EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN THE SEMINAR
Environmental Policy Roundtable, Friday, April 1, 2011, Room 1113 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm
Harmful Algal Blooms: Players, Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions
We will have Dr. Kevin Sellner, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Research Consortium, Visiting Professor, UMCES-UMD; UMD GEMSTONE Team BREATHE Mentor; Research Associate, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. He will discuss his research on harmful algal blooms (HABs) and what we can do about them.
As Consortium Executive Director, Sellner’s primary role is to encourage active research programs across the six Consortium member institutions (www.chesapeake.org) and their extended partners from agencies, other institutions, and NGOs in the Chesapeake watershed focusing on fundamental basic and applied air, land, and water-related research to inform science-based management in the region. Dr. Sellner is also a plankton ecologist, with a primary focus on harmful algal blooms, examining fate and impacts of cyanobacteria and dinoflagellate bloom production in regional systems as well as waters of the Baltic and Peru. He has served on the National Harmful Algal Bloom Committee (NHC), was the initial program officer for the Federal interagency research program ECOHAB, co-written several national HAB reports, and has briefed Congress on these problem taxa. He also teaches a HAB course in the UMD Marine Estuarine Environmental Science program, is a co-mentor for a 4-year, 10 member honors student research team from the UMD GEMSTONE Program that has explored a field mitigation technology for reducing algal blooms in the watershed which has now been expanded into a NOAA-funded 3-yr research program.
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The Ecological Economics Student Group (EESG) is a student-organized forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas and new work within the broad domain of Ecological Economics and interdisciplinary environmental policy. This seminar is also offered for 1 credit as 'Ecological Economics and Development' (MEES 608N).
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