HydroHour


We welcome all interested in water and watersheds to join for meetings in an informal setting. We'll chat about research interests, opportunities, and happenings in hydrology at Penn State & beyond. Each week we typically have round-robin style introductions (from all participants) and a featured presentation (which does not have to be polished). This is not a course or a formal seminar series. Rather, it is a learning community; we use this as a forum to share ideas, generally learn who's-doing-what, and build a network of colleagues. You are welcome to drop by on any of the dates listed below as your schedule permits. Refreshments will be provided!

HydroHour is organized by faculty members Elizabeth Boyer, Hunter Carrick, Mike Gooseff, Henry Lin, Pat Reed, Kamini Singha, Thorsten Wagener, and others TBA. Please contact one of us for more information. See these lists of additional Penn State faculty with interests in Hydrology and Water Resources.

If you would like to receive announcements via our mailing list, please join Penn State's L-Hydrology list serv. No subject or message text is required; the system picks up the name and address from the e-mail headers. We will send announcements about HydroHour, and subscribers may also use the list to share other water-related information (events, seminars, jobs, funding, opportunites).

Fall 2008 Schedule (evolving), Fridays from 3-4pm in 105 Forest Resources Building:

  • September 5 Welcome, and Introductions.
  • September 12 Josh Kollat, PhD student and Pat Reed, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Accounting for Model Bias and Data Uncertainty in a Groundwater Tracer Experiment.
  • September 19
  • September 26 Chris Duffy Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Update on activities of the Penn State's Critical Zone Observatory watersheds, & opportunities for community research.
  • October 3 Mike Gooseff, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Putting the Hyporheic Zone in Its Place.
  • October 10 Lysle Sherwin, Director, Center for Watershed Stewardship. Penn State's community-based watershed planning and management efforts.
  • October 17
  • October 24
  • October 31 Kamini Singha, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, on TBA (tentative date).
  • November 7
  • November 14 Hunter Carrick, Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources, on "Response of stream biofilms to nutrient enrichment".
  • November 21
  • November 28 No HydroHour; Thanksgiving break.
  • December 5Students & Faculty with draft AGU presentations
  • December 12 End of semester party; please RSVP.

    Spring 2009 Schedule (evolving), Fridays from 3-4pm in Room TBA:

  • January 16 Welcome, and Introductions.
  • January 23 Beth Boyer, Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources. Atmospheric deposition of nutrients and mercury, with implications for water quality.
  • January 30
  • February 6 Kate Gordon, MS student, School of Forest Resources. Toward an understanding of eco-hydrological functioning of artificial wetlands.
  • February 13
  • February 20
  • February 27
  • March 6
  • March 13 No HydroHour; Spring break.
  • March 20
  • March 27
  • April 3
  • April 10 Henry Lin, Associate Professor, Dept. of Crop & Soil Sciences. Integrated studies of landscape-soil-water relationships.
  • April 17
  • April 24
  • May 1
  • May 8 End of semester party; please RSVP.

    Past HydroLunch Schedules (2005-2007 at UC Berkeley)

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