health	Scientific Integrity in the Balance: What's at Stake?	Recording
October 20, 2017	Jonathan Hess	M.S. Student, Water Resources Science	Modeling Hydrology and Climate Scenarios in a Northern Minnesota Boreal, Headwater Catchment Using HSPF	Recording
October 27, 2017	Dr. John Baker	USDA-Agricultural Research Service	Feasibility of Recycling Nitrate With Electrodialysis	Recording
November 3, 2017	Jason Ulrich	St. Croix Watershed Research Station	Watershed-wide Wetland Functional Assessment Using Enhanced NWI Data	Recording
November 10, 2017	Dr. Erik Smith	U.S. Geological Society	Using Predictive Lake Modeling to Assess the Development of Cyanobacteria Blooms: Lake ecosystem responses to nutrient stressor gradients	Recording
November 17, 2017	Dr. Adam Heathcote	St. Croix Watershed Research Station	Global Trends in Carbon Burial by Lakes	Recording
December 1, 2017	Dr. Randy Kolka	USDA Forest Service	Controls on Mercury Cycling and Bioaccumulation in Fish in Northern Minnesota	Recording
December 8, 2017	Dr. Peter Calow	Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Making Risk Assessment Work for Water Protection Policy	Recording

Spring Semester 2017

Spring Semester 2017

January 27, 2017	Andrew Wickert	Assistant Professor, Dept of Earth Sciences	Climate Changes Rivers: Channel and Valley Response to Water and Sediment Supply
February 3, 2017	Jill Kerrigan	PhD Candidate, Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geo Engineering	Historical Trends and Spatial Distribution of Antibiotics in Minnesota Lakes and Rivers	Recording
February 10, 2017	Dr. Satish Gupta	Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate	Climate Change as the Main Driver of Increased Streamflow in the Upper Midwestern United States
February 17, 2017	Christy Dolph	Post Doc, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior	Flow-related Dynamics in Suspended Algal Biomass and Its Contribution to Suspended Carbon and Nutrients in an Agricultural River Network of the Minnesota River Basin	Recording
February 24, 2017	Chad Sandell	Lab Engineer, Dept. of Earth Sciences	Introduction to the ALog, a Low Cost Open Source Data Logger	Recording
March 3, 2017	Paul Capel	Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geo Engineering	Estimates of Annual Loads of Total Nitrogen Contributed to Streams by Groundwater, Landscape, and Point Sources in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed	Recording
March 10, 2017	Dustin Goering	Hydrologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Runoff Risk Decision Tool for Nutrient Applications	Recording
March 24, 2017	Sebastian Behrens	Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geo Engineering	Microbial Ecology to Manage Processes for Rioremediation	Recording
March 31, 2017	Dr. Mindy Morales-Williams	Post Doc, College of Biological Sciences	The Greening of our Inland Waters: Feedbacks of eutrophication on lake carbon cycling	Recording
April 7, 2017	Dr. Claire Griffin	Post Doc, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior	Dissolved Organic Matter in Major Rivers Across the Pan-Arctic from Satellite Remote Sensing	Recording
April 14, 2017	Dr. Leif Hembre	Instructor, Itasca Field Station and Laboratories	Moratorium on the Stocking of Rainbow Trout Results in Changes in the Zooplankton Community Composition and the Water Quality of a Minnesota Lake	Recording
April 21, 2017	Dr. Jonathan Schilling	Associate Professor, Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering	Terrestrial Fungi with Aquatic Legacies - Fungi in Biofiltration and Buffers	Recording
April 28, 2017	Brent Dalzell	Researcher, Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate	Phosphorus and Sediment in the Le Sueur River Basin	Recording
May 5, 2017	Seth Thompson	PhD Candidate, Water Resources Science	Dissolved Organic Matter Bioavailability in Minnesota Lakes	Recording

Fall Semester 2016

Fall Semester 2016

Date	Presenter(s)	Organization	Topic	Webinar
September 16, 2016	Satoshi Ishii	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate	Impact of migratory geese on water quality in freshwater lake environments
September 23, 2016	Crystal Ng	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences	Modeling Groundwater sulfate on the Iron Range in northeast MN: implications for wild rice	Recording
September 30, 2016	Robert Tipping	Senior Scientist, MN Geological Survey	Urban Groundwater Chemistry and Groundwater Flow: examples from Rochester, MN and the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area	Recording Not Available
October 7, 2016			No Seminar Offered
October 14, 2016			No Seminar Offered
October 21, 2016	Lori Krider	Graduate Fellow, Dept of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering	Prioritizing Watersheds for BMP Placement	Recording Not Available
October 28, 2016	Richard Kiesling	Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey	Using Predictive Lake Modeling to Assess the Development of Cyanobacteria Blooms	Recording
November 4, 2016	Leonard Ferrington	Professor, Dept. of Entomology	Contrasting Thermal Regimes and Winter Dynamics of Benthic Invertebrates in Trout Streams of SE Minnesota	Recording
November 11, 2016			No Seminar Offered
November 18, 2016	Dr. Kimberly Hill	Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geo Engineering	Experimental and Numerical Studies of Sediment Transport: Particle-scale influences on channel-scale behaviors	Recording
December 2, 2016	Victoria Christensen	Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey	Artificial Water-Level Management and Relation to Water Quality and the Aquatic Ecosystem	Recording
December 9, 2016	Ke Xiao (instead of Dr. John Baker)	PhD Candidate of Land and Atmospheric Science, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate	Evaporation from White Bear Lake and its Relation to Water Level	Recording

Spring 2016

Spring 2016

Date	Presenter(s)	Organization	Topic	Location	Webinar
January 29, 2016	David Mulla	Professor and W.E. Larson Chair with the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, at the University of Minnesota	Minnesota Water Quality: Threats and Opportunities	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
February 5, 2016			No Scheduled Seminar	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
February 12, 2016			No Scheduled Seminar	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
February 19, 2016	Mae Davenport	Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources, at the University of Minnesota	North Shore Tourism	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
February 26, 2016	Dr. Peter Machetto	Assistant Professor, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota	Water You Thinking: Engineering Systems for Hydraulic Environments	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
March 4, 2016	Rachel Olm	Scientist at Houston Engineering, Inc.	The Root River One Watershed One Plan: Lessons Learned from a One Watershed, One Plan Pilot	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
March 11, 2016			No Scheduled Seminar	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
March 25, 2016	Dr. Anthony Runkel	Researcher, Minnesota Geological Survey	Geologic controls on nitrate concentrations in southeastern Minnesota water, and their importance in predicting water quality responses to BMPs	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
April 1, 2016	Dr. Paige Novak	Professor, Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, at the University of Minnesota	MnDrive Water Initiative	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
April 8, 2016	Dr. Jennifer McGuire	Professor, University of St. Thomas	TBD	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
April 15, 2016	Dr. Erik Smith	Hydrologist, United States Geological Survey	Groundwater Recharge in Twin Cities - St. Cloud Corridor	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
April 22, 2016	Elyas Hayati	PhD Candidate of Forest Engineering at the University of Tehran	Hillslope Stability	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
April 29, 2016	Salam Murtada	Floodplain Hydrologist, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Floodplain Program	Using the Gridded Surface Subsurface Hydrologic Analysis model to simulate tile drainage and flume flow for two farm fields	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar

Fall 2015

Fall 2015

Date	Presenter(s)	Organization	Topic	Location	Webinar
September 18, 2015	Jeffrey Peterson	Director- Water Resources Center	My Vision for the Water Resources Center	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
September 25, 2015	Jeff Green		Connections Between the Land Surface & Groundwater in Southeast Minnesota	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
October 2, 2015	Jennifer Hamlin	CFANS Research Fellow	Turf Plots Runoff Water Study	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
October 9, 2015	Larry Gunderson		Minnesota Nitrogen Fertilizer Management Plan	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
October 16, 2015	Kate Brauman	IonE Lead Scientist- Global Water Assessment	IonE's Global Water Initiative: Linking Research to Action	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
October 23, 2015	Robert Dietz	WRS PhD Candidate	Historical Relationships between Land Use, Sediment Accumulation, and Carbon Burial in Minnesota Lakes	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
October 30, 2015	Marty Rye		Water Management and Copper Nickel Mining in the Superior National Forest	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
November 6, 2015	Robert Sterner	Director- Large Lakes Observatory	The Outsized Role of Earth's Largest Lakes	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
November 13, 2015	Jeppe Kjaersgaard	Minnesota Department of Agriculture	Water Use in the Field	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
December 4, 2015	Paul Venturelli	UMN- Fisheries, Wildlife & ConsBio	How Describing Lifetime Fish Growth Can Transform Recreational Fisheries	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar
December 11, 2015	Jessica Hellman	Director- Institute on the Environment	Restoration Through the Lens of Climate Change and the IonE at UofM	375 Borlaug Hall	Webinar

Spring 2014

Spring 2014

Date	Seminar
January 31	Emerging Issues in Aquatic Invasive Plant Research and Management in Florida William T. Haller, Director of the Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants at the University of Florida, Gainesville View Webinar
February 7	Watershed Nitrogen Reduction Planning Tool Bill Lazarus, Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota View Webinar
February 14	Twin Lake TMDL Implementation Strategy Edward Matthiesen and Diane Spector, Wenck Associates View Webinar
February 21	Water and our well-being: The Societal costs of water pollution in Minnesota Bonnie Keeler, Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota View Webinar
February 28	NOAA Atlas 14: The New Standard in Rainfall Frequency Steve Buan, National Weather Service View Webinar
March 7	Creating an Interstate Clean Water Act Monitoring Strategy for the Upper Mississippi River Dave Hokanson, Upper Mississippi River Basin Association View Webinar
March 14	St. Paul's Buried Streams: How Baseflow in Storm Drains Influences Nutrient Export from an Urban Watershed Ben Janke, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota View Webinar
March 28	Modeling Cropping Systems and Climate Change Impacts on Runoff from a Small Watershed Managed with No-Till Corn Sandeep Kumar, Assistant Professor in the Plant Science Department, South Dakota State Department View Webinar
April 4	Are trees an important source of nutrients to streets? Findings from a study of enhanced street sweeping under varying tree canopy covers- the Prior Lake Experiment Larry Baker, Paula Kalinosky, and Sarah Hobbie, University of Minnesota View Webinar
April 11	Iowa State's Nutrient Reduction Strategy Matthew Helmers, Iowa State University View Webinar
April 18	Nitrogen and phosphorus in the Upper Mississippi River: What we've learned about their patterns, processes, and effects from long-term monitoring and short-term field studies Jeff Houser, USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center View Webinar
April 25	In-stream biological nitrogen uptake in agriculturally influenced MN streams and rivers Amy Hansen, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota View Webinar
May 2	Modeling Altered Hydrology and Agricultural BMPs with the Spatially Explicit, Physically Based Process Driven GSSHA Watershed Model Greg Eggers, Ecological and Water Resources Division of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources View Webinar

Fall 2013

Fall 2013

Date	Seminar
September 13	Operational Hydrologic Forecasts at the North Central River Forecast Center: Successes, Challenges and Opportunities Pedro Restrepo, Hydrologist In Charge at the North Central River Forecast Center
September 27	Application of Next-Generation DNA Sequencing to Characterize the Bacterial Community of the Upper Mississippi River Michael Sadowsky, Professor, Biotechnology Institute, Department of Soil Water and Climate, University of Minnesota View Webinar
October 4	Nonpoint Source Nitrogen Loading, Sources and Pathways for Minnesota Surface Waters David Mulla, Professor, Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota View Webinar
October 11	Thermal regimes, winter emergence and fish diets in trout streams of the Driftless Region in Minnesota Leonard Ferrington, Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota View Webinar
October 18	The chemistry of suspended sediment – insights into sediment source and carbon sequestration in White Clay Creek, Pennsylvania Diana Karwan, Assistant Professor, Forest Resources, University of Minnesota View Webinar
October 25	Ecosystem management: a long term approach to advancing the role of water as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Jim Perry, Professor, Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota View Webinar
November 1	Role of ecohydrological processes in channel widening of the lower Minnesota River Chris Lenhart, Research Assistant Professor, Bioproducts/Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota View Webinar
November 8	Developing Minnesota's Nutrient Reduction Strategy Dave Wall, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency View Webinar
November 15	Groundwater/Surface-Water Interactions in White Bear Lake, Minnesota Perry Jones and Jared Trost, U.S. Geological Survey, Minnesota Water Science Center View Webinar
November 22	Baseflow Augmentation in Minnehaha Creek; What is the Potential? John Nieber, Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota View Webinar
December 6	Advances in wetland mapping using geospatial data Joe Knight, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota View Webinar

Spring 2013

Spring 2013

Date	Seminar
February 1	EPA’s Science Advisory Board – Rubber Stamp, Ignored, or Constructive? Notes from my four years as Chair Deborah Swackhamer, Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Public Health, and Co-Director Water Resources Center, University of Minnesota View Webinar
February 8	Water quality, trophic cascades and stable states of a bio-manipulated lake over the last 200 years William Hobbs, Associate Scientist, St. Croix Watershed Research Station View Webinar
February 15	How do porous terrestrial surfaces control evaporation into the atmosphere? Dani Or, Professor, Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich View Webinar
February 22	Balancing the budget: first crack at a carbon budget for Minnesota shallow lakes Kyle Zimmer, Professor, Department of Biology, University of St. Thomas View Webinar
March 1	Conservation Practice Adoption: Rational Choice or Moral Obligation? Mae Davenport, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota View Webinar
March 8	Municipal wastewater treatment and antibiotic resistance: The problem AND the solution Tim LaPara, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota View Webinar
March 15	The milfoil weevil: a candidate for biological control of Eurasian watermilfoil in South Africa and factors influencing success in the United States Raymond Newman, Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota View Webinar
March 29	Robotic Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring Volkan Isler, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota View Webinar
April 5	The Priming Effect as a Framework for Integrating Aquatic and Terrestrial Carbon Cycles Seth Thompson, Masters Student, Water Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota View Webinar
April 12	Forests, Water and Food Insecurity in Mizoram India Karlyn Eckman, Adjunct Professor Department of Forrest Resources, University of Minnesota View Webinar
April 26	Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Minnesota's Surface Water Mark Ferrey, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency View Webinar
May 3	Regional Assessment of Sediment Loads Entering Lake Superior’s North Shore John Nieber, Department of Biosystems and Bioproducts Engineering, University of Minnesota View Webinar

Fall 2012

Fall 2012

Date	Seminar
September 14	Hydraulic fracturing – a South African hydrogeological perspective Fanie de Lange, Hydrogeological consultant and doctoral student at the Institute for Groundwater Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa View Webinar
September 21	Water repellency in petroleum contaminated soils: Evaluation and remediation methods Randy Adams, Research Professor, Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco, Mexico View Webinar
September 28	Lake Minnetonka ecological modeling Shahram Missaghi, Extension Educator, Water Resource Management & Policy, University of Minnesota View Webinar
October 5	The Dead Sea and water resources in the Levant Emi Ito, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota View Webinar
October 12	Diving South Africa Raymond Newman, Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Convervation Biology, University of Minnesota View Webinar
October 19	Organic carbon burial in lake sediments: Insights from 116 Minnesota lake cores Robert Dietz, Doctoral Student, Water Resources Science program, University of Minnesota (Not Recorded)
October 26	Remote sensing for regional assessment and analysis Leif Olmanson, Research Associate, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota View Webinar
November 2	Climate change impacts on Minnesota's north shore streams and coldwater lakes Lucinda Johnson, Senior Research Associate, Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota-Duluth View Webinar
November 9	Biochar: The science behind the hype Kurt Spokas, USDA-ARS Soil Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Department of Soil, Water and Climate, University of Minnesota View Webinar
November 16	Time to get wet: adding rainfall manipulation treatments to terrestrial global change experiments involving CO2, N, and temperature Peter Reich, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota View Webinar
November 30	Nitrate concentration, load, and yield dynamics in sixteen agricultural streams as a function of dominant water flowpath Scott Kronholm, Doctoral Student, Water Resources Science Program, University of Minnesota View Webinar
December 7	Development of Minnesota’s river eutrophication criteria Steven Heiskary, Research Scientist, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency View Webinar

