This opportunity is curated through the UF TESI Environmental Leaders Network. Opportunities posted through the Network may not be affiliated with the Florida Museum or TESI, but are shared with UF undergraduate students who want to learn more about environmental research, education and outreach, and civic engagement. 

Host Organization

UF Water Institute

Description

The UF Water Institute Lunch by the Water is a monthly seminar series that allows graduate students to present their ongoing research to a broad and diverse audience of water scientists. While enjoying lunch, attendees have a chance to network with Water Institute faculty and other graduate students, fostering an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas among colleagues with a mutual interest in water-related issues.

Spring 2024 Schedule

Each session will occur from 11:45AM-12:45PM.

January 26, 2024 Show your interest here.
Lindsey Cromwell

School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences (SFFGS)
“Controls on the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Solutes in Florida’s Karst Springs”

Copeland Cromwell
Department of Geological Sciences
“Investigating Decadal Changes to Wave-Driven Longshore Sediment Transport in the Georgia Bight and Linkages to Changes in the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation”
Background reading here and here.
March 1, 2024 Show your interest here.
Sanneri Santiago

Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE)
“The Role of Seasons and Extreme Weather Floods on the Transport and Accumulation of PFAS in a Coastal Lagoon”
Overview of research.

Josue St Fort
School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE)
“Low-Volume Sprinklers for More Sustainable Water Use in Florida Strawberry Production”
Background reading here.
March 29, 2024 Show your interest here. Jenna Reimer
School of Natural Resources and Environment/Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences (SNRE/SWES)Sukhveer Singh Bhullar
Agronomy
April 26, 2024 Show your interest here. Alexis Jackson
Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE)
“Connecting Hydrology and Soil Organic Carbon Storage in Southeastern US Flatwoods Wetlands”
Overview of research.Lauren Hintenlang
Environmental and Global Health (EGH)
“The Effects of Shell Parasitism on Shell Dissolution Rates in the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica”

Location

Join in person at Frazier-Rogers Hall Room 122 or via Zoom at this link: UF Water Institute Lunch by the Water

Website

Lunch by the Water Student Seminars – UF Water Institute

Contact

water-institute@ifas.ufl.edu