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Events-
Wednesday, July
1, 2009
Miriam Rios –Sanchez, PhD Candidate, Geological Engineering
“A Remote Sensing Approach to Characterize the Hydrogeology of
Mountainous Areas: Application to the Quito Aquifer System (QAS), Ecuador”
Dow 611 3:00 pm.
Friday, June 19, 2009
MS Defense: Brandon Braithwaite, Civil Engineering
David Watkins, Advisor
Training Water Committees in Bocas del Toro, Panama: A Case Study
of Peace Corps Volunteers' Initiative to Improve Rural Water System
Management
DOW 875 1:00 pm
CWS World Water Day
Posters are now online in PDF format at: http://www.mtcws.mtu.edu/2009CWS_Posters.html
Abstracts of IAGLR '09 Presentations by MTU and MTRI Researchers
http://www.mtcws.mtu.edu/pdf/2009-05_mtu_mtri_iaglr09.pdf
Thursday, May 14,
2009
MS Defense: Gregory Albert Galicinao, Environmental Engineering
Martin Auer, Advisor
“Determination of Methyl Mercury Flux from Onondaga Lake Sediments
using Flow-Through Reactors”
DOW 875 8:30am
Friday, May 8, 2009
MS Defense: Ryan Schweitzer, Environmental Engineering
James Mihelcic, Advisor
“Community Managed Rural Water Supply Systems in the Dominican
Republic: Assessment of Sustainability of Systems Built by the National
Institute of Potable Water and Peace Corps, Dominican Republic”
DOW 875 10:00 am
Friday, May 1, 2009
MS Defense: Jennifer Heglund, Environmental Engineering
Brian Barkdoll, Advisor
Effects of Climate Change Induced Heavy Precipitation Events on
Sediment Transport in Lower Michigan Rivers
Dillman 202 11:00 am
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
MS Defense: Cara Shonsey, Civil Engineering
John Gierke, Advisor
Quantifying Available Water at the Village Level: A Case Study of
Horongo, Mali, West Africa
DOW 875 2:00 pm
Friday, April 24, 2009
MS Defense: Daniel Haskell, Applied Ecology
David J Flaspohler, Advisor
“Quantifying the Ecological Benefits of Lake Shore Restoration
in Northern Wisconsin”
Forestry G002 8:00 am
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 (Earth Day)
”Mining Madness, Water Wars: The Great Lakes in the Balance”
Fisher Hall Room 135 7:00 pm
Following the showing of the film, there will be a question and answer
session with several of the activists and scientists featured in the
film. More information about the film is available at the National Wildlife
Federation Website: http://online.nwf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=glnrc_lakesuperior
Friday, April 17,
2009
Center for Water & Society Colloquium, UN5990
Topic: Adaptation, water supply systems
Paper: Meuleman et al., 2007, When climate change is a fact! Adaptive
strategies for drinking water production in a changing natural environment
Dow Atrium on 8th Floor 4:00 pm
All are welcome to attend
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
PBS FRONTLINE will broadcast POISONED WATERS, *a two-hour investigation
and report card on two iconic American waterways, Chesapeake Bay and
Puget Sound.
9 to 11 pm ET,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poisonedwaters/
Monday, April 20, 2009
Josh Johnson and Ryan Biehl, MTU S-STEM Program
Ground Truthing Sustainable Development Colloquim IV: "Encouraging
policies and investments that reflect the value of water in the developing
world."
