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    ABE Hydrology and Water Quality Program

    ABE Hydrology and Water Quality Program

    Biocomplexity Seminar Series


    On this page, you can learn more about upcoming Biocomplexity Seminars and access information about past seminars from this series.

    Biocomplexity Seminar Series


    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

    Past Seminars

    • S2026

      January

      13

      Dr. Gopal Kakani

      Distinguished Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Establishing Validation Sites for Field-Level Emissions Quantification from Grain Sorghum in Southern Great Plains

      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

      27

      Dr. Bruce Welt

      Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Achieving circularity with all plastics (and more) with Regenerative Robust Gasification

      February

      3

      Dr. Miguel Campo-Bescós

      Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Spain

      Soil Sensing for Precision and Automated Irrigation: Opportunities and Challenges

      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

      17

      Dr. Mathieu Javaux

      Full Professor, UCLouvain, Belgium

      How Soil Properties Shape Plant and Ecosystem Response to Drought

      24

      No seminar due to Water Institute Symposium this week. Participants are encouraged to attend the UF WI Institute Symposium instead.

       

       

      March

      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

      10

      Dr. Juan Manuel Restrepo-Flórez

      Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, UF, USA

      Engineering Sustainability: Models, Optimization, and Decision-Making Under Complexity

      24

      Dr. Guilhem De Hoe

      Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department, UF, USA

      Polymeric additives and biodegradable polymers

      31

      Dr. Rachata Muneepeerakul

      Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Trade-off between short-term resilience and long-term sustainability: Analysis of a minimalistic stochastic model

      April

      7

      Dr. Vivek Sharma

      Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Nitrate leaching risk in agroecosystems under long-term hydroclimatic variability

      14

      Dr. Mason Mathews

      Assistant Professor, Florida State University, USA

      What makes academic-nonprofit partnerships work? Measuring agreement in participant beliefs regarding success.

      21

      Dr. Amirpouyan Nejadhashemi

      Research Foundation Professor, Michigan State University, USA

      Integrated PFAS Modeling for Environmental Remediation

      28

      Dr. Rafael Giménez

      Associate Professor, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain

      Experimental investigation of concentrated flow erosion processes.

    • F2025

      September

      2

      Dr. Thomas Dobbelaere

      Post-doctoral Research Assistant, UCLouvain, Belgium

      Hurricane Irma (2017) enhanced coral connectivity but also superspread coral disease in Florida.

      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.

      16

      Dr. Jose Reyes-De-Corcuera

      Associate Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Complexity of cacao fermentation.

      23

      Dr. Xueying Tang

      Associate Professor, University of Arizona, USA

      Hurricane number prediction and region selection with spatially dependent global-local shrinkage priors.

      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.

      October

      7

      Dr. Geoffrey Puzon

      Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment, Australia

      Biofilm impacts on drinking water quality and the presence of pathogenic free-living amoebae.

      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.

      21

      Chongyang Wang

      Ph.D. student, UF/ABE, USA

      Abiotic and biotic transformation of PFAS precursors in oxic-anoxic transition zones.

      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.

      November

      4

      Dr. Savannah Morgan

      Environmental Data Science Manager, Dallas Fort Worth Airport, USA

      Activating Data: Operationalizing Analytics Across the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Airport

      18

      Dr. Annika Mangold-Döring

      Ecological Modeller, Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands

      Decoding (Bio-)Complexity: Tools for Clear Science Communication and Engaging Different Audiences

      25

      Dr. Ana Andreu

      Post-doctoral Fellow, UCO, Spain

      Mountain Hydrology: ecohydrology in Mediterranean mountain regions, research for an uncertain reality.

      December

      2

      Dr. William Crow

      Professor of Nematology, UF, USA

      Playing in the dirt with worms: Techniques and equipment for studying microscopic pests (nematodes) in soil

      9

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    • S2025

      January

      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.

      February

      4

      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

      11

      Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis

      Associate Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Transforming Specialty Crop Management with AI and Robotics

      18

      Dr. Ziynet Boz

      Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Modeling opportunities in circular bioeconomy systems

      25

      Dr. Sandra Guzmán

      Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Data-Based Solutions for Agricultural Water Management with User-Inspired Decision Support Systems

      March

      4

      Dr. Henry Medeiros

      Associate Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Multi-Object Tracking for Agricultural Robotics

      11

      Adam Howe

      PhD candidate, UF/ABE, USA

      Near-surface phenomena in vegetative filter strips

      18

      Iñigo Barberena

      PhD student, Public University of Navarra, Spain

      Graphical user interface for the use and evaluation of VFSMOD

      25

      Dr. Golmar Golmohammadi

      Assistant Professor, UF/SWES, USA

      Modeling and AI Application in water resources as a forecasting tool

      April

      1

      Dr. Dixon Domfeh

      Citibank

      A Bayesian valuation framework for catastrophe bonds — Extreme event securitization

      8

      Mert Canatan

      PhD candidate, UF/ABE, USA

      Thermal CFD Modeling for Digital Twin Implementation in Open Display Refrigeration Systems

      15

      Dr. Nikolaos Tziolas

      Assistant Professor, UF/SWES, USA

      Spectral intelligence and conversational AI platforms for soil monitoring

      22

      Dr. Charlie Messina

      Professor, UF/Horticultural Sciences, USA

      To breed or not to breed with symbolic and sub-symbolic AI

      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

       

    • F2024

      September

      17

      Dr. David Kaplan

      Associate Professor, UF/ESSIE, USA

      Farms, Forests, Flows, and Fish: Stakeholder-Driven Biophysical and Economic Modeling at the Watershed Scale

      24

      Iñigo Barberena

      PhD student, Public University of Navarra, Spain

      Determination of suspended sediment export from turbidity values in small agricultural watersheds and simulation of ephemeral gullies using AnnAGNPS

      October

      1

      Dr. Kalindhi Larios

      Post Doc, UF/ABE, USA

      HYPATH: a General Mechanistic Model to Simulate Site-Specific Introduction, Survival, and Dispersal of Pathogens on Leafy Greens

      8

      Dr. Kevin Hoffseth

      Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University/BAE, USA

      Strong Bones to Soybeans: Determining Quality in Biological and Biomedical Materials

      15

      Dr. Sergio Zubelzu-Minguez

      Associate Professor, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

      Monitoring and modeling event-based hydrological porocesses in small catchments in Spain. What can we learn from data?

