A joint lecture series and capstone seminar (Environmental Resilience: Water) taps into UVA’s expertise through the new pan-university Environmental Resilience Institute. Healthy and productive watersheds provide a range of ecosystem services to human communities including freshwater supply quantity and quality, flood protection, and terrestrial/aquatic habitat. While healthy watersheds are vital to society, they are increasingly threatened by a wide range of environmental issues such as over-development and wetland loss, pollution, climate change, and increased water demand. This lecture series and course emphasizes conceptual understanding of vulnerabilities, resilience, and solutions for water and watersheds. Speakers from across the university and external to UVA will be brought in weekly to present a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and possible solutions for maintaining and enhancing the resilience of water and watersheds. The lecture is open to the University community.

Speaker Schedule

All members of the university community are welcome to attend each lecture (no registration required; space is available on a first come first serve basis). At the conclusion of each lecture, after guests depart, students enrolled in the course will remain for a class discussion as part of their class work.