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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Upper level/ Grad eg. Catchment Science
Adnan Rajib
Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Lecture Topic: Developing a map of floodplain alterations across the world’s major river basins
Key Terms: flood; floodplain; land use change
Intended Audience: Upper level/ Grad eg. Catchment Science
Behzad Ghanbarian
Geology Department, Kansas State University
Lecture Topic: Scale and its effect on flow in porous media
Key Terms: Scale-dependent permeability, Finite-size scaling analysis, Pore-scale simulations, Pore-scale heterogeneity
Intended Audience: Upper level/ Grad eg. Catchment Science
Jakob F Steiner
ICIMOD (International Center for Mountain Development)/Utrecht University
Lecture Topic: high mountain catchment hydrology, with links to the cryosphere; set up of field monitoring in challenging environments (Himalaya, Greenland); natural hazards in high mountain environments
Key Terms: Cryosphere, Energy balance model, debris-covered glaciers
Intended Audience: Upper level/ Grad eg. Catchment Science
Jerad Bales
CUAHSI
Lecture Topic: CUAHSI Tools for Discovering and Managing Data, Climate warming and water resources--what do we know?
Intended Audience: General audience/ GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science, Intro level undergrad eg. Intro to Hydrology, Upper level/ Grad eg. Catchment Science
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