Water, Wetlands & Watersheds Seminar

Fall 2008 and later include links to recorded seminar slideshows with audio

  • Fall 2007
  • Spring 2008
  • Fall 2008
  • Spring 2009
  • Fall 2009
  • Spring 2010
  • Fall 2010
  • Spring 2011
  • Fall 2011
  • Spring 2012
  • Fall 2012
  • Spring 2013

  • Spring 2013

    Wednesdays 11:45 - 12:35 pm, Phelps Lab Seminar Room

    The public is welcome & students may register for ENV 6935 sect. 06AH, SWS 4932 sect. 022D, SWS 6932 sect. 9241, or contact mjsisk@ufl.edu for online section #

    January

    9 Mark Brown, Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF & Mark Clark, Professor, Soil and Water Sciences, UF Food for thought (audio only)
    16 Jack Putz, Professor, Department of Biology, UF Rising Sea and Falling Forest Project: What Next?
    (see research review from the Palmetto here)
    23 Donald Behringer, Assistant Professor, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF Blooms and boats: Their impact and the recovery of Florida hard-bottom habitats
    30 Peter Waylen, Professor, Department of Geography, UF Assigning significance to changes in Florida land cover, 1982-2006

    February

    6 Jennifer Seavey, Asst. Director, Seahorse Key Marine Lab, University of Florida, UF Between the river & the deep blue Gulf: The past & future of oysters in the Big Bend
    13 Thomas Ruppert, Climate and Policy Coordinator, Florida Sea Grant Legal issues with adaptation to sea-level rise in Florida
    20 Jim Channell, Distinguished Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, UF Global correlation of climate records over the last ~1 Myr: why is it important and how do we do it?
    27

    Andrea Dutton, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, UF

    Understanding patterns of past, present, and future sea level change

    March

    13 Bob Swett, Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF Analyzing offshore recreational boating and right whale patterns in 3 northeast Florida counties (CANCELLED)
    20 Karl Havens, Professor, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF & Director, Florida Sea Grant Potential ecological effects of climate change on Lake Okeechobee, and its role in the greater Everglades ecosystem
    27 Don Blancher, CEO/Chief Scientist Sustainable Ecosystem Restoration, LLC, Mobile, AL Ecorestoration Scaling: Strategies for Gulf of Mexico Restoration following the BP Oil Spill

    April

    3 Richard Hutton, P.E., Gainesville Regional Utilities An integrated approach to the Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration Project
    10 Gustav Paulay, Curator of Marine Malacology, FL Museum of Natural History, UF Diversity and diversification of reef fauna: Results from large-scale surveys and sequencing
    17 Peter Adams, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, UF Decadal to seasonal beach and nearshore morphodynamics at NASA-Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida
    Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands
    100 Phelps Lab, Museum Road
    P.O. Box 116350
    Gainesville, FL 32611
    Ph ~ (352) 392-2424
    Fax ~ (352) 392-3624

    University of Florida