Schedule
Thursday and Friday meeting
2009 Student Research Symposium
Thursday and Friday, April 2-3, 2009.
All events in CIRES Auditorium.
- Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
- Geography
- Geological Sciences
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Environmental Studies
Winners of the 2009 student prizes:
Samuel Dorsi - Poster
Bailey Simone - Poster
Rachel Gabor - Presentation
Darren Larsen - Presentation
Student prizes provided by AMEC
Summary Schedule
Thursday, April 02 (CIRES Auditorium)
12:00 Keynote Address by Vijay Gupta
1:00 Lunch
1:30 Session 1: Groundwater, Sediment Transport and Water Quality
2:45 Session 2: Extraterrestrial Water Investigations
4:00 Keynote Address by Adrian Brown
5:00 Reception (Atrium)
Friday, April 03 (CIRES Auditorium)
8:30 Coffee & Bagels
9:00 Session 3: Hydrology and Water Resources Management
10:15 Session 4: Nuisance Diatoms in Boulder Creek
11:15 Session 5: Poster Session
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Session 6: Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research I
1:45 Session 7: Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research II
3:00 Keynote Address by Mike Gooseff
4:00 Award Student Prizes
Keynote Speakers
Vijay Gupta, CIRES, CU-Boulder
12:00 Thursday, April 02
Multi-scale Dynamical Understanding of Statistical Scale Invariance in Floods and Riparian Evapotranspiration in River Networks
Adrian Brown, NASA AMES Research Center and SETI
4:00 Thursday, April 02
How water in extreme locations helps to control the current climate on Mars
Mike Gooseff, Penn State University
3:00 Friday, April 03
Hydrology at the Bottom of the World - A Key Influence of Ecosystem Dynamics in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Detailed Schedule
Thursday, April 02, 2009
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| 12:00 | Vijay Gupta |
Opening Address: Hydro-Kansas Research Project: Multi-scale Dynamical Understanding of Statistical Scale Invariance in Floods and Riparian Evapotranspiration on River Networks | |
| 1:00 | LUNCH | ||
| 1:30 | Session 1: Groundwater, Sediment Transport and Water Quality | ||
| 1:30 | Roseanna Neupauer |
Groundwater Mixing using Pulsed Dipole Injection/Extraction Wells | |
| 1:45 | Tony LaGreca |
Fine Grain Sediment Transport Over a Coarse Grain Gravel Bed: Flushing The Fines | |
| 2:00 | Thomas Detmer |
A Snapshot of Water Quality Across Rocky Mountain National Park | |
| 2:15 | Jeff Writer |
Occurrence, Fate, and Ecosystem Implications of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Select Rivers of Minnesota | |
| 2:30 | BREAK | ||
| 2:45 | Session 2: Extraterrestrial Water Investigations | ||
| 2:45 | Adrienne Dove |
Observations and Modeling of Terrestrial Snowpacks to Constrain Martian Snowpack Models | |
| 3:00 | Brian Hynek |
Assessing the History of Water on Mars through Global Analysis of Valley Networks | |
| 3:15 | Monica Hoke |
Roaming Zones of Precipitation on Ancient Mars as Recorded in Valley Networks | |
| 3:30 | Candice Hansen |
Water Vapor Jets in Enceladus’ plume | |
| 3:45 | BREAK | ||
| 4:00 | Adrian Brown |
Keynote Address:How Water in Extreme Locations Helps to Control the Current Climate on Mars | |
| 5:00 | RECEPTION | ||
| 7:00 | Social Event (RSVP required) | ||
Friday, April 03, 2009
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| 8:30 | COFFEE/BAGELS | ||
| 9:00 | Session 3: Hydrology and Water Resources Management | ||
| 9:00 | Subhrendu Gangopadhyay |
Non-parametric Paleo-reconstruction of Lees Ferry Annual Streamflow Ensembles | |
| 9:15 | Ken Nowak |
Water Supply Risk on the Colorado River: Can Management Mitigate? | |
| 9:30 | Albin Gasiewski |
Results of Operational Near Real-Time Radiometric Soil Moisture Imaging in CLASIC 2007 | |
| 9:45 | Jose Solis |
Evapotranspiration Depletion Of Saltcedar Managed Areas In The New Mexico Arid Environment Along The Rio Grande | |
| 10:00 | BREAK | ||
| 10:15 | Session 4: Nuisance Diatoms in Boulder Creek | ||
| 10:15 | James Cullis |
The Impact of Bed Disturbance on the Growth of the Nuisance Diatom Didymosphenia geminata in Boulder Creek | |
| 10:30 | Richard Ianniello |
Effects of Simulated Flood Disturbances on Didymosphenia geminata | |
