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Are we
asking too much of our streams? |
Topic 7:
Thursday, March 19th 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Are we asking too much of our streams? What do streams tell
us about the environment that we – and they – live in? What
services do streams provide us? How do we value what streams
need vs. what we need from them? Read more about it by clicking
these links.
The bar opens at 6:30 p.m.
Discussion starts at 7 p.m. with expert Dr. W. Breck Bowden,
Patrick Professor of Watershed Science & Planning, Rubenstein
School of Environment & Natural Resources, University of
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Dr. W. Breck Bowden received his B.Sc. with majors in both
Zoology and Chemistry from the University of Georgia in 1973. He
earned his M.Sc. from North Carolina State University for a
project in which he developed a novel method to enumerate
bacteria in estuarine water samples, with a scanning electron
microscope. Breck continued his academic affiliation with North
Carolina State University, but moved to the newly formed
Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods
Hole, Massachusetts (USA) to co-lead an interdisciplinary
research project focused on the structure and function of tidal,
freshwater wetlands, a little-studied but important wetland type
on the east coast of the United States. Breck earned his Ph.D.
in 1982, for his work on nitrogen cycling in this wetland type.In 1997 Dr. Bowden accepted a new position as Team Leader for
Catchment and Biospheric Processes at
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research New Zealand, Ltd. in
Lincoln, New Zealand. Shortly thereafter, he was also appointed
as Programme Leader for the
Integrated Catchment Management Programme. The goal of this
program is to improve the ability to manage land and water
resources in New Zealand to achieve ecological sustainability
and maintain biodiversity. This program is ongoing and has
served as a model for collaboration among research organizations
and among researchers and stakeholder groups, including
indigenous Maori communities. While in New Zealand, Breck helped
develop opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to study
sustainable management of natural resources through his
involvement as an Advisory Board Member for
EcoQuest
International, a novel study-abroad program located in
Kaiaua, near Auckland.
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In 2002, Dr. Bowden was invited to occupy the newly-created
Patrick Chair in Watershed Science and Planning. This position
was made possible by a generous, $1 million gift from the Robert
and Genevieve Patrick Trust to the
Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources at the
University of
Vermont. The purpose of this endowed Chair is to promote
research, teaching, and outreach on sustainable management of
natural resources through an integrated watershed management
perspective. This integrated perspective includes multiple
disciplines, diverse stakeholders, participatory processes, and
a focus on the links between environmental, social, and
economics processes. In 2004 Breck was appointed as the Director
of the
Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center, which is
part of the
National Institutes for Water Resources network on state
Land Grant university campuses in the US. |
In addition to his formal appointments, Dr. Bowden has been a
member of the Arctic
Long-Term
Ecological Research (ArcLTER) program since 1987. The
ArcLTER
is a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary program managed
by the
Ecosystem Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This research
program focuses on the influences of direct and indirect human
impacts on the basic ecology of terrestrial, lake, and stream
ecosystems in the Arctic. Dr. Bowden continues to collaborate
with a team of scientists who have focused on stream ecosystems
and their functions in the Arctic landscape. In addition, he is
the UVM representative for the Consortium of Universities for
the Advancement of Hydrological Sciences, Inc (CUAHSI)
which is working through the National Science Foundation to help
define future, large-scale research on hydrological processes.
Dr. Bowden speaks frequently at public and professional
meetings and is the author of over 75 scientific papers
and reports.
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