UF Water Institute Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series

The UF Water Institute Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series 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 and graduate students to discuss specific research/education issues.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. David Rudolph, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada and 2013 NGWA Darcy Lecturer
Seminar Title:  Managing Groundwater beneath the Agricultural Landscape (Abstract)
Time:  3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location:  Grand Ballroom J. W. Reitz Union
Sponsored By:  UF Water Institute and the 8th IAHS International Groundwater Quality Conference
Thursday, February 21, 2013	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Lisa Goddard, Director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Seminar Title:  Creating Near-Term Climate Scenarios
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Sponsored By:  Florida Climate Institute
Thursday, February 14, 2013	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Jerald L. Schnoor, Allen S. Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Co-Director, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research; University of Iowa
Seminar Title:  Water Sustainability in a Changing World
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Sponsored By:  Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida
Thursday, January 24, 2013	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Dani Or, Professor of Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics, Director of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science, and 2013 Birdsall-Dreiss Hydrogeology GSA lecturer
Seminar Title:  Biophysical processes shaping bacterial life in soils - an unexplored universe under our feet (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Friday, November 16, 2012	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Joanna Endter-Wada, Associate Professor, Department of Environment and Society, College of Natural Resources, Utah State University
Seminar Title:  Efficiency within Sufficiency: Analyzing and Promoting Landscape Water Conservation
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Co-Host:  Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology
Friday, November 16, 2012	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Roger Kjelgren, Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, College of Agriculture, Utah State University
Seminar Title:  Reducing the Cost of Complexity: Undemanding Estimates of Landscape Water Demand
Seminar Description:  Conservation of irrigated urban landscapes is reservoir of water that can be tapped by water agencies, industry practitioners, and end users in drought and limited water supply situations. Conservation is not achievable without estimates of landscape water demand—how much is needed by plants—against which actual use can be compared. Spatial arrangement and plant diversity create complex water use patterns that ultimately counter balance, allowing a simpler but scientifically credible approach where water use estimation is based on common biophysical behaviors and end user expectations.
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Co-Host:  Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology
Friday, September 07, 2012	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Diane McKnight, Professor, Fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, National Academy of Engineering, Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado - Boulder
Seminar Title:  Summertime in the Rocky Mountains: A Biogeochemical Perspective on Climate Change and Water Quality (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location:  2nd Floor Auditorium, J. Wayne Reitz Union
Sponsored By:  Soil and Water Science Department
Thursday, March 01, 2012	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Professor for Resources Management and Endowed Chair of the German Environmental Foundation, Institute for Environmental Systems Research, Osnabruck, Germany.
Seminar Title:  A Conceptual Framework for analyzing Adaptive Capacity and Multi-Level Learning Processes in Resource Governance Regimes (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video) (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Wednesday, January 18, 2012	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Andrea Rinaldo, Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, and Director, Laboratory of Ecohydrology ECHO/ISTE/ENAC, Faculte ENAC, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne
Seminar Title:  River Networks As Ecological Corridors For Species, Populations And Pathogens Of Water-Borne Disease (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Tuesday, November 29, 2011	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Cynthia Barnett, Senior writer, Florida Trend magazine
Seminar Title:  Blue Revolution: A water ethic for America
Seminar Description:  Americans (and Floridians) see water as abundant and cheap: We turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop – the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food and produces our electricity. And most don’t realize their freshwater sources are in trouble. In her talk Blue Revolution: A Water Ethic for America & Florida, award-winning journalist Cynthia Barnett describes an illusion of water abundance that has encouraged everyone, from homeowners to farmers to utilities, to tap more and more. She proposes the most important part of the solution is also the simplest and least expensive: a shared water ethic among citizens, government and major water users.
