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GCSC Seminar – Kip Solomon “Can Groundwater Feed the World? It’s All About Time”

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

“Can Groundwater Feed the World? It’s All About Time” - kip solomon, geology & geophysics, u of utah Groundwater reservoirs are being increasingly used for agricultural expansion, but our understanding of recharge and the sustainable yield of these systems is only recently being defined with the aid of age-dating tracers. Read more here.

GCSC Seminar – Edella Schlager “Water Scarcity, Governance, and Adaptation in Western Transboundary River Basins”

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

“Water Scarcity, Governance, and Adaptation in Western Transboundary River Basins” - Edella Schlager, School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona How social and political adaptation to existing and anticipated hydrologic variability in western river basins is a function of institutional design.

GCSC Seminar – Sarah Kanouse “Entanglements: artistic strategies for complex ecologies”

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

“Entanglements: artistic strategies for complex ecologies” Sarah Kanouse, Department of Art + Design, Northeastern University This talk presents several recent and in-progress ecologically-themed artworks by the speaker, outlining the critical and creative strategies that move through her work and that of other artists currently active in the field.

Seminar “Fluid inclusions in acid lake halite and gypsum on Earth…and Mars?”

303 FASB 115 S. 1460 E., Salt Lake City, UT

Kathleen Counter Benison, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University 11am-12pm | 303 FASB |   Modern acid saline lakes in Western Australia and the high Andes of Chile contain among the Earth’s most extreme waters with pH as low as 1.4, salinities as high as 32%, and unusually complex chemistry. These lakes and associated […]