USGS Portland Seminar Series Schedule

Climate Impacts on Freshwaters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The Spring 2011 Seminar Series is a collaboration between USGS, Portland State University (PSU), and Oregon State University (OSU), building on the long-standing Spring Hydrology Seminar Series at OSU. USGS and PSU are excited to bring this series of internationally known speakers to Portland!

The Spring Climate Seminars will be held on Thursdays, generally from noon to 1 pm on the PSU campus -- Cramer Hall, room 271, although one or two may be held at the USGS Oregon Water Science Center office. You can find Cramer Hall in quadrant E6 on a PSU campus map, near the intersection of SW Broadway and SW Montgomery. The seminars are informal and are open to the public. Bring your lunch.

A few extra seminars are being scheduled on Tuesdays at the USGS office, and will be posted here as part of the Oregon Water Science Center (ORWSC) seminar series. Directions to the USGS office are available at http://or.water.usgs.gov/location.html.

The 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/spring2011seminars.pdf.

SPRING 2011 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Date, Time,
& Location

Series

Title & Speaker

Thursday
March 31
Noon to 1 pm
271 Cramer Hall
PSU

Climate
Series

Oregon's Freshwater Resources:
Impacts of Climate Change and Land Development

Heejun Chang

Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Portland State University
Portland, OR
[professional page]

Thursday
April 7
11:00 to Noon
USGS

Climate
Series

Water Futures and the Perfect Storm:
Implications for the Canadian Prairies

Howard Wheater

Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Professor, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
[professional page]

Thursday
April 14
Noon to 1 pm
271 Cramer Hall
PSU

Climate
Series

Unanswered Questions in Predicting the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change

Dennis Lettenmaier

Professor of Hydrology, Water Resources, & Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
[professional page]

Thursday
April 21
Noon to 1 pm
271 Cramer Hall
PSU

Climate
Series

Streamflow, Floods and Climate Change

Robert Hirsch

Research Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Reston, VA
[professional page]

Friday
April 22
9 to 10 am
USGS

ORWSC
Series

Some Water Quality Issues that We Don't Want to Think About
or
Are We Really Measuring What We Think We Are?

Arthur Horowitz

Research Chemist
U.S. Geological Survey
Atlanta, GA
[abstract] [professional page]

Thursday
April 28
Noon to 1 pm
271 Cramer Hall
PSU

Climate
Series

The Northwest Climate Science Center

Carol Schuler

Director, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Interim Director, Northwest Climate Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey
Corvallis, OR
[climate science centers] [news release]

Thursday
May 5
Noon to 1 pm
271 Cramer Hall
PSU

Climate
Series

Glacier Change and the Future of Alpine Water Resources

Andrew Fountain

Professor of Geography and Geology
Portland State University
Portland, OR
[professional page]

Thursday
May 12
Noon to 1 pm
271 Cramer Hall
PSU

Climate
Series

Frontiers of Climate Change Science

Aslam Kahlil

Professor, Department of Physics
Portland State University
Portland, OR
[professional page]

Tuesday
May 17
Noon to 1 pm
USGS

ORWSC
Series

The Hebgen Lake Earthquake of August 17, 1959:
An Eyewitness Account

Jack Epstein

Geologist Emeritus
U.S. Geological Survey
Reston, VA
[abstract]

Thursday
May 19
Noon to 1 pm
271 Cramer Hall
PSU

Climate
Series

Water Management, Knowledge and Adaptation:
Tensions, Legacies and the Next Best Thing

Maria Carmen Lemos

Associate Professor
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
[professional page]

Thursday
May 26
Noon to 1 pm
271 Cramer Hall
PSU

Climate
Series

A Superensemble of Regional Climate Model Futures

Philip Mote

Director, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and Oregon Climate Services
College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
[professional page]

Thursday
June 2
Noon to 1 pm
271 Cramer Hall
PSU

Climate
Series

Dooge Memorial Lecture:
"How to Solve It"
A Tribute to Jim Dooge, a Pioneer in Water Systems Analysis

Philip O'Kane

Professor
College of Science, Engineering and Food Science
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University College Cork, Ireland
[professional page]

Tuesday
June 14
Noon to 1 pm
USGS

ORWSC
Series

Tree-Ring Records of River Flow and Channel Dynamics

Jonathan M. Friedman

Research Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Boulder, CO
[professional page]

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