Sponsored by UNL's Nebraska Water Center, the School of Natural Resources will host the spring 2013 Water Seminar Series in Hardin Hall with a full schedule of 14 planned lectures.
The series opens on Jan. 16 with the University of Kansas’s Andrea Brookfield’s seminar, “Integrated Hydrologic Models: Building New Tools for Water Management.” The spring schedule closes April 24 with Steven Peterson’s seminar, “The High Plains Groundwater Availability Study: Abundant Groundwater Doesn't Necessarily Mean Abundant Surface Water.”
All seminars will be held on Wednesdays in the Hardin Hall auditorium, at 3:30 p.m.
Download the schedule poster at http://watercenter.unl.edu/downloads/2013_Spring_Seminar_Poster.pdf or view the complete list here:
■ January 16
"Integrated Hydrologic Models: Building New Tools for Water Management"
Andrea Brookfield, University of Kansas
■ January 23
"The Niobrara River Basin Study: Using Various Models to Assess Water Supplies and Demands"
Brandi Flyr, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
■ January 30
"Participatory Water Governance: Experiences & Issues from Around the World"
Kate Berry, University of Nevada, Reno
■ February 6
"Williams Memorial Lecture: Global Precipitation in the 21st Century"
George Huffman, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
■ February 13
"Do We Really Have Too Much Water Pollution? The Nexus Between Economic Science and Physical Science"
Steven J. Taff, University of Minnesota
■ February 20
"The New Local Politics of Water"
Megan Mullin, Temple University
■ February 27
"Resistance and Resilience of Aquatic Communities to Low Flow Disturbance"
Annika Walters, University of Wyoming
■ March 6
"Adaptive Governance of Urban Watersheds"
Ahjond Garmestani, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
■ March 13
"Effects of the Zebra Mussel Invasion on Aquatic Ecosystems: the Hudson River and Beyond"
David Strayer, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
■ March 27
"Dynamics of Transport and Fate of Solutes in Hydrologic Landscapes"
Adam Ward, University of Iowa
■ April 3
Williams Memorial Lecture: "Implications for Water, Food and Energy from the Latest IPCC Climate Simulations"
Lawrence Buja, National Center for Atmospheric Research
■ April 10
"Recent Variations in Low-Temperature and Moisture Constraints on Vegetation in the Southwestern U.S."
Jeremy Weiss, University of Arizona
■ April 17
"The U.S. Drought of 2012: Once-in-a-Generation Crop Calamity"
Brad Rippey, US Department of Agriculture
■ April 24
"The High Plains Groundwater Availability Study: Abundant Groundwater Doesn't Necessarily Mean Abundant Surface Water"
Steven Peterson, US Geological Survey