ESRP 593. Graduate Seminar in Environmental Science
co-ordinated by
Prof. Andy Ford, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Tuesdays 12:10 to 1 pm in Troy Hall, Room 212
(Troy 212 is the informal room we used for the 1st class meeting)

 Speakers in Spring of 2009
 1

 1-13

Cailin Orr, the newest faculty member in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Topic: physical alterations and ecosystem fuction in river restoration
 2

 1-20

Emmett Fiske, Community and Rural Sociology
Topic: Skipping Sponges Across the Water:
One Rock's Perspective on the Passionate Pursuit of a Graduate Degree.
 3

 1-27

Dave Brown, Landscape Pedology, Deptartment of Crop and Soil Sciences
The role of tropical dambo wetlands in the global atmospheric methane cycle
 4

 2-3

Jessica Goldberger, Community and Rural Sociology
Experiences and Perspectives of Organic Farmers in Semi-Arid Kenya and Washington State
 5  2-10

Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Vancouver)
Microzooplankton in Pelagic Food Webs:
From Harmful Algal Blooms to Biogeochemical Fluxes
 6

 2-17

Allyson Beall, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Sage grouse, invisible water and ecosystem services:
participatory modeling and the science-policy nexus
 7

2-24

Andy Ford and Asmeret Bier, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Computer and Classroom Simulation of Policies to Promote Renewable Generation
 8

3-3

Laurel Saito, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science
Univeristy of Nevada, Reno
Interdisciplinary Modeling for Aquatic Ecosystems
(this seminar is in CUE 409)
 9

3-10

Jen Adam, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Applications of Hydrological Modeling

 Spring Break
 10

 3-24

Robert Wielgus, Large Carnivore Conservation Lab. & Dept.of Natural Resource Sciences
Does Hunting Regulate Cougar Populations?
 11

 3-31

Marc Beutel, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Use of Oxygenation Technology to Enhance Surface Water Quality
 12

 4-7

Rod Sayler, Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences
Teaching and Research in Conservation Science at WSU
 13

 4-14

Jon Yoder, School of Economic Sciences
Biofuel Economics and Policy for Washington State
 14

 4-21

Matt Carroll, Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences
Local Response to Afforestation in County Kerry Ireland