2025 Women Advancing River Research Seminar Series
All seminars will be presented online live at 11:00 a.m. ET on the third Thursday of each month. Seminar recordings will be posted later. Please register in advance for all talks.
Co-hosts: Co-hosts: Li Li, Penn State (Li Reactive Water Group; @LiReactiveWater.bsky.social); Rebecca Barnes (@waterbarnes.bsky.social); Bryn Stewart, Caltech; Devon Kerins, University College Dublin
January 16
Hot water: Integrated modeling for watershed fire impacts and in stream thermal habitats
Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwestern National Laboratory, U.S.
Alison Appling, U.S. Geological Survey
February 20
Climate, Water, and Society: Unraveling Complex Interactions Through Decision-Relevant Climate Information
Antonia Hadjimichael, Penn State, U.S.
Penelope Mitchell, University of Alabama, U.S.
March 20
Navigating smooth and choppy waters: collaboration stories and strategies
Julia Perdrial, University of Vermont, U.S.
Lixin Jin, University of Texas, El Paso, U.S.
Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University, U.S.
April 17
(Reverse) Water System Justice
J. (Joyeeta) Gupta, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, Trent University, Canada
May 15
Hydrologic extremes and their impacts on water quality
Manuela Brunner, ETH Zurich and SLF, Switzerland
Jenny Druhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U.S.
June 18
Key Drivers of Carbon Fluxes in Watersheds: Hydro-biogeochemistry, Weathering, and Extreme Events
Bryn Stewart, Caltech, U.S.
Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, U.S.
July 17
Collaborating across disciplines and methods to understand non-perennial streams
Margaret Zimmer, U Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.
Amy Burgin, Iowa State University, U.S.
August 21
Water and infectious diseases
Avriel Diaz, Walking Palms Global Health, U.S.
Anna Stewart Ibarra, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
September 18
Dynamic urban streams
Beth Herndon, Oak Ridge National Lab, U.S.
Anne Jefferson, University of Vermont, U.S.
October 16
Geomorphic process drivers in unconfined, alluvial river corridors at varying temporal scales
Sara Rathburn, Colorado State University, U.S.
Anna Marshall, University of Tennessee, U.S.
November 20
Water above- and below-ground
Holly Barnard, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.
Theresa Blume, GFZ, Germany
WARR Gatherings
The American Geophysical Union 2024
The American Geophysical Union 2023
