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2005 Seminars

6 Jan Ken Belitz USGS San Diego Conceptualization and Implementation of a Comprehensive Ground-Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Program for California: An Invitation for Collaboration
14 Jan Tom Bullen USGS Menlo Park Adventures with the chromium and cadmium stable isotope systems: the new kids on the block
20 Jan Jim Hench Stanford University Sex, crabs and videotapes: Observations of selective tidal-stream transport in blue crabs
25 Jan Alex Hristov University of Idaho Nitrogen and phosphorus balance on large commercial dairies in Idaho
27 Jan Fran Hostettler USGS Menlo Park Forensic geochemistry of two oil spills (Mandan,ND and Bemidji,MN): methanogenic biodegradation of hydrocarbons, OR: Trains, pains, and nasty lawyers
3 Feb Edwin Maurer Santa Clara University Future Shock? -- Projecting Impacts of Climate Change on California's Water Resources
10 Feb Claire Tiedeman USGS Menlo Park Using ground-water model predictions to guide field data collection
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/10feb2005.wmv
17 Feb Eric Reichard USGS San Diego Economic Costs and Benefits of Conjunctive Use of Ground Water and Surface Water
24 Feb Lisamarie Windham Myers Lehigh University Of metals and marshes: How plants influence biogeochemical cycling in tidal wetlands
3 Mar Kristen Davis Stanford University Vertical mixing and nutrient transport driven by internal bores on a fringing coral reef
9 Mar Stefan Kollet Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Application of the conductance concept to interactions between surface water and groundwater: experimental and theoretical considerations
10 Mar Douglas Kent USGS Menlo Park Reactive transport during natural restoration of a waste-water-contaminated aquifer and implications for natural attenuation of zinc, arsenic, and other inorganic contaminants
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/10mar2005.wmv
17 Mar Thomas Chapin USGS Denver Recent applications and future direction of continuous real-time chemical monitoring of surface waters
23 Mar Luc Rock University of Calgary Tracing of anthropogenic nitrate sources in a watershed using a multi-isotope approach -- example: the Oldman River Basin (southern Alberta,Canada)
24 Mar Nicole Jones Stanford University The Effects of Shallow Water Hydrodynamics on Phytoplankton Distribution
7 Apr Chris Higgins Stanford University Our Stainfree Future? Perfluorochemicals in Sediments and Domestic Sludge
14 Apr Sara Cohen San Francisco State University Evolved resistance to chemical contaminants in an estuarine fish
21 Apr David Widory Bureau de Recherche Geologique et Miniere, Cedex, France Tracing sources of atmospheric pollution and NO3 in water using isotopes
28 Apr Uri Shavit Technion, Israel Stitching free flows and porous media flows
5 May Fengjing Liu University of California, Merced Mountain Hydrology: Flowpaths and Mountain-Block Recharge
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/05may2005.wmv
13 May Carol Kendall USGS Menlo Park Tracing causes of hypoxia in riverine ecosystems using isotopic techniques
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/13may2005.wmv
7 July Ross Perrigo, Rianda Mills, Alicia Brown and Matthew Rafty University of Western Australia Sustainable Subiaco: A local scale application of the Index of Sustainable Functionality (ISF)
29 July Bill Reeburgh University of California, Irvine Controls on Water Column Methane Concentration and Stable Isotope (d2H-CH4 and d13C-CH4) Distributions in the Black Sea and Cariaco Basin
6 Sept Martin Goldhaber USGS Reston A Soil Geochemistry Transect Across Northern California
15 Sept Yuji Arai USGS Menlo Park Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in Environmental Geochemistry: A Case Study of Uranium Contaminated Vadose Zone Sediments, Hanford, WA
22 Sept David Stonestrom USGS Menlo Park Assessing Ground-Water Recharge in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/22sep2005.wmv
29 Sept Steven Loheide Stanford University Understanding Mountain Meadow Hydrology and Restoration Using Thermal Remote Sensing
6 Oct Carolyn Pearce University of Manchester Bionanomanipulation: Studying the Microbial Fabrication of Novel Nanomaterials
12 Oct Michael Dettinger US Geological Survey Pacific Climate Perspectives on Flood-Generating Winter Storms in the central Sierra Nevada
28 Oct Mark Waldrop USGS Menlo Park Molecular Approaches to Biogeochemistry: Linking Microbial Community Landscape Patterns to Soil Carbon Fluxes
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/28oct2005.wmv
28 Oct Mark Waldrop USGS Menlo Park Molecular Approaches to Biogeochemistry: Linking Microbial Community Landscape Patterns to Soil Carbon Fluxes
10 Nov Bill Herkelrath USGS Menlo Park Large-scale Aquifer Pumping Tests at an Oil-spill Site: Implications for Modeling Multiphase Flow, Natural Attenuation, and Remediation of Subsurface Nonaqueous Phase Liquid Contamination
17 Nov Yousif Kharaka USGS Menlo Park Storage of Greenhouse Gases in Sedimentary Basins: The Frio Formation Brine Field Experiment
1 Dec Allen Moench USGS Menlo Park Analysis of Yet Another 'Benchmark' Water-Table Aquifer Test, Borden Site, Ontario, Canada
15 Dec Brian Wagner USGS Menlo Park Water Management in the Upper Klamath Basin, OR: Historical Perspective and the Role of Optimization
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/15dec2005.wmv


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