| DATE |
NAME |
AFFILIATION |
TITLE & VIDEO LINK |
2013 |
| 7 Feb |
Lisa Lucas and Noah Knowles |
USGS, Menlo Park |
CASCaDE: Computational Assessments of Scenarios of Change for the Delta Ecosystem
Play 7 Feb Video |
2012 |
| 16 Feb |
Shruti Mishra |
USGS Menlo Park |
Estimation of externalities associated with coal : A case study on damages to lakes in Ohio
Play 16 Feb Video |
| 8 Mar |
Henriette Selck |
University of Roskilde, Denmark |
The wonders of deposit-feeders: a tale of how organic contaminants disappear and examples of whether size matters when you are a sediment dweller
Play 8 Mar Video |
| 22 Mar |
Michael Marshall |
USGS Flagstaff Science Center |
Improving Irrigation Planning in the Central Valley, CA with Hyperspectral Imaging Techniques
Play 22 Mar Video |
| 5 Apr |
Thomas Harter |
UC Davis |
Nitrate in California Drinking Water: Understanding Sources,Groundwater Pathways, and Drinking Water Impacts
Play 05 Apr Video |
| 19 Apr |
Jean Moran |
California State University East Bay |
Vulnerability of Groundwater in High Elevation Catchments in Light of Predicted Climate Change
Play 19 Apr Video |
| 3 May |
JoAnn Holloway |
USGS Denver Crustal Geophysics & Geochemistry Science Center |
Optical properties of dissolved organic carbon in Barataria Bay marshes following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Play 3 May Video |
| 17 May |
Maureen Downing-Kunz |
USGS Sacramento Water Science Center |
Seasonal variations in suspended-sediment dynamics in the tidal reach of a San Francisco Bay tributary
Play 17 May Video |
| 6 Sept |
Christian Mohr |
University of Postdam, Germany |
Hydrologic response to the 2010 Chilean earthquake
Play 6 Sept Video |
| 20 Sept |
Barbara Bekins |
USGS Menlo Park, CA |
Evolution of the Bemidji North Pool Plume and Oil over the Last 30 Years
Play 20 Sept Video |
| 18 Oct |
Ron Oremland |
USGS Menlo Park |
Acetylene fermentation: Relevance to
primordial biogeochemistry and the search for life in the outer solar system
Play 18 Oct Video |
| 8 Nov |
Jennifer Lewicki |
USGS Menlo Park |
Quantification of geologic CO2 emissions using the eddy covariance technique
Play 08 Nov Video |
2011 |
| 13 Jan |
Susan Klosterhaus |
San Francisco Estuary Institute |
Flame Retardant Chemicals in San Francisco Bay:
More than Just PBDEs
Play 13 Jan Video |
| 20 Jan |
Ate Vissar |
Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Trends in Groundwater Quality in Relation to Travel Times, Agricultural Input and Geochemistry
Play 20 Jan Video |
| 10 Feb |
John Melack |
UCSB |
Inundation, Carbon Balance, and Greenhouse Gases in the Amazon Basin
Play 10 Feb Video |
| 3 Mar |
Alicia Wilson |
University of South Carolina, Dept. of Earth and Ocean Sciences |
Hydrologic variability and the hydrogeology of salt marshes: some
insights from field and modeling studies
Play 3 Mar Video |
| 17 Mar |
Randall Hanson |
USGS California Water Science Center, San Diego |
Assessing Future Conjunctive Water Use -- Project Update from USGS Climate Change Science Applications and Decision Support Program
Play 17 Mar Video |
| 7 Apr |
Chad Saltikov |
UCSC |
How Bacteria Eat and Breathe Arsenic
Play 07 Apr Video |
| 21 Apr |
Shemin Ge |
Blaustein Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Dept of Environmental Earth System Science |
Groundwater Earthquake Interactions -
stress change beneath a reservoir
Play 21 Apr Video |
| 19 May |
Cecile Mioni |
UC Santa Cruz |
What Controls Microcystis bloom and toxicity in the San Francisco Estuary?
