On this page, you can learn more about upcoming Biocomplexity Seminars and access information about past seminars from this series.
Tuesdays 2:00 - 3:00 pm.
Hybrid sessions: Please come in-person for coffee and cookies at Frazier Rogers Hall 122 (Seminar Room downstairs), or attend virtually at this ZOOM link.
Seminars Coordinator: Isabella Plumier, Ph.D. student
Assistant Professor, Florida State University, USA
What makes academic-nonprofit partnerships work? Measuring agreement in participant beliefs regarding success.
Research Foundation Professor, Michigan State University, USA
Integrated PFAS Modeling for Environmental Remediation.
Associate Professor, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
Experimental investigation of concentrated flow erosion processes.
January |
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13 |
Dr. Gopal Kakani Distinguished Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Establishing Validation Sites for Field-Level Emissions Quantification from Grain Sorghum in Southern Great Plains |
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20 |
Dr. Alberto San Bautista Full Professor in Agricultural Production Department, Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain |
Satellite-Based Modeling of Rice Productivity and Agronomic Management for Sustainable Crop Optimization |
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27 |
Dr. Bruce Welt Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Achieving circularity with all plastics (and more) with Regenerative Robust Gasification |
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February |
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Dr. Miguel Campo-Bescós Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Spain |
Soil Sensing for Precision and Automated Irrigation: Opportunities and Challenges |
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10 |
Dr. Ziynet Boz Assistant Professor in Sustainable Food Systems Engineering, UF/ABE, USA |
Threat Agnostic Metrics to Measure Resilience and Recovery During Repeated Shocks |
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17 |
Dr. Mathieu Javaux Full Professor, UCLouvain, Belgium |
How Soil Properties Shape Plant and Ecosystem Response to Drought |
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24 |
No seminar due to Water Institute Symposium this week. Participants are encouraged to attend the UF WI Institute Symposium instead.
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March |
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3 |
Dr. Rafael Pimentel Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Córdoba, Spain |
Snow hydrology in Mediterranean mountains: from the plot to the global scale |
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10 |
Dr. Juan Manuel Restrepo-Flórez Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, UF, USA |
Engineering Sustainability: Models, Optimization, and Decision-Making Under Complexity |
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24 |
Dr. Guilhem De Hoe Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department, UF, USA |
Polymeric additives and biodegradable polymers |
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31 |
Dr. Rachata Muneepeerakul Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Trade-off between short-term resilience and long-term sustainability: Analysis of a minimalistic stochastic model |
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April |
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Dr. Vivek Sharma Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Nitrate leaching risk in agroecosystems under long-term hydroclimatic variability |
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September |
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Dr. Thomas Dobbelaere Post-doctoral Research Assistant, UCLouvain, Belgium |
Hurricane Irma (2017) enhanced coral connectivity but also superspread coral disease in Florida. |
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9 |
Dr. Rafael Muñoz-Carpena Distinguished Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Mechanistic modeling of the impact of rainfall pumping on solute remobilization from soils into runoff. |
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16 |
Dr. Jose Reyes-De-Corcuera Associate Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Complexity of cacao fermentation. |
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23 |
Dr. Xueying Tang Associate Professor, University of Arizona, USA |
Hurricane number prediction and region selection with spatially dependent global-local shrinkage priors. |
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30 |
Dr. Kalindhi Larios Research Assistant, UF/ABE, USA |
Hydrology & Pathogens (HYPATH) End-user Model: A mechanistic approach to model bacteria contamination of leafy greens pre-harvest conditions. |
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October |
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Dr. Geoffrey Puzon Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment, Australia |
Biofilm impacts on drinking water quality and the presence of pathogenic free-living amoebae. |
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14 |
Adam Howe Ph.D. candidate, UF/ABE, USA |
Effects of surface and near surface runoff interactions on the transport and mitigation of pesticides in vegetative filter strips. |
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21 |
Chongyang Wang Ph.D. student, UF/ABE, USA |
Abiotic and biotic transformation of PFAS precursors in oxic-anoxic transition zones. |
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28 |
Dr. Seokmin Hong Post-doctoral Research Scholar, UF/ABE, USA |
Application and analysis of machine learning models for water quality monitoring and modeling in inland water – focused on Cyanobacteria and E. coli. |
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November |
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Dr. Savannah Morgan Environmental Data Science Manager, Dallas Fort Worth Airport, USA |
Activating Data: Operationalizing Analytics Across the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Airport |
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18 |
Dr. Annika Mangold-Döring Ecological Modeller, Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands |
Decoding (Bio-)Complexity: Tools for Clear Science Communication and Engaging Different Audiences |
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25 |
Dr. Ana Andreu Post-doctoral Fellow, UCO, Spain |
Mountain Hydrology: ecohydrology in Mediterranean mountain regions, research for an uncertain reality. |
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December |
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Dr. William Crow Professor of Nematology, UF, USA |
Playing in the dirt with worms: Techniques and equipment for studying microscopic pests (nematodes) in soil |
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9 |
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January |
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28 |
Dr. Rafael Muñoz-Carpena Distinguished Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Simplified numerical calculation of transformation kinetics for multiple pesticide species in vegetation buffer zones for surface pollution mitigation. |
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February |
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Dr. Nikolay Bliznyuk Associate Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Statistical machine learning for improved detection and uncertainty quantification of pathogenic E. Coli in hydroponic irrigation water using impedimetric systems |
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11 |
Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis Associate Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Transforming Specialty Crop Management with AI and Robotics |
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18 |
Dr. Ziynet Boz Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Modeling opportunities in circular bioeconomy systems |
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25 |
Dr. Sandra Guzmán Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Data-Based Solutions for Agricultural Water Management with User-Inspired Decision Support Systems |
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March |
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Dr. Henry Medeiros Associate Professor, UF/ABE, USA |
Multi-Object Tracking for Agricultural Robotics |
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11 |
Adam Howe PhD candidate, UF/ABE, USA |
Near-surface phenomena in vegetative filter strips |
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18 |
Iñigo Barberena PhD student, Public University of Navarra, Spain |
Graphical user interface for the use and evaluation of VFSMOD |
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25 |
Dr. Golmar Golmohammadi Assistant Professor, UF/SWES, USA |
Modeling and AI Application in water resources as a forecasting tool |
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April |
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Dr. Dixon Domfeh Citibank |
A Bayesian valuation framework for catastrophe bonds — Extreme event securitization |
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Mert Canatan PhD candidate, UF/ABE, USA |
Thermal CFD Modeling for Digital Twin Implementation in Open Display Refrigeration Systems |
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15 |
Dr. Nikolaos Tziolas Assistant Professor, UF/SWES, USA |
Spectral intelligence and conversational AI platforms for soil monitoring |
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22 |
Dr. Charlie Messina Professor, UF/Horticultural Sciences, USA |
To breed or not to breed with symbolic and sub-symbolic AI |
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29 |
Helen Haase Research Associate, UF/ABE, USA |
Open Your Fridge! An Agent-Based Model for Addressing Data Scarcity on Household Food Waste and the Understanding of the Impact of Behavioral Patterns |
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