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Spring 2023 Science Forum Videos

An Urban Waters Report Card for the State of Tennessee
Feb. 10 Presentation by John Schwartz
Professor in the UT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of the Tennessee Water Resources Research Center


Will the United States Continue to Produce Sugar?
Feb. 17 Presentation by Karen L. DeLong
UTIA Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics


A New Spin on Structural Control: Translating Toys into Earthquake Protection
Feb. 24 Presentation by Nick Wierschem
UT Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering


What We Thought We Knew: Investigation of Jezero Crater, Mars
March 24 Presentation by Linda Kah
UT Kenneth G. Walker Associate Professor or Carbonate Sedimentology and Geochemistry


The Short Straw? Will Microplastics and Other Contaminants Complicate Bat Conservation?
April 14 Presentation by Ash Cable
UT Doctoral Student in the School of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries


Using Microbes to Generate Electricity from Sewage
April 21 Presentation by Doug Aaron
UT Research Assistant Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering


Biodegradable Agricultural Plastics and Their Impact on Soils and the Environment
April 28 Presentation by Sean M. Schaefer, UTIA Associate Professor of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science


Cities, Climate Change, and Disease: How Science Can Help Us Solve Big Problems
May 5 Presentation by Christa Brelsford, Research Scientist of Human Dynamics at the Oak Ridge National Lab