Water Insights is an interdisciplinary seminar series on water science, water management, and water policy sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science (SAFES). Speakers include researchers, water managers, and water policy makers from Penn State, other universities, government agencies and non-governmental organizations.
The series engages the University and broader community in collaborative learning and discussion about critical water challenges from local to global scales.
All seminars are scheduled for Tuesdays from 12:00 - 1:00 pm and will be held via Zoom. Zoom room open from 11:30 for setup and log-in. Meetings (video, audio, and chat) will be recorded. No waiting room, and no passcode. Participants will be muted automatically upon entry.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://tinyurl.com/SP21WaterInsights
Spring 2021
| February 16 |  |
Dave Swisher |
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February 23 |
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Andy Cole |
| March 2 |
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Karen Fisher-Vanden Matt Royer Current and Future Water Activities in SAFES: how can SAFES help catalyze coordinated research in water? |
| March 9 |  |
Nathaniel Warner Can freshwater mussels monitor water quality? |
| March 16 |  |
Li Li The shallow and deep hypothesis: linking flow paths, biogeochemical reactions, and stream chemistry in the Critical Zone |
| March 23 |
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Paul Heinemann Scott Richardson David Stensrud
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| March 30 |  |
Michael Shreve Wastewater-based epidemiology and Covid-19 surveillance at Penn State |
| April 6 |  |
Ming Xiao
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| April 13 |  |
Alan Rotz
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| April 20 |  |
Emily Pakhtigian Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy Water use tradeoffs along development trajectories: Applications of hydro-economic modeling in international river basins Hosted by Danny Brent |
| April 27 |  |
Jenn Fetter
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| May 4 |  |
Jim Shortle Agriculture and Water Quality: Better Results Require Better Policy |
Fall 2020
Tuesday, September 22
Gerrad Jones, Oregon State University
Opening Pandora's box: machine learning applications for chemical forensics and non-target chemical analyses
Hosted by Heather Preisendanz
Tuesday, September 29
Tyler Groh
Nutrient Removal in Riparian Buffers: My Research Journey from Iowa to Pennsylvania
Hosted by Beth Boyer
Tuesday, October 27
Patrick Drohan
Ideas on a path for food production and society in the shadow of “big problems"
Hosted by Jon Duncan
Tuesday, November 3
Hongxing Liu, Lafayette College
Best Management Practices and Nutrient Reduction: An Integrated Economic-Hydrological Model of the Western Lake Erie Basin
Hosted by Danny Brent
Tuesday, November 10
Rob Brooks, Professor Emeritus Geography
Applying monitoring and assessment tools at multiple spatial and time scales on wetlands enforcement cases, with reflections on pending changes to the Clean Water Act
Hosted by Jim Shortle
Tuesday, November 17
John Tooker
Integrated Pest Management as a solution to a water quality challenge from neonicotinoid insecticides
Hosted by Jim Shortle
Tuesday, December 1
Michael Mashtare
Toilet to Field: Addressing Perceptions in the Age of Misinformation
Hosted by Cibin Raj
Tuesday, December 8
Herschel A. Elliott
Biosolids Land Application: Putting Risk in Perspective
Hosted by Jim Shortle
Spring 2020
Tuesday, January 21
Alfonso Mejia
The Multilayer Network Structure of Virtual Water Flows in the United States
Recording of Mejia Webinar- start at 1:00
Note: there is no sound in this recording
Tuesday, January 28
Heather Preisendanz
Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Environment: Understanding Occurrence, Risk, and Mitigation Strategies
Recording of Preisendanz Webinar - start at 1:30
Tuesday, February 4
Jeffrey Chanat
Exploring drivers of regional water-quality change using differential spatially referenced regression
Recording of Chanat Webinar - start at 3:18
Tuesday, February 11
Andrew Warner
What is Penn State Water?
