2025 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 2025 series was co-hosted by Professor Li Li at Penn State University, Rebecca Barnes at Belmont Foundation and NSF, Devon Kerins at University College Dublin, and Bryn Stewart at Caltech.
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THE 2025 LECTURE SERIES:
January 16, 2025
Hot Water: Integrated Modeling for Watershed Fire Impacts and in Stream Thermal Habitats
Speakers:
Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwestern National Laboratory
Alison Appling, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
February 20, 2025
Climate, Water, and Society: Unraveling Complex Interactions Through Decision-Relevant Climate Info
Speakers:
Antonia Hadjimichael, Pennsylvania State University
Penelope Mitchell, University of Alabama
March 20, 2025
Navigating Smooth and Choppy Waters: Collaboration Stories and Strategies
Speakers:
Julia Perdrial, University of Vermont
Lixin Jin, University of Texas, El Paso
Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University
April 17, 2025
(Reverse) Water System Justice
Speakers:
J. (Joyeeta) Gupta, University of Amsterdam
Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, Trent University
May 15, 2025
Hydrologic Extremes and Their Impacts on Water Quality
Speakers:
Manuela Brunner, ETH Zurich and SLF Switzerland
Jenny Druhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
June 18, 2025
Key Drivers of Carbon Fluxes in Watersheds: Hydro-biogeochemistry, Weathering, and Extreme Events
Speakers:
Bryn Stewart, Caltech
Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
July 17, 2025
Collaborating Across Disciplines and Methods to Understand Non-perennial Streams
Speakers:
Margaret Zimmer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Amy Burgin, Iowa State University
August 21, 2025
Water and Infectious Diseases
Speakers:
Avriel Diaz, Walking Palms Global Health
Anna Stewart Ibarra, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
September 18, 2025
Dynamic Urban Streams
Speakers:
Beth Herndon, Oak Ridge National Lab
Anne Jefferson, University of Vermont
October 16, 2025
Geomorphic Process Drivers in Unconfined, Alluvial River Corridors at Varying Temporal Scales
Speakers:
Sara Rathburn, Colorado State University
Anna Marshall, University of Tennessee
November 20, 2025
Water Above- and Below-Ground
Speakers:
Holly Barnard, University of Colorado, Boulder
Theresa Blume, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences