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2004 Seminars

8 Jan Charles R. Bacon USGS, Menlo Park Strontium isotopes in calcium carbonate otoliths measured by ion microprobe reveal salmon migration histories
15 Jan Grace Brush Johns Hopkins University The History of Land Use, Ecosystems and the Chesapeake Bay
22 Jan Avner Vengosh Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel The water crisis in the Middle East: Examples from on-going research on the Jordan River and Gaza Strip
29 Jan Chris Green USGS, Menlo Park Effects of Heterogeneity on Reactive Transport in Geologic Media
5 Feb Yousif Kharaka USGS, Menlo Park Environmental Impacts of Petroleum Production: Results from the Osage Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research Sites, Oklahoma
12 Feb Megan Young Stanford University Groundwater discharge in a tropical coastal lagoon: Using radium isotopes to identify nutrient sources
19 Feb Daniel Doctor USGS, Menlo Park Linking hydrology with chemistry: toward improving conceptual and analytical surface water models
20 Feb Aria Amirbahman University of Maine Association of Methylmercury with Humic Substances
26 Feb Allen Shapiro USGS, Reston VA 2004 NGWA Darcy Distinguished Lecture
Recent Advances in Characterizing Ground Water Flow and Chemical Transport in Fractured Rock From Cores to Kilometers
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/26feb2004.wmv
3 Mar Michael Bank Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maine Effects of Watershed Heterogeneity on Mercury Bioaccumulation in Lotic Ecosystems
4 Mar Jen Lewicki Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Diffuse Degassing on the Flanks of Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
9 Mar Claudia Benitez- Nelson University of South Carolina Particulate Phosphorus cycling across and oxic/anoxic interface:implications for past, present and future changes in nutrient limitation
17 Mar Luiz Martinelli Stanford University Use of stable isotopes in environmental studies in Brazil
25 Mar Randall Hanson USGS, San Diego Ground water and surface water flow in the Santa Clara Valley
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/25mar2004.wmv
1 April Larry Brown USGS, Sacramento Mining Data in the San Francisco Estuary: New Insights into Nearshore Fish Assemblages of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
8 April Christopher Conaway UC Santa Cruz Investigation of air-water exchange of mercury in San Francisco Estuary
15 April Michelle Walvoord USGS, Lakewood, CO Hydrologic and ecologic concepts unique to deep unsaturated zones in arid regions
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/15apr2004.wmv
20 April Robert Eganhouse USGS, Reston VA Unraveling the composition of weathered petroleum and other highly complex organic mixtures using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC x GC/TOFMS)
22 April Justin Ferris USGS, Denver CO The Paleohydrology of Mars: A Hydrologist’s Perspective
29 April Jamie Workman private consultant The Coming Hydrocracy!? Trends in Water Management in Africa
6 May Susan Hubbard Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Environmental Characterization and Monitoring using Geophysical Data
13 May Yehoshua Kolodny Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Lake, Cave, Sea--re-examining the source impact on isotope geochemistry of Lake Lisan (Pleistocene precursor of the Dead Sea)
20 May Barbara Bekins USGS, Menlo Park 2004 GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture
The Influence of Hydrogeology on 25 Years of Natural Attenuation at a Crude Oil Spill Site
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/20may2004.wmv
27 May Tori Hoehler NASA Ames Research Center Back-yard astrobiology: How North Carolina mud will aid in the search for life in the solar system
7 July Gary Weissmann Michigan State University Stratigraphic Development and Hydrostratigraphic Character of Fluvial Fans in the San Joaquin Basin, California
16 Sept Jim Constantz and Hedeff Essaid USGS, Menlo Park Ground Water as the Foundation of Stream Restoration: Dam Removal as a Case Study
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/16sep2004.wmv
23 Sept Martha Conklin University of California, Merced Groundwater Inputs in the Upper Merced River Basin, California
27 Sept Aria Amirbahman University of Maine, Orono Oxidation of arsenic(III) by aquifer sediments from Cape Cod, Massachusetts
30 Sept Cary Lopez USGS, Menlo Park Assessing the Ecological Value of Shallow Water Habitat in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
1 Oct Joseph Needoba Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, CA The Development of a Biogeochemical Sensor Network in a California Estuary
7 Oct Ana M. Laguna University of Córdoba, Spain Description of Water, Sediment, and Solute Transport in Soils with the Lattice Boltzmann Model
14 Oct Jean Moran Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Using Groundwater Age and Low-level VOCs to Assess Contamination Vulnerability in California's Public Drinking Water Wells
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/14oct2004.wmv
21 Oct Russ Flegal University of California, Santa Cruz Biogeochemical cycles of toxic metals: From Armenia to Antarctica with brief stops in San Francisco Bay and the World Ocean
27 Oct Celine Pallud Utrecht University, Netherlands Sulfate Reduction in Estuarine Sediments: A Kinetic Study Using a Flow-through Reactor Approach
28 Oct Yit Arn Teh University of California, Berkeley Methane Cycling in Tropical Soils
4 Nov John D. Coates University of California, Berkeley Microbial Perchlorate Reduction - Rocket Fueled Metabolism
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/04nov2004.wmv
17 Nov Bob Michel USGS Menlo Park Implications of isotopic data from a contaminant plume in Kingsford, Michigan
2 Dec Ralph Cheng USGS Menlo Park Physics, Measurements, and Numerical Modeling - the Italian Connections
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/02dec2004.wmv
9 Dec Chad Saltikov UC Santa Cruz The Biology Behind Arsenic Geochemistry


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