2007-2008 SERC Brown Bag Seminar Schedule

 

Sept 26:  Val Smith – Univ. of Kansas –Nutritional Stoichiometry as a Driving Factor in Host/Pathogen Dynamics

 

Oct. 31:  Tiffany Troxler-Gann –FIU- Wetland ecosystem research in the tropics and subtropics

 

Nov. 21: Darrell Herbert-SERC Seagrass Lab- Ecosystem structure and function still altered two decades after short-term fertilization of a seagrass meadow

 

Dec. 19: Endowment talks (10-12 minutes each)

 

1) Ania Wachnicka (Evelyn Gaiser co PI)- Developing diatom-based inference models for interpreting past environments from sediment cores in Florida Bay, USA.

 

2) Henry Briceno - Statistical Analysis of the Coastal Everglades National Park Water Quality Monitoring Program.

 

3) Young Cai - Interactions of Mercury and Dissolved Organic Matter in the Florida Everglades

 

4) Piero Gardinali - Staying one step ahead of CERP: Using silicone composite materials to monitor contaminants in newly constructed water impoundments

 

5)  Jay Sah (Mike Ross co-PI) - Carbon isotopic signature in the plants and soil organic matter along the hydrologic gradients in the Everglades

 

 

Jan 23:  Endowment talks (10-12 minutes each)

 

1)Rudolf Jaffe - Potential for 3D Fluorescence in combination with parallel factor analysis in the determination of dissolved organic matter – trace metal interactions.

 

2) Len Scinto - Measuring soils characteristics in Ridges and Sloughs of Peat-dominated Everglades.

 

3) Joe Boyer (Sinigalliano co-PI) - Molecular Assessment of Anammox Bacteria and Relative Abundance of Bacterial Functional Groups Involved in Nitrogen Cycling of Florida Bay Sediments

 

4) René Price (James Fourqurean co-PI) - Phosphorus Concentrations in Limestone and it relationship to Seawater Intrusion

 

5) Bill Anderson -  Isotopic approaches in South Florida

 

 

Feb. 20:  Jenny Richards-FIU Biology-"Responses of Everglades slough plant species to changes in hydroperiod."

 

March 26:  Mike Ross- Dept. of Environmental Studies and SERC-Sea level rise and future of freshwater ecosystems in the Florida Keys

 

April 23: Colin Sanders-SWFMD- Glades’ Anatomy:  Paleo-Diagnosis of Arterial Cloggage in Shark Slough, ENP

 

 

 

Brown Bag Seminars are the 2nd Wednesday of each month and are held in WC-130.  Seminars will begin promptly at 12:00 PM.  Please be seated by that time and encourage ACTIVE participation by your students and colleagues.