Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2015

March 23 - March 25, 2015
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Program at a Glance
8 am
Registration
8 am
Posters
8 am
Posters
           
8:45 am
Eco-Hydrology
9 am
Water Supply
   
8:30 am
8:30 am
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
10:30 am
Eco-Hydrology
10:15 am
Water Supply
9:30 am
Erosion and Sedimentation
   
10:00 am
9:30 am
12 - 2 pm

Lunch
Borland Lecture in Hydrology
12 - 2 pm
Lunch
Hydrology Days Award Lecture
12 - 2 pm
Lunch
Borland Lecture in Hydraulics
2 pm
Climate - Precipitation Extremes
2 pm
Hydraulics - CFD
2 pm
Watershed Modeling - Model Integration
     
 
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
4 pm
Contaminant - Fate and Transport
4 pm
Stream and Lake Water Quality
3:45 pm
Ungaged Basins - Urban Hydrology
 
     
Adjourn
Adjourn
Hydrology Days Ends
   
Hydrology Days 2015
Program
 
Monday
Date Time Session
March 23 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 23 8:45 am Eco-Hydrology - Interdisciplinary WATER research
   

Chair: Professor José L. Chávez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  8:45 Assessment of Imjin Riverine Wetland Function Using Hydrogeomorphic Method
    Seungjin Hong, Taekmin Kim, Duck Hwan Kim, Dae Gun Han, Changhyun Choi, Hung Soo Kim
Department of Civil Engineering, Inha University, Korea
     
  9:00 Analysis of Relationship between Inundation Depth of Flow Duration and Plant Habitat
    Jung Wook Kim, Dae Wung Lee, Yon Soo Kim, Seung Jin Hong, Hyung Soo Kwon, Hung Soo Kim
Department of Civil Engineering, Inha University, Korea
     
  9:15 Estimation of sensible heat flux of a drip-irrigated vineyard using the aerodynamic temperature model in Talca-Chile
    Marcos Carrasco-Benavides, Samuel Ortega-Farías, Luis Morales-Salinas and José L. Chávez
Department of Agricultural Sciences, Catholic University of Maule, Chile; E-Mail: mcarrascob@ucm.cl
     
  9:30 Monolithic weighing lysimeter-based alfalfa evapotranspiration rates evaluation using micrometeorological instruments
    Abhinaya Subedi, José L. Chávez, Allan A. Andales
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:45 Evaluation of Water Stress Coefficient Methods to Estimate Actual Corn Evapotranspiration in Colorado
    Emily G. Kullberg, José L. Chávez, and Kendall DeJonge
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:00 Mapping evapotranspiration at high resolutions using the Surface aerodynamic temperature model and airborne multispectral remote sensing data
    M. Semin Barlak, José L. Chávez, Prasanna H. Gowda, and Steven R. Evett
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 23 10:15 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 23 10:30 am Eco-Hydrology - Interdisciplinary WATER research
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
I-WATER 10:30 Systematic river restoration planning
    David M. Martin, Virgilio Hermoso, Francis Pantus, Jon Olley, Simon Linke, N. LeRoy Poff
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 10:45 Lake-effect snowpack decreases the wintertime mortality of Miscanthus × giganteus in Michigan
    Gavin R. Roy
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 11:00 Developing GAMs to Identify Algal Biomass Controls in Mid-Atlantic Streams
    Whitney S. Beck
Department of Biology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 11:15 Flow reconstruction and fluvial geomorphic potential for cottonwood dendrochronology
    Derek M. Schook, Sara L. Rathburn, Jonathan M. Friedman
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Evaluation of Optimal Hourly Stomatal Control using Dynamic Programming
    Jonathan A. Quebbeman and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Vegetation Dynamics under States of Co-limitation and Constrained Resources
    Jonathan A. Quebbeman and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
March 23 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydrology - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Soil moisture dynamics and stoichiometry controls on soil nutrient cycling

Professor Amilcare Porporato
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
     
   
March 23 2:00 pm Climate - Precipitation Extremes - Stochastic & Probabilistic Approaches
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
I-WATER 2:00 Simulating the 2012 High Plains drought using three single column models (SCM)
    Isaac D. Medina, Scott Denning, Ian T. Baker, Don Dazlich
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Investigating drought areal extent through Severity-Area-Probability curves
    Brunella Bonaccorso, David J. Peres, Antonino Cancelliere
Department of Civil, Computer, Construction and Environmental Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Messina, Italy
     
