Colorado Water Center Lightning Talk Series
The Colorado Water Center is hosting a monthly lightning talk series in the 2025 Spring semester featuring talks by CSU faculty and staff involved in water-related research, education, and extension to promote sharing & collaboration across departments and disciplines.
2025 Spring Semester - Upcoming Sessions
Session 2: Water Quality Research and Engagement
March 31, 12:00 – 1:15pm
- In-Person Location: Natural Resources Building, Room 402
- Coffee and Snacks Provided
- Click here to join the session remotely on Zoom
- Speakers:
- Debbie Lee, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
- Derek Lowstuter, Extension Mountain Regional Specialist – Expanded Rural Engagement, Food & Agriculture
- Guinevere Nelson, Extension Director, Douglas County
- Erik Wardle, Director, Ag Water Quality Program, Dept. of Soil & Crop Sciences
This lightning talk session will focus on water quality research and extension efforts going on at CSU. Debbie Lee will discuss her ongoing research on private well water quality in Colorado and private well stewardship. Derek Lowstuter will focus on the use of biochar to reduce agricultural fertilizer leaching or runoff to increase water use efficiency and water quality. Guinevere Nelson will discuss Colorado’s mining legacy, water quality, and watershed groups. Erik Wardle will focus on working with the agricultural community to protect waters of the state for agricultural chemicals, highlighting the importance of relationships and partnerships to achieve mutually beneficial goals.
Are you a CSU faculty or staff member doing research, education, or extension in water? Sign up below to participate in our lightning talk series!
2025 Spring Semester - Past Sessions & Recordings
- Speakers:
- Tamee Albrecht, Assistant Professor of Watershed Sustainability, Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
- Steven Conrad, Associate Professor of Systems Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Frances Davenport, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Jacob Petersen-Perlman, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology & Geography
This lightning talk session focuses on various aspects of water governance, policy, and impacts of environmental change. Dr. Tamee Albrecht presented her research on water policy and governance, highlighting current projects on urban water utilities, post-fire watershed restoration effectiveness and social impacts, and collaborative governance of international wetlands. Dr. Steven Conrad presented on the importance of human dimensions in water management and modeling. Dr. Frances Davenport presented her research on climate change and the associated changes in extreme weather events and water resource availability, highlighting her current work to understand changes and future projections of extreme precipitation and flooding. Dr. Jacob Petersen-Perlman presented his research on how political organizations adapt to environmental change in their water resources, with a focus on Western groundwater governance and management. View presentation slides via the links below:
- Presentations:
- Dr. Tamee Albrecht – ‘Water Governance Under Socio-Environmental Change‘
- Dr. Steven Conrad – ‘humans are messy but they matter‘
- Dr. Frances Davenport – ‘Processes that Shape Climate Hazards and Climate Impacts‘
- Dr. Jacob Petersen-Perlman – ‘The Past and Future of Groundwater Governance in the West‘
Department
Expertise
- Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics
- Agriculture
- Anthropology
- Atmospheric Science
- Business
- Chemistry
- Climate Science
- Data, GIS, and Modeling
- Ecological Monitoring
- Ecology
- Economics
- Ecosystem Dynamics
- Education and Outreach
- Energy
- Engagement
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Toxicology
- Fish and Wildlife
- Forest and Rangeland Stewardship
- Geosciences
- Graywater
- Groundwater
- History
- Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
- Hydraulics
- Hydrology
- Infrastructure
- Irrigation and Drainage
- Limnology
- Microbiology
- Natural Disasters: Flood, Fire, and Drought
- One Water
- Payment for Ecosystem Services
- Physical Geography
- Policy
- Rainwater Collection
- Recreation and Tourism
- Riparian Zones and Wetlands
- Science Communication
- Sediment and Debris
- Snow Hydrology
- Sociology
- Soil Science
- Statistics
- Stormwater
- Water Conservation and Reuse
- Water Management and Planning
- Water Quality and Treatment
- Watershed Restoration and Management
- Watershed Science
- Graywater
In an effort to highlight the broad range of faculty, staff, and administrators working in water resources, the Colorado Water Center developed a comprehensive directory of CSU Water Experts and Affiliate Faculty.
If you are currently listed in the directory and would like to update your information or you would like to be added to the list, please Contact Us for assistance. Thank you for your participation and for helping us keep this resource up to date.