Twin Cities Seminar Archives
Fall Semester 2020
Fall Semester 2020
Spring Semester 2020
Spring Semester 2020
Fall Semester 2019
Fall Semester 2019
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
Spring Semester 2018
Spring Semester 2018
Fall Semester 2017
Fall Semester 2017
Spring Semester 2017
Spring Semester 2017
Fall Semester 2016
Fall Semester 2016
Date | Presenter(s) | Organization | Topic | Webinar |
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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 |
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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
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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
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 |
February 7 |
Watershed Nitrogen Reduction Planning Tool Bill Lazarus, Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota |
February 14 |
Twin Lake TMDL Implementation Strategy Edward Matthiesen and Diane Spector, Wenck Associates |
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 |
February 28 |
NOAA Atlas 14: The New Standard in Rainfall Frequency Steve Buan, National Weather Service |
March 7 |
Creating an Interstate Clean Water Act Monitoring Strategy for the Upper Mississippi River Dave Hokanson, Upper Mississippi River Basin Association |
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 |
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 |
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 |
April 11 |
Iowa State's Nutrient Reduction Strategy Matthew Helmers, Iowa State University |
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 |
April 25 |
In-stream biological nitrogen uptake in agriculturally influenced MN streams and rivers Amy Hansen, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota |
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 |
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 |
October 4 |
Nonpoint Source Nitrogen Loading, Sources and Pathways for Minnesota Surface Waters David Mulla, Professor, Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
November 8 |
Developing Minnesota's Nutrient Reduction Strategy Dave Wall, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |
November 15 |
Groundwater/Surface-Water Interactions in White Bear Lake, Minnesota Perry Jones and Jared Trost, U.S. Geological Survey, Minnesota Water Science Center |
November 22 |
Baseflow Augmentation in Minnehaha Creek; What is the Potential? John Nieber, Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota |
December 6 |
Advances in wetland mapping using geospatial data Joe Knight, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
March 1 |
Conservation Practice Adoption: Rational Choice or Moral Obligation? Mae Davenport, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota |
March 8 |
Municipal wastewater treatment and antibiotic resistance: The problem AND the solution Tim LaPara, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota |
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 |
March 29 |
Robotic Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring Volkan Isler, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota |
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 |
April 12 |
Forests, Water and Food Insecurity in Mizoram India Karlyn Eckman, Adjunct Professor Department of Forrest Resources, University of Minnesota |
April 26 |
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Minnesota's Surface Water Mark Ferrey, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |
May 3 |
Regional Assessment of Sediment Loads Entering Lake Superior’s North Shore John Nieber, Department of Biosystems and Bioproducts Engineering, University of Minnesota |
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 |
September 21 |
Water repellency in petroleum contaminated soils: Evaluation and remediation methods Randy Adams, Research Professor, Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco, Mexico |
September 28 |
Lake Minnetonka ecological modeling Shahram Missaghi, Extension Educator, Water Resource Management & Policy, University of Minnesota |
October 5 |
The Dead Sea and water resources in the Levant Emi Ito, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota |
October 12 |
Diving South Africa Raymond Newman, Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Convervation Biology, University of Minnesota |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
December 7 |
Development of Minnesota’s river eutrophication criteria Steven Heiskary, Research Scientist, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |
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 |
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 |
February 11 |
Long-term changes of dissolved organic matter efflux from peatland catchments in northern Minnesota Stephen Sebestyen, Department of Forest Resources |
February 18 |
Environmental Concerns of the Caspian Sea Rovshan Abbasov |
February 25 |
Methylmercury Declines Rapidly in a Peatland Following Decreases in Sulfate Deposition. Jill Coleman Wasik, WRS Ph.D. student |
March 4 |
Freshwater management: microscopic storytellers provide environmental retrospection and future predictions Euan Reavie, UMD Natural Resources Research Institute |
March 11 |
Phosphorus biogeochemistry: from microbes to global reserves Jim Cotner, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior |
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 |
April 1 |
Why is revegetation of aquatic ecosystems particularly challenging? Sue Galatowitsch, Department of Horticultural Science |
April 8 |
Managing Lakeside Development in Minnesota Paul Radomski, MN Department of Natural Resources |
April 15 |
Regulation of ecosystem productivity in stream networks Jacques Finlay, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior |
April 22 |
Social Evaluation and Impact Assessment in Non-Governmental Organizations: Lessons from western Kenya Valerie Were, NRSM PhD student |
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 |
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 |
October 8 |
Engineers Without Borders: Calculations, Water, and Cultures Derrick Passe, WRS Graduate |
October 15 |
Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants Tim LaPara, Dept of Civil Engineering |
October 22 |
Moving Toward Self-sufficiency in three Sierra Leone Villages Faye Sleeper, Water Resources Center |
October 29 |
Linking ecosystem processes to macroinvertebrate community structure in restored agricultural streams of Southwest Minnesota Christy Dolph, WRS PhD Student |
November 5 |
The Fargo/Moorhead flood control project; vis-à-vis diversion of the Red River Aaron Snyder |
November 12 |
Strategic Investments in Conservation: Minnesota's Outdoor Heritage Fund Mike Kilgore, Dept of Forest Resources |
November 19 |
A Sustainable Water Future for Minnesota - How to Get There Deb Swackhamer. Water Resources Center |
December 3 |
Understanding Community Adaptive Capacity for Sustainable Watershed Management Mae Davenport, Dept of Forest Resources |