| 10:45 | Rachel McLoughlin |
Characterization of Water Chemistry in the Presence of Didymosphenia geminata Growth in Boulder Creek | |
| 11:00 | Aimee McLaughlin |
The Effect of Nuisance Diatom Growth on Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities | |
| 11:15 | Session 5: Poster Session | ||
Friday Poster Session (begins 11:15)
| John Adler |
Supraglacial Lake Volumes on the Jakobshavn Isbrae |
| Katherine Beggs |
Fluorescence and Disinfection Byproducts: Applications in the Drinking Water Field |
| Andrew Bock |
Cartographic Models to Characterize Changes in Fluvial Landscapes |
| Kaelin Cawley |
Fluorescence properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM) produced by a mixotrophic dinoflagellate *Alexandrium fundyense* |
| Rory Cowie |
Application of distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing to study surface/groundwater interactions in a mountain catchment |
| Gaetano Di Achille |
Global distribution of deltas and implications for an ancient ocean on Mars |
| Matthew Dillin |
Using Wavelet Analysis to Investigate Statistical Properties in Hydraulic Conductivity Fields and Hydraulic Head Fields |
| Timothy Dittrich |
Role of Desorption Kinetics and Porous Medium Heterogeneity in Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Cesium and Strontium: Preliminary Results |
| Samuel Dorsi |
Estimating the Sea Level Contribution of Glaciers in High Mountain Asia using GRACE |
| Albin Gasiewski |
Airborne Soil Moisture Mapping in Support of Relief Efforts in Texas during Flooding Events of 2007 |
| Daniel McGrath |
Sediment Plumes in Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland as a proxy for run-off from the Greenland Ice Sheet |
| Alan Moreira |
Identifying Material Property Boundaries From LIDAR Data Using Wavelet Analysis |
| Jordan Parman |
Inorganic and organic content of dust on snow in the Colorado Front Range, USA |
| Jennifer Petrzelka |
Three-dimensional quantification of meltwater flow through a snowpack using a snow guillotine |
| Thomas Phillips |
Melt water influence on en-glacial temperature distribution |
| Bailey Simone |
Chemical Characteristics of Dissolved Humic Substances From Arsenic-Rich Shallow Groundwater in Bangladesh |
| Michael Soltys |
Interactions Between Two Turbulent Passive Scalar Plumes Using A Novel Two-Dye Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence System |
| David Wiese |
Mission Architectures for Measuring Hydrology using Satellites |
Friday Afternoon Sessions
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| 12:30 | Session 6: Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research I | |
| 12:30 | Diane McKnight |
Water Availability Controls on Community Structure of an Ephemeral Meltwater Stream Ecosystem in the McMurdo Dry Valleys |
| 12:45 | Lee Stanish |
Seasonal Changes in Benthic Diatom Community Composition in an Antarctic Stream Related to Stream Flow |
| 1:00 | Joshua Koch |
Linking Unsteady Flow, Hyporheic Dynamics and Biogeochemistry in a Glacial Meltwater Stream |
| 1:15 | Adina Racoviteanu |
Estimating Runoff in Glacier-covered Watersheds in the Nepal Himalaya using Area-altitude Distributed Models |
| 1:30 | BREAK | |
| 1:45 | Session 6: Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research II | |
| 1:45 | Natalie Mladenov |
Global Scale Climatic and Atmospheric Influences on the Chemical Character of Dissolved Organic Matter in Alpine and Remote Lakes |
| 2:00 | Rachel Gabor |
The Impact of Wildfire on Mobilization and Chemistry of Dissolved Organic Material in the Arctic Tundra |
| 2:15 | Tisza Bell |
A Shift in Diatom Species Regime due to Increased Phosphorous Associated with the Thaw of Alpine Permafrost |
| 2:30 | Darren Larsen |
A 3ka Record of Annually Resolved Climate and Ice Sheet Activity from Glacial Lake Hvitarvatn, Iceland |
| 2:45 | BREAK | |
| 3:00 | Michael Gooseff |
Keynote Address:Hydrology at the Bottom of the World - A Key Influence of Ecosystem Dynamics in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica |
| 4:00 | Award Student Prizes! |
Image
Chris Jaros measuring high flow, Harnish Creek, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, 2002. Photo: Lee Turner (INSTAAR).
