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“Water systems...can act as a powerfully unifying resource, so it is ironic to the point of absurdity that water education, management, and discourse are so fragmented. To truly assess water resources in their most holistic sense, one needs to include the many aspects of the hydrologic cycle, from meteorology to surface hydrology to soil sciences to groundwater to limnology to aquatic ecosystems. And that is just the physical system. One should also have an integral sense of the human dimensions, from economics to law to ethics to aesthetics to sociology and anthropology. Universities and management institutions are simply not organized along these lines; often they are fragmented to the point where even surface water and groundwater, quality and quantity, are separated out as if they were not inextricably inter-related.”

Aaron Wolf, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University

Events-

Thursday, February 2, 2012
Emma Norman, SFHI Water Candidate
Northwest Indian College, WA
Rekhi G06 4:00 pm

Monday, January 30, 2012
Jason Gulley, SFHI Water Candidate
University of Texas Inst for Geophysics
“Exploring links between the conduit hydrology of glaciers and carbonate platforms”
Rekhi G06 3:00 pm

Monday, January 30, 2012
Heidi Swanson, SFHI Water Candidate
University of Alberta, Edmonton
“Mercury rising? Interactions of fish life history, trophic ecology, and mercury bioaccumulation in boreal and Arctic lakes ”
Rekhi G06 3:00 pm

Friday, January 27, 2012
Mark Green, SFHI Water Candidate
Plymouth State U.
“Decreased Water Flowing from a Forest Amended with Calcium Silicate”
Rekhi G06 2:30 pm

Thursday, January 26, 2012
Douglas Kelley, SFHI Water Candidate
Yale University
“Stretch, fold, and spin: Dynamical structures and nonlinear mechanisms of mixing“
Rekhi G06 4:00 pm

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Nancy Langston, SFHI Water Candidate
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Sustaining Lake Superior: The Lessons of History”
Rekhi G06 4:00 pm

Tuesday, January 24, 2012
CWS Colloquium Course UN5100
Discussion Leader: Nancy Auer
Topic: Global issues
Reading: Homogenization patterns of the world's freshwater fish faunas. PNAS (2011) 108(44):18003-18008.
Dow 610 3:30

Monday, January 23, 2012
Martin Auer, CEE
“Sustainability”
Environmental Engineering Seminar
Dow 642 3:00 pm

Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Jack Kelly, Supervisory Ecologist and Chief
Ecosystem Assessment Research Branch
U.S. EPA, Duluth, MN
“Across Hydrological Interfaces from Coastal Watersheds to the Open Lake: Finding Landscape Signals in the Great Lakes Coastal Zone“
Great Lakes Research Center Seminar
Dow 642 3:00 pm
Co-sponsored by CWS -
Reception for CWS membership and all attendees in Dow atrium - campus side after Dr. Kelly's lecture


Monday, December 5, 2011
MS Defense: Kyle Forgette, Biological Sciences
Casey Huckins & David Flaspohler, Advisors
“The Relationship between Instream Insect Habitat Characteristics, Emergent Arthropods and Riparian Bird Communities”
DOW 743 10:00am

Monday, December 5, 2011
MS Defense: Marcel Dijkstra, Environmental Engineering
Marty Auer, Advisor
“Mechanisms Contributing to the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum in Lake Superior”
DOW 875 3:00pm

Monday, December 5, 2011
S-STEM Scholar team presentations
Jarod Maggio, Kellie Whelan and Alex Wohlgemuth
"Computational and Real-World Modeling of Indoor Air Pollution for Application in Developing Countries"
Kristine Guzak, Allie Archer, Paul Pebler and Olga Cano
"Development of PCMI Assessment Tools"
Patrick Spencer, Raegan Spencer and Lauren Fry
"African Market Gardens--A Life Cycle Cost Assessment"
Tristan Beaster, Erinn Kunik and Keenan Murray
"Microbial Fuel Cell Application in Developed and Developing Countries"

Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar
M&M U113 3:00 pm

Friday, December 2, 2011
MS Defense: Kyle Earnshaw, Forestry
Blair Orr, Advisor
“The Effect of Soil Moisture, Field-Level Toposequential Position, and Slope on Yields in Irrigated Upland Rice Fields in Flores, Comayagua, Honduras“
Forestry 146 3:00pm

Friday, December 5, 2011
MS Defense: Susan Larson, Environmental Engineering Science
Marty Auer, Advisor
“Development of a Conceptual Model and Parameterization of a Mathematical Model for Sediment Phosphorus Digensis, Sorption and Release from Onondaga Lake Syracuse, New York”
DOW 873 9:00am

Monday, November 28, 2011
Richard Aster
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
“Taking Earth's Pulse and Temperature Using Seismology: Roaring Oceans and Singing Icebergs”
EPSSI Seminar Series
M&M Room U113 4:00 pm

Monday, November 28, 2011
S-STEM Scholar team presentations
Five 10-minute presentations by student teams
Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar
M&M U113 3:00 pm

November 11 – January 27, 2012
"Images Now and Then"
A retrospective of Mary Ann Beckwith's work
On display at the Rozsa Center
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm

October 27 – November 22, 2011
Women and Water Rights II: Rivers of Regeneration
Exhibit at Finlandia University Gallery
Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday 12:00 to 4:00 p.m., or by appointment
http://www.finlandia.edu/women-and-water-rights-ii-rivers-of-regeneration.html

Monday, November 28, 2011
Richard Aster
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
“Taking Earth's Pulse and Temperature Using Seismology: Roaring Oceans and Singing Icebergs”
EPSSI Seminar Series
M&M Room U113 4:00 pm

Monday, November 28, 2011
S-STEM Scholar team presentations
Five 10-minute presentations by student teams
Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar
M&M U113 3:00 pm

October 27 – November 22, 2011
Women and Water Rights II: Rivers of Regeneration
Exhibit at Finlandia University Gallery
Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday 12:00 to 4:00 p.m., or by appointment
http://www.finlandia.edu/women-and-water-rights-ii-rivers-of-regeneration.html

Monday, November 14, 2011
Martin Auer, CEE
“The Myth of Sustainability: Life on a Runaway Planet”
G002 Hesterberg Hall, Forestry Building 7:00-8:30 pm
Cosponsored by: Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative, Michigan Tech Center for Water & Society, Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and Keweenaw Land Trust

Monday, November 14, 2011
Ronald T. Eguchi, ImageCat, Inc.
“Earthquakes, Hurricanes and other Disasters: A View from Space”
EPSSI Seminar Series
M&M Room U113 4:00 pm

Monday, November 14, 2011
Audrey Mayer, SFRES
“Stormwater Management Retrofits In Urban Areas “
Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar
M&M U113 3:00 pm

Friday, November 11, 2011
Allen Davis, University of Maryland
“Sustainable Stormwater using Bioretention: Engineering, not Black Boxes”
Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar
Dow 641 3:00 pm

Thursday, November 11, 2011 (*** Note date change ***)
Virginia Dale, ORNL Corporate Fellow
Landscape Ecology & Regional Analysis Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory;
Adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee
Dr. Dale’s primary research interests are in a landscape design for bioenergy, environmental decision making, land-use change, landscape ecology, and ecological modeling.
Distinguished Ecologist Series
Hesterberg Hall, U. J. Noblet Bldg., G002 12:30 pm

Thursday, November 10, 2011
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J. Val Klump, Director, Great Lakes WATER Institute and Professor
School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Val will briefly discuss the Great Lakes Water Institute, then present an example of investigations.
Great Lake Research Center seminar (1st in series)
Dow 642 3:00-4:00 pm

There will be a reception after the seminar in the 7th floor atrium.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
MS Defense: Kassidy Yatso, Applied Ecology
Catherine Tarasoff & Pekka Nygren, Advisors
“Planting and Production of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) as a Bioenergy Crop in Michigan's Upper Peninsula“
Administration 404 9:30am




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