Seminar Announcements and Schedule
Hydrology seminar
The purpose of the Parsons Lab Hydrology Seminar is to provide a forum for students, research scientists and faculty in Parsons, and people interested in hydrologic sciences in the broader MIT community, to interact with other researchers in the hydrologic sciences. Through presentations, panel discussions and casual interactions the seminar seeks to advance the exchange of pioneering ideas and information in the hydrologic sciences.
Schedule
The Hydrology Seminar has merged with the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Seminar. Please refer to: EFM/Hydrology Seminar for the current schedule.
Spring 2008 Semester:
Friday, February 8, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Present Biodiversity of the Former Aral Sea and its Importance for Remnant Water Bodies Rehabilitation (Abstract)
Dr. Nick Aladin, Head, Laboratory of Brackish Hydrobiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
Friday, February 29, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Slow Sand Filtration: Fundamentals, Design and Recent Advances (Abstract)
Prof. M. Robin Collins, Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham
Friday, March 7, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Reduced Rank Data Assimilation using Geometry of the System (Abstract)
Adel Ahanin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Friday, March 14, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Are the Space-time Patterns of Hydro-meteorological Processes Scale-invariant?
Prof. Mekonnen Gebremichael, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Special Seminar Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 11am-12pm, Room 48-308:
Evaluation of a Satellite-based Landslide Algorithm using Global Landslide Inventories (Abstract)
Dalia Bach Kirschbaum, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York
Friday, March 21, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Investigating Hydrologic and Atmospheric Pathways to Summertime Convective Rainfall in the Southeastern United States
Prof. Gabriel Katul, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham
Friday, April 4, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Simulated Climatology and Sensitivity of Latent Heat Flux over the Midwestern United States (Abstract)
Jonathan Winter, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Special Seminar Monday, April 7, 2008, 4-5pm, Room 48-308:
Germs and Geology: Emerging Issues in Waterborne Pathogen Research (Abstract)
Prof. Larry McKay, 2008 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Friday, April 11, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Water Management in Central and South Florida(Abstract)
Dr. Chandra Pathak, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach
Friday, April 18, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
No Hydrology Seminar
Friday, April 25, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Can We Outlive Our Way of Life? (Abstract)
Prof. Tadeusz W. Patzek, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, May 2, 2008, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 48-308:
Deforestation and Hydrologic Energy Partitioning in the Amazon Basin
(Abstract)
Ryan Knox, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Friday, May 9, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Landforms Effects on the Distribution of Grasses in a Semiarid Landscape
(Abstract)
Javier Homero Flores Cervantes, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Friday, May 16, 2008, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Sizing the First Flush and its Effects on the Storage-Reliability-Yield Behavior of Rainwater Harvesting in Rwanda
(Abstract)
Kelly Doyle, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Thursday, July 24, 2008, 2-3pm, Room 48-316:
Anthropogenic Land Cover Change During the Last Millennium and its Effects on Climate
Julia Pongratz, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Fall 2007 Semester:
Special Seminar August 27, 2007, 4pm, Room 48-316:
Development of a New Method of Short-term Forecasting of River Floods Based on Wavelet Analysis (Abstract)
Jan Adamowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Environmental Engineering Systems, Faculty of Water Systems and Hydrology, Warsaw, Poland
Friday, September 21, 2007, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Toward the Characterization of Snowpack from Space-borne Satellite Measurements: A Multi-frequency Multi-scale Data Assimilation Approach (Abstract)
Professor Steve Margulis, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Friday, October 12, 2007, 3-4pm, Room 48-316:
Developing Energy Technologies for Developing Countries
Matt Orosz and Amy Mueller, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Friday, October 26, 2007, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Exploring the Fate of Terrestrial Hydrologic, Carbon, and Biogeochemical Cycles Under Uncertain Global Climate Change
Adam Schlosser, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Friday, November 2, 2007, 3-4pm, Room 48-308:
Intermediate-scale Testing for Process Understanding, Model Validation and Upscaling of Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Subsurface Systems (Abstract)
Tissa Illangasekare, Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Special Seminar Time Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 4-5pm, Room 48-308:
Probabilistic Models for Decision Support During Floods (Abstract)
Luis Garrote, Dep. Ingeniería Civil: Hidráulica y Energética , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Special Seminar Time Thursday, November 8, 2007, 1:30-2:30pm, Room 48-316:
Integration of Science and Decision Making for Watershed Management (Abstract)
David C. Goodrich, Research Hydraulic Engineer, USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson
Friday, November 16, 2007, 3-4pm, Room 48-316:
Tales of Scales: Advances in Characterizing Groundwater-Stream Water Interactions (Abstract)
Professor Mike Gooseff, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
If you would like to suggest a speaker for the seminar, please contact Jonathan Winter (jwinter[at]mit[dot]edu) or
Lejo Flores
.