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: Lauren McPhillips
Seminars
Road salt impacts: Stormwater, surface water, groundwater, ecosystems and drinking water supplies
Understanding the factors that control chloride (and sodium) concentrations is essential to inform efforts to improve deicing salt application practices and reduce impacts on ecosystems and drinking water quality.
Infiltration as a stormwater management practice
This seminar will focus on some of the challenges in using infiltration as a stormwater management practice, discuss ways to address some of those challenges, and highlight current research, efforts, and resources available to practitioners and professionals.
Street sweeping for water quality: A panel discussion
The November 10th Research Spotlight will invite a leading street sweeping researcher, staff from the MPCA, and two professionals applying the research directly into their work to discuss the latest research, pollution credits, and the next steps in street sweeping research.