HydroLunch


We welcome all interested in water and watersheds to join for meetings in an informal setting. Bring your lunch, and we'll chat about each other's research interests, opportunities, and happenings in hydrology at Berkeley & beyond. 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. Contact Beth Boyer if you would like to be added to our schedule or e-mail list. See what students are saying about HydroLunch.

CURRENT SCHEDULE:
HydroLunch is not being offered this semester.

PREVIOUS SCHEDULES:

Fall 2007 , 12:10-1:15 in 112 Hilgard Hall.

  • Tuesday, September 4 Just lunch -- Introductions & round-robin on everyone’s summer activities. We encourage new and returning students to join us.
  • Tuesday, September 11 Dr. Mary Power (web, Professor in Integrative Biology), Update on her research at UC”s Angelo Reserve.
  • Tuesday, September 18 Dr. Deb Agarwal (Computer scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Lab; and IT adviser, Berkeley Water Center), "Update on BWC's Microsoft project."
  • Tuesday, September 25 Note special time 12:30 - 1:30 pm, this week only. Andrew Tinka (PhD student in Civil & Environmental Engineering, Bayen Lab), “Sensors in streams.”
  • Tuesday, October 2 No presentation this week. Instead, student discussion of research paper, led by Marisa Palucis (PhD student in Earth & Planetary Sciences, Kirchner Lab). Paper: ng_etal_2007, Chaos based analytical techniques for daily extreme hydrological observations. Journal of Hydrology, 342: 17-41.
  • Tuesday, October 9 Trina Mackie (PhD student in School of Public Health, Spear Lab), on “Public Health Surveillance of Toxic Cyanobacteria in Freshwater Systems.”
  • Tuesday, October 9 special session, 2-4pm, in room TBA Dr. Deb Agarwal (Computer scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Lab; and IT adviser, Berkeley Water Center), "Hands-on session: learning to use BWC's data servers & data cubes."
  • Tuesday, October 16 No presentation this week. Instead, a report on CUAHSI’s workshop on Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing for Ecological Characterization, and student discussion of associated research papers, led by Justin Lawrence (PhD student in ESPM, Boyer Lab) & Madeline Solomon (PhD student in Geography, Cuffey & Boyer Labs). Papers: (1) Selker et al. 2006: “Fiber optics opens window on stream dynamics,” Geophysical Research Letters 33, L24401; and (2) Sekler et al. 2006 “Distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing for hydrologic systems,” Water Resources Research 42, W12202.
  • Tuesday, October 23 Mike Limm (PhD student in Dept. of Integrative Biology, Power Lab), How food-web composition and dynamics influence ecosystem processes in a coastal river.
  • Tuesday, October 30 No presentation this week. Instead, student discussion of research paper, led by Sarah Godsey (PhD student in Earth & Planetary Sciences, Kirchner Lab). Paper: Stanley EH et al. 1997, Ecosystem Expansion and Contraction in Streams. BioScience 47(7): 427-435.
  • Tuesday, November 6 Dr. Norm Miller (web, Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Associate Director of the Berkeley Water Center, and Adjunct Professor in the Geography Department), Introduction to his research.
  • Tuesday, November 13 Dr. Jim Kirchner (web, Professor in Earth & Planetary Sciences), Introduction to his future role & research at the Swiss Federal Research Institute.
  • Tuesday, November 20 No HydroLunch this week; Happy Thanksgiving!
  • Tuesday, November 27 Dr. Newsha Ajami (Post-doc with the Berkeley Water Center), “Assessing the impacts of water resources operational rules on characteristics of hydrological uncertainty.”
  • Tuesday, December 4 Students present drafts of their AGU presentations
  • Tuesday, December 11 No HydroLunch this week; we’ll see you at the American Geophysical Union meeting.
  • Tuesday, December 18 End of semester party; please RSVP.

    Spring 2007 , in 112 Hilgard Hall:
    Wedneday, January 24 BIE roundtable on ecosystem services instead of HydroLunch, at Women's Faculty Club.
    Wednesday, Jan 31, Feb 7, Feb 14 Hiatus; Beth's on travel.
    Wednesday, February 21 Ted Grantham, graduate student in ESPM (Merenlender Lab), on summer flow variability and juvenile steelhead survivorship in Russian River tributary streams.
    Thursday, March 1 Ben Greenfield, environmental scientist at San Francisco Estuary Institute, on: Managing, monitoring, and modeling trace contaminants in San Francisco Bay.
    Wednesday, March 7 Karen Levy, graduate student in Integrative Biology (Getz Lab), on determinants of drinking water quality in northern coastal Ecuador.
    Wednesday, March 14 No HydroLunch.
    Wednesday, March 21 Isha Ray, Assistant Professor in ERG, on issues of water and development. Wednesday, March 29 Spring Break.
    Wednesday, April 4 Newsha Ajami, post-doc at the Berkeley Water Center, on Integrated uncertainty estimation for distributed hydrological models.
    Wednesday, April 11 Giorgos Kallis, Visiting Scholar in ERG, on collaborative water management and California's Bay Delta.
    Wednesday, April 18 No HydroLunch, Beth's on travel.
    Wednesday, April 25 Amy Pickering, Initiative Coordinator, Safe Water & Sanitation, Blum Center for Developing Economies, on low-cost household disinfection of drinking water with UV tubes.
    Wednesday, May 2, HydroLunch was featured in a presentation at Berkeley's Teaching, Learning & Technology Symposium on Cultivating Communities in Our Learning Landscape.
    Thursday, May 3 Jim Kirchner, Professor in EPS, on new approaches to hydrological theory.
    Wednesday, May 9 No HydroLunch; campus honors & convocation activities.
    Tuesday, May 15 Spring party! Please RSVP.

