Episodes
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - "The U.S. Drought of 2012: Once-in-a-Generation Crop Calamity"
The Drought of 2012 was a multi-billion dollar agricultural disaster in the United States. This year’s drought was on par with the drought of 1988, which—according to the National Climatic Data Center—caused $77.6 billion (based on the 2012 Consumer Price Index cost-adjusted value) in mostly...
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - "The High Plains Groundwater Availability Study: Abundant Groundwater Doesn't Necessarily Mean Abundant Surface Water"
The U.S. Geological Survey’s Groundwater Resources Program is conducting an assessment of groundwater availability to gain a clearer understanding of the status of the Nation’s groundwater resources and the natural and human factors that can affect those resources. Additional goals are to better...
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - "Adaptive Governance of Urban Watersheds"
Current consent decree settlements for violations of the Clean Water Act (1972) increasingly include provisions for redress of combined sewer overflow activity through hybrid approaches that incorporate the best of both gray (high-rate treatment plants, storage tunnels, etc.) and green...
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - "Recent Variations in Low-Temperature and Moisture Constraints on Vegetation in the Southwestern U.S."
Starting in the late 1970s, warming in the Southwest has produced fewer cool season freezes, losses in regional snowpack, earlier spring flowering and leafout, and hotter summers, all of which should affect vegetation differently across the region’s diverse climatic and biotic zones. Another...
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - "Implications for Water, Food and Energy from the Latest IPCC Climate Simulations"
The partnership between the university community and NCAR has given society a suite of very powerful scientific observational, global & regional modelling and data analysis tools. At the same time, climate change science is rapidly transitioning away from Climate 1.0, classic climate modelling...
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - "Dynamics of Transport and Fate of Solutes in Hydrologic Landscapes"
Hydrological landscapes consist of both surface- and groundwaters, interacting across several spatial and temporal scales. These interactions underpin a host of ecosystem services including transformation of nutrients and pollutants, buffering in-stream temperatures, and providing a unique…
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - "Effects of the Zebra Mussel Invasion on Aquatic Ecosystems: the Hudson River and Beyond"
Non-native species are moving freely around the world with human commerce, causing large ecological changes and economic damages. I will describe the effects of one such non-native species, the zebra mussel, on the Hudson River ecosystem. Zebra mussels appeared in the Hudson in 1991, and by the…
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - “Do We Really Have Too Much Water Pollution? The Nexus Between Economic Science and Physical Science"
As a Nation, we’ve spent lots of money over the years trying to clean up our rivers and lakes. Has it been worth it? How do we know if we’ve under- or over-spent? This seminar presentation explores this question empirically in a mid-west (Minnesota) agricultural watershed, using a newly developed...
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - Global Precipitation in the 21st Century
Over the past two decades there has been vigorous development in the satellite assets and the algorithms necessary to estimate precipitation around the globe. In particular the highly successful joint NASA/JAXA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and the upcoming Global Precipitation...
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - Participatory Water Governance: Experiences and Issues from Around the World
Social participation in water governance has recently become a reality in many economies and societies. Characterized by the direct involvement of an array of people in decision-making and implementation of water policy or management, at a minimum, social participation involves individuals and/or...
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - The Niobrara River Basin Study: Using Various Models to Assess Water Supplies and Demands
The Niobrara River traverses approximately 535 river miles from its headwaters in Wyoming to the confluence with the Missouri River, while its basin covers 12,600 square miles of northern Nebraska. There are varied water demands within the Niobrara River Basin, ranging from agriculture…
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Spring 2013 Water Seminar Series - “Integrated Hydrologic Models: Building New Tools for Water Management”
Proper management of water resources is becoming increasingly important, in part due to climate variability, especially in the American Midwest where significant irrigation has already depleted available water sources. Projected changes in precipitation and temperature will increase the stress on...
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Water Cycle Change and the Human Fingerprint on the Water Landscape of the 21st Century: Observations from a Decade of GRACE
Dr. James (Jay) Famiglietti is a part of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling in the Department of Earth System Science and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He spoke at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Sept. 14, 2012.
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