6th Floor Atrium DOW Bldg 3:00 pm
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
MS Defense: Ashwini Kashelikar, Environmental Engineering
Veronica Griffis, Advisor
“Identification of Teleconnections and Improved Flood
Risk Forecasts using Bulletin 17B”
DOW 875 3:00 pm
Monday, April 13, 2009
Dr. David Hand, CEE
“NASA Space Station Water Treatment System”
Dow 642 3:00 pm
Monday, April 13, 2009
MS Defense: Susan Balint, Environmental Policy
Kathy Halvorsen, Advisor
“The Influence of Federal and State Policy on Woody
Biomass Utilization”
Academic Offices 201 1:00 pm
Friday, April 10,
2009
MS Defense: Genevieve Borg, Environmental Policy
Carol MacLennan, Advisor
"EPA's Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling: A Case Study
of Science Policy Implementation"
Academic Offices 201 10:00 am
Friday, April 10, 2009
Center for Water & Society Colloquium, UN5990
Topic: Impacts and adaptation, Arctic
Paper: Alessa et al., 2008, Perception of change in freshwater
in remote resource-dependent Arctic communities
Dow Atrium on 6th Floor 4:00 pm
All are welcome to attend
Thursday, April 9, 2009
MS Defense: Nelson Alger, Civil Engineering
David Hand, Advisor
"A Case Study in Modeling and Testing of a Rural, Gravity-Fed
Water Distribution Network in Panama Using GPS and EPANET 2.0 to Help
Chlorinate Water"
Dillman 301 8:00 am
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
PBS Frontline will host a live Web cast of a special symposium
at the National Press Club keynoted by Lisa Jackson, President Obama's
EPA Administrator and Bill Ruckelshaus, who headed the EPA in the 1970s
1:00 to 2:30 pm ET
http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=56406
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
MS Defense: John Hribljan, Biological Sciences
Janice Glime, Advisor
“Bryophagy in a Northern Temperate Forest by the Terrestrial
Invertebrate Porcellio scaber in Relation to Moss and Litter Chemical
Traits”
ROTC Blue Room 9:00 am
Monday, April 6, 2009
Dr. Donna Rizzo, University of Vermont
“Missing the Forest for the Trees: Identifying Model Structure
and Scale Dependencies in Complex Systems”
Dow 642 3:00 pm
Friday, April 3,
2009
Center for Water & Society Colloquium, UN5990
Topic: Adaptation, California, water supply systems
Paper: Tanaka et al., 2006, Climate warming and water management
adaptation for California
Dow Atrium on 8th Floor 4:00 pm
All are welcome to attend
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Postdoctoral associate Christopher A. Binckley, Department
of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers University,
"Behavioral Assembly of Aquatic Metacommunities"
Chem Sci 101 10:00 am
Monday, March 30, 2009
"Popcorn and Policy"
Panelists" - Dave Dempsey, Alex Mayer, Tom Pypker, and Lauren Fry
Water Scarcity Issues
(See Flyer ...)
EERC 100 7:30 pm
FREE POPCORN!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Dr. Chris Wojick, CEE
“MTU Green Campus Enterprise”
Dow 642 3:00 pm
March 25, 2009
Postdoc in Aquatic Ecosystem Modeling
University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources and Environment
View Announcement...
Friday, March 27, 2009
Mark Rowe, MS Environmental Engineering
Judith Perlinger, Advisor
“Modeling Contaminant Behavior in Lake Superior: A
Comparison of PCBs, PBDEs, and Mercury”
DOW 633 2:00 pm
Friday, March 27, 2009
Center for Water & Society Colloquium, UN5990
Topic: Sandra Postel’s World Water
Day Lecture
Dow Atrium on 6th Floor 4:00 pm
All are welcome to attend
2009
World Water Day Events - Monday, March 23, 2009
2009
CWS World Water Day Poster Competition
Call for Posters, Details and Registration
Form
Guest Speaker: Sandra Postel
Environmental Engineering Seminar
Dow 642, 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Great Events Series Lecture by Sandra Postel
"World Water"
Rosza
Performing Arts Center, 7:30 pm
more about...
Sandra Postel and the Global
Water Policy Project
Sandra Postel's visit is sponored by:
Van Evera Distinguished Lecture Series Endowment
Center for Water and Society
Student Entertainment Board
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Department of Social Sciences Environmental Policy Program
School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
Visiting Women & Minority Lecturer/Scholar Series
Friday, March 20,
2009
Center for Water & Society Colloquium, UN5990
Topic: Impacts, Great Lakes
Paper: Patz et al., 2008, Climate change and waterborne disease
risk in the great lakes region of the U.S.
