<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">The CEES Seminar Series presents:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Beryl Kahn, </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PhD Student CUNY Grad Center</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Environmental Stressors as Controls on Nitrogen Removal and Recycling in Urban Salt Marshes</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">As climate change continues to threaten coastal areas with increased flooding, erosion, and habitat conversion, urban wetland areas increasingly serve as key protective habitats against these threats. My research focuses on the impacts of environmental stressors such as acidification and habitat loss on the ecosystem services and functioning of urban salt marshes. In this talk, I explore the impacts of coastal acidification and marsh loss on the ecosystem service of denitrification (where reactive nitrogen is removed from the water column, a beneficial process in eutrophic urban waterways) and the conditions under which nitrogen removal may shift to retention/recycling through a competing process known as dissimilatory reduction of nitrate to ammonium (DNRA).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>Friday March 29th </b><b>  </b><b>3:30pm. </b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div><div><div><b>Hudson 106</b></div></div><div><b>Reception prior to the talk at 3:00</b></div></div><div><br></div><div><b>There is also a lunch for Students with Beryl at noon in Hud 155. All Students are welcome!</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>You can add the full seminar schedule to your <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y18xMDhkNjVlMjY1ZGVmNjI5MTU3NDJhNzU0ZmQyMTE4ZjBhNmRhYmJjNDg2MDE0MGU3NmUwMTU0YzNiOGFmZTQwQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20" target="_blank">Google Calendar</a><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div><div>You can also get weekly updates by following our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SUNYPlattsburghCEES" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cees_sunyplattsburgh/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> pages<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please advertise broadly and distribute to anyone you think might be interested.</div></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_ltna5tuq0" alt="Slide2.JPG" width="477" height="358" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><img src="cid:ii_ltna5tv61" alt="Slide1.JPG" width="477" height="358" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"></div></div></div>