Schedule
Monday and Tuesday Symposium Talks and Posters
Hydrologic Sciences Student Research Symposium
2013 Schedule
Print version: see our 2013 Program (0.4 MB PDF)
WELCOME
The Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder welcomes you to the Eighth Annual Hydrologic Sciences Student Research Symposium. Thank you for joining us in showcasing the diversity of ongoing hydrologic research at the University of Colorado. Keynote speakers Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier, Dr. Patty Limerick and Dr. Patrick Belmont will address issues at the forefront of hydrology. Talks and posters from students and invited faculty include projects on the role of water in geologic and biogeochemical processes, ecosystems functions, decision-making, and global elemental cycling. Join us as we celebrate the future of hydrologic research.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
11am Monday
Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier: Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington-Seattle
4pm Monday March 18th
Dr. Patty Limerick: Faculty Director and Chair of the Board, Center of the American West, Professor of History, University of Colorado-Boulder
2:30pm Tuesday March 19th
Dr. Patrick Belmont, Assisstant Professor, Watershed Sciences, Utah State University
MONDAY, MARCH 18TH, 2013
All talks will be held in the Aspen Room (UMC 285)
| 10:30 | Coffee & Muffins/Registration | |
| 10:45 | Welcome Address | |
| 11:00 -12:00 | Dennis Lettenmaier* |
Climate change and the water resources of the western U.S. |
| 12:00 – 1:45 | Lunch/Poster Session (Free Pizza and Drinks) | |
| 1:45-2:00 | Sabre Duren |
Wetland Photochemistry as a Major Control on the Transport of Metals in an Acid Mine Drainage Impacted Watershed |
| 2:00-2:15 | Jessica Ebert |
Modeling Microbial Contributions to Dissolved Organic Matter Using Parallel Factor Analysis |
| 2:15-2:30 | Tyler Kohler |
Hydrologic controls on microbial mat communities in the McMurdo Dry Valley streams of Antarctica |
| 15 minute break | ||
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Stephanie Higgins |
Land subsidence at aquaculture facilities in the Yellow River Delta, China |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Keli Goodman |
The Aquatic Program at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) |
| 15 minute break | ||
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Justice Gregory Hobbs |
Into the Grand, the Four Corners of History, Poetry, The Law and Judging |
| 4:00-5:00 | Patty Limerick* |
A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water |
| 6:00 Dinner at Diane McKnight’s house | ||
TUESDAY, MARCH 19TH, 2013
All talks will be held in the Aspen Room (UMC 285)
| 9:00 | Coffee & Muffins/Registration | |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Pablo Mendoza |
Towards a better understanding of hydrologic sensitivity to climate change: impact of hydrologic model choices |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Naoki Mizukami |
Impact of Different Large-scale Hydrologic Model Forcing Data on Hydrologic Simulations over Mountainous Regions |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Leif Anderson |
The effects of interannual climate variability on paleoclimate estimates derived from glacial moraines |
| 15 minute break | ||
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Darren Larsen |
Asynchronous Little Ice Age Glacier Fluctuations in Iceland and Europe linked to subpolar North Atlantic circulation |
| 10:30– 10:45 | Brian Macpherson |
Enthalpy-Based Models for Ice Sheets and Improving Understanding of Cryo-Hydrologic Warming |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Benjamin Hudson |
Estimating Freshwater Discharge from the Greenland Ice Sheet with MODIS |
| 15 minute break | ||
| 11:15-11:30 | Laura Snider |
What is Newsworthy in Scientific Research? Perspectives from the CU Communications Office |
| 11:30-12:00 | Tom Yulsman |
Running Dry: Water and Journalism Both? |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch Round Table (Free sandwiches and Drinks) | |
| 1:00 -1:15 | Amy Piscopo |
Many-Objective Design of Engineered Injection and Extraction Sequences to Optimize In Situ Remediation of Contaminated Groundwater |
