Center for Urban Environmental Research & Education Seminars

Seminars are held on Fridays at 2 PM in the Technology Research Center, Room 206, and are free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Visitor parking passes for the TRC lot may be purchased for $4.00 in the CUERE office in TRC 102/105 shortly before seminar.

January 30, 2015
Matthew Lambert
US EPA
"Bioavailability and Risk Management Decisions at Superfund Sites"

February 6, 2015
Dr. Krissy Hopkins
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
University of Maryland
"From small watersheds to regions: Variation in hydrologic response to urbanization"

February 13, 2015
Dr. Neda Yaghoobian
"Building energy use and urban microclimate"

February 20, 2015   11 AM (Note time change)
Alimatou Seck
UMBC
Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering
"A fully distributed integrated hydrologic model for quantifying groundwater dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed"

February 27, 2015
Dr. Allen Place
Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences
"Hydraulics and barley straw (Hordeum vulgare) as effective treatment options for a cyanotoxin-impacted lake"

March 6, 2015
Dr. Chris Hennigan
UMBC
Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering
"Sources and Processes Affecting Particulate Matter in Denver, CO during DISCOVER-AQ"

March 13, 2015
Anna L. Johnson
UMBC, Dept of Geography and Environmental Systems
"The ecology of urban vacant lands: human-mediated local versus regional control on plant community assembly"

March 20, 2015
Spring break, no seminar


March 27, 2015
Dr. Miranda Mockrin
USDA Forest Service 
"Living in the wildland urban interface: growth of the WUI and policy response"

April 3, 2015
Dr. Lea Johnson
University of Maryland College Park

April 10, 2015
Zhengtao Cui
UMBC
Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering
"Development and application of a particle-tracking model for nitrogen transport and transformation in aquifers"

April 17, 2015
Dr. Stephanie Lansing
Environmental Science and Technology
UMD College Park

April 24, 2015
Dr. Cynthia Gilmour
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

May 1, 2015
Dr. John M. Sharp, Jr. 
NSF and University of Texas

May 8, 2015
TBA

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