  2:30 Teleconnections between the ENSO and Precipitation Patterns over South Korea
    Jai-Hong Lee and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Wavelet-based Time Series Bootstrap Model for Multi-decadal Streamflow Simulation Using Climate Indicators
    Solomon Tassew Erkyihun, Balaji Rajagopalan and Edith Zagona
Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
  3:00 Temporal and spatial signatures of ENSO on the Indian summer monsoon from 1901-2009
    Emily C. Gill, Balaji Rajagopalan and Peter H. Molnar
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
     
  3:15 A Generalized Spatio-temporal Framework for Climate Informed Extreme Precipitation Analysis
    Linyin Cheng, Balaji Rajagopalan, Cameron Bracken, Amir AghaKouchak
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO
     
  3:30 A Spatial Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Approach for Precipitation Extremes
    Cameron Bracken, Balaji Rajagopalan, Linyin Cheng and Subhrendu Gangopadhyay
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
     
     
March 23 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 23 4:00 pm Sub-surface Fate and Transport
   

Co-Chairs: Professor Thomas C. Sale and Professor Ryan T Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  4:00 Application of cryogenic core collection at non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) contaminated sites
    Saeed Kiaalhosseini, Thomas C. Sale, Richard L. Johnson, Richard Rogers
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:15 Use of Subsurface Heat Fluxes to Evaluate Continuous Loss Rates of LNAPL
    Emily Stockwell and Thomas C. Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Natural Rate of LNAPL Losses under Anaerobic Conditions
    Eric Emerson, Susan De Long and Thomas C. Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Method Development for Long-Term Laboratory Studies Evaluating Contaminant Assimilation Processes in Low-k Zones
    Rachael L. McSpadden, Mitchell R. Olson and Thomas C. Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 Standardized hydraulic conductivity testing of compacted sand-bentonite mixtures used for groundwater protection
    Shan Tong and Charles D. Shackelford
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:15 Identifying the principal chemical processes governing fate and transport of selenium and nitrate in the stream-aquifer system of the Lower Arkansas River Valley, Colorado
    Ravi Kumar Tummalapenta and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Development of GUI tools for optimizing fluid management in shale oil and gas operations
    Farnaz Shoaei and Kimberly B. Catton
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:45 Preliminary Assessment of Salinity Transport Modeling in an Agricultural Groundwater System
    Saman Tavakoli and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 23 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Tuesday
Date Time Session
March 24 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 24 9:00 am Water Supply - Water Management
   

Chair: Professor Steven R. Fassnacht
Department of EcoSystem Science and Sustainability, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  9:00 Review of the 2014 Water Year in Colorado
    Nolan Doesken and Wendy Ryan
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  9:15 Patterns of Snowmelt Rates Across the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.
    Amanda N. Weber and Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  9:30 Trends in accumulation and melt of seasonal snow in Rocky Mountain National Park
    Glenn G. Patterson and Steven R. Fassnacht
EASC-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  9:45 Russian River Tributaries Water Budget Modeling
    Christopher M. Fields, John W. Labadie and Lynn E. Johnson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:00 Subsurface Water Storage Assessment Model
    Abdulaziz A. Alqahtani and Thomas C. Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 24 10:15 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 24 10:30 am Water Supply - Water Management
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  10:30 Water as a human right: antecedents, meaning, and challenges of implementation
    Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 Estimation of Future Freshwater Supply of Micronesian Atoll Islands using Simulated Climate Data
    Corey D. Wallace and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Using environmental variables to spatially downscale GRACE observed changes in terrestrial water storage anomalies
    Muhammad Ukasha and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 A Strategy to Conserve Agricultural Water Use in Colorado’s Front Range Region
    Manijeh Mahmoudzadeh Varzi and Ramchand Oad
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Determination of the annual water supply allocation for the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
    Andrew M. Pineda
Water Resources Department Manager, Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
     
  11:45 An Evaluation of the Northern Integrated Supply Project: Feasibility of Filling Glade Reservoir
    Kelsey Dudziak, Clint Kimbrell, John Labadie
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
   
March 24 8:30 am High Park Fire
   

Chair: Professor Lee H MacDonald
Department of Eco-System Science and Sustainability, CSU

North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
I-WATER 8:30 Mulch effects on runoff and sediment production at the hillslope scale in the High Park Fire
    Codie Wilson, Stephanie Kampf, Lee H MacDonald and Joe Wagenbrenner
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  8:45 Effects of High Park Fire on road surface erosion and road-stream connectivity
    Gabriel Sosa-Perez and Lee H. MacDonald
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  9:00 Estimating and comparing two extreme post-wildfire peak flows in the Colorado Front Range
    Daniel J. Brogan, Peter A. Nelson and Lee H. MacDonald
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:15 Suspended sediment loads in the South Fork Cache la Poudre following the High Park fire
    Sandra Ryan, Mark Dixon and Sara Rathburn
US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO
     
  9:30 Mechanisms and controls on post-fire in-channel sediment transport and storage, South Fork Cache-La Poudre basin, CO
    Scott Shahverdian, Sara Rathburn, Sandra Ryan-Burkett
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
     
March 24 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 24 10:00 am High Park Fire
   

Chair: Professor Lee H MacDonald
Department of Eco-System Science and Sustainability, CSU

North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 Stream Nutrient and Carbon Consequences of the 2012 High Park Fire
    Chuck Rhoades, Derek Pierson, Sandra Ryan-Burkett, Mark Dixon, Jill Oropeza, Jared Heath, Tim Covino and Stephanie Kampf
US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO
     
  10:15 Transport of Black Carbon Across the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface Following Wildfire: Contributions of Short and Long-term Controls
    Claudia M. Boot, M.F. Cotrufo, M. L. Haddix, S. Schmeer, S. Kampf, D. Brogan, P. Nelson, C.C. Rhoades, S. Ryan-Burkett, S. Rathburn, and E. K. Hall
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Wildfire Impacts on Water Quality, Macroinvertebrates and Trout: An Initial Survey After the West Fork Complex Fire in the Upper Rio Grande
    Ashley J. Rust, Jackie Randall, and Terri Hogue
Hydrologic Sciences and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
     
  10:45 High Park Fire: Key Lessons and What’s Next?
    Lee H. MacDonald and High Park Fire Team
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
   
March 24 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Hydrology Days Award Lecture - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Hydrologic Sciences on the Edge: The Revolution in Sensing and Strategies

Professor Scott W. Tyler
Geological Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno
     
   
March 24 2:00 pm Hydraulics - Computational Fluid Dynamics
   

Chair: Professor Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Lessons learned from the bluestone dam inflow design flood update
    N. Koutsunis , D. Moses, K. Halstead, and D. Margo
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Towards a New Classification of Rivers based on Generic Gage Height-Discharge Rating Curves for Low-Cost Estimation of Stream Discharge
    Jeremiah B. Rundall, Benjamin E. Parsons, Steven H. Emerman, Michael R. Jorgensen
Department of Physics, Utah Valley University
     
  2:30 Evaluation of the standard k-ε closure scheme for modelling stably stratified wall-bounded turbulence
    Amrapalli Garanaik, Farid Karimpour and Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Mixing in Stably Stratified Wall-Bounded Turbulence
    Farid Karimpour and Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 Numerical simulation of intrusive gravity currents past obstacles in a continuously stratified ambient
    Jian Zhou and Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 Impact of Geometric Design on Mixing Efficiency in Hydraulic Contact Tanks: Sharp Inlets and Baffle Opening Lengths
    Jeremy S. Carlston and Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 An evaluation of 2-D vs 3-D hydraulic analyses investigating the effects of whitewater parks on fish passage
    Erin R. Ryan, Timothy A. Stephens, and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 24 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 24 4:00 pm Stream and Lake Water Quality
   

Chair: Professor Steven H. Emmerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
I-WATER 4:00 Investigating the coupled effects of climate change and nitrogen on lake periphyton
    Isabella A. Oleksy, Jill S. Baron
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 4:15 Prediction system for nitrogen deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park
    Aaron J Piña, Russ S Schumacher, Brock Faulkner, and A. Scott Denning
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Arsenic and Heavy Metals in Backyard Wells in Utah Valley, Utah
    Sterling M. Roberts, Anthony C. Bradford, Neal B. Christiansen, Skyler K. Tulley, Kyle D. Sills, Lawrence T. Kellum, Jake V. Sorensen, and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University
     
