| January |
| DATE |
NAME |
AFFILIATION |
TITLE |
| |
| 6 |
Jean
Bahr |
2003
Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer |
Groundwater
as an Ecosystem Resource |
| 23 |
Colleen
Hansel |
Stanford
Univ. |
Secondary
Mineralization Pathways Induced By Dissimilatory Iron Reduction of
2-line Ferrihydrite |
| 30 |
Heather
Peterson |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
Long-term
Benthic Community Change in a Highly Invaded Estuary: The Story of
a Bad Clam in a Rough Neighborhood |
| February |
| 6 |
Stuart
Rojstaczer |
Duke
Univ. |
Human
Influence on the Hydrologic Cycle: Regional and Global Scales |
| 14 |
Susan
Glasauer |
Dept.
of Microbiology, Univ. of Guelph |
Biomineralization
of Metals: Life at the Bottom |
| 19 |
Jim
Krest |
NRC
Post-Doctoral Associate, USGS Reston |
Using
Natural Distributions of Short-lived Radium isotopes to Quantify
Groundwater Discharge and Recharge in the Everglades |
| 25 |
Ariel
Anbar |
Univ.
of Rochester |
Good
Golly, It's Moly! Insights into Ocean Chemistry and Evolution from
Molybdenum and its isotopes |
| 27 |
Scott
Fendorf |
Stanford
Univ. |
Processes
Controlling the Release of Arsenic in Surface and Subsurface Environments |
| March |
| 13 |
Nobu
Ohte |
Kyoto
Univ., Japan |
Biogeochemical
and Hydrologic Controls on Nitrogen Dynamics at the Kiryu Experimental
Watershed (Japan) |
| 20 |
Greg
Cutter |
Old
Dominion Univ. |
Modeling
the Biogeochemical Cycle of Selenium in the SF Bay: A Dynamic Simulation
with a Few Surprises |
| 25 |
Steven
Silva |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
The
Salmon Migration Dilemma in the Stockton Channel: Tracing the Link
Between Plankton, Nitrate, and Oxygen Depletion Using Isotope Techniques |
| 27 |
William
Bennett |
Univ.
of California, Davis |
Climate
Change and Fish Population Responses: Implications for Management
from Estuaries to the Nearshore Ocean |
| April |
| 3 |
Kate
Schafer |
Aquamarine
Research |
Temporal
Trends in Fish Populations in South San Francisco Bay |
| 10 |
Susan
Brantley |
Penn
State/visiting scientist |
Eating
and Breathing at the Water-Rock Interface |
| 17 |
Steven
Goodbred |
BRD/NAWQA,
USGS, Sacramento |
Feminized
Male Fish in the Lower Colorado River |
| 21 |
Menggui Jin |
Dept.
of Hydrogeology and Environmental Engineering, China University of
Geosciences, Wuhan |
Water
and Environmental Problems in North China |
| 24 |
Wim
Kimmerer |
Romberg
Tiburon Center, SFSU |
Ecological
Lessons from a Non-coevolved Assemblage of Estuarine Zooplankton |
| May |
| 1 |
Lenny Grimaldo |
California
Dept. of Water Resources |
Insights
Gained from Top-down Food Web Investigations in the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta: Implications for Restoration |
| 8 |
Jeffrey
Koseff |
Stanford
Univ. |
Following
Your Nose the Fluid Moechanical Way: Chemical Sensing in the Marine
Environment |
| 22 |
Terry
Short |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
Challenges
in Defining Disturbances in Complex Environmental Settings: The Confounding
Ecology of Urban Streams |
| June |
| 12 |
Peter
B. Moyle |
Univ.
of California, Davis |
Alien
Fishes: Building Blocks or Wrecking Balls in Aquatic Ecosystems? |
| July |
| 17 |
Lee
Landkamer |
NRC
Post-Doctoral Associate, USGS, Denver |
Metal
Sorption to Bacteria: Complex Biological Process or Surface Complexation
Phenomena?
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/17jul2003.wmv |
| September |
4
|
Mike
Dettinger |
BRR/WR, USGS, San Diego |
The
Future of Western Water: What Does Climate Tell Us?mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/04sep2003.wmv |
| 11 |
Jim
Palandri |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
Geochemical
Modeling of CO2 Sequestration: The Necessity of Reaction Kinetics |
18
|
David
Buchwalter |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
Physiology
of Contaminant Accumulation in Aquatic Insects
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/18sep2003.wmv |
| 26
|
Miranda
Fram |
USGS,
Sacramento |
Kinetics
of THM Formation
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/26sep2003.wmv |
| October |
| 2 Oct |
Lizet
Christiansen |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
Subsea
Heat Flow and Hydrothermal Circulation Near Hawaii |
| 9 Oct |
Dorit
Matmon |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
NAPL-Clay
Interaction |
| 16 Oct |
Steve
Gorelick |
Stanford
Univ. |
Air-injection barriers in saturated porous media:
Physical and chemical behavior in laboratory flow
cells
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/16oct2003.wmv |
24 Oct
|
Amy
Lesen |
Pratt Institute |
The
Protist That Ate San Francisco: Environment, Ecology and Paleoecology
of Benthic Foraminifera in San Francisco Bay |
| 30 Oct |
Sharyl
Rabinovici |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
Beaches,
Bioaccumulation, and Basin-Wide Standard Setting: An Overview of Western
Geographic Science Center Research |
| 31 Oct |
Michael M. Reddy |
USGS, Denver, CO |
Yukon River Basin Study |
| November |
| 6 Nov |
Amy
Little |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
Seasonal
Dynamics of Zooplankton Populations in Monterey Bay |
| 13 Nov |
Stuart
Rojstaczer |
Duke
University |
The
Necessity and Limitations of Predictive Modeling
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/13nov2003.wmv |
| 20 Nov |
Charles
Alpers |
USGS,
Sacramento |
Mercury from the Gold Rush: Transport, transformation, and bioaccumulation
in the Bear-Yuba watersheds |
| 21 Nov |
Emily Elliott |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
Organic Nitrogen Isotope Stratigraphy, Palynology, and Sediment History of Freshwater Wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay Basin: Comparison with Land Use History |
| December |
| 3 Dec |
Hans-Joachim Ziock |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
CO2 Emissions: The Issue of Magnitude and Some New Mitigation Approaches |
| 5 Dec |
Andrea
Foster |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
High
Arsenic Accumulation in Iron Phases, Eastern Bengladesh
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/05dec2003.wmv |
| 18 Dec |
Maria E. Hernandez-Garcia |
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain |
Naturally Occurring Arsenic in Ground Waters of the Madrid Tertiary Detrital Aquifer (Spain) |
