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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 - J. Wayne Reitz Union, University of Florida
9 am - 10:30 am Posters (Ballroom BCFG)
Registration and check-in Poster set up
10:30 am - 12 pm
Opening Plenary Session (Auditorium) Posters (Ballroom BCFG)
  • Dr. Thomas Frazer, Acting Director, University of Florida Water Institute
  • Dr. Jack Payne, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Florida
  • Keynote:
  • Dr. James S. Famiglietti, Professor of Earth System Science and of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Sr. Water Scientist, University of California, Irvine, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  • Sponsored by: Duke Energy
 Poster set up
12 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 3 pm Concurrent Sessions
Ballroom A Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom H Auditorium Ballroom BCFG
Restoration and Connectivity Springs I - Groundwater and Surface Water Interactions Collaborations and Partnerships Emerging Diseases and Contaminants in Florida Waters - 1 Panel: Implementing Successful Water Policy through Public/Private Partnerships Posters displayed        
3 pm - 3:30 pm Break - located in Ballroom BCGF
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
Ballroom A Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom H Auditorium Ballroom BCFG
Groundwater Resource Evaluation Springs II - Hydrography and Ecology Panel: Actionable Science for Water Resources Management Planning and Decision Making Emerging Diseases and Contaminants in Florida Waters - 2 Let's Talk About Water - Focusing on Florida's Future: preparing the next in line to manage our freshwater Posters displayed
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Poster Sessions and Reception - Ballroom BCFG
Poster Session - Climate Change & Variability Poster Session - Coastal Waters Poster Session - Policy & Behavior Change Poster Session - Springs & Rivers Poster Session - Water & Nutrients in Managed Landscapes Poster Session - Watershed & Wetland Management
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
8:30 am - 10 am Concurrent Sessions
Ballroom A Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom H Auditorium
Sensors and Technologies Springs III - Chemical Processes and Nutrient Fluxes Achieving Behavior Change: Public perceptions and awareness of water conservation issues - 1 Coastal Water Resources Planning and Governance
10 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 12 pm Concurrent Sessions
Ballroom A Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom H Auditorium
Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Water Availability and Quality Springs IV - Temporal Dynamics Achieving Behavior Change: Public perceptions and awareness of water conservation issues 2 Sea Level Rise: Projections and impacts Water Use in Agriculture
12 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 3 pm Plenary Session Ballrooms BCFG
Presentation of Student Poster Awards

Dr. W. Kent Fuchs, President, University of Florida – Brief Remarks on Water, Science and Art

Plenary Panel: "Imagining Climate Change". Session Moderator: Terry Harpold. This plenary session roundtable is the opening session of the 2016 Colloquium Imagining Climate Change: Science & Fiction in Dialogue which is free and open to the public. Anyone may attend the roundtable without having registered for the Symposium.

Introduced by Cynthia Barnett, Hearst Visiting Professional, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, this roundtable, bridging art and science, will open the ICC Colloquium. It includes authors, scholars, and scientists committed to the work of imagining our collective climate futures. Guest Speakers include:

  • Tobias Buckell, Grenadian science fiction author and futurist.
  • James S. Famiglietti, Professor of Earth System Science and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and the Senior Water Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.
  • Ellen E. Martin, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida.
  • Yann Quero, French journalist, science fiction novelist and anthologist.
  • Jeff VanderMeer, American speculative fiction writer with an interest in weird biology and the environment.
    Sponsor: "Imagining Climate Change" is co-sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute, the Center for African Studies, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the Department of English, the Florida Climate Institute at the University of Florida, the George A. Smathers Libraries, the Science Fiction Working Group, and the UF Water Institute. Colloquium events are made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
3 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm - 5 pm Final Plenary Ballrooms BCFG
Final Plenary - Florida's Water Future

Moderator – Tom Frazer

Water security threatens Florida’s prosperity. Our ability to secure clean, sustainable water resources via policy, regulation, management and conservation becomes enormously complex due to a burgeoning human population, increased demand for water and uncertainties surrounding climate change. Solutions to such pressing challenges require a solid scientific understanding that informs what will be difficult, and sometimes costly, tradeoffs. Panel members will draw on a variety of personal and institutional perspectives to characterize both major threats to secure and sustainable water resources and mechanisms to overcome these threats. The panel will conclude with questions and dialogue with the audience.

Panelists
  • Steve Dwinell, Director of the Office of Agricultural Water Policy, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • Drew Bartlett, Deputy Secretary for Ecosystem Restoration, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
  • Wendy Graham, Director, UF Water Institute, Carl S. Swisher Chair in Water Resources,(temporarily on assignment to National Science Foundation)
  • Eric Draper, Executive Director, Audubon Florida