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Yahara Lakes 101 Science Café Series
Name:
Yahara Lakes 101 Science Café Series
Date:
July 9, 2015
Time:
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CDT
Event Description:
Join Clean Lakes Alliance for the Yahara Lakes 101 Science Café Series to learn from Dr. Eric Booth about three major issues our watershed is facing: "Climate, Cities, and Farms: Challenges for Improving Water Quality".
About the talk:
Keeping excess phosphorus from polluting the Yahara lakes has been a primary goal for our community, and watershed managers, for many decades. But long-term monitoring starting in the 1970's has shown no significant change in phosphorus loading to the lakes despite an enormous amount of effort and resources devoted to this goal. In his Yahara Lakes 101 talk, Dr. Eric Booth will explore and untangle the potential reasons for this disconnection, which include increasing annual precipitation, more frequent heavy rainfall events, more row cropping, intensification of manure production, urbanization, and the soil phosphorus legacy. Eric will also discuss the importance of long-term monitoring and how the Yahara watershed fits into a developing national and global conversation on water quality management.
Sip your coffee and converse on the lakefront patio before the presentation, and stay for questions and answers afterwards. Please register in advance.
About our speaker:
Dr. Eric Booth is an Assistant Research Scientist at UW-Madison in the Departments of Agronomy and Civil & Environmental Engineering. He also collaborates with the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research site, Center for Limnology, UW Arboretum, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, and Wisconsin Energy Institute.
About the talk:
Keeping excess phosphorus from polluting the Yahara lakes has been a primary goal for our community, and watershed managers, for many decades. But long-term monitoring starting in the 1970's has shown no significant change in phosphorus loading to the lakes despite an enormous amount of effort and resources devoted to this goal. In his Yahara Lakes 101 talk, Dr. Eric Booth will explore and untangle the potential reasons for this disconnection, which include increasing annual precipitation, more frequent heavy rainfall events, more row cropping, intensification of manure production, urbanization, and the soil phosphorus legacy. Eric will also discuss the importance of long-term monitoring and how the Yahara watershed fits into a developing national and global conversation on water quality management.
Sip your coffee and converse on the lakefront patio before the presentation, and stay for questions and answers afterwards. Please register in advance.
About our speaker:
Dr. Eric Booth is an Assistant Research Scientist at UW-Madison in the Departments of Agronomy and Civil & Environmental Engineering. He also collaborates with the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research site, Center for Limnology, UW Arboretum, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, and Wisconsin Energy Institute.