  4:45 Geochemical Survey of the Sevier River for Assessing the Gold- and Uranium-Bearing Potential of the Mount Belknap Volcanics, South-Central Utah
    McKay Nelsen, Brock O. Howell, Norman D. Christiansen, Steven H. Emerman, and Steven A. Fellows
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University
     
  5:00 Numerical Simulation of Transport of Mine Tailings in the Watershed of Utah Lake, Utah
    Joshua S. McNeff, Bret K. Huffaker, Rick J. Lines, Kevin R. Slater, and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University
     
  5:15 How Do Hyporheic Zones Mediate Stream Solute Loads? Using Antarctic Glacial Melt Streams to Simplify the Problem
    Adam N. Wlostowski, Michael N. Gooseff, Diane McKnight
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Physical and biological removal of nitrate along a Colorado montane headwater stream: Understanding the role of bidirectional hydrologic exchange at various spatial and temporal scales
    Erika Smull and Michael Gooseff
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:45 Potential impacts of hydrologic changes on nutrient loads in the South Platte River Basin
    Ryan W. Webb, Misti D. Sharp, and Benjamin C. Von Thaden
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
   
March 24 6:00pm Deadbeat Dams
   

Daniel P Beard
Former Commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Lory Student Center Theater
     
  6:00 Deadbeat Dams
    Daniel P Beard
Former Commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
     
     
March 24 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Wednesday
Date Time Session
March 25 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 25 9:30 am Latin America
   

Chair: Professor Ed Hall
Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, CSU

North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  9:30 Niche Shift and Potential Distribution of an Invasive Freshwater Diatom (Didymosphenia geminata) in Southern Chile
    Sunil Kumar, Vivian Montecino, Ximena Molina, María L.C. Castillo, and Ramiro O. Bustamante
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
     
  9:45 Colorado State University Chapter of Engineers Without Borders: Potable Water Supply and Distribution in La Criba, El Salvador
    Christopher Bareither, Brennan Lutkewitte, Cody Oser, Tessa Alford, Gabe Neymark, Griselda Landa-Posas and Teigan Gulliver
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:00 Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow Cover in the Andes Mountains
    Freddy Saavedra and Stephanie Kampf
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 A conceptual framework and preliminary evidence on evaluating net effects of watershed service payments on coupled natural-human systems in Mexico
    Kelly W. Jones, Heidi Asbjornsen, Alex Mayer, Theresa Selfa, Kathleen Halvorsen, Russ Congalton, Randall Kolka, Leonardo Saenz
Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Evaluation of alternative weather forcing for hydrologic modeling in tropical basins of Puerto Rico
    D. Auerbach, Z. Easton, A. Flecker, M.T. Walters, D. Fuka
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
     
I-WATER 10:45 Organic carbon storage in steep mountain streams of Chile
    Nicholas A. Sutfin, Bridget K. Livers, Ellen Wohl, Fernando Ugalde, and Luca Mao
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
   
March 25 9:30 am Erosion - Sedimentation
   

Chair: Professor Pierre Y Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  9:30 GIS-Based Soil Erosion Modeling and Sediment Yield of the N’djili River Basin, Democratic Republic of Congo
    Patrick Ndolo Goy and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:45 Testing the Accelerated Erosion Model for Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Himalaya
    Sarah M. Allen, McKenzie M. Ranney, Chid J. Murphy, Santosh Adhikari, Suman Pandey, Steven H. Emerman and Steven A. Fellows
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University
     
  10:00 Optimization of Sangju Weir operations to minimize sedimentation problems
    Hwa Young Kim and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 Numerical experiments on the effects of channel width, unsteady flow, and sediment supply on gravel-bed river morphodynamics
    Jacob A. Morgan and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 10:30 Magnitude and Frequency of Sediment Transport in Alluvial Channels
    Joel S Sholtes, Brian P Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 Applying Screening Tools to Speed the Evaluation of Uncertainty in Sediment Transport Models
    Youngjai Jung, Jeffrey D. Niemann and Blair P. Greimann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Estimation of Sediment Quantity of the Al-Meshkab Regulator Channel
    Haider Addab and Saleh I. Khassaf Al-Saadi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 When do we need a snorkel? Practical lessons learned on monitoring cobble-bed rivers often barely-wadeable at low flows
    Daniel W. Baker and Stephen K Adams
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Gravel transport and flow competence curves in mountain streams vary systematically with basin, channel, flow, and bedmaterial characteristics
    Kristin Bunte, Steven R. Abt, Kurt W. Swingle and Dan A. Cenderelli
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
March 25 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydraulics - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    The Critical Flow Hypothesis Revisited – a 20 Year Retrospective

