Here’s the link to the announcement.
From email from Gigi Richards (Mesa State College):
Land use change, water use, and water-quality in the Lower Gunnison and Grand Valleys
Ken Leib, Western Colorado Studies Section Chief and Hydrologist, US Geological SurveyThe presentation will focus on water-quality issues associated with irrigation and development in the Lower Gunnsison and Grand Valleys. Specifically the presentation will touch on salinity and selenium issues and the mechanisms that cause mobilization of these constituents. Sedimentary formations and soils derived from these formations will be discussed along with a conceptual model of soil water interaction. Also included will be specific research by the USGS that documents the effect of land use on water-quality and also trends observed in salinity and selenium at selected USGS streamflow gaging stations.
Ken Leib has a B.S. degree in Watershed Management from Colorado State University. He has worked for the USGS in Western Colorado for 15 years. His background includes work on issues related to abandon mines, oil and gas impacts, and salinity and selenium characterization.
Seminars are free and open to the public, no registration necessary.
For the entire seminar series schedule, please see: http://home.mesastate.edu/~grichard/WSS/Seminar2010.html
For more information please contact:
Prof. Gigi Richard, 970.248.1689, grichard@mesastate.edu
Prof. Tamera Minnick, 970.248.1663, tminnick@mesastate.edu
More Gunnison River basin coverage here. More Colorado River basin coverage here.