Madison Chaos and Complex Systems Seminar

Spring 2014 Seminars

All seminars are Tuesday at 12:05 pm in 4274 Chamberlin Hall except as noted. Refreshments will be served.

Short List
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Abstracts

February 4, 2014

Predicting fate

Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College

Large quantities of agrochemicals are applied to farm fields every year.  What happens to them?  How are they transported and transformed?  How long do they last in the soil?  How rapidly do they move through soil to reach the ground water?  Where do they end up?

This has been studied after the chemicals have been applied.  In this talk I will describe the development of a series of laboratory procedures that attempt to predict the environmental fate of new agrochemicals before they are applied.
Predicting fate