March 5: John Knowles, Assistant Professor, Land-Atmosphere Exchange, Ecohydrology at Montana State University: “(Agro-)Ecosystem water and carbon cycling in the western USA”
February 19: Douglas Jackson-Smith, Professor and Kellogg Endowed Chair of Agroecosystem Management, The Ohio State University: “Exploring the challenges and potential of participatory research in agriculture”
January 22: Sydney Brady, O’Neill Environmental Science Ph.D. Candidate: Exit seminar, “Characterizing chemical contamination in complex biological matrices”
November 20: Shannon Speir, Assistant Professor of Water Quality, University of Arkansas: “Dry spells and dirt roads: The hidden drivers of water quality in agricultural watersheds”
November 7: Lindsey Rasnake, O’Neill Environmental Science Ph.D. Candidate: “Responses of freshwater dissolved organic matter to interactions among nutrients, algae, and land use in human-dominated landscapes”
November 6: Lienne Sethna, Assistant Scientist, Science Museum of Minnesota, O’Neill Ph.D. ’22: “Linking land use and climate change to shifts in freshwater nutrient cycling and harmful algal bloom risk”
October 30: Jerome Dumortier, Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University: “Limited Impact of Solar Energy Expansion on Agricultural Production and Crop Prices in the United States”
October 9: Songlin Fei, Professor and Director of the Institutne for Digital Forestry, Purdue University: “Application of AI and digital techology for scalable carbon and biomass inventory”
September 11: Peter Euclide, Research Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs: Managing fisheries in the age of genomics
May 28: Kleber Del Claro and Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi, Professors at Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil: “Biodiversity and Plant-Animal Interactions in the Brazilian Tropical Savanna under Environmental Change”
May 8: Bode Hoover, O’Neill Environmental Science Ph.D. Candidate: “When Models Go Wrong: The Case of Atmospheric Nitrous Acid (HONO) in Forests”
May 1: Kelly Cobourn, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University: “Forest Dynamics and Ecosystem Collapse in Open Access Problems”
May 1: Felipe Bravo Peña, O’Neill Environmental Science Ph.D. Candidate: “Socioecological Agricultural Resilience in Smallholder and Indigenous Farming Systems: Interplay of Agrobiodiversity, Network Dynamics, and Collective Institutions”
April 24: Lauren Asprooth, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “A walk through DCB social science results; Attitudes, visions, barriers, and opportunities towards a more diverse agricultural landscape in the Corn Belt”
April 17: Simone Cardoso, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil: “Floating Solar Energy and Biodiversity: Impacts and Opportunities for Freshwater Ecosystem Services”
March 27: Cory Rutz, Clarissa Tester, and Proposal Development Services (PDS) from IU Research Services: discussion of funding trends- learn about the benefits (and challenges) of pursuing funding from corporate and private foundations, and more.
March 5: Tess Leuthner, Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University: “A Role for Wild Worms in Precision Toxicology: Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Identify and Classify PFAS Toxicity”
February 20: William Bowerman, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Toxicology at the University of Maryland: “Chasing a Dragon: Bird Flu, Eagle Impacts, One Health, and the Threat of a New Pandemic”
February 6: Amy Townsend-Small, Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability at University of Cincinnati: “Methane emissions from the oil and gas supply chain and other sources: Identifying best targets for emissions reductions”
January 28: Neha Mehta, research fellow at the University of Brussels (Belgium):”Micro-to-nanoscale insights into mineral-life interactions and their impact on environmental processes”
January 23: Conrad Pritchard, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines: “Runoff to Recharge: Tackling Organic Contaminants for Sustainable Water Supply”
January 21: Bonnie Hamilton, postdoctoral fellow at Environment and Climate Change Canada: “Investigating the fate, transport, and effects of microplastics and other emerging contaminants in a changing environment”
November 21: Nicholas Ray, University of Delaware: “The biogeochemical consequences of food and energy production in aquatic ecosystems”
October 24: Vijay Ramprasad, Assistant Professor at Williams College: “Chemical Commons: Can better governance of chemical impacts across land systems lead to better human-nature outcomes?”
