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- a lecture series sponsored by the Earth & Environmental Systems Institute in the College of Earth & Mineral Sciences, the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment and the College of Agricultural Sciences - All talks are open to the public and are scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Mondays in 112 Walker Building

Sept 15, 2008

Michael Gooseff, Hartz Family Career Development Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Penn State University - "One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Stream Restoration and Stream Ecosystem Restoration"  Watch archived presentation

 

Sept 22, 2008

Upmanu Lall, Alan & Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, Department of Earth & Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
"Global Water Crisis? Prospects, Directions and Science Needs for Sustainability"  Watch archived presentation

Sept 29, 2008

Pat Mulholland, Aquatic Ecologist in the Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Streams as Nitrogen Filters in the Landscape"  Watch archived presentation

 

Oct 6, 2008

Martin Doyle, Department of Geography and the Institute for the Environment, University of North Carolina ' "Politics, Markets, and Engineers in Destroying and Restoring the American River: From George Washington to George Bush"   Watch archived presentation

 

Oct 13, 2008

Steve Running, Regent's Professor of Ecology, Director of Numerical Terradynamics Simulation Group, University of Montana
"Climate Change in the West: It's All About Water" Watch archived presentation

Miller Lecture Speaker - 10/13/08 at 11:15-12:30 p.m. in 109 Walker Bldg.
"Ecological Scaling and Remote Sensing"

Oct 20, 2008

Robert Brooks, Department of Geography, Penn State University
"Understanding Wetlands, the Other Water: Origins, Assessment, Restoration, and Ecology "   Watch archived presentation

 

Oct 27, 2008

Beth Boyer, School of Forest Resources, Penn State University
"Nutrient Pollution in Waters of Pennsylvania and the Nation"  Watch archived presentation

Nov 3, 2008 Kurt Stephenson, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech
"Environmental Markets: Rhetoric, Reality, and Potential Water Quality Trading"  Watch archived presentation
Nov 10, 2008

George Hornberger, Department of Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University
"Water, Energy and Nutrients: Complicated Interdependencies"  Watch archived presentation

Nov 17, 2008


Larry Fennessey, Office of the Physical Plant, Penn State University
"State of Penn State University Water Resources"  Watch archived presentation

 

Dec 1, 2008 Bob Hirsch Bob Hirsch, Chief Hydrologist and Associate Director for Water, U.S. Geological Survey
"Future Directions for Hydrologic Research: Science to Support Restoration"  Watch archived presentation