Invited Seminars and Workshops

2008

Society of Wetland Scientists (invited panelist), "Revisiting the 1995 NAS characterization report." Annual International Meeting, Society of Wetland Scientists. Washington, DC.

2007

SAHRA 7th Annual Meeting, Supporting Regional and International Water Management. Tucson, AZ. 10-12 October 2007.

Chesapeake Bay Program, Quantifying the Role of Wetlands in Achieving Nutrient and Sediment Reductions in Chesapeake Bay (invited speaker). Annapolis, MD. 4 April 2007.

Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium Indicators Workshop (invited speaker). Duluth, MN. 22-23 January 2007. Link to workshop

2006

Great Lakes Regional Data Exchange Image Cataloging and Dissemination Workshop (invited participant). Sioux Falls, SD. 7 December 2006.

Cyberinfrastructure for Earth Observing Systems Workshop (invited participant). Honolulu, HI. 15 November 2006.

Ecological Society of America (symposium co-organizer). "Geographic Information Systems in Plant Population Ecology: Historical Perspective and Innovative Approaches in Presentation, Analysis, and Dissemination of Data." 91st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Memphis, TN. 9 August 2006.

International Association for Great Lakes Research, Indicators of Great Lakes Coastal Margins Symposium (invited speaker). Windsor, Ontario, Canada. 25 May 2006.

Ecological Society of America, SEEDS Fellowship Professional Development Leadership Workshop (invited speaker). "Incorporating GIS into Ecology Research." Tempe, AZ. 2-4 March 2006.

2005

Ecological Society of America and IX International Congress of Ecology (workshop presenter). "Community to the Globe: Landscape Analysis Using Geospatial Tools." Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 7-12 August 2005.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (invited seminar). "GIS and Remote Sensing for Ecological Indicators of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands." Lincoln, NE. 23 March 2005.

NEON Design Consortium Meetings (invited participant). Washington, DC, 16-17 November 2004; Marina del Rey, CA, 4-6 January 2005; Boston, MA, 14-18 March 2005; Estes Park, CO, 7-9 June 2005.

2004

Soil Science Society of America. Wetlands and Climate Change Symposium (invited speaker). Seattle, WA. 1-4 November 2004.

Western Research Alliance (invited speaker). Rapid City, SD. 17 September 2004.

Hydrologic Observatories as a Community Resource: A CUAHSI National Workshop (invited delegate). Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc., University of Utah, Logan, UT. 23-25 August 2004.

USGS Geography Science Planning Team 10 Year Geographic Research Strategy Meeting (invited panelist). Sioux Falls, SD. 24 June 2004.

Soil Biology Workshop, University of Michigan Biological Station (invited participant). Pellston, MI. 17-18 June 2004.

South Dakota Research 2010 Conference (invited participant). Pierre, SD. 10 May 2004.

Indicators of the Health of Great Rivers (invited speaker). Great Rivers Research & Education Center, Godfrey, IL. 15 April 2004.

USGS EROS Data Center (invited seminar). Sioux Falls, SD. 6 April 2004.

U.S. Climate Change Science Program Ecosystems Workshop (invited participant). Silver Spring, MD. 23-25 February 2004.

SDSU Institute of Food Technologists (invited seminar). Brookings, SD. 18 February 2004.

2003

Fourth Biennial ND/SD Joint EPSCoR Conference (discussion leader), Fargo, ND. 5 Sept. 2003.

Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium Inventory and Classification Workshop (invited participant). Ann Arbor, MI. 14 May 2003.

Society for Conservation Biology, "Coastal Wetland Vegetation as a Harbinger of Environmental Change" (symposium co-organizer and participant). Duluth, MN. 28 June - 2 July 2003.

Tenth Cary Conference: Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes (invited participant). Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY. 28 April - 1 May 2003.

Prior to 2003

Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecological Studies: Methods and Applications. "Scaling of Watershed/Lake Interactions." Tempe, AZ. 17-19 October 2002.

Wetland Creation and Restoration Symposium (co-organizer and session chair). Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, 22-25 October 2001.

Wetland Mitigation: Are we keeping all the parts? (discussion co-organizer). 86th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Madison, WI. 5-10 August 2001.

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. "Wetland Vegetation Indicators for the Great Lakes Coast." Laurel, MD. 15 March 2001.

Workshop in Landscape Change (invited participant). National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Santa Barbara, CA. 25-27 January 2001.

Coastal Marsh Restoration Symposium (invited participant). Plymouth, MA. 29-30 Nov. 2000.

George Mason University, Biology Department. "Relationship between development and condition of lakes in Minnesota’s northern lakes and forests ecoregion." Fairfax, VA. 3 November 2000.

NRC Committee on Hydrologic Science, Workshop Towards Integration of Hydrologic and Ecological Sciences (invited speaker). "Water as barge, bulldozer, and building block in ecosystem studies" West Palm Beach, FL. 26-27 October 2000.

NCEAS Work Group: Aquatic-Terrestrial Biogeochemistry (invited participant). National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA. July 1999, February 2000, September 2000, June 2001.