      22

      Dr. Rob de Rooij

      Research Assistant Scientist, UF/Water Institute and ABE, USA

      Mechanistic modeling of bioaerosol particles downwind transport and deposition from CAFO as a source for vegetable field pathogens

      29

      Dr. Dengjun Wang

      Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Biochar-enabled technology for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) sorption and destruction in water

      November

      5

      TJ Schultz

      Research Software Engineer, UFIT, USA

      Research Software Engineering at UFIT: Optimizing Research Outcomes using the HiPerGator and SPOTMOD Discussion

      12

      Dr. Emmanuel Ajayi

      Assistant Vice President - Model/Analysis/Validation, Sr. Analyst, Citibank NA

      Application of Biocomplexity Modeling to Market Risk Model Development, Analytics, and Validations

      19

      Dr. Vakhtang Shelia

      Research Assistant Scientist, UF/ABE, USA

      Crop model-based yield forecasting and associated tools

      26

      Dr. Stefan Reichenberger

      Pesticide Fate Modeller, Knoell, France

      Global Sensitivity Analysis of the Lemna model

      December

      3

      Dr. Ebrahim Babaein

      Assistant Professor, UF/SWS, USA

      Integrating AI and Remote Sensing for Enhanced Soil Moisture and Soil Hydraulic Properties Characterization

    • S2024

      January

      16

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

      Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Quantification of field pesticide surface runoff from high-precision field spot pesticide applications

      23

      Hiba Baroud

      Associate Professor and Assoc. Chair, Vanderbilt University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, USA

      A data-driven approach to assess the impact of climate change on the agriculture sector in Jordan

      30

      Clint Willson

      Interim Dean, Louisiana State University/CCE and Mike N. Dooley Professor, LSU/ CEE, USA

      Education, Outreach and Research at the LSU Center for River Studies

      February

      6

      Olga Shashkina

      PhD Student, UF/ABE, USA

      Impact of Russia-Ukraine War on Global Food Security and the Resilience of Agri-Food Systems

      13

      Kalindhi Larios

      Post-Doc Researcher, UF/ABE, USA

      A mechanistic approach to model contamination of leafy greens by Escherichia coli during pre-harvest conditions

      20

      Armen Kemanian

      Professor of Production Systems and Modeling, Pennsylvania State University, USA

      Cycles-L: A Coupled, 3-D, Land Surface, Hydrologic, and Agroecosystem Landscape Model

      27

      Bedir Tekinerdogan

      Professor, Wageningen, the Netherlands

      Architecture design of digital ecosystems for smart farming

      March

      5

      Willingthon Pavan

      Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Climate Change and Its Effects on Crop Disease Susceptibility

      12

      Lei Wu

      Associate Professor, Ohio University/CEE, USA

      New insights on the formation of aggregates of bidisperse microplastics in water based on analysis of in-situ microscopy

      19

      Robin Sur

      Environmental Safety Assessment & Strategy, Bayer, Monheim, Germany

      Monitoring and Modelling of Pesticides in Surface Water Catchments

      26

      Antarpreet Jutla

      Associate Professor, UF/ESSIE, USA

      Decoupling complexities of water-pathogen systems

      April

      2

      Haimanote Bayabil

      Assistant Professor of Water Resources, UF/ABE, USA

      Simulating Hydrologic Dynamics in Calcareous Soils with a Surficial Aquifer System

      9

      Casey Miller

      Okun Distinguished Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA

      Combining Theory and Computation to Advance the Modeling of Two-Fluid Flow in Porous Medium Systems

      16

      Nithya Rajan

      Professor, Soil Crop Science,Texas A&M University, USA

      Nitrogen-Smart Crops for Tackling the Nitrous Oxide and Water Quality Problems Due to Agriculture

      23

      Noureddine Kouaissah

      Professor, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University - Rabat, Morocco

      Modeling De novo Programming within Simon’s Satisficing Theory: Methods and Application to the Renewable Energy Sector

    • F2023

      September

      5

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

      Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Convergence of mechanistic modeling and artificial intelligence in hydrologic science and engineering

      12

      Isaya Kisekka

      Professor of Agricutural Hydrology and Irrigation, UC Davis, USA

      Critical Role of Groundwater in Securing our Food Systems

      19

      Dana Choi

      Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Enhancing Sustainable Crop Production with Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and Digital Twin for Strawberry

      26

      Luis Garrote

      Professor, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

      Water availability challenge in the Mediterranean: the role of adaptation

      October

      3

      Gareth Lagerwall

      Water Resources Engineer, The Everglades Foundation, USA

      Current developments and complexities associated with Everglades restoration

      10

      Javier Casali

      Professor, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain

      Sediment export and water quality in agricultural areas: challenges and progresses after two decades of experience in Navarra, Spain

      17

      Karl Vanderlinden

      Senior Researcher, IFAPA Center "Alameda del Obispo", Spain

      Salinity of reclaimed marsh soils in SW Spain - Understanding management and climate effects

      24

      Rachata Muneepeerakul and Jean-Denis Mathias

      Professor, UF/ABE, USA

      Analysis of Network Structure in Opinion Dynamics

      31

      Zuzanna Zajac

      European Commission Joint Research Center

      European extent crop yield forecasting with the JRC MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System

      November

      7

      Nathan Wangusi

      Water Sustainability Program Manager, Amazon Web Services, USA

      Water Sustainability in AI and Cloud Computing

      14

      Gonzalo Martinez

      Assistant Professor, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain

      Potential of the olive pickling industry greywaters for the sustainable irrigation of olive orchards. Management alternatives to reduce salinization risk

      21

      Congrong Yu

      Associate Professor, Hohai University, China

      Dissolved oxygen dynamics in the deep hypolimnion of Lake Geneva during an exceptionally cold winter

      28

      Pierre Martre

      Director UMR LEPSE French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Montpellier, France

      Crop2ML: a framework for crop model component exchange and reuse

      December

      5

      Donald Coon

      PhD Student, UF/ABE, USA

      Revisiting and Advancing the Modified Energy Cascade Model for Controlled Environment Agriculture Systems

      12

      Stefan Julich

      Professor, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany

      The role of soils and soil physical properties in the hydrological cycle of landscapes

      19

      [CANCELLED] Casey Miller

      Okun Distinguished Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA

      Combining Theory and Computation to Advance the Modeling of Two-Fluid Flow in Porous Medium Systems

    • S2023

      January

      10

      Michael Johnson & Kate Vaiknoras

      USDA-ERS

      The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and Climate Change with a Focus on Livestock

      17

      Greg A. Kiker

      Professor, UF/ABE

      Adaptive, co-evolutionary network models to explore resilience, diversity and inclusion in international research teams

      24

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

      Professor, UF/ABE

      Fad or Trend?: Convergence of mechanistic modeling and artificial intelligence in hydrologic science and engineering

      31

      Eduardo Luquin

      Postdoctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University

      The Daily Erosion Project: overview and applications

      February

      7

      Nikolay Bliznyuk
      Assoc. Prof, UF/ABE


      Hanyu Qian
      Ph.D. Student, UF/ABE

      Bayesian Calibration and Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Experiments
      Bayesian Calibration Using Data from Impedimetric Biosensors: Predicting E.coli Concentration in Water

      14

      Dalmo Vieira

      Research Civil Engineer, National Sedimentation Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Oxford, MS.