Spring 2012

Spring 2012

Date	Seminar
January 20	Climate Trends and Climate change in Minnesota: A Review" Mark Seeley, Dept of Soil, Water, and Climate, UMN View Webinar
January 27	Statewide Ecological Benefits Index for Minnesota Land Parcels David Mulla, Dept of Soil, Water, and Climate, UMN View Webinar (Some sound is missing due to technical difficulties.)
February 3	Innovations in Stormwater Treatment John Gulliver, Dept of Civil Engineering, UMN View Webinar
February 10	Pesticide Processing Potential of Prairie Potholes Bill Arnold, Dept of Civil Engineering, UMN View Webinar
February 17	The Past, Present, and Future of Fluvial Sediment Monitoring by the U.S. Geological Survey Chris Ellison, USGS View Webinar
February 24	Effects of Aquatic Invasive Species on Water Quality in Lakes and Examples From the Common Carp Peter Sorensen, Dept of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, UMN View Webinar
March 2	Sustainable Watershed Management Defined and Assigned by Stakeholders: preliminary findings from two Minnesota watersheds Paula Guetter, WRS Student, UMN Twin Cities View Webinar
March 9	Self-Sustaining Agricultural Drainage Ditches Bruce Wilson, Dept of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, UMN View Webinar (Slides are out of sync in the first 10 minutes)
March 23	Economic Issues in the Definition of Surface Water Rights Mark Kanazawa, Carleton College, Dept of Economics View Webinar
March 30	Water Governance and Instituting Change -- It's More Than Education Sherry Enzler, Dept of Forest Resources and Resident Fellow at Institute on the Environment View Webinar
April 6	River Bank Material as Potential Carriers and a Source of Phosphorus in Lake Pepin Ashley Grundtner, WRS Student, UMN Twin Cities View Webinar
April 13	Assessing Hydrologic Changes Using Regionalization Heidi Peterson, Dept of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, UMN View Webinar
April 20	State-of-the-Science tools for measuring arsenic speciation in glacial sediments Brandy Toner, Dept of Soil, Water and Climate, UMN

Fall 2011

Fall 2011

Date	Seminar
September 16	Sustaining Lakes in a Changing Environment (SLICE) and the So-Called Sentinel Lakes Ray Valley, MN Dept of Natural Resources View Webinar
September 23	Neopaleolimnology of urban and suburban lakes in multidisciplinary geoscience education, training, and outreach Amy Myrbo, LacCore/Limnological Research Center, UMN View Webinar
September 30	Assessing the Impacts of Hydrologic and Geomorphic Alteration of Minnesota Rivers on Riverine Turtle Habitat Chris Lenhart, Dept of Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering, UMN No umconnect link available.
October 7	Valuing Ecosystem Services Stephen Polasky, Dept of Applied Economics & Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, UMN View Webinar (sound only due to tech difficulties)
October 14	New Tools for Tracking Mud in Rivers Patrick Belmont, Dept of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University View Webinar
October 21	Identifying Optimum Landscapes for Water Quality and Ecosystem Services in an Agricultural Watershed Brent Dalzell, Dept of Soil, Water, and Climate, UMN View Webinar
October 28	Outdoor StreamLab (OSL): Full-Scale Outdoor Experiments to Strengthen Stream Restoration Science Jessica Kozarek, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, UMN View Webinar
November 4	Halorespiration, a Natural Process Paige Novak, Dept of Civil Engineering, UMN View Webinar
November 11	Channel Stability: Identifying the link between Land use and Stream Integrity Brenda Asmus, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency No umconnect link available.
November 18	Investigating the Source, Transport, and Isotope Composition of Water in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Tim Griffis, Dept of Soil, Water, and Climate, UMN View Webinar
December 2	Lake Superior carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles: Operating on the boundaries of biogeochemical envelopes Bob Sterner, Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, UMN View Webinar
December 9	Temporal and spatial consistency in endocrine active chemicals and estimated estrogenicity within Minnesota streams influenced by wastewater Kathy Lee, USGS View Webinar