Restoring Pacific Rivers: Evaluating the Progress of Watershed Restoration for Salmon (invited panelist). USGS Biological Resources Division, California Cooperative Research Unit. Sacramento, CA. 19-21 April 2000.

NSF Biodiversity Observatory Network (BON) work group (invited participant). National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, CA. August 1999.

Workshop on Geographic Information Science and Geospatial Activities at NSF. National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. January 1999.

GIS/LIS'98. New Directions in Watershed Studies (invited panelist). Fort Worth, TX. November 1998.

Dahlem Workshop on Integrating Hydrology, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Biogeochemistry in Complex Landscapes (invited participant). Berlin, Germany. January 1998.

BIOGEOMON. Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior (invited speaker). Villanova, PA. June 1997.

Seventh Cary Conference: Successes, Limitations, and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science (invited participant). Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY. May 1997.

International Conference on Buffer Zones: Their Processes and Potential in Water Protection (invited speaker). Oxfordshire, England. September 1996.

Russian National Conference on Water Problems and Solutions (invited participant). Russian Academy of Science. Zvenigorod, Russia. October 1995.

Moscow State University, Hydrogeology Department, Moscow, Russia; Research Station of the State Hydrology Institute, Russian Committee of Hydrology and Meteorology, Valday, Russia; Geocentre Moscow, Committee of Russian Federation on Geology and Subsurface Usage, Moscow, Russia. "GIS in Wetland Studies - Building Relationships to Stream Water Quality." October 1995.

San Diego State University, Biology Department. "Evaluating Landscape Alteration by Beaver: A GIS Approach." San Diego, CA. July 1995.

University of Wisconsin. "Landscape Influences of Beaver." College of Natural Resources. Stevens Point, WI. March 1995.

Institute of Ecosystem Studies. "Spatial Variation of Biogeochemistry in Riverine Wetlands." Millbrook, NY. January 1995.

Ohio State University, School of Natural Resources. "Ecological Engineering by Beavers." Columbus, OH. October 1994.

Soil Science Society of America. Forested Wetland Soils Symposium (invited speaker). Cincinnati, OH. November 1993.

Gordon Conference on Biogeochemistry of Forested Catchments (invited speaker). Plymouth, NH. August 1993.

Auburn University, Weaver Lecture Series in Forestry (invited lecturer). "GIS and Geostatistics for Analyzing Wetland/Water Quality Interactions." Auburn, AL. July 1993.

From Rio to the Capitols - State Strategies for Sustainable Development (invited speaker and panelist). Louisville, KY. May 1993.

University of North Dakota. "Landscape alteration by fire, beavers, and logging at Voyageurs National Park." Grand Forks, ND. April 1993.

Oregon State University. "Nutrient and pollutant dynamics." Bioresource Engineering Seminar Series, Constructed Wetlands Wastewater Treatment Systems: How Do They Work? Corvallis, OR. January 1993.

Society of Wetland Scientists. Symposium on Effects of Forest Management Practices on Ecosystem Functions and Water Quality in Southern Forested Wetlands (invited speaker). New Orleans, LA. June 1992.

NASA, ISLSCP Americas Workshop: Remote Sensing of the Land Surface for Studies of Global Change, Invited Participant. Columbia, MD. June 1992.

University of Wisconsin. "Sixty-five years of beaver-landscape interaction at Voyageurs National Park: A GIS approach." Madison, WI. April 1992.

Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive. "GIS Applications in Community, Population, and Landscape Ecology." Montpellier, France. March 1992.

Centre d'Ecologie des Ressources Renouvelables. "GIS Applications in Community, Population, and Landscape Ecology." Toulouse, France. February 1992.

Iowa State University. "Application of GIS to ecological research." Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program Seminar Series. Ames, IA. November 1991.

World Computer Graphics Foundation. GIS in Higher Education (invited participant). Tampa, FL. October 1991.

University of West Florida Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Research. Constructed Wetlands for Water Quality Improvement (invited speaker). Pensacola, FL. October 1991.

IBM. What is a scientific GIS (invited participant)? Boulder, CO. September 1991.

International Council of Scientific Unions Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE). "Quantifying ecotones and their dynamics in boreal landscapes." Ecotones in a Changing Environment: A Workshop on Ecotones and Global Change. Hickory Corners, MI. April 1991.

Michigan Technological University. "Beavers: engineers of landscape diversity." Soc. of Xi Sigma Pi, Symp. on Biodiversity in the Lake States. Houghton, MI. April 1991.

Ohio State University. "GIS as a water quality tool." Center for Mapping Seminar Series. Columbus, OH. March 1991.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Research Center. "Beyond map making: GIS as a wetlands research tool." Slidell, LA. January 1991.

Ecological Society of America, Aquatic Ecology Section. Long-term Consequences of Cumulative Disturbances on Stream Dynamics Symposium (invited speaker). Snowbird, UT. August 1990.

INTECOL. Geomorphology and Ecosystem Processes Symposium (invited speaker). Syracuse, New York. August 1986.

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