      Modeling Soil Erosion with RUSLE2 at Field and Watershed Scales

      21

      Michael Puma

      Columbia University Earth Institute/Center for Climate Systems Research,

      Beyond rapid transition of the global food system: understanding food system structure and fragility

      28

      David Bosch

      Research Hydrologist, USDA-ARS Southeast Watershed Research Lab

      Benefits and Drawbacks of Conservation Tillage in soils with Restrictive Horizons

      March

      7

      Adel Shirmohammadi

      Professor, University of Maryland/Environmental Science and Technology

      Challenges in Monitoring, Modeling, and BMP Implementation at Different Scales!

      21

      Kalindhi Larios

      Postdoctoral Researcher, UF/ABE

      Modeling Microbial Water Quality to Inform Food Safety

      28

      Changying Li

      Professor, UF/ABE

      Robot-assisted and AI-enabled phenomics and digital agriculture

      April

      4

      Kelly Caylor

      Director, Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara

      The interacting impacts of shifting rainfall climatology and crop choice in smallholder production systems

      11

      Alisa Coffin

      Research Ecologist, USDA-ARS, Southeast Watershed Research Lab

      Understanding surface water storage using fused topobathy datasets of small agricultural ponds of the southern Coastal Plain of Georgia

      18

      Ana María Tarquis

      Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

      Characterization of the climate-vegetation-soil complexity through recurrence analysis

      25

      Lory Willard
      Graduate Candidate, UF/ABE


      Álvaro Carmona-Cabrero
      Postdoctoral Researcher, UF/ABE

      Quantifying the effects of sustainable intensification practices on streamflow and wildlife: a case study in Laikipia, Kenya
      Assessing factor importance in the Global Refugee Network

    • F2022

      September

      6

      Tom VanWalleghem

      Associate Professor - University of Cordoba, Spain

      Impact of drought, soil erosion and climate change on food security: insights from simulation of soil water dynamics

      13

      Tracy Baker

      Climate Scientist - The Nature Conservancy.

      Evaluating Uncertainty in Using Remotely Sensed Data Products in Ungauged Watersheds

      20

      Boce Zhang

      Assistant Professor - Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, UF

      Challenges and Innovations in "The New Era of Smarter Food Safety" - Prospects of Meta-Omics and AI

      27

      David Griffith

      Distinguished Professor - East Carolina University

      Relationships among Livelihood Constellations and Migration in the World's Economies

      October

      4

      Lineu Neiva Rodrigues

      Head of Research - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA Cerrados)

      Water resources in tropical regions: research challenges to balance demand and supply for sustainable food production in data scarcity regions

      11

      Stefan Reichenberg

      Pesticide Fate Modeller - Knoell-Lyon, France

      Global Sensitivity Analysis for a web-based MACRO meta-model for Swedish drinking water abstraction zones

      18

      [CANCELED] Olesya Savchenko

      Assistant Professor - Food and Resource Economics Department, UF

      Intention versus action: Household adoption of best management practices for water quality

      25

      Bin Gao

      Professor - ABE, UF

      Preparation and environmental applications of biochar

      November

      1

      José Reyes

      Associate Professor - ABE, UF

      Enzyme stabilization: a complex challenge

      8

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

      Professor - ABE, UF

      Complex runoff remobilization of residues trapped in vegetative buffers during long-term exposure assessments: VFSMOD development and analysis

      15

      Ray Huffaker

      Professor - ABE, UF

      Reconstructing resilience of real-world hydrologic systems to extreme climatic events from observational data

      22

      Ying Zhang

      Assistant Professor - ABE, UF

      Indoor Farming Technology Development for the Future of Agriculture

      29

      Daniel Yeh

      Professor, Civil & Env. Engineering, University of South Florida

      Going way off the grid: Membrane bioreactors for sanitation and resource recovery on Earth and in Space

      December

      6

      Partha Srinivasan

      Associate Professor - Mathematics Department, CSU Ohio

      A Dynamical Approach to Understanding and Preventing Cross-Contamination During Produce Wash Cycles

      13

      Daniel Lowell Weller

      Adjunct Professor - Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY-ESF

      Unravelling Gordian knots: using big data and advanced statistical approaches to understand foodborne pathogen ecology in farm and freshwater systems

    • S2022

      January

      11

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena
      Alvaro Carmona-Cabrero

      Professor, ABE, UF.
      PhD Candidate, ABE, UF.

      A novel AI-GSA dimension-reduction approach for “wicked" problems: example for explanation and prediction of effective sediment particle size for improved regulatory pesticide mitigation assessment with vegetation buffers

      18

      Yiannis Ampatzidis

      Associate Professor, ABE, UF.

      Artificial intelligence and smart farming

      25

      Sara McMillan

      Associate Professor, ABE, Purdue University.

      The role of wetlands in agricultural landscapes

      February

      1

      Henry Medeiros

      Assistant Professor, ABE, UF.

      Self-supervised models for multispecies fruit flower detection

      8

      Fan Zhang

      Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

      Riverine runoff and sediment flux over the Tibetan Plateau under Climate Change

      15

      Nikolay Bliznyuk
      Pratiksha Sharma

      Associate Professor, ABE, UF.
      PhD Student, ABE, UF.

      AI for artificial insemination for the dairy industry

      22

      Daniel Perondi

      Postdoctoral Researcher, ECE, NC. State University.

      Design and assessment of a drought index insurance for soybean in the Southeastern US

      March

      1

      Patricia Moreno-Cadena
      Laura Almendra Martín

      Postdoctoral Researcher, ABE, UF.
      PhD Student, Institue for Agribiotechnology Research (CIALE), Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

      Modeling the dynamics of dry matter content in cassava
      Soil moisture trends in Europe analyzed with linear and non-linear approaches

      15

      Charlie Messina

      Professor, Horticultural Sciences, UF.

      Crop Improvement for a circular bioeconomy

      22

      Joe Sagues

      Assistant Professor, ABE, NC. State University.

      Carbon Dioxide Removal via Engineered and Natural Biosystems

      29

      Qudus Uthman

      PhD Student, SWS, UF.

