Archived Seminars

This page contains an archive of previous Water Initiative Seminars and the Breeze link to view the presentation.

Fall Semester 2007

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Robert Adler, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
Title: " Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of Immensity "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: David Robinson, Stanford University, Dept of Geophysics
Title: " Exploring Soils and Ecohydrological Structure in Vulnerable Ecosystems Using Geophysical Imaging "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Ray Huffaker, Washington State University, School of Economic Sciences
Title: " Existing and New Legal Paradigms for a Water-Short World "
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Martin Dolye, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Title: " Aging Infrastructure, Ecosystem Restoration, and the New Economy of Rivers "
Archived Webcast

Spring Semester 2007

Monday, January 22, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Jon Cole, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Cornell University, also past president of ASLO
Title: " Cargo cults and allochthonous input: a examination of the consequences of terrestrial carbon inputs to aquatic ecosystems "
Abstract Archived Webcast
Monday, January 29, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Brian Bledsoe, Colorado State University
Title: " Considering Vegetative Influences in Stream Restoration Design "
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Monday, February 5, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Amilcare Porporato, Duke University
Title: " Stochastic Soil Moisture Dynamics and Ecosystem Response "
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Monday, February 12, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Fred Ogden, University of Wyoming
Title: " Unusual Annual Runoff Hydrograph Characteristics in the Seasonal Tropics of Panama "
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Bob Wissmar, University of Washington
Title: " How Effective are Created Spawning Channels in River Floodplains? "
Archived Webcast
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: ENGR 302
Presenter: Gabriel Montes-Llamas, Inter American Development Bank
Title: " International Irrigation Projects developed by the Inter American Development Bank "
Monday, February 26, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Dara Entekhabi, MIT
Title: " Data Assimilation in a Coupled Land-Boundary Layer System "
Archived Webcast
Monday, March 5, 2007
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Krissy Wilson, Species Program Coordinator, Utah
Title: " Utah Division Wildlife Resources Native Aquatic Species Programs: Moving forward to recovery for threatened and endangered species and keeping species off the list "
Archived Webcast
Monday, March 19, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Barbara Minsker, University of Illinois
Title: " The WATERS Network: The National Vision and Testbed Research in Corpus Christi Bay "
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Wayne Wurtsbaugh, USU, Watershed Sciences Dept.
Title: " Landscape Limnology in Mountain Watersheds "
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Warren Colyer, Trout Unlimited
Title: " Fish Out of Water: Collaborative Approaches to Native Fish Restoration in the Bear River Watershed "
Archived Webcast

Fall Semester 2006

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Steve Chapra, Tufts
Title: " The Development of Modern Water Quality Models "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Ignacio Escuder, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
Title: " Dam safety state of the art in Spain including risk assessment and corrective measures examples "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Ryan King, Baylor University
Title: " Urbanization and ecological thresholds: examples from stream and estuarine ecosystems "
Archived Webcast

Spring Semester 2006

Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Doug Alsdorf, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio State University
Title: " WATER: The Water and Terrestrial Elevation Recovery Satellite Mission "
Archived Webcast
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Denis Newbold, Stroud Water Research Center
Title: " Linking Upstream to Downstream: The Role of Organic Particles in River Ecosystems "
Abstract Archived Webcast
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: David Montgomery, Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
Title: " Channel Recovery from Massive Sediment Loading, Mount Pinatubo, Philipines "
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: N. LeRoy Poff, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University
Title: " Using Species Traits to Explain Stream Macroinvertebrate Community Responses to Multi-Scaled Environmental Gradients across the Western United States "
Abstract Archived Webcast
Thursday, April 6, 2006
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Jim Steenburgh, Associate Professor and and Chair, Department of Meteorolgy, University of Utah
Title: " Everything you wanted to know about the Great Salt Lake Effect, but were afraid to ask "
Abstract Archived Webcast
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Sally MacIntyre, Department of Ecology, Evolutionand Marine Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara
Title: " Turbulence, Internal Waves and Intrusions: Role for Aquatic Ecosystem Ecology "
Archived Webcast

