Archived Schedule

This is an archived schedule from a previous year's series. Click here for this year's seminar series schedule.

Geoscience and Society Spring 2022 Seminar Series: Water - Future of the Intermountain West

Public lectures: Fridays 12:30-1:20 pm in Tracy Hall Science Center Room 217 (campus map)

 (meeting password: 907634)

Student workshops + discussion follows the lectures: 1:30-2:20 pm

Students: Get credit by registering for GEO 4990 (SUS) CRN 34869, 2 credits. Counts as an upper-division elective.

Seminar Series Schedule

Speakers and topics are subject to change due to cancellations or other rescheduling needs.

Seminar videos are typically posted within a week of the seminar.

Date Speaker & Affiliation Topic or Title Flyer
Jan 14 Dr. Carie Frantz Dr. Carie Frantz
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Co-Director, Environmental Science Program
91¶ÌÊÓƵ
Series introduction: Water in the Intermountain West
Theme I: Utah's Water Cycle
Jan 21 Dr. Cianna Wyshnytzky
Geologist, Water Resources
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

Conserving Utah's water as a natural resource with the NRCS

Jan 28 Dr. Wei Zhang
Assistant Professor, Plants, Soils, & Climate Department
Utah State University
Modeling the impacts of climate change on water resources in utah
Feb 4 Dr. Marek Matyjasik Dr. Marek Matyjasik
Professor and Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
91¶ÌÊÓƵ
Local and regional secrets of groundwater in northern Utah
Feb 11 Dr. Patrick Belmont
Professor and Head, Department of Watershed Sciences
Utah State University

Wildfire, fish, and water resources in the western U.S.

Feb 18 Dr. Jordan Clayton


Supervisor and Hydrologist, Utah Snow Survey
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

Monitoring  Utah's snowpack and forecasting water supply
Theme II: Water Quality & Security
Feb 25 Dr. Weihong Wang


Associate Professor, Earth Science Department
Utah Valley University

Building a nutrient mass balance model for Utah Lake
Mar 4 Rachel Shilton
River Basin Planning
Utah Division of Water Resources
for Utah
Mar 11   Spring Break, No Seminar  
Mar 16-18 Intermountain Sustainability Summit

Intermountain Sustainability Summit
2022 Virtual Conference

Various talks and workshops
see /issummit

 
Mar 25 Lynn de Freitas, Jaimi Butler, Carie Frantz, Carla Trentelman


Great Salt Lake Institute, Westminster College


Friends of Great Salt Lake

Dr. Carie Frantz
Earth & Environmental Sciences, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ

Dr. Carla Trentelman
Sociology, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ

Panel Discussion: Great Salt Lake's water
Theme III: Water Policy
Apr 1 Dr. Kelly Kopp

 &

Center for Water Efficient Landscaping
Utah State University

Policies and practices to promote landscape water conservation
 
Apr 8 Dr. Clint Carney
Department of Environment and Society
Utah State University
Role of water banks in addressing water insecurity in the U.S. West
 
Apr 15 Local Water Policy Panel - Jon Perry, Ken Richey, Jenn Bodine, Drew Hodge

Drew Hodge
Water Conservation and Sustainability, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ


Weber Basin Water Conservancy District


Ogden City Council

Panel Discussion: Local water policy
 
Apr 22   Student Presentations Water-related policy summaries