      Management of Huanglongbing-affected “Valencia” Sweet Oranges: Sorption Kinetics and Equilibria, Uptake, and Leaching of Imidacloprid in Florida Sandy Soils

      April

      5

      Haimanote Bayabil

      Assistant Professor, ABE, UF.

      Can Current Irrigation Practices Be Sustained in South Florida?

      12

      Tracy Baker

      Researcher, The Nature Conservancy.

      Development of the Western Area Peninsula Water Fund, Sierra Leone

      19

      Serap Gorucu

      Assistant Professor, ABE, UF.

      Agricultural Safety and Health: Injury Surveillance and More

      26

      Kevin Wang

      Assistant Professor, ABE, UF.

      A Veteran's View: Robotic Systems Design for Asabe Robotics Competition

    • F2021

      August

      23

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena
      Frank Gonzalez

      Professor, UF/ABE
      Sotfware Consultant, Ft. Lauderdale

      Brief hands-on training: Restful API for data mining in HydroBase

      31

      Youneng Tang

      Assistant Professor - FAMU-FSU Civil & Environmental Engineering

      Bioremediation: bench-scale experiments and pore-scale modeling

      September

      7

      Sandra Guzman

      Assistant Professor - UF ABE

      Managing water resources for agricultural production in southeast Florida

      14

      Albert Devries

      Professor - UF Animal Sciences

      Culling and breeding decision support in dairy production

      21

      Robert Horton

      Dallas/Forth Worth Airport, Vice President of Environmental Affairs

      Solving complex and large-scale transportation problems using biological systems theory

      28

      Maria Bermudez

      Fullbright Visiting Scholar - UF ABE

      Flood risks in coastal areas under a changing climate?

      October

      5

      Pedro Sanchez

      Research Professor - UF Soil & Water Sciences

      Agricultural productivity must improve in sub-Saharan Africa

      12

      Satbyeol Shin

      PhD student - UF ABE

      Evaluating multi-model multi-parameter ensemble approaches to improve the prediction accuracy of hydrology and water quality modeling

      19

      Xiang Yan

      Research Assistant Professor -UF ESSIE

      Do e-scooters fill mobility gaps and promote equity before and during COVID-19? A spatiotemporal analysis using open big data

      26

      Do Gyun Lee

      Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University, South Korea

      Water Quality & Emerging Contaminants: Harmful and Useful

      November

      2

      Lory Willard

      Ph.D. Candidate, UF/ABE

      New hydrological monitoring network in Laikipia, Kenya. Accessing and exploiting data using the Restful API over Hydrobase from R or python.

      9

      Vivek Sharma

      Assistant Professor - UF ABE

      Precision Water and Nutrient Management: Opportunities from Field to Regional Scale

      16

      Kalindhi Larios

      Postdoctoral Researcher, UF ABE

      Risk analysis in complex biological systems

      23

      Esra Radi Tarawneh

      Fullbright visiting scholar, UF ABE; Mutah University, Jordan

      Hydrologic modeling in data-scarce drylands

      30

      Ana Martin Ryals

      Assistant Professor - UF ABE

      Food waste utilization to support a circular bioeconomy – challenges and opportunities

      December

      7

      Stephen Lantin

      PhD Student - UF ABE

      "Digital twins" for controlled environment plant production

      14

      Alvaro Carmona-Cabrero

      Ph.D. Candidate, UF/ABE

      Reflections on my doctoral internship in industry: tips & lessons

    • S2021

      January

      12

      Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf

      Senior Research Associate Civil & Environmental Engineering FAMU -FSU College of Engineering

      The impact of watershed model parameterization on the reliability of bacterial pollution mitigation strategies

      19

      Sushant Mehan

      Postdoctoral Researcher, Food & Agricultural & Biological Engineeting, Ohio State University

      Data and Humans: A perspective of an Agrineer

      26

      Nathan Burkett-Cadena

      Associate Professor, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, UF/IFAS

       

      Invasive predators, collapsing communities and vector-borne disease: impacts of the Burmese python on host use and virus infection in vector mosquitoes in south Florida

      February

      2

      LIGHTNING TALKS SESSION

      UF/ABE Biocomplexity Engineering Group

      2-min "lightning talks"

      9

      Nathan Reaver

      Research Assistant Scientist, UF Water Institute

      Uncovering Drivers of Spring Discharge Dynamics

      16

      Darrell Schulze & Joshua Minai

      Professor and Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Agronomy, Purdue University

      The Isee Project – Utilizing gSSURGO to Visualize Soil Landscapes and Soil Properties at Multiple Scales

      23

      Andrew P. Maurer

      Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, UF Health

      Complexity in Neural Circuits

      March

      2

      Ziynet Boz

      Assistant Professor, UF ABE

      Towards the 1st Generation Digital Twins in Food Processing

      9

      Jia-Yi Ling

      Ph.D. student, UF ABE

      Probabilistic forecasting for seasonal streamflow in West-Central Florida using machine learning

       

      Hanyu Qian

      Ph.D. student, UF ABE

      Improved identification of E. coli in water from biosensor data using machine learning

      16

      Alvaro Carmona

      Ph.D. student, UF ABE

      Explainability of Agent Based Models (ABM) for high-stakes decision making: What can we really know?

      23

      Geraldine Klarenberg

      Lecturer in Quantitative Data Science, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF

       

      Community of Inquiry in a online programming course

      30

      Cynthia Simmons

      Associate Professor, Department of Geography, UF

      Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes: Challenges for Conservation in 21st Century

      April

      6

      Mysha Clarke

      Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF

      Communicating about invasive species - Expert and non-expert perspectives

      13

      Qiu Jiangxiao

      Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF

      Groundwater effects on ecosystem services across regional and global scales

      20

      Claudia Ganser

      Postodctoral Research Associate, Animal Sciences, Emerging Pathogens Institute, UF

      Bayesian network models to target intervention for foodborne illnesses in value chains

      27

      ROUND TABLE

      UF/ABE Biocomplexity Engineering Group

      Semester wrap-up topic: "What is Biocomplexity Engineering?"

