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2006 Seminars

19 Jan Claire Tiedeman USGS Menlo Park The Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Toxics Site: USGS Research on Transport and Biodegradation of Chlorinated Solvents in Fractured Sedimentary Rock
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/19jan2006.wmv
27 Jan Larry Barber USGS Boulder Water, Drugs, and Sex: Endocrine Disrupters and Aquatic Ecosystems
1 Feb Lizet Christiansen USGS Menlo Park The Effects of Fluid Flow on Crustal Deformation in Calderas
9 Feb Jennifer Harden USGS Menlo Park How Do Processes that Nourish Ecosystems Change Over Geologic and Human Time Scales? Paradigms for Soil Resilience
16 Feb Sam Luoma USGS Menlo Park Applications of Modeling Contaminant Biodynamics: Long-term Team Research Works
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/16feb2006.wmv
23 Feb Tom Kulp USGS Menlo Park Salinity Effects on the Biogeochemical Cycles of Arsenate, Sulfate, Nitrate, and Methane in Anoxic Sediments from Two Alkaline Soda Lakes
2 Mar Andy Fisher UC Santa Cruz Quantifying Stream-Seepage Dynamics and Impacts
16 Mar Eileen Poeter Colorado School of Mines 2006 NGWA Darcy Distinguished Lecture
All Models are Wrong: How Do We Know Which Are Useful?
23 Mar Nancy Monsen USGS Menlo Park Effects of Flow Manipulation on Water and Habitat Quality: Four Examples from the Delta
30 Mar Nicole Goebel Stanford University Primary Production and a Simplified Approach to Modeling Keystone Processes that Lead to Hypoxic Events in Long Island Sound
6 April Lisamarie Windham Lehigh University Mercury Cycling in Vegetated Wetlands of San Francisco Bay
13 April Evangelos Kakouros USGS Menlo Park Organic Compounds Related to Oilfield Water Releases: Results from Osage County, Oklahoma
20 April Hedeff Essaid USGS Menlo Park Using Temperature Measurements to Estimate Streambed Fluxes in Several Agricultural Watersheds
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/20apr2006.wmv
21 April Kevin Thorn USGS Denver NMR Studies on Environmental Chemistry and Remediation of Explosives
26 April Yoram Rubin University of California, Berkeley Geophysics for Shallow and Deep Earth Exploration: A Bayesian Perspective
27 April Peter E. Smith Sacramento Science Center 3D Simulations of Flow in the Delta Cross Channel Region of the Sacramento River with Implications for Fish Passage
11 May Scott Wankel USGS Menlo Park Frontiers in Nitrate Isotopes
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/11may2006.wmv
12 May Ron Oremland USGS Menlo Park The Geomicrobiology and Nanoscience of Arsenic, Selenium, and Tellurium
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/12may2006.wmv
18 May Emily Elliott USGS Menlo Park Using Nitrate Isotopes in Precipitation to Distinguish NOx Sources, Atmospheric Cycling, and Source Areas in the United States
7 Sept Matthew Ginder-Vogel Stanford University In-situ Biological Uranium Remediation within Fractured Saprolite
14 Sept Ron Oremland USGS Menlo Park Geomicrobiology and Nanoscience of Selenium (and Some Tellurium Too)
21 Sept Marie-Noƫle Croteau USGS Menlo Park Using Stable Metal Isotopes to Understand Bioaccumulation Dynamics and Trophic Transfer of Metals Along Freshwater Food Webs
27 Sept Chris Magirl USGS, Tucson Rapids in Bedrock Rivers: Measurements and Modeling of Velocity Distributions
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/27sep2006.wmv
3 Oct Larry Handley USGS, Lafayette, Louisiana Raccoon Island Habitats, 1956-2003: The Importance of Long Term Monitoring of a Disappearing Barrier Island
5 Oct Bill Bennett UC Davis Demystifying Fish Population Declines and Ecosystem Health: Linking What We Can Measure Across Levels of Biological Organization to Explain What Matters
12 Oct Niko Finke NASA Hydrogen 'Leakage' During Methanogenesis from Methanol and Methylamine: Implications for Product Composition and Energy Metabolism
19 Oct Heather Peterson USGS Menlo Park More Than One Can of Worms: 30 Years of Macrobenthic Monitoring in the Upper San Francisco Estuary
27 Oct Steve Ingebritsen USGS Menlo Park Ground Water in Geologic Processes
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/27oct2006.wmv
31 Oct Alicia Wilson University of South Carolina Driving forces for fluid flow in coastal settings and continental shelves
2 Nov Yousif Kharaka USGS Menlo Park Storage of Anthropogenic CO2 in Sedimentary Basins: Results from the Frio Formation Brine Test, Texas
9 Nov Jan Hopmans University of California, Davis Integrated Modeling of Regional-Scale Flow and Reactive Salt Transport in the Western San Joaquin Valley
15 Nov James Cloern USGS Menlo Park A Brief (90min) Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing ** special tutorial **
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/15Nov2006.wmv
29 Nov Kirk Nordstrom USGS, Denver, CO Inferring the Premining Ground-water Quality at an Active Mine Site: The Issue of Natural Background and the Questa Project, NM
30 Nov Fred Day-Lewis USGS CT Using a Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensor to Understand Ground-Water/Surface-Water Interaction
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/30Nov2006.wmv
7 Dec Michelle Hornberger USGS Menlo Park Factors Influencing Cu and Cd Bioaccumulation in a Freshwater Macroinvertebrate: Linkages Between Field Observations and Controlled Laboratory Exposures
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/30Nov2006.wmv
15 Feb Jeff Myers NASA NASA Airborne Remote Sensing of the Bay Area
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/15feb2007.wmv
22 Feb Mark Goldman Geophysical Institute of Israel Application of Geoelectric and Geoelectromagnetic Methods to Characterize Groundwater Salinity in Complicated Hydrogeological Environments


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