The Rio Grande Seminar

 

Fall Semester, 2006

Tuesdays, 12:30 pm

 

A multi-disciplinary seminar covering physical, social, and legal issues associated with the Rio Grande.

 

Initial Location:  EECE 310

(Depending on the expected audience, the location will change for individual seminars.)

Confirmed speakers are listed below.  This list will be updated with additional speakers and the titles of the presentations.

 

1.                  August 22

Julie Coonrod, UNM Civil Engineering

An introduction to the Middle Rio Grande and the Urban Flood Demonstration Program

2.                  August 29

James Cleverly, UNM Biology

Evapotranspiration: long-term studies of ecohydrology and biometeorology along the Middle Rio Grande

3.                  September 5

Dianne McDonnell, UNM and ReSpec

Scaling Riparian Evapotranspiration to Canopies along the Middle Rio Grande Corridor in Central New Mexico

4.                  September 12

Aaron Byrd, ERDC

A system-wide approach to watershed management

5.                  September 19

Rolf Schmidt-Peterson, ISC

River System Overview and Role of ISC

6.                  September 26

Paul Tashjian, USF&WS

Physical Habitat of the Middle Rio Grande (historic vs. current)

7.                  October 3

Nabil Shafike, ISC

Modeling Framework for the Middle Rio Grande Basin

8.                  October 10

Mike Harvey, Mussetter Engineering, Inc.

Alluvial Bar Morphology and Dynamics in the Middle Rio Grande: Application to Habitat Restoration for the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow

9.                  October 17

Susan Kelly, UNM Utton Center

Legal / Transboundary Issues

10.              October 24

Stuart Bunn, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Making the connection between healthy waterways and healthy catchments, Southeast Queensland, Australia

Please note the Fall 2006 UNM Water Forum  will meet in the

Student Union Building (Lobo A & B) on October 31.

11.              October 31

Water Forum at SUB

(April Sanders , COE will be speaking.  Dan Scurlock will not be speaking.)

Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program

12.              November 7

Fred Phillips, NMT

Salt of the Earth:

Salinization of the Rio Grande

13.              November 14

Brief student presentations

Graduate Research Topic

14.              November 21

Scott Collins, Sevilleta LTER

Sevilleta LTER:

 Presses and pulses in aridland ecosystems

15.              November 28

Janie Chermak, UNM Economics

Economics & Water in the Middle Rio Grande

16.              December 5

Jesse Roberts, SNL

Sediment Transport Modeling in the Albuquerque Reach

17.              December 12

Finals week

 

 

 

The offering of this seminar was spurred by our participation in the Urban Flood Demonstration Program with the Corps of Engineers. 

This semester the seminar is offered as CE 491C 004 and BIOL 502Z 004.

 

(If you are a Civil Engineering graduate student and taking this seminar to fulfill the Graduate Seminar requirement, you must sign in at each session.  If you are unable to attend a session, you will need to attend another relevant seminar (on or off campus) and provide a one page summary of the seminar you attend.

 

 

This seminar is organized by Julie Coonrod.  Please send questions or comment to jcoonrod@unm.edu.