2024 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: Li Li, Penn State (@LiReactiveWater), Rebecca Barnes, Belmont Forum & U.S. National Science Foundation (@waterbarnes)
January 18, 2024
State of the Art and New Developments in Drought Research
Lena M. Tallaksen, University of Oslo, Norway
Anne van Loon, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 15, 2024
Fire and Water
Sheila Murphy, USGS
Gabrielle Boisrame, Desert Research Institute (U.S.)
March 21, 2024
Integrating Hydrologic Modeling and Field Data with Local Knowledge Holders
Kendra Kaiser, Boise State University (U.S.)
Gene-Hua Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (U.S.)
April 18, 2024
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Inland Waters: Reach Through Global Scale
Amanda G. DelVecchia, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (U.S.)
Taylor Maavara, University of Leeds, (United Kingdom)
May 16, 2024
Catalyzing Change in the Geosciences
Rebecca Barnes, Belmont Forum (U.S.)
Rocío Paola Caballero-Gill, George Mason University (U.S)
June 20, 2024
Unravelling Water Pathways and Their Impact on Water Quality Dynamics
Julia L. A. Knapp, Durham University (United Kingdom)
Catalina Segura, Oregon State University (U.S.)
July 18, 2024
Landscape Disturbance and River Water Quality: Long- and Short-Term Impacts
Christa Kelleher, Lafayette College (U.S.)
Heather Golden, Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)
August 15, 2024
Salty Waters: Understanding De-icer Dynamics and Impacts from Source to Stream
Lauren McPhillips, Penn State (U.S.)
Claire Oswald, Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada)
September 19, 2024
Braided and Meandering: Making a Career in Water and Rivers Outside Academia
Kate Brauman, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (U.S.)Michele Thieme, World Wildlife Fund (U.S.)
Ingrid Timboe, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (U.S.)
October 17, 2024
Non-Perennial Streams Over Space and Time
Julianne Scamardo, University of Vermont (U.S.)
Sarah Godsey, Idaho State University (U.S.)
November 21, 2024
Energy Fluxes in Streams and Rivers
Joanna Blaszczak, University of Nevada, Reno (U.S.)
Erin Hotchkiss, Virginia Tech (U.S.)