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Fall 2010 Seminar Series Schedule
Seminars are usually held on Tuesdays from noon to 1 pm.
The seminars are informal and are open to the public. Bring your lunch.
The USGS Oregon Water Science Center office is located in Portland at
2130 SW 5th Ave. Directions to the USGS office are posted
here.
The USGS Portland Seminar Series has an
online mailing list. If you would like to
be notified of upcoming seminars via email, then you should sign up!
The list also will be used to notify its members of seminar cancellations
or other schedule changes.
Note: The following schedule is subject to change. Please
check this page or call 503-251-3200 prior to attending a seminar. If you
wish to post a copy of this schedule in your office, a PDF of the schedule
can be downloaded from
http://or.water.usgs.gov/seminars/fall2010_schedule.pdf.
| FALL 2010 SEMINAR SCHEDULE |
Tuesday
September 21
Noon to 1 pm |
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
Stephen Zylstra
Regional Landscape Conservation Manager
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Pacific Region Office, Portland, OR
[abstract]
[details on LCCs from USFWS]
[general info on LCCs]
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Tuesday
September 28
Noon to 1 pm |
Heterogeneous Occupancy of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Waters
of North America
Tara Chestnut
Student Ecologist
USGS Oregon Water Science Center
Portland, OR
[professional page]
[more info
on chytrid fungus]
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Tuesday
October 5
Noon to 1 pm |
Impact of Groundwater Pumping vs. a Large Upstream Dam on Streamflows and
Temperature Under Varying Climate
John Risley
Research Hydrologist
USGS Oregon Water Science Center
Portland, OR
[professional page]
[research paper]
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Thursday
October 14
Noon to 1 pm |
Nitrogen Dynamics and Hydrochemical Impacts of Rain-fed Agriculture:
Case of the Palouse
Kent Keller
Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
[professional page]
[abstract]
[relevant paper]
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Tuesday
October 19
12:45 to 1:45 pm |
From Buckets to Clouds: Building Better Environmental Models for Today's Decision-Making
Randy Hunt
Research Hydrologist
USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center
Middleton, WI
[abstract]
[professional page]
["buckets" of parameters paper]
[cloud computing paper]
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Tuesday
October 26
Noon to 1 pm |
Groundwater Resources of the Yakima River Basin
Matt Ely
Hydrologist
USGS Washington Water Science Center
Tacoma, WA
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Tuesday
November 2
Noon to 1 pm |
Measuring Stream Metabolism with a Tracer:
Resazurin as a "Smart"
Tracer for Metabolic Activity
Roy Haggerty
Professor, Department of Geosciences
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
[professional page]
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Tuesday
November 9
Noon to 1 pm |
Occurrence, Fate, and Effects of Current-Use Pesticides in the Aquatic
Environment
Kathy Kuivila
Research Hydrologist
USGS California Water Science Center
Sacramento, CA
[abstract]
[pesticide fate research program]
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Tuesday
November 16
Noon to 1 pm |
Basin-Wide Distributed Modeling of Hydrologic Responses to Irrigation
Management in the Wood River Basin, Klamath County, OR
Joshua Owens
Master of Science student, Water Resources Engineering
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
[abstract]
[masters thesis]
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Week of
November 22
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no seminar
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Tuesday
November 30
Noon to 1 pm |
POSTPONED
Use of Continuous Monitors and Autosamplers to Predict Unmeasured
Water-Quality Constituents in Tributaries of the Tualatin River
Chauncey Anderson
Hydrologist, USGS Oregon Water Science Center
Portland, OR
[professional page]
[abstract/report]
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Tuesday
December 7
Noon to 1 pm |
Integration of Wellbore and Geophysical Data for Evaluation of Sequestration
Potential in Continental Flood Basalts: The Big Sky Wallula Basalt Pilot
Charlotte Sullivan
Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA
[abstract]
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Wednesday
December 15
Noon to 1 pm |
The Role of Zooplankton Grazing on Noxious Cyanobacteria Blooms in Vancouver
Lake, WA
Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Earth & Environmental Science
Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
[professional page]
[abstract]
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