Programs and Events

Here is a list of upcoming graduate seminar programs and events that the department would like for the graduate students to attend.


Jan 23
Cara Cowan Watts, BAE graduate student
Title: Scholarship 101: How to Find & Apply for School Dollars


Jan 30
Dr. Josh Payne, Area Animal Waste Management Specialist, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Okmulgee, Muskogee.
Title: Poultry Litter: Waste or Resource?


Feb 6
Ranji Vaidyanathan, Ph. D, P. E., Professor and Director, New Product Development Center
Title: TBA


Feb 13
David A. Sabatini, PhD, PE
David Ross Boyd Professor and Sun Oil Company Chair, Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Adjunct Professor – Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering Director, The WaTER Center Associate Director, The Institute for Applied Surfactant Research, The University of Oklahoma
Title: Advanced Surfactant Microemulsion Technologies: From Subsurface Remediation to Oilseed Extraction for Biodiesel


Feb 20
Dr. Elliott, Department Head, BAE
Title: The Oklahoma Mesonet: Evolution of a World-Class Weather Network

Al Sutherland, Assistant Extension Specialist, BAE
Title: Weather Engineered for Agriculture


Feb 27
Rex H. Ishmael, PE, Former BAE graduate, Halliburton.
Title: TBA


March 5
Garey A. Fox, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor, BAE
Title: Pathogen Transport to Subsurface Drains through Macropores


March 12
Steven E. Bond, BAE Graduate student
Title: Plant induced rhizospheric changes in bioretention cells


March 26
Anusha Panneerselvam , BAE Graduate student
Title: TBA

Vania Pradipta, BAE Graduate student
Title: Enzymatic hydrolysis of sweet sorghum


April 2
Heather Fahlenkamp, PhD, Assistant Professor, OSU, School of Chemical Engineering
Title: TBA


April 9
John Fuchs, BAE Graduate student
Title: “Potential Subsurface Transport of Phosphorus in Riparian Floodplains: Tracer and Phosphorus Transport Experiments”

Rachel Cancienne, BAE Graduate student
Title: TBA


April 16
J.D. Carlson, Associate Researcher, BAE
Title: Mesonet research