SEEwater
Schedule of Events
SEEwater 2013
A Science and Engineering Exposition on Water
Presented by
California State University Sacramento
USGS California Water Science Center
USGS Western Ecological Research Center
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sacramento State University Union
Sacramento, California
#SEEwater2013 @SacState
Planned List of SEEwater 2013 Events
Full program and detailed schedules to be announced.
• Scientific Poster Displays
• Exhibits from federal and state government agencies and non-profit organizations
• Science demonstrations from USGS and Sac State water scientists
• Career fair panel for Sac State students
• Water science documentary films
• Sac State lecture on the California Environmental Legacy Project – a PBS documentary film series in production
• USGS lecture on “What Californians Need to Know About Climate Change: The Future of Water Supply, Flood Risk and Sea Level Rise”
Advance Events: Ecology-Geology Colloquium Campus Lecture Series
The Sac State Ecology-Geology Colloquium for the Spring 2013 semester will feature water-related talks leading up to the SEEwater expo in April. These weekly lectures connect students with leading researchers from the Sacramento region, and discuss critical research and policy questions surrounding our natural resources. Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. in Mendocino Hall 1015.
• Feb. 5: Restoring the wild heart of South San Francisco Bay: the South Bay salt pond restoration project (Laura Valoppi, USGS)
• Feb. 12: The good, the bad, and the muddy: sediment transport and South Bay salt pond restoration (Greg Shellenbarger, USGS)
• Feb. 19: Legacy mercury contamination and contemporary ecosystem perturbation: An Etch-A-Sketch moment for the South Bay salt pond restoration project (Mark Marvin-DiPasquale, USGS)
• Feb. 26 Status and conservation of California's native fishes in the era of rapid climate change (Peter Moyle, UC Davis)
• Mar. 5: Why the big stink over the Salton Sea: Its history, problems, and solutions (Doug Barnum, USGS)
• Mar. 12: Ecology at the aquatic-terrestrial interface in California vernal pools (Jamie Kneitel, Sacramento State)
• Mar. 19: Hydrologic modeling of conjunctive use of ground water and surface water subject to climate change (Randy Hanson, USGS)
• Apr. 2: How much change can we handle? Vulnerability of a managed national wildlife refuge to changes in water availability as a result of climate change (Rachel Esralew, USFWS, LCC) • Apr. 9: Tahoe: The state of the lake in the 21st Century (Geoff Schladow, UC Davis)
• Apr. 16: Occurrence and fate of current-use pesticides in aquatic environments (Michelle Hladik, USGS)
