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School of the Environment Spring Speakers Seminar Series
Please join us for the School of the Environment's Spring Speakers Seminar Series: "Land, Water, & Atmosphere:
the Next 50 Years." Hosted by the PSU Geology Department, Oregon State University, and the US Geological Survey.
Thursdays April 4-June 4
12-1pm, Cramer Hall 271
Free and open to the public
April 4: Julia Jones, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University
Climate and Streamflow Trends in the Columbia River Basin: Evidence for Ecological and Engineering Resilience to Climate Change
April 11: Kamini Singha, Associate Professor of Hydrology, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Looking into the blackbox of stream-riparian groundwater exchange: Exploring catchment controls on flowpaths during baseflow recession
April 18: Philip Hirsch, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The geopolitics of hydropower development on the Mekong mainstem: Lessons from Xayaburi Dam
April 25: David Goodrich, Research Hydraulic Engineer, USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center
Reducing the Uncertainty of Key Water Balance Components at the Basin Scale to Aid Watershed Management
May 2: Gaby Katul, Professor of Hydrology and Micrometeorology, Environ. Sciences & Policy Division, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Hydraulic determinism as a constraint on the evolution of organisms and ecosystems
May 9: Marshall Gannett, U.S. Geological Survey, Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, OR
Climate and Groundwater Systems: The Mysteries Revealed
May 16: Bayani Cardenas, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Coupled Processes Along the Surface Water/Groundwater Interface: Advances from Modeling and Measurements
May 23: Dennis Baldocchi, Professor of Biometeorology, Dept. of Environ. Sci., Policy and Management, University of California Berkely
Evaluating evaporation everywhere, all of the time: Lessons learned about ecosystem evaporation from long-term, global flux networks
May 30: Richard Snyder, Biometeorology Specialist, Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis
Three Decades of ET and Scheduling Research with no End in Sight
June 4 (Tuesday): Dr. Joan Nassauer, Professor of Landscape Architecture, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
Sprawl in the Carbon Cycle: Parcel size and household behaviors carbon storage on large lots
(Note: this talk is taking place on Tuesday, June 4 in Smith 236)
Geology Spring Speakers Seminar Series
Mon April 22: Ryan Pollyea, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
Physical constraints on geologic CO2 sequestration in low-volumebasalt reservoirs
3:00 pm CH S17
Wed April 24: Jeffrey Lee, Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Overlap of Pacific-North American plate shear on Basin & Range extension
3:30 pm CH S17
Mon April 29: Max Rudolph, University of Colorado, Boulder
Invitation, evolution, and longevity of the Lusi mud eruption, East Java, Indonesia
3:00 pm CH S17
Mon May 6: Adam Booth, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Forward and inverse modeling of landslide processes across timescales
3:00 pm CH S17
Wed May 8: Jason McClaughry, DOGAMI, Baker City
Reassessing the ancestral cascades: New insights into Eocene and Oligocene volcanism in Oregon
3:30 pm CH S17
Wed May 15: Michelle Coombs, USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage
Rhyolite generation and eruption in the eastern Aleutian arc, Alaska
3:30 pm CH S17
Wed June 5: TBA
3:30 pm CH S17
Wed May 22: Thesis Proposal Presentations
CH S17
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