    • F2020

      September

      8

      Lory Willard

      Ph.D. student, UF ABE

      Quantifying the effects of sustainable intensification practices on streamflow and wildlife: A case study in Laikipia, Kenya

      15

      Christophe Darnault

      Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering & Earth Sceinces, Clemson University, SC

      Flow and transport in agroecosystems and the natural environment: advances and applications in soil, water, energy and food systems

      22

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

      Professor, UF ABE

       

      Advances in modeling pesticide mitigation with vegetative filter strips for the regulatory process

      29

      François Birgand

      Associate Professor, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

       

      What we have learned studying the effects of drying and rewetting cycles on denitrification and greenhouse gas emissions in woodchip bioreactors

      October

      6

      David Kane

      Environmental Exposure Modeller, Knoell Iberia, Spain

      Pesticide environmental exposure modeling and runoff mitigation in the European Union

      13

      Kathe Todd-Brown

      Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF

      Soil data harmonization, a human problem

      20

      Ziwen Yu

      Assistant Professor, Big Data, UF/ABE

      Model the future climate change impact on precipitation driven by the physical concepts seen from data

      27

      Nathan Reaver

      Postdoctoral Researcher, UF Watershed Ecology Lab, ESSIE, UF

      Uncovering drivers of spring discharge dynamics

      November

      3

      Alvaro Carmona-Cabrero

      Ph.D. student, UF ABE

      Global sensitivity analysis for agent based models: application to a proof-of-concept migration model

      10

      Edwin Mosimanyana

      Ph.D. student, UF ABE

      Ecohydrological response of a semi-arid river basin to changes in climate and land use

       

      Gonzalo Suarez

      Postdoctoral Researcher, UF ABE

      Migration responses to sudden shock vs gradual change: an exploration in a minimalistic model

      17

      Jane Southworth

      Professor, UF Geography

       

      Interdisciplinary research in social-ecological systems: challenges and examples across savanna systems in Africa

      December

      1

      Rachata Muneepeerakul

      Associate Professor, UF ABE

      On modeling human migration and environmental change

      8

      Savannah Morgan

      Ph.D. Student, UF ABE

      Detecting spatial patterns in longitudinal rills using nonlinear time series analysis

       

      Woi Sok

      Ph.D. Candidate, UF ABE

      It matters “How”, not just "What", factors are included: a case study of a migration agent-based model

      15

      Lucie Guertault

      Assistant Professor, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

       

      Numerical Modeling of Preferential Subsurface Flow in Riparian Buffers: model evaluation and in-situ quantification

    • S2020

      February

      11

      Kim Valenta

      Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UF

      The Parasite Manipulation Hypothesis: Can it explain crazy cat lady syndrome?

      18

      Nikolay Bliznyuk and Yi Han

      Associate Professor and Ph.D. Student, Department of Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UF

      Spatio-temporal additive regression model selection for urban water demand; Urban Water Demand Forecasting Using Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Ensemble Approaches

      25

      No Seminar (UF Water Institute Symposium)

       

      No Seminar

      March

      10

      Kathryn Frank

      Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, UF

       

      17

      Victoria Morgan

      Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

       

      24

      POSTPONED:Calistus Ngonghala

      Assistant Professor of Mathematical Biology, Department of Mathematics, UF

      POSTPONED

      31

      POSTPONED:Christopher Dutton

      Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biology, UF

      POSTPONED:From low cost sensors to gene sequencing; Unraveling the current and historical dynamics of a tropical river basin.

      April

      7

      Chris Martinez and Jia-Yi Ling

      Associate Professor and Ph.D. Student, Department of Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UF

      Improving Dry Season Hydrological Forecasts by Utilities of the Florida Water and Climate Alliance using Remotely Sensed Data and Regional Climate Models; Forecasting Streamflow with Machine Learning Using Hydrological and Climate Variables

      14

      Nathan Reaver

      Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF

      Deducing Dominant Drivers of Discharge Dynamics: Simultaneously Testing Multiple Causal Hypotheses of Changes in Spring Flow

      21

      Jane Southworth

      Department Chair and Professor, Department of Geography, UF

       

      28

      POSTPONED:Kathe Todd-Brown

      Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF

      POSTPONED:Soil data harmonization, a human problem

    • S2019

      January

      22

      Wendy D. Graham

      Director, UF Water Institute; Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Stakeholder-Driven Modeling in Support of Groundwater Sustainability: the Floridan Aquifer Collaborative Engagement for Sustainability (FACETS) Project

      29

      Greg A. Kiker

      Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Integrating Biophysical Models, System Complexity and Decision Analysis

      February

      5

      Steve Perz

      Professor, UF Sociology and Criminology & Law

      A Multi-step Modeling Approach to the Evaluation of Ecological Resilience in Complex Systems: The Inter-oceanic Highway in the Southwestern Amazon

      12

      Ray Huffaker

      Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Foodborne disease dynamics using CDC data with linkages to food demand drivers

      19

      NO SEMINAR (group joins WI Distinguished Scholars seminar )

       

      No seminar

      26

      Miles Medina

      Ph.D. Candidate, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Modeling complexity with simplicity: Low-dimensional emulation of agent-based models

      March

      5

      Stephen N. Morgan

      Assistant Professor, Food and Resource Economics, UF

      Agricultural Innovation and Technology Adoption: Incentives for Delay Reconsidered

      12

      Ismael Rodea-Palomares

      Environmental Toxicology & Risk Assessment, Bayer U.S. LLC

      What to expect of an Industry R&D job

      19

      Maria José Polo

      Professor in Fluvial Dynamics and Hydrology, Agricultural Engineering, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain

      Using Terrestrial Cameras in Ecohydrology Research

      26

      Cheryl Palm

      Research Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Soils and Food Security: A Management Conundrum

      April

      2

      Biocomplexity Engineering Group

       

      Spring 2019 "Lightning Talks" Mini-Symposium

      9

      Miguel A. Campo-Bescós

      Assistant Professor, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain

      Crop type mapping based on Sentinel-1 Backscatter time series

      16

      Rachata Muneeperakul

      Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      On modeling environmental change-induced migration

      23

      Gabriel Maltais-Landry

      Assistant Professor, Soil and Water Science, UF

      Optimizing nutrient management and soil health to increase the sustainability of agroecosystems

      30

      Kelly Caylor

      Director of Earth Research Institute (ERI), Professor of Ecohydrology, UC Santa Barbara

      Coupled natural-human dynamics in smallholder rainfed agricultural systems

      May

      7

      Natalie Nelson

      Assistant Professor Biological and Agricultural Engineering, N.C. State University

      Observing land-sea connectivity from earth's surface and space

    • F2018

      August

      28

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

      Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      What are the drivers of large-scale freshwater ecological impairment in Europe?