Dr. Professor Gordon Grant
USDA Forest Service and College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
     
   
March 25 2:00 pm Watershed Modeling - Model Integration
   

Chair: Professor Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 The Model Optimization, Uncertainty, and SEnsitivity Analysis (MOUSE) Toolbox: Overview and Application
    James C. Ascough II, Christian Fischer, Nathan Lighthart, Olaf David, Timothy R. Green, Sven Kralisch
USDA-ARS-NPA, Agricultural Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO
     
I-WATER 2:15 Noninvasive support for interdisciplinary model integration
    Andre Q. Dozier, Olaf David, Mazdak Arabi, Wes Lloyd, and Yao Zhang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 2:30 Watershed-scale modeling of riparian biogeochemistry: a hydrologic connectivity framework
    Rosemary M. Records, Mazdak Arabi, Steven R. Fassnacht, and Ryan T. Bailey
Watershed Science – Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Assessment of Input Uncertainty Using IPEAT
    Haw Yen and Jaehak Jeong
Grassland, Soil & Water Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Temple, Texas
     
  3:00 The spatially-distributed AgroEcoSystem-Watershed (AgES-W) hydrologic/water quality (H/WQ) model for assessment of conservation effects
    James C. Ascough II, Timothy R. Green, Olaf David, Holm Kipka, and Gregory S. McMaster
USDA-ARS-PA, Agricultural Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO
     
  3:15 Modeling the Hydrology of Watersheds over Java Island, Indonesia
    Mas Yanto, Ben Livneh and Balaji Rajagopalan
Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering University of Colorado, Boulder
     
     
March 25 3:30 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 25 3:45 pm Ungaged Basins - Urban Hydrology - Flooding
   

Chair: Professor Pierre Y Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  3:45 The influence of different calibration criteria on a rainfall-runoff model’s ability to predict biologically important flow metrics when transferred to ungaged basins
    Stephen K. Adams and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:00 On the Use of Classifications for Channel Network Structure for Determining Synthetic Unit Hydrographs for Ungauged Basins
    Almoatasem M. Maamon, Sediqa Hassani, and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:15 The effect of urbanization on flow duration curves: A case study from selected streams in the Puget Sound Basin, Western Washington
    Tyler Rosburg, Peter A. Nelson and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Irrigating the urban semi-arid environment: effects on land surface and hydrologic fluxes
    Bryant Reyes, Terri S. Hogue and Reed M. Maxwell
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
     
  4:45 Uncertainty and sensitivity in bank stability modeling: implications for estimating phosphorus loading
    Roderick W. Lammers and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 A Hierarchical Modeling Approach to Evaluate Spatial and Temporal Variability of Wastewater Effluent BOD, TSS and Ammonia
    Bihu Suchetana, Balaji Rajagopalan and JoAnn Silverstein
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
  5:15 Colorado Front Range flood of 2013: peak flows, flood frequencies, and impacts
    Steven E. Yochum
US Forest Service, National Stream & Aquatic Ecology Center, Fort Collins, CO
     
  5:30 Mapping Maximum Flood Extent Using Multi-Temporal Independent Component Analysis and Landsat-8 Along Colorado’s Front Range
    Stephen Chignell, Ryan Anderson, Melinda Laituri, Paul Evangelista, and David Merritt
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  5:45 Flood Management in Malaysia: SMART
    Kennard Lai and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
   
March 25 6:00 pm Hydrology Days 2015 ends
     
   
    Compendium of I-WATER Symposium Presentations
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

I-WATER: Integrated Water Atmosphere Ecosystem Education and Research - IGERT Program at CSU
     