Play 19 May Video |
| 13 Oct |
Allison Luengen |
University of San Francisco |
Factors affecting methylmercury accumulation at the base of the food chain
Play 13 Oct Video |
| 20 Oct |
Lisa Schile |
UC Berkeley, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management |
Tidal wetland vegetation in the San Francisco Bay Estuary: modeling species distributions with sea-level rise
Play 20 Oct Video |
| 3 Nov |
John Nimmo |
USGS Menlo Park |
Simplified Prediction of Infiltration and Recharge with a Source-Responsive Model
Play 3 Nov Video |
| 1 Dec |
Brian Wagner |
USGS Menlo Park |
Groundwater Management Modeling in Support of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement
Play 1 Dec Video |
2010 |
| 21 Jan |
Jim Cloern |
USGS Menlo Park |
The Altered States of San Francisco Bay: Ecological Surprises from Three Decades of Observations
Play 21Jan Video |
| 4 Feb |
Lixia Liao |
Louisiana State University |
Nickel and Cadmium Competitive Transport and
Retention in Soils with Numerical Model Simulation
Play 4 Feb Video |
| 18 Feb |
Felisa Wolfe-Simon |
USGS, Menlo Park |
Geobiochemistry: The Biochemical Consequences of Earth History for the Evolution of Life (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Arsenic and Astrobiology)
Play 18 Feb Video |
| 4 Mar |
Noah Knowles |
USGS, Menlo Park |
Potential Inundation Due to Rising Sea Levels in the San Francisco Bay Region
Play 4 Mar Video |
| 18 Mar |
Rocky Geyer |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Physical Dynamics and Sediment Transport of Skagit Bay, Puget Sound, WA
Play 18 Mar Video |
| 1 Apr |
Kirsten Verburg |
CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra |
Towards Guidelines for Spatial Diagnosis of Catchment Water Quality
Play 1 Apr Video |
| 15 Apr |
Aaron Slowey |
USGS Menlo Park |
Rate of formation and dissolution of mercury sulfide nanoparticles: The dual role of natural organic matter
Play 15 Apr Video |
| 6 May |
Andrea Foster |
USGS Menlo Park |
Speciation and Distribution of Arsenic and Zinc in Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) from the Western Mojave Desert
Play May 6 Video |
| 20 May |
Kathleen Swanson |
USGS California Water Science Center, Sacramento |
The Rate and Pattern of Deposition on Lowland River Floodplains
Play May 20 Video |
| 23 Sep |
Ben Mirus |
USGS Menlo Park |
Modeling Coupled Surface-Subsurface Flow Processes: The Role of Unsaturated Zone Hydraulic Properties
Play Sept 23 Video |
| 7 Oct |
Ron Oremland |
USGS Menlo Park |
Arsenic and the Meaning of Life
Play Oct 7 Video |
| 21 Oct |
Robin Stewart |
USGS Menlo Park |
Identifying changes in selenium exposure of the San Francisco Bay food web: 1995 through 2010
Play Oct 21 Video |
| 4 Nov |
David Schoelhamer |
USGS Sacramento |
Sudden clearing of estuarine waters upon crossing the threshold from transport- to supply-regulation of sediment transport as an erodible sediment pool is depleted: San Francisco Bay, 1999
Play Nov 4 Video |
| 18 Nov |
Natasha Dimova |
UC Santa Cruz & USGS Santa Cruz |
Using geochemical and geophysical tools to study groundwater discharge in marine and freshwater systems
Play Nov 18 Video |
| 2 Dec |
Scott Loarie |
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, CA |
Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation
Play Dec 2 Video |
2009 |
| 3 Feb |
Mary Voytek |
USGS Reston |
Influence of Impacts on the Deep Subsurface Biosphere –Results from the ICDP-USGS Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Drilling Project
Play 3Feb Video |
| 17 Feb |
Gaylon Campbell |
Washington State University |
Soil Science on Mars
Play 17Feb Video |
| 19 Feb |
Fred Nichols (introduction) |
USGS scientists starring |
Screening of Inside the Golden Gate,
a 1974 NOVA documentary on San Francisco Bay Science
Play 19Feb Video |
| 5 Mar |
Gary Curtis |
USGS Menlo Park |
Uranium Transport at the Naturita Site
Play 5Mar Video |
| 19 Mar |
Monika Winder |
University of California, Davis |
Climate Impacts at the Base of the Food Web: How Do Organisms Respond?
Play 19Mar Video |
| 23 Mar |
Laural Larsen |
USGS Reston |
Physical-Biological Feedbacks and Ecological Flow Requirements: Lessons Learned from Everglades Restoration
Play 23Mar Video |
| 2 Apr |
Rich Pancost |
University of Bristol, UK |
From Cold Seeps to Geothermal Springs: Pulling Apart Biogeochemical Processes Using Lipid Biomarkers
Play 2Apr Video |
| 16 Apr |
Larry Brown |
CA Water Science Center
USGS Sacramento |
Assessing the Possible Effects of Climate Change on Fish Populations of Central Valley Rivers and the San Francisco Estuary
Play 16Apr Video |
| 7 May |
Rohit Salve |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Fast Flow Paths in Fractured Rock: Observations from Field Experiments
Play 7May Video |
| 21 May |
Heather Bischel |
Stanford Universtiy |
Bioaccumulation of Perfluoroalkyl Compounds: Relating Water Reuse and Protein Binding
Play 21May Video |
| 11 Sept |
Jan Fleckenstein |
University of Bayreuth, Germany |
Effects of Micro-Topography on Runoff Generation and Residence Times in a Riparian Wetland
Play 11Sept Video |
| 17 Sept |
Marjorie Schulz |
USGS, Menlo Park |
Weathering on the Marine Terrace Soil Chronosequence, Santa Cruz, California: The Blessing of Tectonics and Time.
Play 17Sept Video |
| 1 Oct |
Chunmiao Zheng |
University of Alabama |
2009 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture
Understanding Solute Transport in Extremely Heterogeneous Porous Media: Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Research at the MADE Site
Play 1Oct Video |
| 15 Oct |
Mary McGann |
USGS, Menlo Park |
Forams Tell All: Coral Reef Degradation, Biological Invasions, Whale Falls, Climate and Tsunamis
Play 15Oct Video |
| 5 Nov |
Christopher Conaway |
Mendenhall Fellow, USGS, Santa Cruz |
Mercury in Monterey Bay
Play 5Nov Video |
| 3 Dec |
Nancy Prouty |
USGS, Menlo Park and Santa Cruz |
Coral Geochemical Records of the Hydrologic Cycle from Moloka`i, Hawai`i
Play 3Dec Video |
2008 |
| 17 Jan |
Michael Hay |
USGS Menlo Park |
Speciation and Dynamics of Organic Sulfur in Forest Soils
Play 17Jan Video |
| 31 Jan |
Neil Ganju |
USGS California Water Science Center |
Estuarine Geomorphic Modeling: A Link in the Cascade from Climatic to Ecological Change
Play 31Jan Video |
| 14 Feb |
Christa Woodley |
University of California, Davis |
The Impacts of Global Climate Change on Delta Fishes: Predicting Fish Populations and Diversity Changes
Play 14Feb Video |
| 26 Feb |
Larry McKay |
University of Tennessee |
2008 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture
Cracks in the Clay: The Role of Fractures and Macropores in Critical Zone Hydrology
Play 26Feb Video |
| 13 Mar |
Mario Putti |
University of Padua, Italy |
Ecohydrological Processes in Salt Marshlands of the Venice Lagoon
Play 13Mar Video |
| 20 Mar |
Brian Bergamaschi |
USGS California Water Science Center |
Biogeochemical Dynamics: What We Can Learn Using In-situ Optical Sensors to Quantify High Frequency Variability of Dissolved and Particulate Organic Material in Aquatic Environments.
Play 20Mar Video |
| 3 Apr |
Lissa MacVean |
University of California, Berkeley |
Estuarine Response to Habitat Restoration: Changes in Hydrodynamics and Scalar Dispersion in the Far South San Francisco Bay with Salt Pond Restoration
Play 3Apr Video |
| 17 Apr |
Rochelle Labiosa |
USGS Menlo Park |
A Brief Primer on Remote Sensing of the Ocean (and San Francisco Bay)
Play 17Apr Video |
| 1 May |
Terry Short |
USGS Menlo Park |
Species Traits as Determinants of Trace Element Bioaccumulation in Riverine Fishes......or Why it Pays to Be a Small, Riffle-loving Herbivore
Play 1May Video |
| 15 May |
Brian Ebel |
USGS Menlo Park |
Differences Between Event-based Versus Continuous Hydrologic Simulations: Case Study Near Coos Bay, Oregon
Play 15May Video |
| 2 July |
Adriana Paluszny |
Imperial College, London |
joint seminar with the Earthquakes Hazards Team
Geomechanical Modelling of Fracture Networks: Patterns and Flow
Play Video on Earthquake Science Center website. |
| 30 July |
Karen Kidd |
University of New Brunswick |
Is the Birth Control Pill an Effective Form of Contraception for Wild Fishes?