Recording of Warner Webinar - start at 6:22
Tuesday, February 18
Rob Brooks & Tamie Veith
Riparian Forest Buffers of the Susquehanna-Chesapeake Watershed: Observations, Assessments, and Recommendations
Recording of Brooks & Veith Webinar - start at 4:13
Tuesday, February 25
Ben Hayes
Landscape Memory: The Legacy of Logging on Pennsylvania Streams and Implications for Adaptive Restoration Approaches
Recording of Hayes Webinar - start at 1:00
Fall 2019
Tuesday, September 10
Aine Anderson
No recording available
Tuesday, September 17
Brian Swistock
Regulatory and Management Challenges for Household Drinking Water Wells and Springs in Pennsylvania
Recording of Swistock Webinar - start at 11:15
Tuesday, October 1
Jason Kaye
Water Insights from the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory
Recording of Kaye Webinar - start at 9:13
Tuesday, October 8
Christopher Scott
Sustaining groundwater irrigation in breadbasket regions: A water-energy-food nexus diagnostic assessment
Recording of Scott Webinar - start at 0:42
Tuesday, October 15
Tyler Wagner
Putting together the pieces of the puzzle: contaminants, pathogens, and smallmouth bass population dynamics in the Susquehanna River Basin
Recording of Wagner Webinar - start at 4:30
Tuesday, October 22
Mumbi Kimani
City of Cape Town's Water Crisis: Perspectives from Recent Drought
Recording of Kimani Webinar - start at 0:35
Tuesday, October 29
Casey Wichman
Water Affordability in the United States
Recording of Wichman Webinar - 0:41
Tuesday, November 5
Matt Royer
Moving from Planning to Implementation in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Pennsylvania's Phase 3 WIP and the Role of Community Watershed Engagement
Tuesday, November 12
Lisa Wainger
Evaluating the efficiency of water body restoration: Evidence from the Chesapeake Bay
Recording of Wainger Webinar - start at 0:40
Tuesday, November 19
Gopal Bhatt
Water quality impacts of land use and climate change in Chesapeake Bay TMDL Mid-Point Assessment
Recording of Bhatt Webinar - start at 3:41
Tuesday, December 3
Odette Mina
The Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories: Capabilities and Collaboration Opportunities
Tuesday, December 10
Allison Lassiter
Drinking Water Vulnerability and Rising Seas: The Case of Philadelphia
Recording of Lassiter Webinar - start at 8:00
Spring 2019
Tuesday, March 19
Matthew Ehrhart
Soil Health Related Research and Practice Implementation at Stroud Water Research Center
Recording of Ehrhart Webinar- start at 42:00
Tuesday, March 26
Shirley Clark
Playing the Hand We're Dealt: Understanding the Effects of Historical Urban Development while Seeking Opportunities to Reduce the Impact of Flood Events
Recording of Clark Webinar - start at 12:00
Tuesday, April 2
Raymond Najjar
Carbon biogeochemistry of Chesapeake Bay
Recording of Najjar Webinar - start at 0:25
Tuesday, April 9
Kathryn Braiser, Walter Whitmer, and Weston Eaton
Water for Agriculture: Creating an Engaged Approach to Water For & From Agriculture
Recording of Braiser, Whitmer, and Eaton Webinar - start at 1:05
Tuesday, April 16
Meng Wang
Intensification of Wastewater Treatment for Nutrient Removal and Resource Recovery
Tuesday, April 23
Larry Fennessy
An Overview of Penn State's Stormwater Facilities, Permits, and Water Resource Data Collection and Management Efforts
Recording of Fennessy Webinar - start at 1:40
Fall 2018
Tuesday, October 9
Charlie White
Crediting Soil Organic Matter and Cover Crops in a Variable
Rate Nitrogen Prescription*
*Note, this presentation was not recorded
Charlie White presentation slides
Accompanying Paper
Tuesday, October 16
Dave DeWalle
Water Quality of Springs and Streams in the Rapidly
Urbanizing Spring Creek Watershed in Central Pennsylvania
Tuesday, October 23
Aaron Cook
Dynamic management of nutrient pollution in aquatic
environments: Does Chesapeake Bay need a time-varying policy?