Fall Semester 2005

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Presenter: Vijay P. Singh, Ph.D., D. Sc., Arthur K. Barton Endowed Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University
Title: " I-D-F-Curves for Urban Drainage Design Using the Copula Method "
Abstract
Monday, October 3, 2005
Presenter: Pedro Restrepo, National Weather Service
Title: " Research Directions of the Office of Hydrologic Development of the National Weather Service "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Presenter: Ross Woods, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
Title: " The Need for Catchment Classification in Scientific Hydrology "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Presenter: Pete Loucks
Title: " Water Resources Sustainability: Some Issues, Examples and Approaches "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Presenter: Rollin H. Hotchkiss, Gus Williams and Alan Zundel, WRE Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, BYU
Title: " Fish Passage through Bridges and Culverts; Water Quality Issues in the Nakdong River Basin in the Republic of Korea; Numerical Surface Water Modeling "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Presenter: Stan Gregory, Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University
Title: " Trajectories of Ecosystem Change in the Willamette River Basin from 1850 to 2050 "
Archived Webcast

Spring Semester 2005

Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Pete Bisson, Research Fish Biologist, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station
Title: " Your Waters are Turning the Darkness to Dawn: The Columbia River and Salmon "
Archived Webcast
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Robert B. Jacobson, Research Hydrologist, USGS, Missouri
Title: " Designing Healthy Ecosystems on Large, Intensively Engineered Rivers "
Archived Webcast
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Mark Scheuerell, NOAA-Seattle, CRI
Title: " Natural and Human Causes of Variability in Salmonid Population Dynamics "
Archived Webcast
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Larry Weber, Director, IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering, Donald E. Bently Faculty Fellow, The University of Iowa
Title: " Research Trends in Environmental Hydraulics Research at IIHR "
Archived Webcast
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Mary Bremigan, Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University
Title: " Viewing Lakes along Environmental Gradients: Patterns, Processes and Management "
Archived Webcast
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Larry Mays, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Arizona State University
Title: " Water Resources Management for Sustainability "
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Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: James E. Garvey, Assistant Professor of Zoology, Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center, Southern Illinois University
Title: " Searching for Habitat in Regulated Large Rivers: Intersections Between Fish Life Histories and Physical Processes "
Archived Webcast
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: William M. Lewis, Jr., Center for Limnology, CIRES, Boulder, CO
Title: " Ecological Determinism on the Orinoco Floodplain "
Archived Webcast
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Lee Benda, Research Scientist, Earth Systems Institute, Seattle, WAS/Mt. Shasta, CA
Title: " Landscape and Riverscape Terrain Analysis: Comparison among Four Watersheds in the Western US "
Archived Webcast
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Yvonne Vadeboncoeur
Title: " Does Size Matter? Morphometry, Nutrients and the Strength of Littoral-Pelagic Links in Lakes "
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Chuck Howe, Environment and Behavior Program, Insistute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Title: " The Return to the River Basin as the Unit of Management: A Step-By-Step Approach "
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Fall Semester 2004

Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Presenter: Briant A. Kimball, USGS
Title: " Use of Field Scale Experiments and Reactive Solute-Transport Modeling to Evaluate Remediation Alternatives "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Presenter: John Keys, Commissioner for the Bureau of Reclamation
Title: " The Future of Water in the West "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: John Dohrenwend, retired USGS
Title: " Impacts of Extended Drought on the Colorado Plateau: The Decline and Fall of Lake Powell, March 2002 to October 2004 "
Archived Webcast
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Jeff Mount, UC Davis
Title: " Subsidence, Sea Level Rise and Seismicity: Hell AND High Water for California "
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Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: David Naftz, USGS, Salt Lake City
Title: " Passive Remediation Techniques for Uranium and Selenium "
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Monday, November 15, 2004
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: Jack Sharp, University of Texas-Austin, Chevron Centennial Professor of Geology
Title: " Effects of Urbanization on Hydrogeological Systems "
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Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: ENGR 101
Presenter: John M. Melack, University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, and Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Title: " Linking the Ecology, Biogeochemistry and Hydrology of Amazonian Floodplains with Regional Analyses of Carbon Dynamics "
Archived Webcast

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