October 3: Michael Vermeuel, Assistant Professor at Purdue University: “Exploring the Role of Surface-Atmosphere Interactions in Atmospheric Chemistry with Direct Observations and Chemical Transport Modeling”
September 26: Robert Buchkowski, Assistant Professor at Western University in London, Ontario: “Measuring and modelling the effects of animals on soil carbon and nutrient cycling”
September 19: Feng Jiang, Postdoc at IUB in O’Neill School: “Molecular Characterization and Optical Properties of Brown Carbon Aerosol”
August 29: Environmental Science Ph.D. Candidate, Qing Chang: Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Prediction: “Incorporating plant physiology, structure, and function”
August 27: Environmental Science Ph.D. Candidate, Paige Price: Hydroxyl and Hydroperoxyl Radicals: A Model Re-Assessment, Measurements in a Ponderosa Pine Forest, and Indoor-Outdoor Comparison
July 17: Deidra Miniard, E.S. Ph.D. Candidate: “Understanding climate change and energy system perceptions and behavior: Three studies examining energy transition preferences, social distance, and issue-framing communication”
July 16: Peter Euclide, Research Scientist and Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Fisheries Specialist at Purdue University: “Human impacts on the recent evolutionary history of walleye in the Great Lakes”
April 11: Christine D. Sprunger, Assistant Professor of Soil Health at Michigan State University: “An integrated approach to assessing soil health for enhanced ecological function”
April 4: Linda Lee, Distinguished Professor at Purdue University with a joint appointment in the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering: “PFAS Occurrence and Fate in Land-Applied Biosolids and Beyond”
March 21: Sarah Commodore, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health at IU Bloomington: “What takes your breath away?”
February 29: Jacqueline Gerson, Assistant Professor in Earth and Environmental Science and Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University:”Mercury and gold in the Amazon: Tracing the fate and impact of mercury from artisanal gold mining.”
February 15: Xiaonan Tai, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at New Jersey Institute of Technology: “What can we learn from spatial variations in forest mortality?”
January 18: Alexander J. “AJ”Reisinger, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida: “Nutrient and energy dynamics along the urban watershed continuum”
January 16: Rafael Almeida, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley: “Navigating environmental tradeoffs in scaling renewable energy”
January 11: Andressa M. Venturini, Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University: “Soil microorganisms under threat in the Amazon Rainforest (and why we should care)”
November 5: Sally Pusede, University of Virginia: Topic will be related to air pollution, climate, biogenic influences on air quality
October 29: Taylor Maavara, Yale School of the Environment: “Dissolved silica cycling in reservoirs”
October 22: Arlene Blum, Green Science Policy Institute: “Ten simple rules for building an anti-racist laboratory”
October 15: Thomas Parr: “National Park Service monitoring in the Great Lakes Network”
October 8: Rebecca Barnes, Colorado College: “Watersheds, carbon, fire”
October 1: Arlene Blum, Green Science Policy Institute: “Polyfluorinated compounds”
September 24: Elena Solohin, O’Neill School
March 12: Ana Bento: “Eco-epidemiology”
March 5: Kimberly Van Meter: “Legacy nitrogen pollution”
February 6: Kim Novick, O’Neill School
September 12
Yinon Rudich Professor of Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
Topic: Aerosol chemistry/microbiology, health effects
Hosted by Jonathan Raff
September 26
Miriam Diamond Professor of Geography University of Toronto
Hosted by Marta Venier
October 3
Jaclyn Hatala Matthes Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Wellesley College
Topic: Forests, disturbance, C & N
Hosted by Kim Novick
October 10
Amina Salamova Assistant Research Scientist O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Hosted by Todd Royer
October 17
Joe Kasprzyk Assistant Professor Environmental Engineering Program University of Colorado-Boulder
Topic: Water management
Hosted by: Adam Ward
Thursday, October 24
Susan Richardson Arthur Sease Williams Professor University of South Carolina
Topic: Drinking water pollutants, organic
Hosted by Ron Hites
October 31
Craig Jackson Ph.D. Candidate O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Topic: Ecological Speciation
Hosted by Joe Shaw
November 7
Ben Kravitz Assistant Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences College of Arts & Science IU Bloomington
Topic: Geoengineering
Hosted by Kim Novick
November 14
Joel Hartter Director for Masters of the Environment Associate Professor Environmental Studies Program University of Colorado-Boulder
Hosted by Marta Venier
November 21
Scott Tiegs Associate Professor Oakland University
Topic: Aquatic ecology
Hosted by Todd Royer
December 5
Joe Shaw Associate Professor O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Title: Can species evolve fast enough to survive the anthropocene?