      September

      4

      Geraldine Klarenberg

      Postdoctoral Researcher, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Workshop: Reproducible research with an introduction to version control

      11

      Chris Martinez

      Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Integrating NASA Earth Systems Data into Decision-Making Tools of Member Utilities of the Florida Water and Climate Alliance

      18

      Lili Du

      Associate Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, UFTI

      Big Data Analytics for Transportation Systems. Interdependent Infrastructure network modeling

      25

      Monica Garcia & Christian Josef Köppl

      Assoc. Professor & PhD student. DTU Environment, Technical University of Denmark

      Remote sensing from UAVs and satellite for hydrological applications

      October

      2

      Melanie Correll

      Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Integrating genetics into crop models to guide plant breeding resistance to environmental stress

      9

      Jaime Chavez

      Ph.D. Student, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Simplifying Energy Complexity

      16

      Yiannis Ampatzidis

      Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (Immokalee), UF

       

      Smart Farming and Artificial Intelligence

       

      23

      Geraldine Klarenberg

      Postdoctoral Researcher, Agricultural and biological engineering, UF

      Ray Huffaker

      Professor, Agricultural and biological engineering, UF

      Brief update: SPARK a framework for Big Data

       

       

       

      Discussion: Research on Research (Science collection)

      30

      Marco Pazmino

      Ph.D. Student, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Overview of modelling processes in the Tempisque-Bebedero basins, Costa Rica

      November

      6

      Victoria Morgan

      Ph.D. Student, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Identifying high risk individuals and the significant factors that influence them in artisanal small-scale gold mining with Global Sensitivity Uncertainty

      13

      Samantha Wisely

      Associate Professor, IFAS Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Associate Director for Research and Education, OSBS. UF

      Pathogen pollution from invasive species

      20

      Thanksgiving week- NO MEETING

       

       

      27

      Adam Watson

      Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Extensions of the Technology Acceptance Model in SmartAg

      December

      4

      Ayse Karanci & Justin Schon

      Postdoctoral Researchers, Agricultural & Biological Engineering/Anthropology, UF

       

      Conceptual model based of A multi-scale theory on coupled human mobility and environmental change

    • S2018

      January

      9

      Bin Gao

      Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Environmental Impacts and Applications of Nanotechnology

      16

      Kathleen Vazquez

      PhD Student, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      A simple mechanistic bacterial transport model to inform food safety regulations of agricultural water quality

      23

      Clyde Fraisse

      Assoc. Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Managing climate risk in agriculture

      30

      Senthold Asseng

      Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      AgMIP- the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project

      February

      6

      Arie Havelaar

      Professor in Global Food Safety and Zoonoses, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, Emerging Pathogens Institute, Animal Sciences Department, UF.

      Dynamics of infection with Campylobacter in young children in low and middle income countries

      13

      Matthew J. Cohen

      Professor, Forest Water Resources, Hydrology, EcoHydrology, School of Forest Resources & Conservation, UF

      Patterned landscapes, forest ET, wetland connectivity, river metabolism, and diagnosing riverine N limitation

      20

      Michael D. Dukes

      Director Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology. Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Techniques and Technologies for Landscape Irrigation Management

      27

      Aditya Singh

      Assist. Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Utilizing remotely sensed imagery and empirical models to understand landscape-scale nutrient dynamics

      March

      6

      Anna C. Linhoss

      Assist. Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
      Mississippi State University

      Simulating estuarine hydrodynamics and sediment transport (webinar)

      13

      Arnoldo Valle-Levison

      Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, ESSIE, UF

      Complexity of river-ocean interactions during Hurricane Harvey's surge

      20

      Eben N. Broadbent

      Assist. Professor, Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab., School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF

      Remote sensor - platform fusion for riparian monitoring: opportunities and limitations

      27

      Eban Bean

      Assist. Professor & Ext. Specialist, Center for Landscape Conservation & Ecology. Program for Resource Efficient Communities. Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF.

      Engineering Florida’s Residential Landscapes for Water Resource Sustainability

      April

      3

      Maria L. Chu

      Assist. Professor,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      Watershed-ecosystem dynamics under changing scenarios (webinar)

      10

      Jasmeet Judge

      Assoc. Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Microwave remote sensing for agricultural hydrology

      17

      Kati W. Migliaccio

      Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Introverts and Extroverts Working in Harmony

      24

      Félicien Meunier

      University of Ghent, Belgium

      Revisiting crop root system ideotypes for water uptake - New tools and models (webinar)

      May

      1

      Christopher J. Martinez

      Assoc. Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Water Integrated Supply Evaluation and Sourcing Tool (WISEST) for Water Supply Planning in the Face of Variable and Extreme Precipitation Events

      8

      Gerrit Hoogenboom

      Preeminent Scholar, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Crop simulation models as a tool to help understand complex agricultural systems

    • F2017

      August

      29

      Ismael Rodea-Palomares

      Postdoctoral Research Associate Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Mosquito dynamics and their drivers using DFA

      September

      5

      Cheryl Palm

      UF Water Institute Director. Professor,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Mark Musamba

      Postdoctoral Research Associate Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Agriculture, Conservation and Livelihoods – some examples from SubSaharan Africa

      12

      CANCELLED  (Hurricane Irma)

       

      19

      Mark T. Brown

      Emeritus Professor, ESSIE, UF

      The Value of Nature ~ The Nature of Value

      26

      Miles Medina

      PhD Candidate Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Diagnosing drivers of environmental noncompliance in constructed treatment wetlands: A nonlinear dynamics approach

      October

      3

      Stefan Gerber

      Assistant Professor,  Soil and Water Sciences Department. UF

      Using models to explore terrestrial biogeochemical cycling in a changing world

      10

      Ismael Rodea Palomares

      Postdoctoral Research AssociateAgricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Which chemical pollutants are impacting freshwater quality at the continental scale in Europe?

      17

      Valerie Valerio

      PhD Student  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Mehran Homayounfar

      PhD Student  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Commercializing Goat Value Chains in the Lowveld of Swaziland

       

      How robust is your system resilience?

