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Smallwood UF Water Institute Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series

A gift from the Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation funds the Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series which invites high profile scholars to conduct a general Water Institute seminar at UF that will be of interest to a broad audience; meet with the Water Institute Faculty Advisory Committee to discuss strategic planning and partnering opportunities; and meet with interested Water Institute faculty to discuss specific research/education issues.

2009-2010

Speaker: Reed Maxwell, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Seminar Title:  The groundwater-land-surface-atmosphere connection: Feedbacks and scaling in watershed processes  Abstract (PDF)
Presentation (Video)
Time: 3 pm - 5 pm Thursday, September 10, 2009
Location: 122 Rogers Hall

Speaker: Dan M. Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Seminar Title:  The Cultural Cognition of Risk: Theory, Evidence, and Implications
Seminar Description:  The cultural cognition of risk refers to the tendency of persons to conform their beliefs about putatively dangerous activities to their cultural evaluations of those activities. This lecture will examine the basic theory behind cultural cognition, experimental and other empirical evidence of its influence on perceptions of environmental and technological risks, and the implications of it for risk communication and policymaking.
Presentation (PDF) (Video)
Time: 3 pm - 5 pm Thursday, October 8, 2009
Location: 209 Emerson Alumni Hall

Speaker: Aris Georgakakos, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Seminar Title:  Climate Change Assessment for the ACF River Basin   Abstract (PDF)
Presentation (Video)
Time: 3 pm - 5 pm Thursday, November 5, 2009
Location: 209 Emerson Alumni Hall

Speaker: Carolina Murcia,Organization for Tropical Studies Science Director
Seminar Title: Opportunities in Costa Rica with the Organization for Tropical Studies Abstract (PDF)
Time: 3 pm - 4 pm with discussion following, Thursday, December 3, 2009
Location: Room 285 Reitz Union

Speaker: Evelyn Gaiser, Department of Biological Sciences, Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University
Time: 3 pm - 5 pm Thursday, January 14, 2010
Location: 209 Emerson Alumni Hall

Speaker: Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Time: 3 pm - 5 pm Thursday, February 11, 2010
Location: 209 Emerson Alumni Hall

Speaker: James Shortle, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Director Environment and Natural Resources Institute, Penn State University
Time: 3 pm - 5 pm Thursday, March 4, 2010
Location: 209 Emerson Alumni Hall

Speaker: Barbara Bedford, Senior Research Associate, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
Time: 3 pm - 5 pm Thursday, April 1, 2010
Location: 209 Emerson Alumni Hall

2008-2009

Steve Leitman, Florida State University.
Seminar Title:  Lessons Learned from the demise of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Compact and subsequent litigation  Abstract (PDF)
Presentation (Powerpoint 3.54 MB)
Time:  3 pm - 5 pm Thursday, September 4, 2008
Location:  122 Rogers Hall

Ray Huffaker, Professor and Chair, Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida.
Seminar Title: Economic dynamics of reservoir sedimentation management using hydrosuction dredging Abstract (PDF)
Time: 3-5 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008
Location: 122 Rogers Hall

Foster Brown, Senior Scientist, Governance & Sustainable Development Woods Hole Research Center and Professor Graduate Program in Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Federal University of Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, Brazil,
Co-hosted by UF Tropical Conservation and Development Program (http://www.latam.ufl.edu/tcd/)
Seminar Title:  "Building an early warning system for droughts and flooding in the MAP Region of southwestern Amazonia"
Presentation (PDF)
Time: 3 pm Thursday, November 6, 2008
Location: 282 Reitz Union

Robert Costanza, Ph.D., Gordon Fund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, The University of Vermont
Title: "Understanding, Valuing, and Modeling Ecosystem Services"
Presentation

Time: 3 pm Thursday, December 4, 2008
Location: 2nd Floor Auditorium, Reitz Union

Daniel P. Loucks, Professor of Water Resource Planning and Management, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Title: Managing Water for a Sustainable Life (abstract)
Presentation-Part 1

Presentation-Part 2

Time: 3 pm Thursday, February 5, 2009
Location: 209 Emerson Hall

Sven Jørgensen, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Co-hosted by: Adaptive Management: Water Wetlands and Watersheds IGERT "Integrative Science for a Complex World" Lecture Series
Title: "A New Ecology" (abstract)
Presentation

Time: 3 pm Monday, Feburary 23, 2009
Location: 209 Emerson Hall

Dr. Wayne Skaggs, Ph.D., P.E., William Neal Reynolds Professor and Distinguished University Professor, North Carolina State University
Title: "Effect of Water Management on Nitrogen Losses to Surface Waters" (abstract)
Time: 3 pm Thursday, March 5, 2009
Presentation

Location: 282 Reitz Union

Dr. Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography (UCLA) and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Title: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Time: 8 pm Thursday, April 9, 2009
Sponsored by: UF Office of Sustainability, UF Water Institute, Department of Soil and Water Science, Dean of Students Office, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Gators for a Sustainable Campus
Location: Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Laurie Fowler, Professor and Director for Policy of the University of Georgia River Basin Center
Title: "Of Darters and Dollars: The Intersection of Science and Policy in the Etowah Watershed" (abstract)
Co-Hosted by: Center for Governmental Responsibility UF College of Law
Time: 3 PM - 5 PM, April 14, 2009
Presentation

Location: 122 Frazier Rogers Hall

Dr. Etienne Wenger
Title: "Cultivating Communities of Practice for Interdisciplinary Research"
Time: 2 PM - 4 PM, May 4, 2009
Location: 209 Emerson Alumni Hall

2007-2008

Donelson Wright, Chancellor Professor of Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary
Seminar Title: "Recent Advances in Understanding the Complex Impacts of Rivers on Coastal and Continental Shelf Environments" Abstract (PDF)
Presentation (PDF)
Time: 3 pm Thursday, September 5, 2007
Location: 282 Reitz Union

Edward L. Miles, Virginia & Prentice Bloedel Professor of Marine & Public Affairs, and Senior Fellow Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Oceans, School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington
Seminar Title: "From the Global to the Local: Managing Climate Change Impacts across Scales" Abstract (PDF)
Presentation (PDF)
Time: 3:00 pm Thursday October 18, 2007
Location: Room 282 Reitz Union

Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, and Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University
Seminar Title: "Understanding Global Climate Change" Abstract (PDF)
Presentation (PDF 27mb)
Time: 3:00 pm Thursday November 1, 2007
Location: Room 282 Reitz Union
View Video Presentation (wmv file 90MB)

Charles Vorosmarty, Research Professor, Water Systems Analysis Group, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire
Seminar Title: “The Science of Global Hydrology: Lessons from the U.S. Northeast Corridor”
Abstract (PDF)
Presentation (PDF)
Time: 3:00 pm Thursday December 6, 2007
Location: Room 282 Reitz Union
View Video Presentation (wmv file 195MB)

George Hornberger, Ernest H. Ern Professor, Environmental Hydrology, Department of Environmental Science, University of Virginia
Seminar Title: "The Water Cycle Revisited: Linkages with Element Cycles"
Abstract (PDF)
Presentation (PDF)
Time: 3:00 pm Thursday January 10, 2008
Location: Room 282 Reitz Union

Len Shabman, Natural Resource Economist, Resident Scholar in Energy and Natural Resources, Resources for the Future, Washington DC
Seminar Title: "Ecosystem Service Markets: Myths, Realities and Prospects"
Abstract (PDF)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm Thursday, February 7, 2008
Location: Emerson Alumni Hall, room 209
Presentation (PDF)

Sandra Zellmer, Natural Resource and Water Law professor and Havelone Research Chair at the University of Nebraska College of Law
Seminar Title: The Anti-Speculation Doctrine in Water Law: Ghost-busting, Trust-busting, or Ensuring Reasonable, Beneficial Use?
Abstract (PDF)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm Thursday, March 27, 2008
Location: Emerson Alumni Hall, room 209

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