January 24
Bijan Seyednasrollah Environmental Data Scientist Richardson Lab Harvard University/Northern Arizona University
Topic: Environmental informatics
Hosted by Joe Shaw
January 31
Mallory Barnes Postdoctoral Researcher IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Topic: Environmental informatics
Hosted by Joe Shaw
February 5
Sara Jackrel Postdoctoral Fellow LSA Ecology and Evolution Biology University of Michigan
Topic: Environmental informatics
Hosted by Joe Shaw
February 7
Chao Jiang Stanford University
Hosted by Joe Shaw
Topic: Environmental informatics
February 14
Andy Ault Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences Assistant Professor, Chemistry School of Public Health University of Michigan
Hosted by Jonathan Raff
Topic: Studying aerosol properties/chemistry at the single particle level
February 21
Ryan Emmanual Center for Geospatial Analytics Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources College of Natural Resources North Carolina State University
Topic: Hydrology
Hosted by: Tae Hee and Adam Ward
March 21
Krista Capps Assistant Professor University of Georgia
Topic: aquatic ecology
Hosted by Todd Royer
March 28
Pat Reed Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Cornell
Topic: water information and management
Hosted by Adam Ward
April 4
John Selker Professor Biological & Ecological Engineering College of Agricultural Sciences Oregon State University
Topic: Environmental sensors and hydrology
Hosted by Adam Ward
April 11
Jason McLachlan Associate Professor Ecology of Forests and Plant Population Ecology, Statistical Modeling, Paleo-ecology Department of Biological Sciences University of Notre Dame
Martin Doyle Professor of River Systems Science and Policy Chair, WRM Program Duke University
Topic: Stream restoration and geomorphology
Hosted by Adam Ward
September 13
Emma Rosi Aquatic Ecologist Cary Institute of Ecosystem
Topic: Large animals influence river biogeochemistry in the Mara River, Kenya
Hosted by Todd Royer
September 20
Adam Ward Assistant Professor O’Neill
Topic: Water and how it moves around
Hosted by Phil Stevens
September 27
Nate Keith Ph.D. in Environmental Science student O’Neill
Hosted by Joe Shaw
Topic: Dissertation seminar
October 4
Pam Rickly Doctoral student O’Neill
Hosted by Phil Stevens
Topic: Dissertation seminar
October 11
Natasha MacBean Assistant Professor Department of Geography Indiana University
Topic: Something about terrestrial ecosystem modeling
Hosted by: Kim Novick
October 18
Pam Miller Executive Director Alaska Community Action On Toxics
Topic: Persistent Organics in the Alaskan Native Population
Hosted by Amina Salamova
November 8
Staci Simonich Professor Department of Chemistry Oregon State University
Hosted by Ron Hites and Phil Stevens
November 15
Dan Larkin Assistant Professor/Extension Specialist, Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Associate, Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center Institute on the Environment University of Minnesota
Topic: Something about Invasive Species
Hosted by Burney Fischer
December 6
Koong Yi Doctoral student O’Neill
Topic: Dissertation seminar
Hosted by Kim Novick
January 18
Adam Fudickar Research Scientist Environmental Resilience Institute Department of Biology Indiana University Bloomington
Hosted by Chris Craft
January 25
Brandon Boor Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Purdue University
Hosted by Phil Stevens
February 8
Daniel Raimi Lecturer in Public Policy University of Michigan Resources for the Future
Topic: The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution
Hosted by David Konisky and Phil Stevens
February 15
Kevin Roche Postdoc University of Notre Dame
Hosted by Adam Ward
Topic: Turbulence and porous media
February 22
Jeff Dukes Professor of Forestry & Natural Resources & Biological Sciences Director of Purdue Climate Change Research Center Purdue University
Hosted by Jeff White
Topic: Climate change impacts in Indiana
March 1
Patricia Wright Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Stony Brook University
March 8
Erica Majumder Post-doctoral Fellow Department of Biochemistry University of Missouri
