Environmental Science Speaker Series

• 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)”

• December 7: Michael Benson, O’Neill Environmental Science Ph.D. Defense: “Assessing the sensitivity of eastern United States forests to climate change and drought through the lens of plant hydraulics”
• November 9: Christopher Callahan, Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University: Quantifying the economic costs of global warming
• November 2: Chloe Wardropper, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: “Water quality policy in the Upper Mississippi River Basin: Assessing science-planning-implementation processes.”
• October 26: Laureano Gherardi, Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley: “Effects of global change stressors on grassland ecosystems: Above- and below-ground perspectives”
• September 28: Drew Capone, IU-BL School of Public Health, “Following the Microbes in Communities with Poor Sanitation: A public health engineering approach”
• September 21: Jeff Geddes, Boston University: “Sources and Sinks in the Biosphere: Improving Predictions of Ecosystem-Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions”
• September 14: Will Cantrell, Physical Seminar, Michigan Technological University
• August 24: Dr. Alan Gorchov Negron, University of Michigan: “The Climate Impact of US Offshore Oil and Gas Production”
• May 24: Emily Reidy, Chem. PhD Candidate: “Measurements and model predictions of atmospheric radicals in forested and indoor environments”
• May 18: Vinay Kumar, PhD Candidate: “Characterization of OH Radical Sinks in Forested and Indoor Environments”
• April 13: Diana Oviedo Vargas from Stroud Water Research Center
• March 30: Daniel Abrams from Illinois State Water Survey
• March 9: Sander Denham, PhD candidate: “Seeing the forest through the trees”
• March 2: Nikos Zirogiannis, O’Neill School: “Air pollution and health impacts: What can we learn from a social science perspective?”
• February 9: Alex Laskin, Purdue:“Unrecognized Urban Source of Atmospheric Nanoplastic Particles”
• February 7: Zhiying Li: “Water in a Warming Climate: Implications for Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development”
• January 24: Nitin Singh: “Hydrology in the Changing World”
• January 12: Frederick Cheng: “Ecohydrology of Reactive Interfaces: Managing Natural Infrastructure to Enhance Landscape Water Quality”
• January 10: Eunsang Cho: “Human activities and climate impacts on regional hydrology in a changing climate”

• 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” 

• 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