Dow Atrium on 8th Floor 4:00 pm
All are welcome to attend
Monday, March 16, 2009
Mark Rowe and Jennifer Mwangi
“Development of a gas-phase cleanup method for thermal desorption
analysis of atmospheric semivolatile organic pollutants”
Dow 642 3:00 pm
Friday, March 6, 2009
Center for Water & Society Colloquium, UN5990
Topic: Impacts, ecological systems
Paper: Wullschleger and Hanson, 2005, Sensitivity of canopy transpiration
to altered precipitation in an upland oak forest: Evidence from a long-term
field manipulation study
Dow Atrium on 6th Floor 4:00 pm
All are welcome to attend
Monday, March 2,
2009
Colin Casey and Matt Seib
Ground Truthing Sustainable Development, Colloquium III
Dow 6th Floor Atrium 3:00 pm
Friday, February
27, 2009
Center for Water & Society Colloquium, UN5990
Topic: Impacts, ecological systems
Paper: Weltzin et al., 2000, Response of bog and fen plant communities
to warming and water-table manipulations
Dow Atrium on 8th Floor 4:00 pm
All are welcome to attend
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Ed Hall, of the Department of Freshwater Ecology at the University
of Vienna
"Linking the Ultimate and the Proximate: How Controls on Microbial
Physiology Constrain Key Biogeochemical Pathways in Aquatic Ecosystems."
EERC 316, 10:00 am
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Poster Preparation Workshop
Alex Mayer
DOW 610 7:00 pm
Required:
(1) bring your own laptop
(2) RSVP to Carol Asiala (cjasiala@mtu.edu)
if you plan to attend. You will
receive an email with a poster template to start the session with.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Film Showing
"Flow: For the Love of Water"
an award-winning documentary investigation into what experts
label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st
Century - The World Water Crisis. Dow 642 7:00 pm
Tuesday, February
24, 2009
Dr. Amy Marcarelli, Stream Ecology Center, Idaho State
Department of Biological Sciences Seminar
Placing food webs in ecosystems: organisms, energy and nutrient
flow in freshwaters
EERC 100 1:00-2:00 pm
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Andrea Munoz-Hernandez, PhD Environmental Engineering
Alex Mayer, Advisor
Integrated Hydrologic-Economic-Institutional Water Model for the
Rio Yaqui Basin, Sonora, Mexico
DOW 610 2:00 pm
Monday, February
23, 2009
Megan Abbott, Mark Rowe, Kathy Marlor
Ground Truthing Sustainable Development, Colloquium II
Dow 7th Floor Atrium 3:00 pm
Friday, February
20, 2009
Center for Water & Society Colloquium, UN5990
Topic: Impacts, mid-Atlantic US (coastal regions)
Paper: Najjar et al., 2000, The potential
impacts of climate change on the mid-Atlantic coastal region
Dow Atrium on 6th Floor 4:00 pm
All are welcome to attend
Wednesday, February
04, 2009
Peter Gleick, President, Pacific Institute
Launch of "The World's Water 2008-2009"
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=497575
This webcast can be viewed at the above link. Alex Mayer has
also reserved Dow 875 for anyone interested in watching this webcast.
Dow 875, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Dr.
Maria Val Martin, Harvard University
Joint Seminar with MTU RSI on Atmospheric Sciences
M&M Room U113 4:00 pm
Monday, January 26, 2009
Professor Robert McKay, Bowling Green State University
"The Nitrifying of Lake Superior"
Chem Sci 101 2:00 pm
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Mike Reid, COO of L'Anse Warden Electric Co.
“Campus Bioenergy: Greening Michigan Tech Infrastructure”
DOW 642 3:00 pm
Friday, December
5, 2008
National Wildlife Federation presents…
“Mining Madness, Water Wars: The Great Lakes in the
Balance”
A documentary film about the push for a sulfide mine in Marquette County
Jamrich Hall, Room 103 7:00 pm
Northern Michigan University
Thursday, December 11, 2008
John Griebel, MS Industrial Archaeology
Pat Martin, Advisor
"A Cultural Landscape Report of the Nonesuch Mine,
Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park"
Academic Offices 201 11:30 am
Friday, December 10, 2008
Timothy Wilson, MS Biological Sciences
Nancy Auer, Advisor
"Understanding Optimal Conditions for Hatch and Growth
of Young Lake Sturgeon"
ROTC Blue Room 2:00 pm
Friday,
November 21, 2008
Dr.