Hosted by Flynn Picardal
March 22
Emma Rosi Aquatic Ecologist Cary Institute for Ecosystem Ecology
Hosted by Todd Royer
March 29
Antonia Calafat Distinguished Consultant Centers for Disease Control
Hosted by Marta Venier
April 5
Sean Graham Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Nicholls State University
Topic: Sea level rise and the submergence of New Orleans
Hosted by Chris Craft
April 12
Scott Bridgham Professor, University of Oregon Director, The Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Topic: Climate change and methane cycling in northern peatlands
Hosted by Jeff White
April 19
Chen Zhu Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Indiana University Bloomington
Topic: Novel applications of non-traditional stable isotopes to geochemical kinetics
August 31 Kim Novick Assistant Professor School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University Bloomington
Hosted by Phil Stevens
September 7 Doug Edmonds Associate Professor of Geological Sciences Sedimentology Malcolm and Sylvia Boyce Chair in Geological Sciences Indiana University Bloomington
Hosted by Adam Ward
September 14 Marta Venier Assistant Scientist School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University Bloomington
Hosted by Ron Hites
September 21 Kerri Pratt Assistant Professor of Chemistry University of Michigan
Hosted by Phil Stevens
September 28 Jeff Wood Assistant Research Professor School of Natural Resources University of Missouri
Hosted by Kim Novick
October 12 Deb Swackhamer Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota
Topic: Adventures Leading the EPA's Science Advisory Board and Trumpism
Hosted by Ron Hites
October 19 Tara Kahan Assistant Professor of Chemistry Syracuse University
Hosted by Jonathan Raff
October 26 Todd Sanford Climate Scientist Climate Central
Hosted by Jeff White
November 2 Aaron Packman Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Northwestern University
Topic: eDNA
Hosted by Adam Ward
November 9 Phanikumar Mantha Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Programs Michigan State University
Topic: Groundwater inflows to lakes
Hosted by Adam Ward
Thursday, November 30 Jim Hood Assistant Professor Ohio State University
Topic: Aquatic Ecology
Hosted by Todd Royer
December 7 Michael Wasserman Assistant Professor Anthropology Department & Human Biology Program Indiana University
Topic: Endocrine-active phytochemicals in primate diets: Prevalence across the order
Hosted by Marta Venier
January 26 Sascha Usenko Associate Professor of Environmental Science Director Environmental Science Graduate Program Baylor University
Hosted by Amina Salamova
February 2 Michael Hendryx Professor IU School of Public Health
Topic: Appalachian coal mining and public health
Hosted by Ron Hites
February 9 Rod Williams Associate Professor of Wildlife Science Purdue University
Topic: What have we learned about eastern hellbenders? A decade of discoveries.
Hosted by Vicky Meretsky
February 23 Todd Royer Associate Professor IU O’Neill School
Topic: Silicon: the forgotten element in water quality
March 2 Dylan Millet Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies University of Minnesota
Hosted by Phil Stevens
March 9 Shahid Parvez Assistant Professor School of Public Health IUPUI
Hosted by Marta Venier
March 23 Melissa Donaldson O’Neill School Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Exit Seminar
Hosted by Jonathan Raff
March 30 Christa Kelleher Computational Hydrologist Earth Sciences College of Arts and Sciences Syracuse University
Hosted by Adam Ward
April 6 Anna Rosling Reseracher, Evolutionary Biology Uppsala University
Topic: Soil biogeochem
Hosted by Kim Novick
April 13 Lee Florea Assistant Director: Division of Research Indiana Geological Survey
Hosted by Phil Stevens
April 20 Michael Orbach Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Marine Policy Marine Science & Conservation Division Duke University
Topic: International response to climate change and SLR: Cultural, political and legal perspectives
Hosted by Wetlands Lab
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