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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Nils Moosdorf
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research
Lecture Topic: Groundwater ocean interaction
Key Terms: Submarine groundwater discharge
Intended Audience: General audience/ GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science
Penny Beames
McGill University
Lecture Topic: Damming the world's rivers: 100 years of trends and impacts
Raymond Slade
Certified Professional Hydrologist & Adjunct Professor
Lecture Topic: Use of dye to trace water movement , Hydrologic extremes in Central Texas: catastrophic floods and severe droughts, Storm rainfall statistics
Razi Sheikholeslami
University of Oxford
Lecture Topic: Uncertainty, Complexity and Hydrologic Modelling, How Hydrologists Deal with Uncertainty in Practice, The Role of Positive Feedback Loops in Environmental Systems Models
Rebecca Barnes
Colorado College
Lecture Topic: Disturbance and watershed carbon dynamics (10.1021/acs.est.7b04717), Nitrogen in Freshwater Tidal Zones (10.1029/2019JG005164), Importance of Role Models & Mentoring to Broadening Participation
Robia Shaheen
University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Lecture Topic: Water Scarcity Impacts and Challenges of Water Governance in the world with special reference to Pakistan
Intended Audience: Other
Sabina Khatri
Government of Nepal-Ministry of Water Resources
Lecture Topic: Sustainable Groundwater Usage in plains or in the mountains and Real-field practice
Sam Prentice
USDA Forest Service
Lecture Topic: Applied watershed science and management in National Forests - can tailor topics / format to meet audience
Key Terms: Watershed science, postfire, Q&A
Intended Audience: Other
Sam Zipper
Kansas Geological Survey
Lecture Topic: How and why does groundwater pumping affect streamflow?, Why you should get a job at your state geological survey (better for more of a discussion format than lecture), Corn, Cannabis, and… Kansas? Groundwater’s role in landscape-scale water and ecosystem sustainability (Covers ~3-4 different papers)
Sanjib Sharma
Pennsylvania State University
Lecture Topic: Improving flood hazards estimation and communication to inform decision-making
Key Terms: Hydrology, meteorology, climatology, uncertainty quantification, decision science
Intended Audience: Other