Water Seminar
Series
Fridays, 11:40 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
Sept. 7. – Nov. 16, 2007
Love Auditorium, LSRC
Please join us for a series of eight seminars on science, policy, and technology related to domestic and international water resources management, featuring lectures by some of the world’s leading experts in the field. The seminars are free and open to all researchers, students, water resource managers, policy makers and other interested individuals. Refreshments will be provided.
(click here for a downloadable .pdf)
For more information, contact: Avner Vengosh at (919)
681-8050 or vengosh@duke.edu.
SEMINAR SCHEDULE
(All seminars will be held in the LSRC Building, in the
Love Auditorium, from 11:40 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
Sept. 7 – "Understanding the History, Fate, and Future of Nitrogen Contamination in Ground water”, by John Karl Böhlke, US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia;
Sept. 14 – “Recent Trends in Terrestrial Water Storage from the GRACE Mission,” by Jay Famiglietti, Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California;
Sept. 21 – “Bringing Parties together: Water in the Middle East Peace Process” by Charles Lawson, US State Department, Washington, DC;
Sept. 28 – “Multi-Level Governance and the Management of Water Resources,” by Bill Blomquist, Department of Political Sciences, Indiana University, Indianapolis;
Oct. 12 – “Biogeochemical Issues in a Stratified Lake: Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) Israel as a Model,” by Ami Nishri, Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel;
Nov. 2 – “Scenarios for Improving Water Management in the Bi-National Rio Grande Basin” by Daene C. McKinney, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas;
Nov. 9 – “Meeting the New Drinking Water Standard for Arsenic: Occurrence, Implications, and New Technological Solutions for Treatment” by Malcolm Siegel, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico;
Nov. 16 – “Great Salt Lake, Utah: Mercury Methylation Factory or Hemispheric Bird Habitat?” by David Naftz, US Geological Survey, Salt lake, Utah.
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