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