Play 30Jul Video |
| 18 Sept |
Susan Hubbard |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Geophysical Monitoring of Hydrological and Biogeophysical Transformations
Play 18Sept Video |
| 2 Oct |
Charles Wenger |
USGS Menlo Park |
Months in the Lab Can Save Days in the Literature -- Efficient Access Through the Library Portal
Play 2Oct Video |
| 30 Oct |
Richard Dugdale |
San Francisco State University |
Nitrogen-based Productivity Studies from Coastal Upwelling to Estuary to River
Play 30Oct Video |
| 20 Nov |
Stephen Monismith |
Stanford University |
If it is Tuesday, it Must be Moorea - Field Studies of Flows on Coral Reefs in 4 of the 7 Seas
Play 20Nov Video |
| 9 Dec |
Qinhong (Max) Hu |
University of Texas at Arlington |
"Contaminant Transport in Unsaturated Fractured Rock: Interacting Imbibition, Diffusion, and Sorption Processes
Play 9Dec Video |
2007 |
| 15 Feb |
Jeff Myers |
NASA |
NASA Airborne Remote Sensing of the Bay Area
Play 15Feb Video |
| 8 Mar |
John Nimmo |
USGS Menlo Park |
A New Method for Simple Prediction of Maximum Transport Rate in Unsaturated Soil and Rock
Play 8Mar Video |
| 5 Apr |
Noah Knowles |
USGS, Menlo Park |
Trends in Snowfall Versus Rainfall in the Western United States
Play 5Apr Video |
| 10 May |
Ken Bencala |
USGS, Menlo Park |
Sampling in Mine Drainage -- Looking for Solute Inflows to Streams with Questions on Hyporheic Mixing
Play 10May Video
|
| 7 Sep |
Hans Paerl |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Ecology and Management of Blue Green Algae
Play 7Sept Video |
|
| 13 Sep |
Paul Hsieh |
USGS, Menlo Park |
A Bi-State Aquifer Study: Modeling the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer in Washington and Idaho
Play 13Sept Video
|
| 4 Oct |
Bridget R. Scanlon |
University of Texas, Austin |
2007 GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture
Impacts of Changing Land Use and Land Cover on Subsurface Water Resources
Play 4Oct Video |
| 15 Oct |
Robert Eganhouse |
USGS, Reston |
‘Old Pollutants Never Die - They Just Fade Away’: The Fate of DDT on the Palos Verdes Shelf
Play 15Oct Video
|
| 1 Nov |
Kate Campbell |
USGS, Menlo Park |
Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization in Haiwee Reservoir Sediments
Play 1Nov Video
|
| 15 Nov |
James Butler |
University of Kansas |
2007 Darcy Lecture
Getting the Information Ground Water Modelers Need: A Report from the Field
|
2006 |
| 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
Play 19Jan Video
|
| 16 Feb |
Sam Luoma |
USGS Menlo Park |
Applications of Modeling Contaminant Biodynamics: Long-term Team Research Works
Play 16Feb Video |
| 20 April |
Hedeff Essaid |
USGS Menlo Park |
Using Temperature Measurements to Estimate Streambed Fluxes in Several Agricultural Watersheds
Play 20Apr Video |
| 11 May |
Scott Wankel |
USGS Menlo Park |
Frontiers in Nitrate Isotopes
Play 11May Video |
| 12 May |
Ron Oremland |
USGS Menlo Park |
The Geomicrobiology and Nanoscience of Arsenic, Selenium, and Tellurium
Play 12May Video |
| 27 Sept |
Chris Magirl |
USGS, Tucson |
Rapids in Bedrock Rivers: Measurements and Modeling of Velocity Distributions
Play 27Sept Video |
| 27 Oct |
Steve Ingebritsen |
USGS Menlo Park |
Ground Water in Geologic Processes
Play 27Oct Video |
| 15 Nov |
James Cloern |
USGS Menlo Park |
A Brief (90min) Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing ** special tutorial **
Play 15Nov Video |
| 30 Nov |
Fred Day-Lewis |
USGS CT |
Using a Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensor to Understand Ground-Water/Surface-Water Interaction
Play 30Nov Video |
| 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
Play 7Dec Video |
2005 |
