To showcase faculty and student research to other faculty members and others interested in water-related research. Oral presentations These will be 10-15 minutes long with 2-5 minutes for audience questions. All oral presentations will use a single projector with PowerPoint software. An overhead projector will be available if requested. Abstracts should include the PI or co-PIs, other collaborators, name of the presenting author, presentation title, and an abstract of the presentation not to exceed 300 words. Individuals may submit more than one abstract, either on their own or in conjunction with others. Deadline to submit an abstract for oral presentation is 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 31. Accepted authors will be notified in early August. Competition for oral presentations is expected to be strong; if you'd also like to have your abstract considered for the poster session please indicate this on your submission. We will have the capacity to bring in speakers via satellite, so faculty outside of Lincoln can present without being on East Campus. If you’d like to do a distance presentation, please mention this in your submission. Poster Presentations Poster size will be a maximum of 4 ft x 8 ft. Authors will need to put their posters on display by 8:15 a.m. on the day of the Water Colloquium. At least one author is required to be present during the poster session, which is scheduled for an extended lunch hour. Abstracts should include the PI or co-PIs, other collaborators, name of the author(s) who will be present during the poster session, poster title, and an abstract describing the research not to exceed 300 words. Deadline to submit an abstract is Noon Friday, September 7. Accepted authors will be notified no later than Friday, September 14. Students are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations. All abstracts are to be submitted by email to lbenson2@unl.edu. Any questions please call Lorrie Benson @ 472-7372

Adam Houston, University of Nebraska-Lincoln "Criticality: A Theory for Understanding and Forecasting Deep Convective Initiation"

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