Seminars

Water Initiative Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00 pm in BNR 102. Please forward seminar suggestions to Kim Schreuders (kim.schreuders@usu.edu, 797-3172). Utah State University also participates in CUAHSI cyberseminars. The cyberseminars are held in ENGR 413A, the Engineering Dean's Office conference room. All are welcome.

ARCHIVE Information - Previous Water Initiative seminars have been recorded and archived. Click here for a listing of previous semesters archive.

Upcoming Water Initiative Seminar

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Spring Semester 2008

• Wednesday, January 16, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Paul Grams, USU, Watershed Sciences
  Title:  " Coupling annual and decadal patterns of sediment flux with channel morphology in a gravel-bedded mountain stream "
  Archived Webcast
• Wednesday, January 23, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  David Tarboton, USU, CEE/UWRL
  Title:  " Is Water Science ready for Big Science: A discussion of CUAHSI and the WATERS Network efforts to establish big science infrastructure. What role can we play? "
  Archived Webcast
• Wednesday, January 30, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Douglass Shaw, Texas A&M University
  Title:  " The economics of Instream Flow management with Uncertainties about Fish Stocks "
  Archived Webcast
• Wednesday, February 6, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Michael Dietz, USU, Environment and Society
  Title:  " Human Aspects of Water Problems: the Psychology of Hydrology "
  Archived Webcast
• Wednesday, February 13, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Douglas Jackson-Smith, USU, Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology
  Title:  " Water Resources Research Priorities in the Inland Northwest: Views from Outside the Ivory Tower "
  Archived Webcast
• Wednesday, February 20, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Chris Luecke, USU, Watershed Sciences
  Title:  " Arctic aquatic ecosystems and the threat of global climate change "
  Archived Webcast
• Wednesday, February 27, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Suzanne Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Title:  " Biogeochemistry of glacial landscape systems "
  
• Wednesday, March 5, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Chelsea Crenshaw, USU, Biology
  Title:  " CANCELED -- Going against the current: Evidence of nutrient co-limitation in salmon streams "
  
• Wednesday, March 19, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Larry Walkoviak, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Director - Upper Colorado Region
  Title:  " New challenges for the Upper Colorado Region "
  
• Wednesday, April 9, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Eric Dinger, USU, Watershed Sciences
  Title:  " Aquatic Conservation in Southwest Karstic Ecosystems "
  
• Wednesday, April 16, 2008
  Time:  4:00 pm
  Location:  BNR 102
  Presenter:  Ken Bencala, USGS, Menlo Park
  Title:  " Hyporheic Exchange Flows – Uncertainty in basic hydrology & Directions for transient storage application "