WATER, WETLANDS AND WATERSHEDS SEMINAR SERIES
Seminars are Wednesdays, 11:45am-12:35pm, Phelps Lab 101. Bring a brown bag lunch if you'd like.
The public is welcome and students may register for 1 credit: ENV 6935, SWS 4932, or SWS 6932, or online: contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for SWS section #.
See seminar titles below for links to the seminar recordings once available.
This seminar series is presented by the Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands, the Water Institute and the Soil & Water Sciences Department.
Spring 2018
Jan. 10
Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor, EES
Mark Brown, Professor Emeritus, EES
Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS
David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, EES
Introduction to the seminar series...food for thought
Jan. 17
Gretchen Stokes, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, School of Natural Resources and Environment, UF
Air-breathing and movement ecology of Arapaima sp. in the Amazon
Jan. 24
Eric Sparks, Asst. Extension Professor, Mississippi State University; Extension Program Leader & Coastal Ecology Specialist, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
Improving the effectiveness of shoreline restoration and conservation
Jan. 31
Jehangir H. Bhadha (Jango), Assistant Professor, Soil and WaterSciences, UF, Everglades Research & Education Center, Belle Glade, FL
Phosphorus management through sustainable agricultural practices
Feb. 7
No seminar, please attend the Water Institute Symposium
Feb. 14
Alberto Canestrelli, Assistant Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, UF
Numerical modeling of the long term evolution of salt marshes in back-barrier basins
Feb. 21
Ada Bersoza, MS student, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF
Feb. 28
John Carroll, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University
Parasites, pests, and predators, Oh My! Biotic influences of oyster populations
Mar. 14
Ashley Smyth, Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, Tropical Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Homestead, FL
Delectable and Beneficial: Oyster restoration, aquaculture and nitrogen removal
Mar. 21
Eban Bean, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF
Urbanization and altered drainage impacts on low-order coastal plain stream quality
Mar. 28
Benjamin Baiser, Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF
Intraspecific trait variation as a driver of broad scale diversity patterns
April. 4
Alex Sheremet, Assistant Professor, Civil & Coastal Engineering, UF
April. 11
Mauricio Arias, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, USF, Tampa, FL
Monitoring ongoing environmental change in the Mekong floodplains (recording is audio only)
April. 18
Elise Morrison, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Geological Sciences, UF
The role of priming effects on the conversion of blue carbon to CO2 in the coastal zone