Colloquium Series
Schedule for ESP seminars
(Talks will be in Davis Hall, Room 265, beginning at 1:00pm)
Friday, Sep. 16, 2005 |
Dr. Deby Cassill
USF-St. Pete |
Experiments in cooperation: When does it pay to be nice to neighbors? |
Friday, Sep. 30, 2005
at 2:00pm |
Dr. Charles Kovach
Florida DEP |
Closure of Piney Point and the Gulf Dispersal and Monitoring (Note change in time) |
Friday, Oct. 21, 2005 |
Dr. Joseph Dorsey
USF-St. Pete |
Reflective Learning in an Environmental Seminar: A Case Study. |
Friday, Oct. 28, 2005 |
Dr. Andy Casper
USF-St. Pete |
Evidence for the importance of biotic control in abiotically driven ecosystems: Field experiments in the St. Lawrence River. |
1:00 pm, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005
At: FCT 118S (Florida Center for Teachers, on the corner of 2nd Street and 6th Avenue South)
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Stephen V. Smith
Department of Ecology
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada Ensenada
Baja California, México |
Fates of Eroded Soil Organic Carbon: Mississippi Basin Case Study.
( Abstract) |
Friday, Dec. 2, 2005 |
Dr. Randy Edwards
USF-St. Pete |
Big Fish in a Big Pond: Studies of movements and migrations of Gulf sturgeon, yellowfin tuna, and white marlin in the Gulf of Mexico. |
Friday, Jan. 20, 2006 |
Dr. Donny Smoak
USF-St. Pete |
Radium enrichment in Tampa area lakes: a result of groundwater augmentation |
Friday, Feb. 3, 2006 |
Dr. Thomas Smucker
USF-St. Pete |
Land Reform and Agricultural Intensification in Kenya's Semi-Arid Lands |
Friday, Feb. 17, 2006 |
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Cancelled - no seminar. |
Friday, Mar. 3, 2006 |
Dr. Jim Gore
USF-St. Pete |
Reference streams and development of a classification system to assess the health of lotic ecosystems |
Friday, Mar. 24, 2006 |
Dr. Rebecca Johns
USF-St. Pete |
Radical Simplicity in the U.S. and South Asia: overturning the global economy from the ground up. |
Friday, Apr. 7, 2006 |
Daanish Mustafa
USF-St. Pete |
The terrible geographicalness of terrorism |
Sep. 14, 2006 |
Matt Waters
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Canals, Salt and a Roadway: A Paleolimnological Investigation of Three Coastal-Plain Lakes in North Carolina |
Sep. 21, 2006 |
(Available)
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T.B.A. |
Oct. 05, 2006 |
Kathy Carvalho-Knighton
USF-St. Pete |
Remediation of environmental contaminants using zero-valent bimetallic systems |
Oct. 19, 2006 |
Eric Steimle
USF-St. Pete |
Guided Surface Vehicles for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment |
Nov. 02, 2006 |
Charles Kovach
Florida Department of Environmental Protection |
Optical Measures of Water Quality: Their Utility in Setting Goals For and Managing Water Column and Habitat Quality |
Nov. 16, 2006 |
Binhe Gu
South Florida Water Management District |
Stable Isotope Applications to Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Research |
Nov. 30, 2006 |
Richard Flamm
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute |
Selling Environmental Stewardship |
Jan. 29, 2007
3:30 - 4:30pm
Dav. Hall Room 108 |
Franco Lodato
Herman Miller Design |
The Nature of Design:
Bionics and Bio-Design: Using Environmental Aspects of Design to Transform Products and Industry
( Seminar Flyer) |
Feb. 28, 2007 |
Henry Alegria
USFSP |
Persistent Organic Pollutants #1:
Sources, Cycling, Fate and the Stockholm Convention ( Seminar Flyer) |
Mar.07, 2007 |
Todd Gouin
University of Toronto, Canada |
Persistent Organic Pollutants #2:
Assessing Source-Receptor Relationships And Environmental Fate Of POPs ( Seminar Flyer) |
Mar. 21, 2007 |
Gerardo Gold-Bouchot Ph.D.
Centro de Investigacion y
Estudios Avanzados, Mexico |
Persistent Organic Pollutants #3:
Chemical Pollution Impacts in Chetumal Bay: The Mayan Catfish (Ariopsis assimilis) as a Bioindicator Species ( Seminar Flyer) |
Mar. 28, 2007 |
Foday Jaward Ph.D.