| 1:15 – 1:30 | Gregory Lackey |
Varying Stream Channel Conductance and its Effects on Stream Depletion Estimations |
| 1:30 – 1:45 | Warangkana Larbkich |
Introduction Of Solute Age To Assess Aquifer Vulnerability And Direct Simulation Of Mean Groundwater Age |
| 10 minute break | ||
| 1:55 – 2:10 | Jessica Dehart |
Fate and Transport of 8 Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Organic Compounds |
| 2:10 – 2:25 | Michael Fitch |
Hydraulic Fracturing Water Usage: Activist Perceptions and the Controversial Technique |
| 5 minute break | ||
| 2:30 – 3:30 | Patrick Belmont* |
Landscape Erosion and Sediment Routing Under Non-stationary Hydrologic Conditions |
| 3:30 | Student Prizes Awarded | |
| 4:00 Happy Hour for students and invited speakers (At the Med) | ||
POSTERS
| # | Presenter | Title |
| 1. | Daniel Broman |
Climatic Variability of the West African Monsoon and its Influence on Meningococcal Meningitis Susceptibility |
| 2. | Logan Callihan |
Robust Decision Strategies for Climate Change Assessment |
| 3. | Kelsey Cody |
Climate Change, Growth, and Regional Integration: Lessons for Municipal and Industrial Water Providers |
| 4. | Lianne Daugherty |
Application of Stochastic Weather Generator based Seasonal Ensemble Streamflow Forecasts to Water Resources Management |
| 5. | Brian Ebel |
Wildfire and hillslope aspect impacts on subsurface hydrologic response |
| 6. | Solomon Erkyihun |
Modeling Large Scale Climate Indicators Using Wavelet-based Time Series Method |
| 7. | Sarah Evans |
Sensing Vegetation Growth and Senescence with Reflected GPS Signals |
| 8. | Shahen Huda |
Modeling the Effects of Bed Topography on Fluvial Erosion by Saltating Bed Load |
| 9. | Roseanna Neupauer |
An Adjoint Approach to Estimating Stream Depletion |
| 10. | Nadine Reitman |
3D modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport in a watershed underlain by salt deposits in southeast Utah |
| 11. | Dominik Schneider |
A regression-based approach for blending remotely sensed and in-situ snow water equivalent estimates in the Colorado River Basin |
| 12. | Robert Semborski |
Small Scale Spatial Variations Within the Snowpack on Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research Site |
| 13. | Eli Townsend |
Correlating the spectroscopic properties of organic matter to the photochemical formation of hydroxyl radical in natural waters |
| 14. | Julia Traylor |
Optimal Initial Configuration of Treatment Solution for In Situ Remediation with Engineered Injection and Extraction in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Aquifers |
| 15. | Yanto Yanto |
Investigating ENSO Signal in Ciliwung Streamflow Variability, Jakarta, Indonesia |
SPONSORS
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering • Geography • Geological Sciences • Environmental Studies • Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research • CU Graduate School
MANY THANKS TO:
The planning committee: Sara Tabatabaie, Bill Szafranski, Ben Livneh, Katya Hafich, Kaelin Cawley, Rebecca Smith, Abby Kuranz, Rachel Gabor, Logan Callihan, Brian Buma, and Andy Wickert for organizing the symposium.
Faculty Advisors: John Pitlick, and Diane McKnight for advising.
STUDENT PRIZES DONATED BY
AMEC Earth & Environmental is AMEC’s full-service engineering, environmental, and construction management division. AMEC’s Colorado offices have provided quality water resources management services throughout the state of Colorado since 1983. Our Colorado offices are staffed with civil/drainage/water resources engineers, water system and hydrologic modelers, geoscientists, environmental scientists, planners, and GIS and CAD specialists. These specialists form multi-disciplinary teams to unlock value for our clients. Our success is built upon maintaining the “best in industry staff”, providing technical innovation, and delivery of cost effective solutions.
Prior Schedules
To get a sense of past symposia, you can look at our Past Symposia page and Abstracts Archive
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Chris Jaros measuring high flow, Harnish Creek, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, 2002. Photo: Lee Turner (INSTAAR).
