The University of Sheffield
Catchment Science Centre

CSC seminar series

The CSC has run a series of open seminars given by members of the CSC and invited guests. Past seminars are archived below. The CSC seminar series may resume in the future.

Meanwhile, URSULA is running a monthly seminar series. Further information can be found here.

If you are external to the university but would like to attend a seminar please contact Jenny Chambers by email (J.A.Chambers@sheffield.ac.uk) or using Further contact details.

Date and time Location Speaker and title
30th of October 2009, 10:00-11:00 Ron Johnston Seminar Room
C-Floor
Department of Geography
Tristan Ibrahim, Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellow and PhD candidate will talk about "Impact of multi-scale hydrogeologic and geomorphic features on flow and solute patterns at the groundwater-surface water interface (GSI)".
4th of September 2009, 12:00-13:00 Common Room (D-floor), Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sir Alfred Denny Building Jacqueline Bernet, Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellow and PhD candidate will talk about "Impacts of culverts on benthic invertebrates"
3rd of April 2009, 10:00- 11.00 Lounge in the Nanoscience Building(the building opposite Kroto on North campus). Dr. Vikas Kumar, one of our researcher within the Catchment Science Centre and URSULA, will be talking on “Meta Modelling for decision support in integrated catchment management – lessons learned in the MEM project and future road map”.
20th of March 2009, 10:00- 11.00 ICOSS Boardroom Simone Bizzi Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellow, PhD candidate within the Catchment Science Centre will talk about
"Modelling fluvial geomorphology and ecology to support Integrated Catchment Management"

Simone's PhD research contributes to the development of approaches, methods and tools for an integrated approach to river basin management, involving: system modelling to support decision making and statistical analysis of geomorphological and biological river datasets.
12 November 2008
12:00-13:00
Common Room (D-floor), Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sir Alfred Denny Building. Jim Rouquette from the Open University, Department of Life Sciences, will talk about 'Integrated floodplain management: an ecosystem services approach'.
3rd of April 2008
12:00 - 13.00
BMS Conference room Prof. Mark Gessener, Department of Aquatic Ecology
Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology and Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), ETH Zurich

Drivers of litter decomposition in a changing world: a fresh water
perspective
20th of February 2008
12:00-13:00
Common room APS
Dr. Rob Briers, Napier University Edinburgh.

Streams, space, stoneflies and subsidies.
Thursday 7th February 2008
11.00 - 12.00
LT4 Mappin Building Barry Hankin. JBA Consulting

'A regional model of flood risk for Catchment Flood Management Planning'.
Friday 1st February 2008
11.00 am – 12.00 pm
St Georges Seminar Room K13
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Professor Rodolfo Soncini Sessa
Professor of Natural Resources Management Chair of IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling and Control of Environmental Systems Dip. Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano

"A participatory and integrated planning procedure for decision making in water resource systems"
Wednesday 21st of November 2007
Time: 2pm
LT21 (St Georges building) Philippe Renard, Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology of the University of Neuchâtel will give the following talk: "Stochastic hydrogeology: what professionals really need?"
Wednesday 11th July 2007
Time 2.00pm
North Campus Conference Centre (George Porter Building) Dr. Melissa Robson. Landcare Project Officer with the England Catchment Sensitive Farming Delivery Initiative at the Environment Agency. "Sources and solutions for diffuse pollutants in catchments" followed by Dr Sam Trowsdale from Landcare Research, New Zealand's foremost environmental research organisation.
Friday 2nd March 2007
Time 10.00
Stage ii conference room. North Campus. Located in the same building as Careers and the International College Graphical probabilistic models as participatory modelling tool.Finn Verner Jensen, Department of Computer Science. Aalborg University, Denmark


Friday 15th December 2006
Time: 1200-1300
Common Room, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sir Alfred Denny Building Dr Matt Walker (Science Co-ordinator, UKPopNet)UKPopNet's catchment-scale manipulation experiments
Thursday 2nd November 2006
Time: to be confirmed
Venue to be confirmed Dr Emma Hennessey from Defra's Sustainable Farming and Food Science Division, title to be confirmed.
Friday 6th October 2006
Time: 10-11am
Lecture Theatre of the Stage 2 building on the North Campus.
Dr Nick Wallerstein (University of Nottingham) and Phil Soar (JBA consulting), Accounting for sediment in rivers to enable sustainable catchment management.
Monday 25th September 2006
Time: 2-3pm
Room D219 Alfred Denny Building Dr Larissa Naylor, Environment Agency and University of Oxford, 'Integrated Catchment Science and Management: Ideas from Australian Practice'
Wednesday 9th August 2006
Time: 11.00
E101A Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Dept of Civil & Structural Engineering) Dr John Quinn, New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research

'Protecting NZ aquatic ecosystems from land use intensification: Is riparian management the silver bullet?'
Wednesday 14th June 2006
Time: Cancelled
Location: Kroto Building Dr Martyn Silgram, Senior Researcher in Soils and Pollution at ADAS.

Nitrate Vulnerable Zones - management, mitigation and modelling
Thursday 25 May 2006
Time: 1.00-2.00pm
Common Room, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sir Alfred Denny Building. Jeremy Biggs from Pond Conservation, Oxford Brookes University.

'Will current policies protect the water environment? - New Evidence'
Friday April 28th 2006
Time: 12:00-13:00
Common Room, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sir Alfred Denny Building.
Professor Bill Walley and Dr Martin Paisley, Staffordshire University

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in
Bio-Monitoring
Friday March 3rd 2006
Time: 1230-1330
Common Room, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sir Alfred Denny Building Professor Steve Ormerod, Cardiff University

Approaches to catchment-scale ecology
Friday January 20th 2006
Time: 1000-1100
E101a Sir Frederick Mappin Building Professor Chunmiao Zhang, The University of Alabama

The Use and Abuse of Groundwater Resources in the North China Plain: Hydrogeology, History and Sustainable Development