Both the Water Seminar Series and the Geography General Seminar Series will be hosting events this week at their traditional times and locations.
The Water Seminar Series continues on Wednesday February 13 at 3:30 p.m. in the Hardin Hall first floor auditorium.
Dr. Steven Taff, extension economist at the University of Minnesota, will discuss “Do We Really Have Too Much Water Pollution? The Nexus between Economic Science and Physical Science.”
Dr. Taff’s research interests include alternative climate change remediation policies, the economics of biofuels, and environmental policy.
For more information about the Water Seminar Series, check out: http://watercenter.unl.edu/downloads/2013_Spring_Seminar_Poster.pdf.
The Geography General Seminar Series continues on Friday, Feb. 15 at 2:00 p.m. in Hardin Hall 163.
Dr. Katherine Nashleanas will discuss "The Metageographic Community Model."
Dr. Nashleanas is a lecturer in geography at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Her PhD work focused on the Metageographic Community Model, which “enables researchers to evaluate cumulative, multi-scaled, and spatially complex communities of individuals, enclaves, and cores, which connect over time and space, based on social proximity and patterns of linkage across multiple locations.”
For more information about the Geography General Seminar, please visit: http://snr.unl.edu/geographygis/students/seminars.asp.