BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:61dc8b66-72c6-4b50-9cd6-f2fe1ae80c81.217181@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20210818T185005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210818T185005Z LOCATION:Roy Blunt Hall 002 Lecture Hall SUMMARY:GGP Seminar: Dr. Sarah Praskievicz\, "Fog\, Fire and Forests: Ecoh ydrology and Ecogeomorphology in Great Smoky Mountains National Park" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sarah Praskievicz\, associate professor\, Department of Ge ography\, Environment and Sustainability at the University of North Carol ina\, Greensboro\, will make a presentation.\n\n\nFluxes of water and sed iment in rivers are affected by interactions between biotic and abiotic c omponents of ecosystems. In forested watersheds\, ecological disturbances (e.g. insect outbreaks\, wildfires) and long-term environmental changes (e.g. forest succession\, climate change) can cause changes in hydrology\ , sediment transport and river morphology. Her presentation will address forest-water-sediment interactions in Great Smoky Mountains National Park \, a protected area in the Southern Appalachians and a hotspot of both fo rest and freshwater biodiversity. As an example of eco-hydrological inter actions\, the talk will include an overview of fog interception in the sp ruce-fir forest of the park's highest elevations\, as well as how the eco system is endangered by invasive insects and by the encroachment of hardw ood trees from lower elevations. She will talk about the processes the pr oject uses. She will also address the eco-geomorphic effects of large woo d in park streams affected by the 2016 Chimney Tops 2 wildfire\, a rare s evere wildfire in the eastern U.S. A survey of burned and unburned wood i n the affected streams found that the fire resulted in a major influx of wood and suggests that rare mass-mortality events could play a significan t role in the wood dynamics of mountain streams in humid forested regions .\n\n\nDr. Preskievicz earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Oregon in 2014. She is a hydrologist and fluvial geomorphologist whose r esearch interests include interactions between biotic and abiotic compone nts of river systems\, hillslope-channel sediment fluxes and the environm ental justice of urban streams. She has published over 25 articles in pee r-reviewed journals\, including the Journal of Hydrology\, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms and Annals of the American Association of Geograp hers. Her research has been funded by the Resources Research Institute\, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the National Scie nce Foundation. She is also deeply involved with initiatives on STEM educ ation and sustainability. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Dr . Sarah Praskievicz\, associate professor\, Department of Geography\, Env ironment and Sustainability at the University of North Carolina\, Greensb oro\, will make a presentation.</p>\n<p>Fluxes of water and sediment in r ivers are affected by interactions between biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems. In forested watersheds\, ecological disturbances (e.g. ins ect outbreaks\, wildfires) and long-term environmental changes (e.g. fore st succession\, climate change) can cause changes in hydrology\, sediment transport and river morphology. Her presentation will address forest-wat er-sediment interactions in Great Smoky Mountains National Park\, a prote cted area in the Southern Appalachians and a hotspot of both forest and f reshwater biodiversity. As an example of eco-hydrological interactions\, the talk will include an overview of fog interception in the spruce-fir f orest of the park's highest elevations\, as well as how the ecosystem is endangered by invasive insects and by the encroachment of hardwood trees from lower elevations. She will talk about the processes the project uses . She will also address the eco-geomorphic effects of large wood in park streams affected by the 2016 Chimney Tops 2 wildfire\, a rare severe wild fire in the eastern U.S. A survey of burned and unburned wood in the affe cted streams found that the fire resulted in a major influx of wood and s uggests that rare mass-mortality events could play a significant role in the wood dynamics of mountain streams in humid forested regions.</p>\n<p> Dr. Preskievicz earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Oregon in 2014. She is a hydrologist and fluvial geomorphologist whose research interests include interactions between biotic and abiotic components of river systems\, hillslope-channel sediment fluxes and the environmental j ustice of urban streams. She has published over 25 articles in peer-revie wed journals\, including the Journal of Hydrology\,<em> E</em>arth Surfac e Processes and Landforms and Annals of the American Association of Geogr aphers<em>. </em>Her research has been funded by the Resources Research I nstitute\, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the Na tional Science Foundation. She is also deeply involved with initiatives o n STEM education and sustainability.</p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211022T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211022T153000 SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.geosciences.missouristate.edu CATEGORIES:Public,Current Students END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR