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- November 17: Emily Reidy, IU Chemistry PhD Candidate: “Indoor Air Pollution”
- November 10: Katie Dentzman, Iowa State University: “Pesticide Resistance, Social Collapse, and Strategies for Community Management Approaches”
- November 3: Penny Vlahos, UCONN: A Changing Arctic: Discerning Biogeochemical Signatures of Arctic Marginal Ice Zones
- September 29: Walter S. Andriuzzi: Publishing ecological papers in Nature Communications (and other Nature journals)
- September 22: Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest U: “Uncovering the effects of extreme events on carbon, energy, and water budgets”
- September 15: Ron Hites, O’Neill School: “Good News: Some Organic Pollutants Have Been Virtually Eliminated - At Least From the Great Lakes Atmosphere”
- September 1: Meet the Environmental Science faculty
- July 18: Molly Cain, O’Neill School, Dissertation Defense: “Linking dynamic connectivity and hydrologic response”
- April 21: Lienne Sethna, O’Neill School, PhD Candidate: “An ecological and biogeochemical study of dissolved silicon in human-dominated freshwater ecosystems”
- April 15: Jase Hixon, O’Neill School, PhD Candidate
- April 14: David Walker: The Restoration of Lake Apopka and its North Shore Wetlands
- April 7: Emily Biesecker, Indiana Director of Land Strategies, The Nature Conservancy
- March 31: Darren Ficklin, IU Dept of Geography: “Influence of the 2021 Brood X cicada emergence on soil water infiltration rates in the midwestern United States.”
- February 24: Graham Peaslee, Notre Dame University: “PFAS in Consumer Products: The Intersection of Science and Policy”
- February 17: Bita Alizadehtazi, Drexel University: “Adapting urban communities to climate change using green infrastructure: lessons from the field and future research perspectives”
Past speakers
- December 2: Vanessa L. Bailey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: “Through the Eye of the Needle: Microbes, Carbon, Water, and their Connection through Soil Pores”
- November 18: Pedro M. Avellaneda, post-doc, O’Neill School: “Modeling the effect of cover crops on hydrological and ecological processes in the Mississippi River basin”
- November 19: Paulo Massoca, O’Neill School
- November 12: Jas Hixson, O’Neill School
- 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
Topic: Paleo-ecology, climate change, land-cover change
Hosted by Kim Novick
April 18
Dan Jacobson
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title: Embracing complexity in biological systems
Hosted by Joe Shaw
September 6
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