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Distinguished Speaker Seminars

The SWSD sponsors seminars presented by distinguished speakers and invited guests several times each year. Below is a list of honored guests we have hosted in the past.

2013
Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology: Distinguished Professor Seminar Series: Dr. Rolf Haden - Professor - Arizona State University; Title: Environmental Fate and Human Health Risks of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the U.S. Environment.
Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology - 2013 Water in the Landscape Distinguished Seminar Series: Dr. Daniel Radcliffe - Professor, Dept of Crop and Soil Science, University of Georgia; Title: Field and Watershed Scale Research on Onsite Wastewater Systems.
Hubbell Seminar: Dr. Jerald L. Schnoor - Allen S. Henry Chair in Engineering, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept of Occupational and Environmental Health, and Co-Director for Global and Regional Environmental Research; Univerity of Iowa; Title: Water Sustainability in a Changing World.
2012
Dr. Teri Balser - Dean of College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Professor of Soil and Water Science, University of Florida; Title: Can Learning the N Cycle Be Fun?
Dr. Charles Rice - University Distinguished Professor of Soil Microbiology - Agronomy Department - Kansas State University: Title: Can Soil Science Meet the Challenge of Climate Change, Food Security, and Sustainability?  Managing Soil Biology for Carbon Storage.
2011
Dr. Chris Field - Director of Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Insitution of Washington, Stanford University; Title: Climate Change Science in a Skeptical Era.
Dr. William Mitsch - Distinguished Professor of Environment and Natural Resources; Director - Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.; Title: Creating Wetlands: 17 Years of Primary Succession, Water Quality Changes, and Self- Design.
Dr. Patrick Megonigal - Biogeochemist; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center - Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Title: Global Change Impacts on Wetland Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise.
2010
Dr. Sunil Pancholy (Professor and Director, Center for Water Quality, Florida A & M University). Center for Water and Air Quality at Florida A & M University: Programs, People, and Opportunities.
David Hubbell Seminar
Dr. Johan Bouma (Emeritus Professor of Soil Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands) - http://www.wageningenuniversity.nl/UK/
The Role of Soil Science in Sustainability Studies.
Dr. Jorge Gardea-Torresdey (Chairman - Dept of Chemistry, Dudley Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering, Universtity of Texas at El Paso) - http://www.gardea.utep.edu
Toxicity & Biotransformation of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Terrestrial Plants
Dr. Binayak P. Mohanty (Professor - Dept of Rangeland Ecology and Management & Dept of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A& M) http://baen.tamu.edu/users/bmohanty & http://vadosezone.tamu.edu
Scaling, Physical Controls, and Effective Parameters in Multi‐Scale Soil Hydrology – Current Understanding and Future Opportunities!
2009
Dr. Alex McBratney (Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture, University of Sydney, Australia)
Digital Soil Mapping and Monitoring
Dr. Ashok Alva (USDA ARS)
Overview of USDA-ARS Accomplishments in the Pacific Northwest - Irrigation BMP’s Using Real Time Monitoring of Soil Water Content in Soil Profile
Dr. Jared Diamond - (Geography, UCLA) Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Dr. Barbara S. Lollar (University of Toronto)
Tracing Contaminant Source and Fate in Groundwater using Carbon Specific Isotope Analysis
2008
Don Sparks (University of Delaware)
Gary Sayler (University of Tennessee)
2007
Ken Nealson (University of Southern California)
Sridhar Komarneni (Pennsylvania State University)
2006
Hans Paerl (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
2005
Peter Vitousek (Stanford University)
Henry Gholz (National Science Foundation)
Chris Freeman  (University of Wales, Bangor, UK)
Robert Twilley (Louisiana State University)
2004
Rattan Lal (Ohio State University)
Curtis Richardson (Duke University)
Fred Sklar (South Florida Water Management District)
Michael Miller (Argonne National Laboratory)
2003
Wendell Gilliam (North Carolina State University)
Ronnie Best (US Geological Survey)
Pedro Sanchez (Columbia University)
2002
Eric Roden (University of Alabama)
James T. Morris (University of South Carolina)
2001
Malcolm Sumner (University of Georgia)
M. S. Swaminathan (M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India)
P. Suresh Rao (Purdue University)
2000
Derek Lovley (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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