| 10 Feb |
Claire Tiedeman |
USGS Menlo Park |
Using ground-water model predictions to guide field data collection
Play 10Feb Video |
| 10 Mar |
Douglas Kent |
USGS Menlo Park |
Reactive transport during natural restoration of a waste-water-contaminated aquifer and implications for natural attenuation of zinc, arsenic, and other inorganic contaminants
Play 10Mar Video |
| 5 May |
Fengjing Liu |
University of California, Merced |
Mountain Hydrology: Flowpaths and Mountain-Block Recharge
Play 5May Video |
| 13 May |
Carol Kendall |
USGS Menlo Park |
Tracing causes of hypoxia in riverine ecosystems using isotopic techniques
Play 13May Video
|
| 22 Sept |
David Stonestrom |
USGS Menlo Park |
Assessing Ground-Water Recharge in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions
Play 22Sept Video |
| 28 Oct |
Mark Waldrop |
USGS Menlo Park |
Molecular Approaches to Biogeochemistry: Linking Microbial Community Landscape Patterns to Soil Carbon Fluxes
Play 28Oct Video |
| 15 Dec |
Brian Wagner |
USGS Menlo Park |
Water Management in the Upper Klamath Basin, OR: Historical Perspective and the Role of Optimization
Play 15Dec Video |
2004 |
| 22 Jan |
Avner Vengosh |
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
The water crisis in the Middle East: Examples from on-going research on the Jordan River and Gaza Strip
Play 22Jan Video |
| 26 Feb |
Allen Shapiro |
USGS, Reston VA |
2004 NGWA Darcy Distinguished Lecture
Recent Advances in Characterizing Ground Water Flow and Chemical Transport in Fractured Rock From Cores to Kilometers
Play 26Feb Video |
| 25 Mar |
Randall Hanson |
USGS, San Diego |
Ground water and surface water flow in the Santa Clara Valley
Play 25Mar Video |
| 15 April |
Michelle Walvoord |
USGS, Lakewood, CO |
Hydrologic and ecologic concepts unique to deep unsaturated zones in arid regions
Play 15Apr Video |
| 20 May |
Barbara Bekins |
USGS, Menlo Park |
2004 GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture
The Influence of Hydrogeology on 25 Years of Natural Attenuation at a Crude Oil Spill Site
Play 20May Video |
| 16 Sept |
Jim Constantz and Hedeff Essaid |
USGS, Menlo Park |
Ground Water as the Foundation of Stream Restoration: Dam Removal as a Case Study
Play 16Sept Video |
| 14 Oct |
Jean Moran |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Using Groundwater Age and Low-level VOCs to Assess Contamination Vulnerability in California's Public Drinking Water Wells
Play 14Oct Video |
| 4 Nov |
John D. Coates |
University of California, Berkeley |
Microbial Perchlorate Reduction - Rocket Fueled Metabolism
Play 4Nov Video |
| 2 Dec |
Ralph Cheng |
USGS Menlo Park |
Physics, Measurements, and Numerical Modeling - the Italian Connections
Play 2Dec Video |
2003 |
| July 17 |
Lee
Landkamer |
NRC
Post-doc, USGS, Denver |
Metal
Sorption to Bacteria: Complex Biological Process or Surface Complexation
Phenomena?
Play 17Jul Video |
Sept 4
|
Mike
Dettinger |
BRR/WR, USGS, San Diego |
The
Future of Western Water: What Does Climate Tell Us?
Play 4 Sept Video |
| Sept 18
|
David
Buchwalter |
USGS,
Menlo Park |
Physiology
of Contaminant Accumulation in Aquatic Insects
Play 18Sept Video |
| Sept 26
|
Miranda
Fram |
USGS,
Sacramento |
Kinetics
of THM Formation
Play 26Sept Video |
| Oct 16 |
Steve
Gorelick |
Stanford
Univ. |
Air-injection barriers in saturated porous media:
Physical and chemical behavior in laboratory flow
cells
Play 16Oct Video |
| 13 Nov |
Stuart Rojstaczer |
Duke University |
The
Necessity and Limitations of Predictive Modeling
Play 13Nov Video |
| 5 Dec |
Andrea Foster |
USGS,Menlo Park |
High Arsenic Accumulation in Iron Phases, Eastern Bengladesh
Play 5Dec Video |
