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2002 WRD RESEARCH SEMINARS

January
DATE
NAME
TITLE
   
10 Tim Clough The 15N Balance Enigma and the Fate of N2 and N2O in the Vadose Zone
31 Steven Gorelick Analysis of a Field Demonstration Involving In-Situ Bioremediation of TCE
February
11 Mark Schmeeckle Coupling Turbulence Structures and Sediment Transport in Rivers
12 Francisco Jose Marques Simones Development and Application of a RNG-Based Eddy Viscosity Turbulence Model for Free Surface Flows
21 Gary Curtis

Reactive Solute Transport Modeling of Uranium with Variable Chemical Conditions

22 Craig Criddle Field-Scale Bioremediation: Unexpected Solutions
25 Siep Talma Isotopic Evidence for the Ocurrence of 'Natural' Nitrate in Southern Africa
March
21 Jon Burau From Geomorphology to Fish: Tales from Hydrodynamic Field Investigations in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta
April
11 Raphael Kudela Modeling the Biological Impacts of El Ninos in Central California
18 Evangelos Kakouros Geochemistry and Mobility of Selenium in Middle Green River Basin, Utah
25 Barbara Bekins Tales of Shipboard and Subseafloor Life from ODP Leg 201
May
2 Kevin Mayer Leviathan Mine Cleanup-Sulfuric Acid in the Sierra
7 Sergio Ribeiro Guevara Anthropogenic Metal Contamination in Patagonia Lakes, Argentina: Evidence from Deep Cores and Pb-210 and Cs-137 Dating
9 Andrew Fisher Lateral Flow within Oceanic Crust: Scales and Mechanisms of Heat Extraction from the Lithosphere
16 Noah Knowles Climate, Management and Long-Term Changes in San Francisco Estuary Inflow and Salinity
22 Marie Noele Croteau Providing a solid mechanistic base for using the insect Chaoborus as a metal biomonitor
23 Barbara Bekins Microbial Ecology of the Bemidji Crude Oil Researd Site
29 James Davis Modeling Adsorption Reactions of Inorganic Contaminants in Natural Waters
30 Jeffrey S. Hanor Hydrogeology of the Regional Salinization of Groundwater in Murray Basin, Southeastern Australia
June
4 Renee K. Takesue SHRIMP-RG and LA-ICP-MS micoranalysis of trace elements in mollusc shells: High resolution geochemical records of environmental/ecological variability
6 Jonathan Zehr Molecular Ecology of Nitrogen Cycling Microorganisms in Estuaries and the Open Ocean: Implications for Microbial Diversity and Biogeochemical Cycles
7 Nicolas Bloom Speciation and Bioavailability of Mercury Due to Historic Cinnabar and Gold Mining During the California Gold Rush
13 James Kuwabara What's mud got to do with Benthic flux of contaminants in mine-drainage systems
20 Hedeff Essaid Multiphase flow and transport modeling at the Bemidji, MN, crude-oil spill site: A personal odyssey
27 Bill Sobczak Birth of a Trophic-Dynamic Concept in Ecology: 60-Years of Maturation
July
10 Clare Mintern Overview of Hydrogeology Research Currently Undertaken in Australia
September
4 Grace Su Effect of isolated fractures on accelerated flow in the unsaturated zone
6 Sam Luoma Using an ecosystem-scale scenario analysis model to forecast the implications of selenium management strategies in the San Francisco Bay-Delta
12 Alison Gee Equilibrium and Kinetic Partitioning of Metals Between Dissolved and Particulate Forms in South San Francisco Bay
24 Sam Webb Synchrotron-Based Studies of Manganese Oxide Biomineralization
26  Mitchell Herbel Biochemical Reduction of Selenium and arsenic: New Findings with Bacterial Cultures and Stable Isotopes
October
3 Teresa Fan Ecotoxicology-based Selenium Bioremediation
10 Gary Cherr Multixenobiotic Resistance: A first-line-of-defense biomarker?
16 Don Sparks Frontiers in Contaminant Fate and Speciation: It's About Scale and Interfaces
17 Graham Fogg A Geologic Approach to Simulation of Subsurface Hydrology
21 Jim Sickman Nutrient Dynamics in the Sierra Nevada: Underlying mechanisms, climate sensitivity and long-term changes in lake chemistry
24 Thomas Harter Multiscale Monitoring of Nonpoint Source Pollution in Groundwater: The Dairy Case
29  Michelle Shouse The Effects of Decreasing Trace Metal Concentrations on Benthic Community Structure in South San Francisco Bay
31 Allen Moench Analyses of a 'benchmark' water-table aquifer test: Some remarkable discoveries!
November
4 David Hyndman Efficient Large-Scale Bioremediation in a Heterogenous Aquifer: The Schoolcraft Bioaugmentation Experiment
7 Daniel Doctor Un-mixing Components of Aquifer Discharge Under Different Flow Regimes: A Case Study from the CLassical Karst of Southwestern Slovenia
14 Mark Stacey Hydrodynamic of Delta Shallow Water Habitats: Mildred Island and Franks Tract
18 Doug Capone Nitrogen Fixation in the World's Oceans
21 Lisa Lucas Unreveling Variability and Revealing Uncertainty: A Role of Science in Ecosystem Restoration
December
5 Kevin Arrigo The Impact of Antarctic Phytoplankton on Global Climate Change
12 Cary Burns Lopez & Tara Schraga Revealing Patterns of Phytoplankton Dynamics in a Delta Habitat: a Billion Diatoms Can't Be Wrong
13 Richard Dugdale Consequences of the High Ammonium Environment of San Francisco Bay; Inhibition of Nitrate Uptake and Suppression of Spring Diatom Blooms
19 Alexandria Boehm Decadal and Shorter Period Variability of Surf Zone Water Quality at Huntington Beach, California

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