Friday, October 26
Jack Watson
Drinking our Medicines? Fate and Transport of Emerging Contaminants at Penn State's Living Filter
Friday, November 2
Lidiia Iavorivska
Mitigating eutrophication in the Great Lakes through
stakeholder-driven hydrologic modeling.
Recording of Iavorivska Webinar
Friday, November 9
Daniel Brent
Who signs up for free raingardens? Distributional effects of
green infrastructure subsidies.
Friday, November 16
Lauren McPhillips
Sustainable and resilient management of stormwater in
urban landscapes.
Spring 2018
All Seminars begin at 12:00 PM and all are held in 102 Forest Resources Building
January 23
Matt Royer, Director, Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center
Pennsylvania & the Chesapeake Bay: Emerging Policy and Practice Innovations to Improve Water Quality
January 30
Lara Fowler, Sr. Lecturer, Penn State Law; Assistant Director for Outreach and Engagement, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment
What is "water law" and why should scientists care?
February 6
Chaopeng Shen, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Penn State
Near-authentic long-term reconstruction of global soil moisture using deep learning: impacts on your research?
February 13
Sarah Goslee, Ecologist, USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit
Blue and Green: Modeling rain-fed and irrigated agriculture on the landscape
February 20
Kate Zipp, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Resource Economics, Penn State
Optimal spatial-dynamic management policies to minimize the damages cased by aquatic invasive species
February 27
Mike Nassry, Assistant Research Professor, Geography, Penn State
Climate Change impacts on Wetland Hydrology
March 13
Caitlin Grady, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Penn State
Bridging disciplines to explore the water food energy nexus
March 20
Melinda Daniels, Associate Research Scientist, Stroud Water Research Center
Multi-Strategy Whole Watershed Restoration for Ecological and Human Resiliency
March 27
Tom Richard, Directory, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Profiting More by Farming Less? A New Paradigm for Chesapeake Water Quality
April 3
Doug Wrenn, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Resource Economics, Penn State
Price-Based Policies for Managing Residential Development and Impacts on Water Quality
April 17
Pete Kleinman, Soil Scientist, USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit
Haven't we figured that out yet? Reflections on persistent issues in agricultural phosphorus management.
Fall 2017
September 26
Donnacha Doody, Programme Leader for Catchment Science Research
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland
Optimizing Phosphorus Management for the Delivery of Catchment Ecosystem Services.
Related papers: Optimizing land use for the delivery of catchment ecosystem services; and Guiding phosphorus stewardship for multiple ecosystem services
October 3
Tony Buda, Research Hydrologist
USDA-ARS
Hydrological Connectivity and Nutrient Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. (Previously recorded at Cornell University)
October 10
Stephanie Velegol, Senior Lecturer
Penn State Chemical Engineering
Modeling the Removal of Pathogens from a Moringa-coated Sand Filter.
October 17
Alfonso Mejia, Assistant Professor
Penn State Civil and Environmental Engineering
A network approach to the U.S. food-energy-water nexus: Role of cities in the U.S. virtual water network of commodity flows.
October 24
Tamie Veith, Agricultural Engineer
USDA-ARS
October 31
Cibin Raj, Assistant Professor
Penn State Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Watershed scale analysis to develop strategies for environmentally sustainable planning.
November 7
Rachel Brennan, Associate Professor
Penn State Environmental Engineering
Food, Energy, and Water for 11 Billion People by the End of the 21st Century: How Will We Do it?
November 14
Li Li, Associate Professor
Penn State Civil and Environmental Engineering
Watershed Hydrobiogeochemical modeling for Water Quality forecasting.
November 28
Klaus Keller, Professor
Penn State Geosciences
Managing Flood Risks in the Anthopocene: From Basic Science to Decision Making (and Back)
