Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences

Natural Resources of the West: Water GEOL/ENVS 394 Fall 2010

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Mondays, 4:00-5:30 pm Wubben-Science Building, Saccamanno Lecture Hall, Room 141 (WS 141) Mesa State College Grand Junction, CO Seminars are free and open to the public and presented in cooperation with the Water Center at Mesa State Mon 23 Aug - Introductions Mon 30 Aug - Introduction to Colorado Water Resources Prof. Gigi Richard, Geology, Mesa State College Mon 6 Sept - No Guest Speaker Mon 13 Sep - Flowing Uphill: Providing Water for Rivers Ken Neubecker, Executive Director of The Western Rivers Institute and Immediate Past President of Colorado Trout Unlimited Mon 20 Sep – Resource Conservation Trading: A pathway to saving western landscapes Mike Villa, Ecological Program Coordinator, Westwater Engineering, Grand Junction Mon 27 Sep - Soil and vegetation recovery on abandoned well pads in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado Tamera Minnick, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. Environmental Science, Mesa State College, and Richard Alward, Ph.D., Aridlands Natural Resource Consulting Mon 4 Oct – Colorado River Basin Roundtable Greg Trainor, Utility Director, City of Grand Junction and Colorado River Basin Roundtable member representing Mesa County Municipalities Mon 11 Oct - Water use by riparian vegetation along rivers in the West: state of the science and implications for riparian resource management Patrick Shafroth, Ph.D., Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center Mon 18 Oct - MSC FALL BREAK - No Class Meeting Mon 25 Oct - Watershed Groups in Colorado Jeff Crane, Executive Director, Colorado Watershed Assembly Mon 1 Nov - Overview of the Ute Water Conservancy District's Water Resources and Infrastructure David Payne, Assistant General Manager, Ute Water Conservancy District Mon 8 Nov – The Effects of Water Management on Native Fishes in the Dolores and Yampa River Basins – Hydrology Matters David Graf, Colorado Division of Wildlife Mon 15 Nov – Land use change, water use, and water-quality in the Lower Gunnison and Grand Valleys Ken Leib, Western Colorado Studies Section Chief and Hydrologist, US Geological Survey Mon 22 Nov – Will Wood Chips and Hay Keep Selenium Away? A Passive Bioreactor for Removing Selenium from Water Russ Walker, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Science, Mesa State College Mon 29 Nov - Deep Planting Techniques to Establish Riparian Vegetation in Arid and Semi -Arid Regions Greg Fenchel, USDA NRCS Los Lunas Plant Material Center, New Mexico Mon 6 Dec – Kayaking the Colorado River from Headwaters to Mouth Jon Waterman, National Geographic Freshwater Hero http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-hero-jonathan-waterman/ For more information contact: Prof. Gigi Richard, 970-248-1689, grichard@mesastate.edu OR Prof. Tamera Minnick, 970-248-1663, tminnick@mesastate.edu