Guest Lecturer Database
Using the guest lecture database, you can search for a guest lecturer for your classroom! Filter by “Intended Audience” to find a lecture best suited for your course level. Clicking the name of the educator will reveal their contact information. Please be respectful when reaching out to colleagues.
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Melinda Erickson
U.S. Geological Survey
Lecture Topic: Drinking water aquifers: Groundwater contaminants from below and above
Key Terms: Arsenic, Manganese, Nitrate, Chloride
Intended Audience: Upper level/ Grad eg. Catchment Science
Mesenbet Yibeltal Sebaht
Senior lecturer and researcher
Lecture Topic: Surface Hydrology, Groundwater Hydrology, Watershed Hydrology, Water balance
Key Terms: Water balance, infilitration, unsaturaed groundwater zone
Intended Audience: General audience/ GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science
Michael Tso
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Lecture Topic: Hydrogeophysics, Intro to environmental data science & R Shiny, Aquifer characterization/ parameter estimation
Nasrin Fathollahzadeh Attar
PhD of water resources engineering, faculty of agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, IRAN
Lecture Topic: Hydrology and time series (10.3390/app10020571), Machine learning techniques in water resources engineering (10.1016/j.compag.2018.08.029), Hydraulics
Nate Jones
University of Alabama
Lecture Topic: Wetland and wetlandscape hydrology, River floodplain connectivity
Intended Audience: General audience/ GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science
Nicholas John Stanislaus Kinar
University of Saskatchewan
Lecture Topic: Measurement and Monitoring of Environmental Phenomena for Water Resources: Electronics, Systems Science, Teaching and Innovation
Key Terms: electronics; measurement systems; environmental monitoring
Intended Audience: General audience/ GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science
Nick Wildman, CERP
Massachusetts Division Of Ecological Restoration
Lecture Topic: 1) Restoring riverine ecological processes through dam removal in post-industrial New England. 2) Economic benefits from ecological restoration in Massachusetts, USA. 3) Practical elements of ecological restoration for Project Managers
Key Terms: restoration, monitoring, community, resilience, climate change
Intended Audience: Other
Niko Wanders
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Lecture Topic: Seasonal forecasting of drought (doi:10.1175/JHM-D-18-0040.1), High-resolution water temperature modelling (doi:10.1029/2018WR023250), Global hydrological modelling of drought in general