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 2019
Jan. 9
Christine Angelini, Assistant Professor, EES
Mark Clark, Associate Professor, SWS
David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, EES
Introduction to the seminar series...food for thought
Jan. 16
Mark Brenner, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, UF
The dynamic paleoenvironment of the Yucatan Peninsula
Jan. 23
Bob Knight, Executive Director, Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, High Springs, FL
Springs Basin Management Action Plans – the Sound and Fury
Jan. 30
Joshua Papacek, Membership Consultant, United Faculty of Florida, Miami, FL, and recent PhD graduate, Soil and Water Sciences, UF
A new normal?: Nutrient trends and harmful blooms in the northern Indian River Lagoon
Feb. 6
Janie Wulff, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science, FSU
Bottom-up, top-down, and sideways control of tropical marine sponges: consequences for community organization and ecosystem function
Feb. 13
Mike Annable, Professor & Preeminent Scholar, Department of Biology, UF
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) releases and environmental impacts
Feb. 20
Katherine Todd-Brown, Postdoctoral Fellow, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
The mathematics of mud: Scaling complexity in soil carbon models
Feb. 27
Peter Frederick, Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF
Using oyster reefs for hydrological manipulation in the Big Bend of Florida
Mar. 13
Sean King, Senior Engineer, Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions, Inc., Gainesville, FL
Ecological restoration of Florida spring systems- challenges and opportunities
Mar. 20
Jake Hosen, Postdoctoral Associate, UF School of Forest Resource & Conservation
Time for carbon: tracing organic matter from watersheds to rivers
Mar. 27
Mary Lusk, Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Science, UF/IFAS, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center
Nutrients in urban stormwater runoff: sources, transport mechanisms and mitigation options
Apr. 3
Todd Osborne, Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences Department, Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience, UF
The legacy of phosphorus in Everglades National Park: Is restoration really working?
Apr. 10
Tatiana Borisova, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Food and Resource Economics Department, UF
Statewide water demand and supply planning
Apr. 17
Laura Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Sciences Department, UF
Using biodiversity theory to restore submerged aquatic vegetation in Lake Apopka