Distinguished Scholar Seminars
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.
Upcoming Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Organization | Time and Location | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/13 | Executive Director | CUAHSI | November 13, 2024, 4:00pm at Reitz Union 2315 or Zoom | Advancing Water Research and Education: CUAHSI’s Vision for Community-Centered Infrastructure |
Past Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Organization | Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/04/11 | Research Ecologist | USDA Agricultural Research Service | Identifying, Managing, and Monitoring Limiting Nutrients in Alluvial Plain Freshwater Agroecosystems (Co-Sponsored by UF Department of Soil, Water, & Ecosystem Sciences) | |
| 2024/04/04 | Assistant Professor | Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida | A Partnership to Advance Water and Nutrient Best Management Practices in Florida | |
| 2024/02/29 | Professor | University of Alabama | Riverine Research Across Scales: From Flood Forecasting to Global Scale Sediment Modeling (Seminar Co-Sponsored by UF Geography) | |
| 2023/11/30 | Assistant Professor | University of Maryland | Biogeochemical mineral weathering in the warming Arctic and implications for Arctic carbon cycling (Seminar Co-Sponsored by UF Geological Sciences) | |
| 2023/11/09 | Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Center of Environmental Resource Management | University of Texas at El Paso | The future of the Rio Grande Basin: How will climate change, competition for water, and migration increase the cost of water for urban residents? (Seminar Co-Sponsored by UF Geological Sciences) | |
| 2023/11/02 | Research Scientist | Mexican Institute of Water Technology | A particle tracking model to forecast Sargassum along the Mexican Caribbean coast (Seminar Co-Sponsored by UF Geological Sciences) | |
| 2023/10/05 | Assistant Professor | Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida | Evaluating Fisheries Responses to Changes in Water, Habitat, and Management Actions | |
| 2023/04/12 | Assistant Professor | Food and Resources Economics Department, University of Florida | ||
| 2023/02/06 | University Distinguished Professor | Division of Biology, Kansas State University | ||
| 2022/10/19 | Assistant Professor | Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystems Sciences, University of Florida | Advancing Environmental Sustainability in Geo-, Eco-, and Agro-Systems | |
| 2022/04/14 |
| Associate Professor | Department of Geography and the Environment at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University | Drowned out: Water, Climate, and Justice (Seminar Co-Sponsored by UF Geography)
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| 2022/03/15 |
| Assistant Professor | School of Forest, Fisheries & Geomatics Sciences, Ft Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida | Groundwater effects on multiple ecosystem services across scales
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| 2022/01/25 |
| Regional Specialized Agent | Florida Sea Grant, Indian River Research and Education Center, University of Florida | Water Resources in Florida: Extension at the intersection of science and human experience
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| 2021/09/28 | Assistant Professor | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama | The Stories Rivers Tell: Using Aquatic Signals to Detect Change in Arctic Watersheds | |
| 2021/03/31 | Assistant Professor | University of Florida | ||
| 2021/02/23 | Professor And Director Of Aquatic Toxicology | University of Florida | ||
| 2020/11/17 | Associate Professor, COSAM Molette Endowed Professor | Auburn University | ||
| 2020/09/16 | Assistant Professor | UF/IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center | Enhancing Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency on Citrus Production Landscapes in Florida | |
| 2020/04/16 | Professor and 2020 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer | UF Department of Geological Sciences | High Latitude Hydrology: Water in a Changing World | |
| 2020/01/30 | Assistant Professor | UF Department of Environmental Engineering | ||
| 2019/11/12 | Distinguished Lecturer | Groundwater Foundation Darcy Distinguished Lecturer | ||
| 2019/09/13 |
| Assistant Professor | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences | Investigating the Hydrology and Biogeochemistry of Fractured Bedrock Underlying Forests
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| 2019/05/02 | Assistant Professor | UF Whitney Lab - St. Augustine ,Soil and Water Sciences Department, University of Florida | ||
| 2019/04/04 | Professor Emeritus | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Irvine | Current Understanding of Natural Organic Matter Photochemistry and Implications in Constructed Wetlands, Environmental Fate and Coastal Studies | |
| 2019/03/21 | Jerry G. and Patricia Hubbard Professor of Biology | Department of Biology, Duke University | Do Rivers Have Rhythm? New insights into the metabolic regimes of flowing waters | |
| 2019/02/19 | Professor and Chair | Hydrogeology, Environmental Geophysics, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University | ||
| 2018/12/04 | Professor | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida | ||
| 2018/11/27 | Professor | Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, KU Leuven | Eco-evolutionary dynamics and global change: freshwater ponds as model systems | |
| 2018/11/06 | Division Director | National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Modeling and Mining the Microbiome to Help Catalyze Adoption of Onsite Non-Potable Water Reuse | |
| 2018/10/15 | Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor | Soil and Crop Sciences, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University | ||
| 2018/04/18 | Professor | Department of Plants, Soil & Climate, Utah State University | Evapotranspiration: Measurements, Models and Connections to Climate | |
| 2018/03/21 | Assistant Professor | Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences | ||
| 2018/02/20 | Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer for 2018, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Physical Hydrology | Department of Geoscience | Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World | |
