2023 Women Advancing River Research Lecture Series
Women Advancing River Research started in February 2021. It is a monthly webinar series with female guest speakers from around the world. It was originally co-hosted and co-organized by Professor Li Li at Penn State University and Professor Ellen Wohl at Colorado State University. The 2023 series was co-hosted by Professor Li Li at Penn State University and Rebecca Barnes at Belmont Foundation and NSF.
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THE 2023 LECTURE SERIES:
January 26, 2023
Rivers without Biology
Speakers:
Annegret Larsen, Wageningen University
Janine Castro, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
February 16, 2023
Disturbed Rivers and their Recovery
Speakers:
Sarah Schanz, Colorado College
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University
March 16, 2023
River Networks as Bioreactors from the Mediterranean to the Poles
Speakers:
Arial Shogren, University of Alabama
Susana Bernal, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
April 20, 2023
Urban Stream Flow and Quality Across Scales: The Importance of Infrastructure
Speakers:
Aditi Bhaskar, University of Colorado, Boulder
Sarah Ledford, Georgia State University
May 18, 2023
Connecting River Patterns with Watershed and Landscape Processes
Speakers:
Julia Perdrial, University of Vermont
Diana Karwan, University of Minnesota
June 15, 2023
Large- and Small-Scale Controls on Sediment Transport Processes
Speakers:
Rebecca Hodge, Durham University
Desiree Tullos, Oregon State University
July 20, 2023
Climate Change, Water Quality, and the Future of Our Rivers
Speakers:
Erin Seybold, Kansas Geological Survey at University of Kansas
Nandita Basu, University of Waterloo
August 17, 2023
Hydrological Data Synthesis to Understand Streamflows
Speakers:
Kendra Kaiser, Boise State University
Hilary McMillan, San Diego State University
September 21, 2023
Confronting the Ghosts of Nutrients Past, Present and Future in Water Quality Management
Speakers:
Kim Van Meter, Pennsylvania State University
Jana Compton, Environmental Protection Agency
October 19, 2023
Beavers: The Original Log Transformation
Speakers:
Emily Fairfax, University of Minnesota
Cherie Westbrook, University of Saskatchewan
November 16, 2023
Water Quality Across Watersheds in the U.S. and Australia
Speakers:
Danlu Guo, Australian National University
Charuleka Varadharajan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory