Instructor:
Sergei Katsev Office: 208 RLB Phone: 726-6057 E-mail: skatsev@d.umn.edu Web: http://www.d.umn.edu/~skatsev/ |
Course
content: An interdisciplinary
graduate seminar with dual goal of reviewing most significant current
developments in limnological science and helping students identify most
significant knowledge gaps in their disciplinary research fields. The
course involves guest lectures, student presentations and discussions.
It aims to provide students with guidance on choosing research
directions to achieve an optimal balance between difficulty and
scientific payoff.
Talks schedule: February 5 Sergei Katsev (LLO&Physics): Quantitative approaches to microbial ecosystems. MWAH 195. (Abstract) February 12 Elizabeth Minor (LLO&Chemistry) Organic matter characterization. Why is it important? What do we know? What challenges remain?, MWAH 195 February 19 Discussion February 26 Byron Steinman (LLO&Earth and Env. Sci.) Recent advances in paleolimnology with a focus on western North America, MWAH 195 March 5 Katie Schreiner (LLO&Chem) Carbon cycling through the terrestrial-aquatic interface, MWAH 195 March 12 Robert Sterner (LLO&Biology) Productivity and resources, MWAH 195 March 26 Sam Kelly (LLO&Physics) Turbulence in large lakes and oceans, MWAH 195 April 2 Ted Ozersky (LLO& Biology) Lakes under ice: Opening the black box of winter, MWAH 195 April 9 Discussion, RLB 200 April 16 Andrew Bramburger (NRRI) Periphytic diatom communities of North American karstic wetlands: Patterns, processes, and applications. MWAH 195. April 23 Student presentations, RLB 200 April 30 Student presentations, RLB 200 May 7 Thomas Johnson (LLO & Earth and Env. Sci.) Unraveling the climate history of tropical East Africa: recent advances. MWAH 195 |