Minnesota Stormwater Seminar Series

Mississippi river connecting downtown Minneapolis and St. Anthony Falls Lab.

Seminars are held monthly at 10 a.m.

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. 

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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

A simulated examination of stormwater sampling methods

Thursday, May 19, 2022 - 10 a.m.

To better understand the errors associated with stormwater sampling, U of M researchers built a numerical simulation of runoff sampling and examined accuracy for different types of idealized storms, pollutants, and samplers. 


Co-design sustainable, resilient, and just nature-based stormwater solutions with communities

Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 10 a.m.

Dr. Cheng brings case studies in convergence of natural and social sciences and integrating research, teaching, and practices for building sustainable, resilient, and just urban water systems with diverse and vulnerable communities in Honolulu, Hawai’i, and Phoenix metro area in Arizona.


Equipping municipalities with climate change data to inform stormwater management

Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 10 a.m.

This work documents the challenges of combining the methods; and created tools and techniques that can be applied to future iterations of climate change projections.


Advancing green infrastructure practices through CLASIC life cycle cost and triple bottom line benefit analysis

Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 10 a.m.

This presentation will feature the Community enabled Lifecycle Analysis of Stormwater Infrastructure Costs (CLASIC) and Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Benefits tools.


Pollutant removal and maintenance evaluation of underground sand filters

Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 11 a.m.

This study evaluated the performance of six underground sand filters within the Twin Cities Metro Area.