Time:  3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Thursday, October 06, 2011	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Research Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University
Seminar Title:  Climate projections for Florida: Can we trust the models? (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Co-Host:  Florida Climate Institute
Monday, October 03, 2011	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Patrick Megonigal, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Seminar Title:  Global Change Impacts on Wetland Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  McCarty Hall B, Room G086
Sponsored By:  UF Soil and Water Science Department
Friday, September 09, 2011	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Chris Field, Director, Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Stanford University
Seminar Title:  Climate Change Science in a Skeptical Era (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Co-Host:  UF Water Institute and Florida Climate Institute
Sponsored By:  UF Soil and Water Science Department
Thursday, March 03, 2011	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Charles (Bud) Ehler, President of Ocean Visions, Paris France
Seminar Title:  Marine Spatial Planning: the U.S. Approach from an International Perspective (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Thursday, February 24, 2011	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. James Kirchner, Director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, Davos, Switzerland
Seminar Title:  Hydrological Processes Revealed by High-frequency Chemical Dynamics Spanning the Periodic Table (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, February 03, 2011	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Ariel Dinar, Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy and Director, Water Science and Policy Center, Center, University of California Riverside
Seminar Title:  Would Climate Change Really Affect the Cooperation and Stability of International Water Treaties? (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Tuesday, January 25, 2011	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Lynn Scarlett, Former Deputy Secretary of the Interior (2005-2009)
Seminar Title:  Climate Adaptation: Science, Collaboration and Communities (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Co-Host:  Florida Climate Institute and UF Office of Sustainability
Thursday, January 13, 2011	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Nancy Rabalais, Executive Director and Professor, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Seminar Title:  How to Restore a Damaged Ecosystem after an Unprecedented Oil Spill (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Thursday, December 02, 2010	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno, Assisting Director, MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative (MUSIC), Environmental Policy and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar Title:  Participatory Scenario Planning for Climate Change in Southern Florida's Greater Everglades Landscape (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Co-Host:  Florida Climate Institute
Wednesday, November 17, 2010	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Steven Daniels, Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology, Utah State University
Seminar Title:  The Unifying Negotiation Framework: A Tool for Designing Participatory Processes for Environmental Planning and Management (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Co-Host:  Center for Latin American Studies, Tropical Conservation and Development Program
Thursday, November 04, 2010	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. David Yates, Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Seminar Title:  Helping Water Utilities consider climate change and other uncertainties in their planning process (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video) (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Co-Host:  Florida Climate Institute
Thursday, April 22, 2010	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Seminar Title:  Hydrology and Biodiversity: A Crucial Link for a Sustainable Future (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, April 01, 2010	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Barbara Bedford, Senior Research Associate, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
Seminar Title:  Getting Below the Surface: The Rise of Ground Water in Wetland Biogeochemistry and Plant Ecology (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video) (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, March 04, 2010	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   James Shortle, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Director Environment and Natural Resources Institute, Penn State University
Seminar Title:  Reforming Nonpoint Pollution Policy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, January 14, 2010	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Evelyn Gaiser, Department of Biological Sciences, Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University
Seminar Title:  Expecting the Unexpected: Pandora's Box of Paradox in an "Upside Down" Estuary (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, November 05, 2009	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Aris Georgakakos, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Seminar Title:  Climate Change Assessment for the ACF River Basin (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, October 08, 2009	Back to Top: Past
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:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, September 10, 2009	Back to Top: Past
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)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  122 Rogers Hall
Monday, May 04, 2009	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Etienne Wenger,
Seminar Title:  "Cultivating Communities of Practice for Interdisciplinary Research"
Time:  2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Tuesday, April 14, 2009	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Laurie Fowler, Professor and Director for Policy of the University of Georgia River Basin Center
Seminar Title:  "Of Darters and Dollars: The Intersection of Science and Policy in the Etowah Watershed" (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  122 Rogers Hall
Co-Host:  Center for Governmental Responsibility UF College of Law
Thursday, April 09, 2009	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography (UCLA) and Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Seminar Title:  Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Time:  8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location:  Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
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
Thursday, March 05, 2009	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Dr. Wayne Skaggs, Ph.D., P.E., William Neal Reynolds Professor and Distinguished University Professor, North Carolina State University
Seminar Title:  "Effect of Water Management on Nitrogen Losses to Surface Waters" (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Monday, February 23, 2009	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Sven Jørgensen, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Seminar Title:  "A New Ecology" (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Co-Host:  Adaptive Management: Water Wetlands and Watersheds IGERT "Integrative Science for a Complex World" Lecture Series
Thursday, February 05, 2009	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Daniel P. Loucks, Professor of Water Resource Planning and Management, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Seminar Title:  Managing Water for a Sustainable Life (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video) (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, December 04, 2008	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   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
Seminar Title:  "Understanding, Valuing, and Modeling Ecosystem Services" (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  2nd Floor Auditorium, J. Wayne Reitz Union
Thursday, November 06, 2008	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Foster Brown, Senior Scientist, Governance & Sustainable Development Woods Hole Research Center and Professor Graduate Program Program in Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Federal University of Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, Brazil
Seminar Title:  "Building an early warning system for droughts and flooding in the MAP Region of southwestern Amazonia"
Presentation:   (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Co-Host:  UF Tropical Conservation and Development Program
Thursday, September 04, 2008	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Steve Leitman, , Florida State University
Seminar Title:  Lessons Learned from the demise of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Compact and subsequent litigation (Abstract)
Presentation:   (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  122 Rogers Hall
Thursday, March 27, 2008	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   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)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, February 07, 2008	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   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)
Presentation:   (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:  209 Emerson Alumni Hall
Thursday, January 10, 2008	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   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)
Presentation:   (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Thursday, December 06, 2007	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   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)
Presentation:   (Video) (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Thursday, November 01, 2007	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, and Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University
Seminar Title:  "Understanding Global Climate Change" (Abstract)
Presentation:   (Video) (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Thursday, October 18, 2007	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   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)
Presentation:   (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union
Thursday, September 06, 2007	Back to Top: Past
Speaker:   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)
Presentation:   (PDF)
Time:  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  282 J. Wayne Reitz Union