The Minnesota Stormwater Seminar Series provides an opportunity to learn about the most recent research, discoveries, and case studies around urban stormwater management specifically for an audience of stormwater practitioners, professionals, and researchers. Seminars include a presentation, panel discussion, and Q&A with participants.
2024 Seminars
- January 18: Capturing and quantifying coarse organic matter in urban stormwater - John Chapman, Univ. of MN
- February 22: Performance of Stormwater Products and Practices: Why it Matters - Seth Brown, NMSA
- March 14: Rethinking Green Stormwater Infrastructure in Place - Ashlynn Stillwell, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- April 18: Plants and vegetation in stormwater practices - John Bly
- May 16: Urban Long Term Ecological Restoration (LTER) Project - Sarah Hobbie
- June 20: Bioretention: Where soil, plants and rainwater have a rootin’ good time! - Shirley Clark, Penn State Harrisburg.
- July: No seminar
- August 1: Does it age like a fine wine or are we having a midlife crisis?: Evaluating older bioretention system performance and soil evolution - Ryan Winston, Ohio State University
- September 10 (TUESDAY): Emerging policy issues that may influence future stormwater management efforts - Chris Kloss, USEPA
- October 23 (WEDNESDAY): Watershed-scale effectiveness of green stormwater infrastructure - Aditi Bhaskar, Colorado State University
- November 21: Moving towards multi-functional stormwater management systems - Lauren McPhillips, Penn State University
- December 19: National and Local Stormwater Technical Assistance and Implementation Funding - Travis Ostrom & Robyn DeYoung, USEPA.
Seminars
Funding and technical assistance for stormwater management and green infrastructure
This discussion will focus on funding and financing, technical assistance, EPA’s green infrastructure strategic agenda for 2035, and related resources available at the federal, regional, and state level to invest in our nation’s stormwater infrastructure.
Moving towards multi-functional stormwater management systems
This keynote will discuss work examining inventories of stormwater control measures from cities across the US, seeking to understand some of the influences in the variability of preferred features, as well as in potential benefits.
Watershed-scale effectiveness of green stormwater infrastructure
This presentation will examine green stormwater infrastructure effectiveness at a watershed-scale.