      24

      Amy G. Buhler

      Associate Librarian, UF Marston Science Library, UF

      Research Students’ Information Choices

      31

      Geraldine Klarenberg

      PhD Candidate Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Changes in a socio-ecological system in the SW Amazon subject to road paving

      November

      7

      Olivier Walther

      Visiting Associate Professor. Center for African Studies. University of Florida

      On Mapping cross-border policy networks in West Africa

      14

      Vincent Lecours

      Assistant Professor. SFRC. UF/IFAS

      An interdisciplinary perspective on data collection and analysis for complex marine environments

      21

      Enrique Orozco

      PhD Student Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF

      Concepts, Theories and Models of Macropore Flow Through Riparian Vadose Zone 

      28

      Jiangxiao Qiu

      Assistant Professor. SFRC. UF/IFAS

      Managing ecosystem services and tradeoffs in an agricultural landscape: the role of landscape pattern, groundwater, policy and public perceptions

      December

      5

      Hao Ye

      Postdoctoral Researcher. Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

       

      Data-driven Modeling of Biological Systems

      12

      Robert Holt

      Eminent Scholar & Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecology. Department of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UF

      On the interplay of spatial processes and temporal variation in population persistence: mathematical insights and empirical explorations

       

      19

      Amor Menezes

      Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. UF

      Engineering Robotic Biological Systems

    • S2017

      January

      10

      Jorge Barreda

      Assistant Professor,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Optimal Decision Making to minimize the Stress on Natural Resources

      17

      Peter R. Waylen

      Professor of Geography
      Associate Dean, CLAS, UFL

      Hydro-climatic variability in the Mweru basin in Zambia and its potential impacts on fish populations in Lake Mweru

      24

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

      Professor,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Trends in Scientific Publishing: Notes from Elsevier's Global Editors Meeting, Boston, 2016

       

      31

      David Hanson

      Director & Modeler, HansonRM (Canada)

      Addressing Connections and Connectivity in Ecosystem Management and Restoration in Complex Settings

      February

      7

      Wendy D. Graham

      UF Water Institute Director. Professor,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFL

      A year at NSF: experiences and lessons learned

      14

      Peter C. Frederick

      Research Professor, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UFL

      Restoring highly degraded oyster reef chains and their ecological services in the Big Bend of Florida

      21

      Don Blancher

      Supervisory Coastal Scientist
      Moffatt & Nichol

      AQUATOX: An Ecosystem Model System for Evaluating Multiple Environmental Stressors

      28

      Laura Spears

      MSLIS, PhD. Assessment Librarian.University of Florida. George A. Smathers Libraries

      Agriculture Sciences and Research Support Services: Practices and Opportunities for UF Agriculture Scholars

      March

      7

      Ray Huffaker

      Professor,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Understanding of Non-Linear Time Series analyses and their limitations

      14

      Peter Sucsy

      Senior Engineer Scientist, Bureau of Watershed Management & Modeling.  St. Johns River Water Management District

      Eutrophication Modeling to Restore Water Quality of the St. Johns River, FL

      21

      Thomas T. Ankersen, J.D.

      Legal Skills Professor & Director, Conservation Clinic & Costa Rica Program, University of Florida Levin College of Law.

      The Green Republic? Costa Rica as a Laboratory for Sustainable Development Policy Experimentation

      28

      Rachata Muneepeerakul

      Associate Professor,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Dynamic modeling in Socio-Hydrology: New and Interesting Results

      April

      04

      Matteo Convertino

      Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Div. Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities

      The population connectome: actioning information for designing patterns

      11

      Michael D. Annable

      Professor, Environmental Engineering and Science, UFL

      Contaminant transport in sediments

      18

      Natalie Nelson

      PhD Candidate,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Geraldine Klarenberg

      PhD Candidate,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Explanatory modeling of long-term cyanobacteria genera dynamics in Lake George (Lower St. Johns River)

      Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of a mechanistic vegetation dynamics model, applied to a disturbed area in the Southwestern Amazon

      21

      Qian Zhao

      Visiting Scholar, School of Hydrology, Hohai University, China

      Marco Pazmino

      PhD Student,  Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Ecological Risk Assessment of Pesticides through mechanistic modeling

       

      Link-node hydrological modeling of the complex water-subsidized Tempisque/Palo Verde watershed (Costa Rica)

      May

      2

      Denis Ribeiro do Valle

      Assistant Professor

      Pedro Alburquerque

      Postdoctoral Researcher

      Ecological Statistics & Environmental Drivers of Tropical Diseases, The School of Forest Resources & Conservation, University of Florida

      Novel formulations and applications of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to environmental sciences

    • F2016

      August

      23

      Galia Selaya

      Postdoc Associate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Lessons Learned from the NSF Amazonian Knowledge Exchange Train (KET): Outreach Opportunities and Challenges for Scientists 

      30

      Natalie Nelson

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Seasonal importance of hydrologic, biotic, and climatic drivers underlying dissolved oxygen dynamics in shallow tidal creeks

       

       

      Ismael Rodea-Palomares

      Postdoc Associate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Brainstorming session: Vision and Mission of Biocomplexity Engineering Group

      September

      6

      Nikolay Bliznyuk

      Assistant Professor. Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UF

      Site occupancy models in ecology: statistical formulation and Bayesian inference and variable selection

      13

      Anne Elise Creamer

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Carbon Dioxide Capture using MgO-carbon composites

       

      Group activity

      Group discussion on "Greening of the Earth and its drivers". NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | VOL 6 | AUGUST 2016 | www.nature.com/natureclimatechange

       

      20

      Isaac Duerr

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Statistical modeling of repetitive behavior data in psychiatry: basic techniques, semiparametric/functional models, and hidden Markov models

      27

      Cropper Wendell

      Professor. School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UFL

      Simulating the transition from even-aged longleaf plantations to old growth savannas using a coupled multiple model framework

      October

      4

      Ana Conesa

      Department of Microbiology & Cell Science, UFL & Head Genomics of Gene Expression Lab (CIPF, Spain)

      Functional Genomics and Transcriptomics opprtunities and challenges for analysis and modelling

      11

      Kathleen Vazquez

      Master Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Evaluating FSMA Standards for Bacteriological Quality of Irrigation Water

       

      Geraldine Klarenberg

      Ph.D. Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      A fork in the road? Changes in Amazonian vegetation dynamics in the presence of infrastructure development and potential effects on ecosystem services

       

      18

      Isaac Duerr

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Hunter Merrill

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Nikolay Bliznyuk

      Assistant Professor. Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UF

      Predictive modeling of "big" utilities data: statistical and machine learning methods for predicting household water demand

      25

      David A. Kaplan

      Assistant Professor, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, UFL

      Socio-ecohydrology of a dammed Amazon

      November

      01

      Ismael Rodea-Palomares

      Postdoc Associate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Is chemical pollution an important driver of freshwater macroecological patterns at the European scale?

      08

      Miles Medina

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      What are the prospects for formulation of an effective and parsimonious deterministic model of phosphorous removal at Everglades STAs? A  nonlinear time series analysis

      15

      Mark. T. Brown

      Professor
      University of Florida
      Environmental Engineering Sciences

       

      Environmental Accounting: a systems perspective

      22

      Young Gu Her

      Assistant Professor, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Watershed Dynamics Modeling using Time-Area Routing in R

       

      29

      Guillaume Lobet

      Postdoc Associate, -University of Liege (Belgium)

      Scientific valorisation: Getting the most out of your research

      December

      6

      Ian Hahus

       

      Alice Alonso

      PhD Candidates, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Hydrologic Modelling of the Everglades Water Conservation Area 1

       

      Groundtruthing MODIS with water level measurements to assess a freshwater coastal wetland spatio-temporal dynamics

       

      13

      Emilio Garcia-Roselló

      Professor. Department of Computer Science. University of Vigo (Spain)

      The Global Biodiversity Facility (GBIF) and ModestR software family tools for macroecological studies from local to global scales

      20

      Biocomplexity Engineering Group

      Alice Alonso

      PhD Candidates, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      End-of-the-year wrap-up and celebration!

       

      Practice for Ph.D. Defense "Untangling Complexity in Water-Subsidized Systems: the Tempisque Watershed and Degraded Palo Verde National Park Wetland (Costa Rica)"

    • S2016

      January

      14

      Alice Alonso

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Can upstream anthropogenic activities reshape the tidal influence on a downstream wetland? A case study in NW Costa Rica

      21

      Ismael Rodea

      Postdoc Associate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      The 7 Habits of highly effective people:  by Stephen R. Covey. An introduction from a grateful reader

      28

      Natalie Nelson

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

       

      Why does tidal creek disolve oxygen peak at night? Abiotic vs. biotic forcing of oxygen dynamics?

      February

      4

      Ismael Rodea

      Postdoc Associate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Rafel Muñoz-Carpena

      Prof. Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

       Paper discussion: Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision. The QUINTESSENCE Consortium. Trends in Ecology & Evolution

      Quick Case Studies: Etiquette and Ethics in Scientific Publications

      11

      Alfredo Garcia

      Preeminent Professor, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, UFL

      Incentives for "blackbox" resource allocation

      18

      Jim Chastain

      Past President and Senior Consultant,Chastain Skillman Inc., http://chastainskillman.com

      Deconstructing Water Resource Management Silos: Maximizing the Benefits of a Finite Resource

      25

      Geraldine Klarenberg

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Vegetation dynamics in the SW Amazon: application of partial Granger causality to uncover relationships between variables

      March

      3

      Johnny M. Grace III, Ph.D.

      General Engineer, US Forest Service
      Center for Forest Watershed Research

      Science to inform watershed management in changing systems

      10

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

      Prof. Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Representing the "real world" behaviour of biocomplex systems: opportunities and challenges for enginineering.

      Inaguration Speach, Royal Academy of Engineers of Spain.

      17

      Trevor Caughlin

      NSF SEES Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Associate. School of Forest Resources & ConservatioUniversity of Florida

      Hierarchical Bayesian models for reforestation

      24

      Mathieu Javaux

      Prof. Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

      Measuring and modeling soil plant interactions from rhizosphere to field scale
      31

      Ann Creamer

      PhD student, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Carbon materials for post-combustion carbon dioxide capture

      April

      7

      June Fang

      PhD student, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Activated carbon from hydrochar

      12

      Guest speaker: Christian Hüning

      MSc, University of Hamburg

      Modeling & Simulation as a Service: Ecological Modeling in the Cloud wifi MARS

      14

      Jane Southworth

      Prof. Dept. of Geography, UFL

      Changes in vegetation persistence across global savanna landscapes, 1982–2010

      21

      Gregory E. Glass

      Preeminent Professor, Dept. of Geography and Emerging Pathogens Institute, UFL

      Host and vector communities impact on pathogen diversity
      22

      Douglas Shiel

      Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

      Round table on "How trees water our planet? recent advances and current controversies"

      28

      Conrado de Leon

      PhD student, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Marco Pazmino

      PhD student, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Using water allocation models in the Florida water management districts

       

      Short video: Analysis of the lPalo Verde protected Ramsar wetland vegetation long-term degradation  after an interbasin water transfer.

    • F2015

      August

      12

      Galia Selaya

      Postdoc Associate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Mega-infrastructures and environmental impacts in Amazonia: Research Challenges

      19

      Ray Huffaker,

      Prof. Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Nonlinear dynamics of food price volatility

      25

      Rafael Munoz-Carpena

      Prof. Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Casuality of GMO wars by Colleen Flaherty, transparency weaponized against scientist by Kevin M. Folta

      September

      1

      Chitsomanus Muneepeerakul

      Postdoc Associate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Quantification of basis risk in the rain index insurance"

      8

      Natalie Nelson

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Summer synopsis: an internship at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and preliminary results from Granger causality analysis of cyanobacteria genera dynamics in Lake George of the St. Johns River”

      15

      Jerome Maleski

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Reproducible research with a demonstrations of some of the tools that can aid reproducible research.

      22

      Greg Kiker

      Associate Professor, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      A short overview of our new USAID-funded, Feed the Future Innovation Lab in Livestock Systems

      29

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena and Bin Gao

      Prof. Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Impressions from China: A Travelog of a Curious Researcher

      October

      6

      Ismael Rodea-Palomares

      Postdoc Associate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Increasing realism in in-vitro ecotoxicology: GSUA-EDT as a framework to approach low-dose complex mixture effects of chemical pollution

      13

      Ian Hahus, Stephen Cassey, Alfonso Flores, Alice Alonso, Natalie Nelson, Marco Pazmino,

      PhD Candidates, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Poster presentation for ABE Poster symposium

      20

      Nematollah Keyhani

      Prof. Ag. Microbiology and Cell Science, UFL

      Binding models, proteins and stoichiometry

       

      Eric McLamore

      Assistant Professor, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Bio-mimicry and applications

      27

      Xueying Tang

      PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics, UFL

      A multi-Pathogen hierarchical Bayesian spatio-temporal model for transmission of hand, foot, and mouth disease

      November

      3

      Jerome Maleski

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Hydrologic trends and teleconnections for the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa and Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basins

      10

      Alice Alonso

      PhD Candidate, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      Do anthropogenic activities reshape the tidal influence on the Palo Verde wetland hydrology

      17

      Glenn Tootle

      Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

      Tree-rings, El Nino and coastal MS-AL streamflow

      24

      Mingzhou Ding

      Prof. Department of Biomedical Engineering, UFL

      Granger causality: Basic theory and recent development.

      December

      1

      Rachata Muneepeerakul

      Associate Professor, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      My research sampler: Coupled Natural-Human systems, biodiversity in river networks, & analysis of economic networks

      8

      Alfonso Lorenzo-Flores

      PhD Candidate, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

      Assessment of the croundwater quality of Merida Ccty and its impact on the coastal zone of the state of Yucatan, Mexico

      15

      Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

      Prof. Agriculture and Biological Engineering, UFL

      How diversity makes us smarter - Scientific American

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