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Environmental Hydrology & Hydraulic Engineering Seminar

Spring 2005 Schedule

1518 Hydrosystems Laboratory, 4:00-4:50 pm

Past schedules:   Spring 2003     Fall 2003     Fall 2004

January 19

No Seminar

 

January 26

Flow Through Trapezoidal Channels with Rigid Cylinders

Gregory V. Wilkerson, Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming, Dept. Civil and Arch. Engr.   

January 28

4:00 PM

Room 228 Nat Hist Bldg

Effect of Post-glacial SeaLevel Rise on Large Rivers

Gary Parker, University of Minnesota

Incoming UIUC Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and W. H. Johnson Professor of Geology

Geology/CEE Joint Colloquium—Note different date/time/location

February 02

Effects of the El Niņo-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the land

Dr. Tracy Twine,  Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (UIUC)

February 09

How Well Can We Measure Rainfall?

Dr. Witold (Witek) Krajewski, Rose & Joseph Summers Professor of Water Resources Engineering, University of Iowa

February 16

Assessing Satellite- and Aircraft-based Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing for Monitoring Pacific Northwest River Temperatures

Keith Cherkauer, Purdue University

February 22

 Movement and Remediation of a Volatile, Multicomponent DNAPL, in a Variably-Saturated, Heterogeneous Porous Medium

Dr. MART OOSTROM, Chief Scientist , Hydrology Department, Environmental Technology Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

February 23

The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Supporting Collaborative Research on Large-Scale, Complex Environmental and Water Resource Systems

Dr. Barbara Minsker, CEE, UIUC

February 25

Channel morphology and sediment transport in high gradient stream systems

John Pitlick, Department of Geography, University of ColoradoBoulder

March 02

Erosional Narrowing After Dam Removal: Theory and Numerical Model

Alessandro Cantelli, Research Assoc., Univ. of MN, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory

March 09

Restoring the Illinois River--The Nature Conservancy's Spunky Bottoms and Emiquon Projects

Dr. K. Douglas Blodgett, Illinois River Project Director, The Nature Conservancy

March 16

Mass Balance of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in an Agricultural Watershed:

The Shallow Groundwater Component

Dr. Ed Mehnert, ISGS

March 23

No Seminar—Spring Break

March 30

Planning and Design of River Structures with Multi-Purpose Objectives

Mr. A. Juhl, Division of Planning, IDNR, Div. of Water Resources

View copy of slides from presentation

April 06

  Real-time Water Management

Jim Stiman, Chief, Water Control Section, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island, IL

April 13

Pattern, Process and Function:  Elements of a Unified Theory of

Hydrology at the Catchment Scale

Dr. Murugesa Sivapalan, Centre for Water Research, The University of Western Australia

Incoming UIUC Professor of Geography and Civil & Environmental Engineering

April 20

The fluid dynamics of bedform superimposition

Dr. Jim Best, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds –Visiting Professor, CEE, UIUC

April 27

Geometry relations between resolved and subgrid scales as derived from analysis of multi-dimensional velocity measurements

Dr. Bo Tao, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University

May 04

Ground-Water Models of the Alluvial and Sparta Aquifers: Management Tools for a Sustainable Resource

John  Czarnecki, Ground-water  Specialist, U.S. Geological  Survey, Little Rock, Arkansas

Special Seminar May 16

11:00 AM

Physical and Mathematical Modelling of Scour

Professor B. Mutlu Sumer, Technical University of Denmark, MEK, Coastal, Maritime & Structural Engineering Section

Note special date and time