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Fall 2007 Water Resources Seminar Series

Fall 2007 Downloads

2007_SeminarPoster.pdf

Fall_2007_Syllabus.pdf

This year's theme is: Revisiting Restoration, Reconstruction, and Renaturalization of Engineered Landscapes: Technical, Political, Legal and Natural Resistance.

The seminars are held Wednesdays, 4-5:30 pm, Room 102, Owen Hall. They are open to the public and students can sign up for course credit (Register for CE 407/507 or WRP 507).

New! Seminars are now available via streaming! Click on the links below to view past presentations.

If you have questions, please contact Todd Jarvis for more information.

Schedule:

Sept. 26 – No Lecture, Orientation for Students enrolled for Credit

Oct. 3 – Robert Elofson & LaTrisha Suggs, Lower Elwaha Tribal Council, River Restoration Directors Office, The Ongoing Elwha River Restoration in Washington. To download this presentation as a video file, click here: http://media.oregonstate.edu/ramgen/water/waterresources_20071003.rm

Oct. 10 – Daniel McCool, Professor, Political Science, Univ. of Utah, The River Commons: An Alternative Future for America's Rivers

Oct. 17 – William Woessner, Professor, Geology, Univ. of Montana, Pre and Post Restoration Groundwater Response: Elevating Floodplain Ground Water in a Semi-Arid Valley River, Western Montana

Oct. 24 –  Joe Bowersox, Assoc. Professor, Political Science, Willamette University, The Politics of Restoring an Urban Watershed in Oregon

Oct. 31 – Desiree Tullos, Asst. Professor, Biological & Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, The Science and Practice of River Restoration: Ghosts of Rivers Past, Present, and Future

Nov. 7 –  Gabriel Eckstein, Law Professor, Texas Tech University, Blind Salamanders, Underground Streams, and the Law: The Story of the Edwards Aquifer in Texas

Nov. 14 – Janine Castro, Ph.D., U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, River Restoration Education and Training in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond

Nov. 21 –  No Lecture, Thanksgiving Break

Nov. 28 - Timothy H. Robinson, Ph.D., Sr. Resources Scientist, Cachuma Conservation Release Board, Southern Steelhead Recovery, Is that Possible in Southern California?, A Case Study from the Santa Ynez River