Sponsored by the Department of Geosciences, Department of Biological Sciences, and the Environmental Sciences Program
Fall 2009
September 4
Josiah Strauss, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University
“Stable Isotope Characterization of Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico”
September 11
Howard Hanson, Center for Ocean Engineering Technology, FAU
“Ocean Energy: Challenges and Opportunities”
September 18
Environmental Science Guest Lecture 1
September 25
Tingting Zhao, Department of Geography, Florida State University
"Changes in Gross Primary Production in Two U.S. Metropolitan Regions:
Carbon Consequences of Land-use Regulation and Urban Development in
Detroit, MI and Miami, FL metro areas"
October 2
Dr. Randall Hughes, FSU Marine Lab, "Ecological effects of seagrass (Zostera marina) genetic diversity"
October 9
Scott Markwith, Department of Geosciences, FAU
“Restoration of South Florida’s Flow: Interactions with Plant Community
Processes and Patterns”
October 16
Leonard Berry, Center for Environmental Studies, FAU
“FAU’s Climate Change Initiative”
October 23
Zhixiao Xie, Department of Geosciences, FAU
“Variability Patterns and Outlier Smoothing of the USGS EDEN DEM in the
A.R.M. Loxahatchee national Wildlife Refuge (LNWR)”
October 30
Environmental Science Guest Lecture 3
November 6
Joann Mossa, Department of Geography, University of Florida
“Geomorphic Monitoring of the Kissimmee River Restoration”
November 13
William O’Brien, Honors College, FAU
“State Parks and Jim Crow: An Unexamined Theme in the Historical
Geography of Exclusion”
November 20
Kevin Cunningham, U.S. Geological Survey
“Multiple Technologies Applied to Characterization of Karst Carbonate Pore
Systems in Cenozoic Aquifers of South Florida: from Ichnologically-related
Macroporosity at the Core Scale to km-scale Paleokarst at the Seismic Scale”
Seminars are held at 12:00 P. M. and will also be made available via video conference in the following rooms:
Boca: FL 401
Davie: LA 134
HBOI: MC 209
For more information contact:
Dr. Tobin Hindle, thindle@fau.edu, 561-297-2846, Geosciences