Jan 15  Introduction to the seminar class and Dr. Hongjie Xie’s recent research activities,   

              results, and opportunities

 

Jan 22  Dr. Paul Marinos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

             2010 Jahns Distinguished Lecture (pdf), “Tunneling through karstic rocks—How engineering geology needs hydrogeologic input and logic”

 

Jan 29  Dr. Jim Blackburn, Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering

             Sustainable development and environmental law, “Measuring sustainability: project Houston”

 

Feb 5    Dr. Mary J. Kirisits, UT Austin Department of Civil Engineering

             Aquatic ecosystems, bacteria, and pathogens, “The effect of roof material on the quality of harvested rainwater”

 

Feb 12  Dr. Judy Haschenburger, UTSA Department of geological Sciences

             Sediment transports in rivers, channel-floodplain interactions, “Three-dimensional dispersion of river gravels”

 

Feb 19  Dr. Pamela Showalter, Texas State University-San Marcos, Geography 

              Natural Hazards and Environmental Management, “Findings from the International Flash Flood Laboratory's (IFFL) inaugural workshop”

 

Feb 26  Dr. Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Center, U of Colorado

              Sea Ice and Climate Change, “Observing an Arctic in transition: Changes in the Arctic cryosphere and impacts on climate, ecosystems, and people”

 

Mar 5   Dr. Ginny Catania, UT Austin Institute for Geophysics 

              Ice Sheet and Glacier Change, Climate Change, “Understanding the impact of surface melt on ice flow in Greenland: the kitchen sink approach”

 

Mar 12  Dr. Bayani Cardenas, UT Austin Department of Geological Sciences 

              Groundwater-surface water interactions, "Groundwater-surface water interactions in 'natural' and regular rivers"

 

Mar 19  Spring break, no seminar

 

Mar 26  Dr. Carton Ho, U Massachusetts, Amherst 

              Geotechnical Engineering, “Evaluation of the effluent from compost used for sedimentation control”

 

Apr 2    Dr. John Bolten, NASA GSFC Hydrological Sciences Branch

              Remote sensing of surface hydrology, “Evaluation and application of remote sensing products for improved water resourcer management”

 

Apr 9    Dr. Andrew Klein, Texas A&M U, Geography

              Cryosphere study using remote sensing and GIS, “From the tropics to the pole-mapping of snow and glaciers from satellite”

 

Apr 16  Dr. Alex Sun, Southwest Research Institute

              Groundwater hydrology and modeling, “Uncertainty quantification and parameter estimation in subsurface hydrology”

 

Apr 23  Dr. Hong Yang, U of Oklahoma, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences

              Precipitation and hydrometeorology, “Satellite precipitation retrieval and applications for surface hydrology at global and regional scales”