    Fall 2006 , 12-1 in 112 Hilgard:
    Thursday September 7,14,21 Hiatus, Beth is on maternity leave.
    Thursday September 28 Beth Boyer, Welcome and update on lab activities.
    Thursday October 5 Ben Runkle, graduate student in CEE (Dracup Lab), on plant responses to soil salinity in irrigated agriculture: inner Mongolia, China.
    Thursday October 12 Seth Shonkoff, new graduate student in ESPM (Boyer Lab), on past experiences & present interests.
    Thursday October 19 Just lunch.
    Thursday October 26 Anne Short, graduate student in ERG (Boyer Lab), on land use and governance in the North Coast region of California, with implications for water quality.
    Thursday November 2 George Hornberger, visiting Professor at the Berkeley Water Center, on perspectives on the field of Hydrology.
    Thursday November 9 Kevin Lunde, graduate student in ESPM (Resh Lab), on Amphibian malformations and stormwater management: is there a connection?.
    Thursday November 16 & 23 No HydroLunch, Happy Thanksgiving!
    Monday, December 1 Steve Sebestyen, Sarah Godsey , Matt Cover , Ben Runkel , and Jon Sanderman on drafts of their AGU presentations.
    Week of December 11-15 No HydroLunch; American Geophysical Union Meeting.
    Monday, December 18 Holiday party! Please RSVP.

    Spring 2006, 12-1 in 112 Hilgard:
    Thursday January 19 No HydroLunch; too busy 1st week of classes!
    Thursday January 26 Just Lunch.
    Thursday February 2 Matt Cover, graduate student in ESPM (Resh Lab), on aquatic ecology in Klamath National Forest.
    Thursday February 9 Maria Goodrich, graduate student in Integrative Biology (Power Lab), on biogeochemistry of stream biofilms at the Angelo Coast Range Reserve.
    Thursday February 16 Just Lunch.
    Thursday February 23 Wendy Palen, post-doc in Integrative Biology (Power Lab), on predicting dissolved organic carbon fluxes in ponds.
    Thursday March 2 Eric Edlund,Manager of CNR's Geospatial Imaging and Informatics Facility, on offerings & opportunities for GIS, GPS, etc at the center. Link to GIIF
    Thursday March 9, 16, 23, & 31 (spring break) HydroLunch hiatus -- we'll see you in April!
    Thursday April 6 Collin Bode, senior research associate in Integrative Biology, on LIDAR and the field.
    Thursday April 13 David Sunding and Yoram Rubin, Co-directors of the Berkeley Water Center, on activties & development of the Center.
    Thursday April 20 Kevin Simonin, graduate student in Integrative Biology (Dawson Lab), on eco-hydrology in a redwood forest.
    Thursday April 27 John Stella, post-doc in ESPM-ecosystem sciences, on riparian ecology in the Central Valley.
    Thursday May 4 Spring party! Please RSVP.

    Fall 2005, 12-1 in 112 Hilgard:
    Tuesday, September 6 Jackie Erbe & Beth Boyer on plans & progress in our Water Quality Lab located in 337 Hilgard.
    Tuesday, September 13 Introductions.
    Tuesday, September 20 No HydroLunch.
    Tuesday, September 27 Heather Golden, graduate student at State University of New York, on quantifying impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition at field sites in South Korea and New York.
    Tuesday, October 4 Steve Sebestyen, graduate student at State University of New York, on coupled hydrological & biogeochemical cycles at field sites in Vermont and Japan.
    Tuesday, October 11 Susan Hubbard, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, on using geophysical data to estimate hydrogeological properties, and on research & activites at LBL.
    Wednesday, October 19 Sarah Godsey, graduate student in Earth & Planetary Sciences (Kirchner Lab), on concentration/discharge relationships and residence times in catchments in California and Wales.
    Wednesday, October 26 No HydroLunch
    Thursday, November 3 Jon Sanderman, graduate student in ESPM (Amundson Lab), on dissolved organic carbon in contrasting California watersheds.
    Wednesday, November 9 Susan McIlroy, graduate student in ESPM (Allen-Diaz Lab), on biogeochemistry of Sierra Nevada meadows.
    Wednesday, November 16 Shelly Cole,postdoctoral assocaiate at UCSB and in ESPM, on plant biogoechemical responses to soil moisture heterogeneity in coastal dunes shrubs of California.
    Wednesday, November 23 No hydrolunch; Thanksgiving break.
    Thursday, December 1 Steve Sebestyen, Sarah Godsey , Matt Cover , and Jon Sanderman on drafts of their AGU presentations.
    Thursday, December 8 No HydroLunch, American Geophysical Union meeting.
    Thursday, December 15 Holiday Party! Please RSVP.


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