USF College of Public Health |
Persistent Organic Pollutants #4:
Passive Air Sampling of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Remote and Source Region ( Seminar Flyer) |
Apr. 11, 2007 |
Jon Martin
University of Florida |
Karst Geochemistry In The Bahamas:
Hydrogeology, hydrochemistry, and diagenesis in a modern carbonate platform – examples from San Salvador Island, Bahamas ( Seminar Flyer) |
Apr.25, 2007 |
Jim Krest
USFSP |
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Sep. 21, 2007 |
Tom Hallock
USFSP |
Between art and science: William Bartram’s drawings (1739-1823) |
Sep. 28, 2007 |
Nancy Smith
Eckerd College |
Biological invasions of estuarine communities: ecology and management strategies |
Oct. 5, 2007 |
Holly Greening
The Tampa Bay Estuary Program |
Impacts of atmospheric deposition and toxic contaminants to Tampa Bay |
Oct. 12, 2007 |
Samuel M. Savin
Provost and VPAA
New College |
Reconstructing the history of the Earth’s climate using oxygen isotopes |
Oct. 19, 2007 |
Matt Waters
USFSP |
Canals, Climate and a Causeway: A paleolimnological investigation of Lake Mattamuskeet, NC |
Oct. 25, 2007
12:00 - 1:00pm
Room: DAV 102 |
Marissa Gowrie
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Analysis of the pollen constituent in Saharan Dust at two > sample sites in Trinidad and its relationship to asthma incidence |
Nov. 2, 2007 |
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Nov. 9, 2007 |
Yelda Hangun-Balkir
Eckerd College |
Green Chemistry |
Nov. 16, 2007 |
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Nov. 23, 2007 |
Thanksgiving
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Nov. 30, 2007 |
Justin Krebs
USGS |
Restoring Value to Fish Habitat in Tampa Bay Tidal Wetlands |
Jan. 29, 2008 |
Cherie Geiger
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Environmental Applications of Nanoscale and Microscale Reactive Particles |
Feb. 5, 2008 |
Sekeenia Haynes
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Accumulated total mercury in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) and variations in the Everglades ecosystem |
Feb. 12, 2008 |
Michael E. Ketterer
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Plutonium in the environment: forensic and geochemical studies with mass spectrometry |
Mar. 11, 2008 |
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Spring Break |
Mar. 18, 2008 |
Marin Greenwood
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Applied studies of fishes and invertebrates in southwest Florida tidal rivers |
Mar. 25, 2008 |
Dean Martin
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Synthesis and utilization of metalloligs (metal derivatives of immobilized ligands |
April 1, 2008 |
Daniel Yeh
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Sustainable water treatment and reuse technologies for meeting the challenges of the global water crisis. |
Apr. 15, 2008 |
Frank Alcock
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September 24, 2008
DAV 102 |
Kiyoko Yokota
U of Tampa
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Colony formation in phytoplankton - intersection of ecology, evolution and toxicology (Abstract) |
| October 14, 2008 |
Tom Smith
USGS
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Mangrove Forests as Protection from Storm Surges and Tsunamis: Do the Data Really Support the Paradigm?
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| October 21, 2008 |
Brandt Henningsen
SWFWMD
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An overview of coastal ecosystem restoration for Tampa Bay |
| October 28, 2008 |
Kent Curtis
Eckerd CollegeCANCELLED
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Cancelled |
| November 4, 2008 |
Bill Arnold
FWC
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Managing a marine metapopulation: The bay scallop Argopecten irradians. |
| November 11, 2008 |
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Veteran's Day Holiday, No Seminar |
| November 18, 2008 |
David Hastings
Eckerd College |
Reconstructing the Ocean's Secret Past: Implications for future climate change |
| November 25, 2008 |
Gregg Brooks
Eckerd College |
TBA |
January 27, 2009
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Dr. Fenda Akiwumi
USF (Geography)
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Women of muglomie: Sustainable livelihoods and mining in Sierra Leone |
February 10, 2009
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Dr. Rebecca K. Zarger
USF (Anthropology)
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Gender and Sociocultural Complexities of Water Use and Management in the Mara River Basin.
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February 24, 2009
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Dr. Christina Kellogg
USGS
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Coral Microbial Ecology: Snot, Sequencing, and Submersibles.
