Talk "From college to Industry" SWE (Society of Women Engineers)
The GradSWE leadership development series will host Rafael Estrada, Civil Engineer from JEO to talk about his experience transitioning from college to industry. The talk is open to all students.
March 18 from 7:00 pm to 8:00pm CST
Zoom meeting ID
969 0634 6154
Password
SWE-UNL
Rafael will share his personal experience transitioning from college to industry. Rafael is a fluent Spanish speaker working as a construction engineer in Nebraska and Iowa. He was born in Mexico and raised in Papillion,
NE. He enjoys being a resource to others as he had many mentors shape his journey as a young engineer. Growing up in a predominantly white world and working in a predominantly white male field, Rafael is focusing his career to help minority students interested in pursuing an engineering degree by providing job shadows, monthly check ins, resume, reviews and proofreading scholarship essays.
Friday March 12th - Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Graduate Seminar
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Seminar Series
Sam Zipper, Ph.D.
Assistant Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey
"No Flow? No Problem! Drivers of Flow and Long-Term Change in Non-Perennial Streams"
Non-perennial streams and rivers account for over 50% of global river network length, but are poorly understood relative to their perennial counterparts. This lack of understanding of the hydrology of non-perennial streams has led to substantial uncertainty in how they should be managed and governed. This talk synthesizes work at scales ranging from an individual reach to a cross-continental analysis to explore the drivers of flow in non-perennial streams, with a particular focus on feedbacks between non-perennial streams and groundwater resources. Using a mixture of continental-scale data synthesis, machine learning approaches, numerical models, and detailed field investigations, we find that the flow regimes of non-perennial have changed significantly through time, and that climate and human actions interact to control flow regimes at scales from the reach to the continent.