| 2018/01/11 | Professor | IFAS Southwest Florida Research & Education Center, Agricultural & Biological Engineering | Thinking Beyond Water to Design Win-Win Solutions for Water Sustainability | |
| 2017/12/05 | Professor | Department of Geography and the Environment | ||
| 2017/11/27 | 2017 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer; Chief | Water Resources Division | Water Resource Stewardship in the U.S. National Park Service | |
| 2017/11/13 | Dr. Thomas Bianchi | Jon and Beverly Thomson Endowed Chair | Department of Geological Sciences | Carbon Remineralization and Burial in the Coastal Margin: Linkages in the Anthropocene |
| 2017/10/31 | Dr. W. Berry Lyons | Professor, School Director | School of Earth Sciences | Hydrology and Aquatic Geochemistry of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica |
| 2017/05/02 | Assistant Professor | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Simulating water flow and solute transport in coupled groundwater-surface water systems using SWAT-MODFLOW | |
| 2017/04/04 | Alan & Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering & Director of Columbia Water Center | Dept. of Earth & Environmental Engineering | ||
| 2017/03/17 | Assistant Professor | Civil & Environmental Engineering Department | Climate-Resilient Water Governance and Management: Progress and Challenges | |
| 2017/02/17 | Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Life Sciences | Temporal Reliability of Welfare Estimates from Revealed Preference Data, co-hosted by UF Food & Resource Economics Department | ||
| 2017/01/12 | James Elser, Ph.D. | Bierman Professor of Ecology, Director | Flathead Lake Biological Station | Biological Stoichiometry of Nutrient Limitation in Ecology and Evolution |
| 2016/12/05 | 2016 Water Institute Faculty Fellow | Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, ESSIE | Why Should Management of Coastal Aquifers Consider Basin-scale Ocean Currents? | |
| 2016/11/14 | 2016 Water Institute Faculty Fellow | Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Future of Water Management: Technology that makes science accessible to decision makers | |
| 2016/10/10 | 2016 Darcy Lecture Series in Groundwater Science (Nat'l Groundwater Association), Professor | Department of Hydrology and Water Resources | Seeing Things Differently: Rethinking the Relationship Between Data, Models, and Decision-Making | |
| 2016/09/15 | Dr. Pedro Sanchez | Research Professor | Soil and Water Sciences Department | Africa’s Progress in Fighting Hunger: Science and Policy – co-hosted by 17th Annual Soil and Water Sciences Research Forum |
| 2016/09/12 | Executive Director | |||
| 2016/03/24 | 2016 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer, Professor of Hydrogeology | Department of Geological Sciences | Fluid Induced Earthquakes: Insights from Hydrogeology and Poro-mechanics, co-hosted by Department of Geological Sciences | |
| 2016/03/07 | Professor and Director | Appalachian Laboratory | Manure Happens: The Consequences of Feeding Seven Billion Human Carnivores, co-hosted by Soil and Water Science Department | |
| 2016/01/14 | Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Center for Landscape Conservation & Ecology | Using Research to Inform Extension for Real World Water Conservation | ||
| 2015/12/07 | Soil and Water Science Department | |||
| 2015/11/13 | Vice President for Sea Level and Climate Impacts | |||
| 2015/10/06 | Professor and Chair | Earth and Environmental Science | Tipping Points of Coastal Marshes Due to Accelerated Sea-level Rise | |
| 2015/09/17 | Dr. Andrew Sharpley | Professor of Soils and Water Quality | University of Arkansas | Exploring Phosphorus Paradoxes to Avoid Unintended Consequences |
| 2015/03/30 | 2015 Darcy Lecturer | Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems | Numerical Models for Evaluating the Competitive Use of the Subsurface: The Influence of Energy Storage and Production in Groundwater | |
| 2015/03/17 | Professor of Resource Economics & Policy | Department of Geography and Environmental Management | Water Governance and the ‘Urban Hydrosocial Transition’ | |
| 2015/02/11 | 2015 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer, Research Hydrologist | National Research Program | ||
| 2015/01/29 | Professor | Earth and Life Institute - Environmental Sciences | “L’union fait la force” or how different approaches should be combined to characterize water quality of groundwater bodies | |
| 2015/01/14 | Professor | Department of Geological Sciences | Views of sea level rise from Greenland, the Yucatan, and beyond | |
| 2015/01/14 | Professor | Soil and Water Science Department | ||
| 2014/09/30 | Director of Everglades Restoration Initiatives | Everglades Restoration: Progress and Challenges Ahead | ||
| 2014/09/18 | Senior Scientist & Microbial Ecologist | |||
| 2014/04/28 | Research Professor | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | The role of coastal vegetation in climate change mitigation and adaptation | |
| 2014/03/31 | Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law, Director, LL.M. Program in Environmental & Land Use Law | Levin College of Law | Mississippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster | |
| 2014/01/16 | Ellen E. Martin, Ph.D. | Professor, FCI Faculty Fellow | Department of Geological Sciences | From the Greenhouse to the Icehouse: Climate Change 33 Million Years Ago |
| 2014/01/16 | Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Ph.D. | UF Water Institute Faculty Fellow, Professor | Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department | |
| 2013/11/15 | Associate Professor, Forest Water Resources | School of Forest Resources and Conservation | Sometimes you can see a lot just by looking: How sensors are changing our understanding of rivers | |
| 2013/11/15 | Professor, Tree Physiology, Project Director of Pinemap (NIFA) | School of Forest Resources and Conservation | Long-term cooperative research in southern pines: The greatest good | |
| 2013/11/04 | Environmental Artist | The Watershed of Poetic Utility: Developing a water ethic through environmental design | ||
| 2013/09/06 | Dr. Linda S. Lee | Professor, Associate Head | Agronomy Department | Technology, Stewardship & Quality of Life: Chemicals of Emerging Concern in the Balance |