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| March 10, 2009 |
Mr. Milt Meckler |
Global Environment, Energy and Climate Challenges Offer USF Opportunities. |
April 7, 2009
April 21, 2009 |
Dr. Jim Mihelcic
USF (Engineering) |
The Urban-Coastal Interface: Global Challenges to Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World.
(Got postponed to April 21, 2009) |
| April 14, 2009 |
Dr. Jeff Cunningham
USF (Civil & Environmental Engineering) |
Transport and biodegradation of chlorinated ethenes in groundwater: Experiments and modeling. |
February 2 , 2010
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Dr. Noel Brown
Environmental Diplomat
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TBD |
| February 22 , 2010 |
Dr. Christopher J. Miller
St. Leo University |
Alternatives to Deforestation in the Amazon Rain Forest
(Monday, 22 February at 4:00 pm, in 104 DAVIS HALL) |
| March 29, 2010 |
Dr. Beth Forys
Eckerd College |
No place to tern? The challenge of being a beach-nesting bird in a crowded world.
(Monday, 29 March at 4:00 pm, in 104 DAVIS HALL) |
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September 24, 2010
2:30 - 3:30pm
STG Room 124
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Sheela and Saurabh Chokshi
MDs
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Integrative medicine: Role in current Healthcare |
October 8, 2010
2:30 - 3:30 pm
STG 124 |
Dr. Joseph Dorsey |
Protecting Underserved and Underrepresented Populations at the Gulf of Mexico: EPA's Coastal Environment Justice Community Ambassadors |
October 15, 2010
2:30 - 3:30 pm
STG 124 |
Dr. David John |
Molecular Detection Technology Using NASBA Nucleic Acid Amplification |
October 29, 2010
2:30 - 3:30 pm
STG 124
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Dr. Kathy Carvalho-Knighton |
Environmental Applications of Reactive Nanoscale and Microscale Reactive Particles |
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Spring 2011:
January 14
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No seminar
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No seminar |
January 21 |
Bob Weisberg |
Alternative Power Generation Potential for Florida by Mechanical (winds, ocean currents and waves) and Solar Means (Presentation in PDF) |
January 28 |
Leon Hardy |
On the Modeling and the Molecular Dynamic Simulation of the STAT-3 Protein |
February 4 |
Jaeson Clayborn |
Turtle-Ant Interactions |
February 11 |
Eric Flagg |
Environmental Education through Digital Media |
February 18 |
TGIFF (Film Friday) |
Water’s Journey: Episode II |
February 24 |
Eugene Shinn |
Tiny Specks, Big Effects (PDF) |
| March 4 |
Don Chambers |
Measuring and Understanding the Sources of Sea Level Rise (PDF) |
| March 11 |
Joe W. Long |
Long-term Forecasts of Beach Erosion |
| March 18 |
SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK (no seminar) |
| March 25 |
Pam Hallock-Muller |
Coral-Reefs of the 21st Century: Is the Past the Key to the Future |
| April 1 |
Joseph Dorsey |
Sustainability, Sustainabilitism, and the Ecology of Commerce |
| April 8 |
Tony Greco |
The Ocean Microcosm as Seen Through the Electron Microscope (PDF) |
| April 15 |
Mark Clark |
Everglades, Nutrient Criteria, and Low Impact Development |
| April 22 |
Suren Tatulian |
TBA |
| April 29 |
Matthew Cohen |
Nitrogen Cycling in Northeast Florida Springs |
October 20
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Rene Baumstark
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Spatial and Spectral Image Processing Techniques as an Alternative to Photo-interpretation for Mapping Seagrass in Springs Coast Florida |
October 24
(DAV 104) |
Tom Swihart* |
Florida's Water: A Fragile Resource in a Vulnerable State |
October 27 |
Alvan Karlin |
Using LiDAR Topographic Mapping for Surface Water Modeling at the Southwest Florida Water Management District |
November 3 |
Ellen Rabbe |
Environment, Science, and Technology: How Airborne Thermal Infrared Imagery Sheds Light on Groundwater Discharge to the Gulf of Mexico |
November 10 |
Manoj Ji |
Materials and Applications Related to Nanotechnology |
November 17 |
Matt Cohen* |
Humans and their impact on the Hydroecology of Florida Springs |
December 1 |
Tom Stephens |
A Paleolimnological Record of New Zealand's Late Quaternary Paleoclimate - Evidence for an Antarctic Forcing |
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