Seminars This Week: Water Resources, Discovery on the Missouri, and Guppies in Trinidad

Elizabeth Anderson (left) and two junior field assistants examine samples taken from the Pastaza River Basin in Ecuador  during a recent project that measured water quality in the community. (Photo courtesy)
Elizabeth Anderson (left) and two junior field assistants examine samples taken from the Pastaza River Basin in Ecuador during a recent project that measured water quality in the community. (Photo courtesy)

Three seminars are scheduled this week in Hardin Hall, beginning with the School of Natural Resources Seminar Series on Wednesday, Sept. 19. The Geography and Applied Ecology seminar series’ will both host talks on Friday, Sept. 21.

On Wednesday, Elizabeth Anderson—a freshwater ecologist in the department of earth and environment at Florida International University—will present "Balancing freshwater needs of humans and ecosystems in East Africa" in the Hardin Hall auditorium at 3:30 p.m.

Anderson will discuss her research in East Africa's Mara River and Wami-Ruvu basins, and "the use of environmental flow assessments in water resources management in these two basins, and the applicability of this tool in other contexts."

For more information about Anderson's seminar, visit the SNR Seminar Series page at http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar3.

The Geography General Seminar Series continues Friday, Sept. 21, at 2 p.m. in room 901 at Hardin Hall with Jeremy Dillon's "Engineer Cantonment (Stephen Long Expedition): The Intersection of Geography, Geology, Archaeology, History and Art."

Dillon, an associate professor of physical geography at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, will discuss his recent findings at an archeological site along the Missouri River, and how to reconstruct the modern history of the Missouri River valley bottom.

For more information about Dillon's seminar, visit the Geography seminar page at http://snr.unl.edu/geographygis/students/seminars.asp.

Tom Heatherly, a Ph.D. candidate at SNR, is the featured speaker of the Applied Ecology series. His seminar, "The impacts of guppy introduction and resource manipulation on invertebrates in Trinidadian streams," is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 21, at 3 p.m. in Hardin Hall room 163.

For more information about the Applied Ecology Seminar Series, go to http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar5.