I-WATER   Mulch effects on runoff and sediment production at the hillslope scale in the High Park Fire
    Codie Wilson, Stephanie Kampf, Lee H MacDonald and Joe Wagenbrenner
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Lake-effect snowpack decreases the wintertime mortality of Miscanthus × giganteus in Michigan
    Gavin R. Roy
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Systematic river restoration planning
    David M. Martin, Virgilio Hermoso, Francis Pantus, Jon Olley, Simon Linke, N. LeRoy Poff
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Prediction system for nitrogen deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park
    Aaron J Piña, Russ S Schumacher, Brock Faulkner, and A. Scott Denning
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Simulating the 2012 High Plains drought using three single column models (SCM)
    Isaac D. Medina, Scott Denning, Ian T. Baker, Don Dazlich
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Magnitude and Frequency of Sediment Transport in Alluvial Channels
    Joel S Sholtes, Brian P Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Developing GAMs to Identify Algal Biomass Controls in Mid-Atlantic Streams
    Whitney S. Beck
Department of Biology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Noninvasive support for interdisciplinary model integration
    Andre Q. Dozier, Olaf David, Mazdak Arabi, Wes Lloyd, and Yao Zhang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Watershed-scale modeling of riparian biogeochemistry: a hydrologic connectivity framework
    Rosemary M. Records, Mazdak Arabi, Steven R. Fassnacht, and Ryan T. Bailey
Watershed Science – Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Flow reconstruction and fluvial geomorphic potential for cottonwood dendrochronology
    Derek M. Schook, Sara L. Rathburn, Jonathan M. Friedman
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Organic carbon retention in mountainous headwater streams of the Colorado Front Range, USA
    Nicholas A. Sutfin and Ellen E. Wohl
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Investigating the coupled effects of climate change and nitrogen on lake periphyton
    Isabella A. Oleksy, Jill S. Baron
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
     
     
   
March 25 8:00 am Poster Session
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
    Storage and flux dynamics for an active beaver meadow in the North Saint Vrain Creek, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
    Pamela Wegener, Tim Covino, Ed Hall, and Ellen Wohl
Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Department, Colorado State University
     
    Thermal conductivity of binary sand mixtures evaluated through the full range of saturation
    Benjamin M. Wallen, Kathleen M. Smits, and Stacy E. Howington
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
     
    Impacts of Thermokarst Bank Degradation on Streambed Sediment Size in the McMurdo Dry Valleys
    Zach Sudman and Michael Gooseff
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
    New Approaches for Estimating Snow Surface Roughness
    David Kamin and Steven Fassnacht
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
    Assessing Changes to Streamflow from Dam-Regulation at Hog Park Creek in the Southern Rocky Mountains
    Tyler J. Carleton
Ecosystem Science and Sustainability – Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
    Relative Nutrient Contributions to Lake Yojoa, Honduras
    Jemma Fadum and Ed Hall
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
    Geometric Methods to Evaluate Snow Surface Roughness
    Steven R. Fassnacht, Iuliana Oprea, Patrick D. Shipman, James Kirkpatrick, George Borleske, Francis Motta, David Kamin
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
    A Sociological study of some determinants of the effectiveness of water users associations in villages in the Nubaria region, Egypt Abstract
    Kareem Ahmed
Colorado State University
     
    Regional variability of controls on post-fire watershed system flow response
    Samuel Saxe, Terri S. Hogue and Lauren Hay
Hydrologic Sciences and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
     
    Water balance in the headwaters of the Rio Grande River using remote sensing technology
    Skyler Bruno, Kyle Knipper and Terri Hogue
Department of Hydrologic Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
     
    Coping with Global Water Scarcity
    Glenn G. Patterson
EASC-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
    On grain roughness in rivers and streams
    Robert T Milhous
Hydrologist. Fort Collins, Colorado
     
    Spatial Precipitation Trends and Effects of Climate Change on the Hawai’ian Hualalai Aquifer
    Alyssa Hendricks and Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
    Modeling sediment yield deposition using SWAT model and analysis of factors determining sediment yield: A Case Study of Ankara River basin, Turkey
    Umit Duru, Ellen Wohl, and Mazdak Arabi
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
    Using Geochemical Indicators to Distinguish High Biogeochemical Activity in Sediments
    A. Kenwell, A. Navarre-Sitchler, R. Prugue, J. Spear, R. Maxwell, K. Williams
Colorado School of Mines
     
    A Potential of Water Quality Trading in Jordan Lake Watershed, NC
    Marzieh Motallebi, Ali Tasdighi, Dana Hoag, Mazdak Arabi, Deanna Osmond, and Caela O’Connell
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
     
    Experimental and numerical study of two dimensional heat and mass transfer in unsaturated soil with and application to soil thermal energy storage (SBTES) systems
    Ali Moradi and Kathleen M. Smits
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines