Green Week Seminar - Not going with the flow: how human impacts are changing the carbon cycle
Join us for the annual UTS Green Week seminar hosted by the environmental science community in the School of Life Sciences.
Speaker: Dr James Hitchcock, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Water Quality Officer, NSW Department of Primary Industries | Water
Title: Not going with the flow: how human impacts to rivers are changing the carbon cycle
Humans have dramatically changed how rivers flow. We store so much water in dams that we have reduced potential sea level rise and changed the planets orbit.
Whilst dams provide benefits for drinking water supplies and irrigated agriculture, they have often come with great environmental, social and economic cost.
This talk will focus on the research conducted at UTS that is helping us understand how rivers influence both climate change and the carbon cycle, as well as food webs and fisheries. With the current Australian government encouraging a new era of dam building, now is an important moment to consider the benefits and risks of how we are managing our freshwater resources.
About the speaker:
JamesHitchcock is a UTS Alumnus and Peter Cullen PhD Scholar. His PhD research focused on the important role of environmental flows in the Bega River Estuary. A central part of his work has been bridging the gap between water management and science by increasing the scientific knowledge around how hydrology influences carbon cycling and the impact on food webs in estuaries