Spring 2011

Spring 2011

Date	Seminar
January 28	Direct and Indirect Photolysis of Two Phytoestrogens Megan Kelly, WRS Ph.D. Student
February 4	Quantifying the Effectivness of Soil Amendments as a Stormwater Best Management Practice Nick Olson, Wenck Associates View Webinar
February 11	Long-term changes of dissolved organic matter efflux from peatland catchments in northern Minnesota Stephen Sebestyen, Department of Forest Resources View Webinar
February 18	Environmental Concerns of the Caspian Sea Rovshan Abbasov View Webinar
February 25	Methylmercury Declines Rapidly in a Peatland Following Decreases in Sulfate Deposition. Jill Coleman Wasik, WRS Ph.D. student View Webinar
March 4	Freshwater management: microscopic storytellers provide environmental retrospection and future predictions Euan Reavie, UMD Natural Resources Research Institute View Webinar
March 11	Phosphorus biogeochemistry: from microbes to global reserves Jim Cotner, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior View Webinar
March 25	Land Management Affects Water Supply: Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Delivering Hydrologic Ecosystem Services in Kona, Hawai’i Kate Brauman, Institute on the Environment View Webinar
April 1	Why is revegetation of aquatic ecosystems particularly challenging? Sue Galatowitsch, Department of Horticultural Science View Webinar
April 8	Managing Lakeside Development in Minnesota Paul Radomski, MN Department of Natural Resources View Webinar
April 15	Regulation of ecosystem productivity in stream networks Jacques Finlay, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior View Webinar
April 22	Social Evaluation and Impact Assessment in Non-Governmental Organizations: Lessons from western Kenya Valerie Were, NRSM PhD student View Webinar
April 29	Fecal bacteria sources and virulence genes at Lake Superior beaches Jessica Eichmiller, WRS PhD student

Fall 2010

Fall 2010

Date	Seminar
September 17	Effects of Perennial and Annual Vegetation on a Soil Water Balance and Groundwater Recharge Jared Trost, USGS View Webinar
September 24	Attend at least one lecture; announcement for symposium will be sent by Bonnie Anderson Symposium: Mike Semmens, CE / Pat Brezonik, Former WRS DGS & CE
October 1	Conservation drainage in Minnesota: Results of focus groups with drainage professionals around the state Ann Lewandowski, Water Resources Center View Webinar
October 8	Engineers Without Borders: Calculations, Water, and Cultures Derrick Passe, WRS Graduate View Webinar
October 15	Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants Tim LaPara, Dept of Civil Engineering View Webinar
October 22	Moving Toward Self-sufficiency in three Sierra Leone Villages Faye Sleeper, Water Resources Center View Webinar
October 29	Linking ecosystem processes to macroinvertebrate community structure in restored agricultural streams of Southwest Minnesota Christy Dolph, WRS PhD Student View Webinar
November 5	The Fargo/Moorhead flood control project; vis-à-vis diversion of the Red River Aaron Snyder View Webinar
November 12	Strategic Investments in Conservation: Minnesota's Outdoor Heritage Fund Mike Kilgore, Dept of Forest Resources View Webinar
November 19	A Sustainable Water Future for Minnesota - How to Get There Deb Swackhamer. Water Resources Center View Webinar
December 3	Understanding Community Adaptive Capacity for Sustainable Watershed Management Mae Davenport, Dept of Forest Resources View Webinar