Webinar Series - Friday's Findings
Friday's Findings is a public webinar series hosted by the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area. These half hour webinars are meant to provide listeners an overview of the science topic and chance to ask questions. We hope to offer our audience an opportunity to discover the Ecosystems science capacity within the USGS.
Speakers for the 2025 Friday's Findings Webinar Series
| DATE | TOPIC | PRESENTER |
|---|---|---|
| January 10 | Sixty-seven years and still digging! A brief history of the USGS Benchmark Glacier Project to kick off the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation | Louis Sass, Alaska Science Center Physical Scientist |
| January 24 | Predictions of PFAS In Groundwater at Drinking Water Supply Depths in The United States | Kelly Smalling, Research Hydrologist, USGS New Jersey Water Science Center |
| February 14 | SPARCS: Suppression and Planning Actions for Restoring Communities and Species in the Southern California Ecoregion | Austin Parker, Biologist, USGS Western Ecological Science Center |
| February 28 | Putting Fish on Ice: Designer Flows to Stop an Invasion In Grand Canyon | Drew Eppeheimer, Research Fish Biologist, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center |
| March 14 | Long-Term Drought Assessment: Hydrologic, Ecological, and Social Impacts | Jason Dunham, Research Ecologist, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center |
| March 28 | Shorebirds and Roads: How Human-altered Landscapes Influence Shorebird Movements in Alaska | Anna Tucker, USGS Research Scientist and Assistant Unit Leader, Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Iowa State University Aaron Yappert, Graduate student, Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Iowa State University |
| April 11 | Treading Water. 6PPD and 6PPD-quinone in US Streams: Analysis, Sample Handling, and National Reconnaissance | Rachael Lane, Chemist, USGS Kansas Water Science Center |
| April 25 | Special 1-Hour Webinar
| Joe Tomoleoni, Biologist, USGS Western Ecological Research Center David Eads, Ecologist, USGS Fort Collins Science Center Camille Hopkins, Wildlife Disease Specialist, USGS Ecosystems Mission Area |
| May 9 | Amphibian Week Hidden Biodiversity – How We Count and Estimate Things We Cannot Easily See | Evan Grant, Supervisory Research Wildlife Biologist, USGS Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative |
| June 13 | Coastal Wetland Vulnerability to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise: Understanding Ecological Thresholds and Ecosystem Transformations | Mike Osland, Research Ecologist, USGS Priority Ecosystem Studies |
| June 27 | USGS Pollinator Science | Elise Irwin, Biologist, USGS Cooperative Research Units |
| July 11 | Climate Change and The Global Redistribution of Biodiversity: Are Expected Range Shifts Supported by The Evidence? | Sarah Weiskopf, Research Ecologist, National CASC |
| July 25 | Recreational Inland Fish as Food | Holly Embke, Research Fish Biologist, Midwest CASC |
| August 8 | Research Partnership with Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks: Forest Health and Drought Response | Adrian Das, Research Ecologist, USGS Western Ecological Research Center |
| August 22 | Holocene and Modern Drivers of Wetland Change | Deb Willard & Miriam Jones, Research Geologists, USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center |
| September 12 | How to Package Science for Public Lands Managers: Structured Science Syntheses as a Targeted, Coproduced Science Delivery Product | Sarah Carter & Tait Rutherford, Research Ecologists, USGS Fort Collins Science Center |
| December 5 | Fertilizer or foe? Land-applied waste reuse materials and farm-to-fork potential contaminant pathways | Jason Masoner, Research Hydrologist, USGS Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center |