Sue Eggert, Research Aquatic Ecologist
Center for Research on Ecosystem Change
Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service
“The stream and its valley: small streams as integrators
of the landscape”
DOW
642 2:00 pm
Sponsored by CWS, Biological Sciences, and the Visiting Women
& Minority Lecture/Scholar Series
Monday, December 1, 2008
Albert Galicinao, Phil DePetro, Brandon Ellefson , CEE
“Engineering Approaches to Remediation of Mercury
Pollution in Onondaga Lake, New York”
DOW 642 3:00 pm
Friday, November 21, 2008
Emily Owens, MS Environmental Engineering
James Mihelcic, Advisor
“Material Flow Analysis for Kayangel State, Republic
of Palau: Solid Waste Management on a Small Pacific Island”
DOW 875 9:00 am
Friday, November
14, 2008
Anna Colvin, MS Geology
Bill Rose, Advisor
“Crater Lake Evolution During Volcanic Unrest: Case
Study of the 2005 Phreatic Eruption at Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador”
EERC B011 10:00 am
Monday, November 17, 2008
Joshua Cowden, PhD Environmental Engineering
David Watkins, Advisor
“The Impacts of Global Change on West Africa and Potential
Planning and Adaptation Measures for Urban Slum Communities”
DOW 875 10:00 am
Wednesday, November
5, 2008
Jessie Vital, MS Forest Ecology & Management
Ann Maclean, Advisor
“Land Use/Cover Change Using Remote Sensing and Geographic
Information Systems: Pic Macaya National Park, Haiti”
Forestry 146 11:00 am
Monday, November
3, 2008
Larry Deaton, Director of Operations & Hydro Data Management
South Florida Water Management District, Florida
"Current Research Activities and Opportunities in Water
Resource Management"
ME-EM 208 10:00 am
Monday, October 20, 2008
Will Steger, Polar Explorer
"The Longest Summer Tour"
Rozsa Center 7:30 p.m.
His talk is free and open to the public
Video or Audio Presentation
of Dave Dempsey's talk given on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Dave Dempsey, Great Lakes Policy Advisor for Clean Water Action *
"Great Lakes Water: Commodity or Commons?
The Great Lakes Compact in the Context of Global Water Scarcity"
video...
audio...
Monday,
October 6, 2008
Judith Perlinger, CEE Department Professor
"S-STEM Program: Graduate Student Scholarships to Advance
a Global Outlook of Economic and Social Prosperity that Protects the
Environment"
Dow Building Room 642 3:00 pm
Governance and Valuation
of Great Lakes Water for the 21st Century
A Symposium sponsored by
The Center for Water & Society and the Environmental Engineering
Seminar Series
*Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative supported by Great Lakes Stewardship
Initiative with funding from
Great Lakes Fisheries Trust and Wege Foundation.
Symposium
Schedule (pdf)...
Friday, September
26, 2008
John Austin, Executive Director
The New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan (NEI)
"Healthy Waters, Strong Economy: The Benefits of Restoring
the Great Lakes Ecosystem"
DOW 642 3:00-4:00 pm
Abstract...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Dave Dempsey, Great Lakes Policy Advisor for Clean Water Action *
"Great Lakes Water: Commodity or Commons?
The Great Lakes Compact in the Context of Global Water Scarcity"
M&M U113 12:00-1:00 pm
Abstract...
Dave's
additional activities at MTU...
Pat Norris, Guyer-Seevers Chair in Natural Resource Conservation, MSU
Saichon Seedang, post-doc, MSU Institute of Water Research
"Institutional Context for Water Use Decisions and Policy
Innovations in Michigan"
DOW 610 3:00-4:00 pm
Abstract...
Thursday, October 2, 2008
John F. Raffensperger, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand
"Generalized Smart Markets for Water Resources"
DOW 642 3:00-4:00 pm
Abstract...
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