Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2016

March 21 - March 23, 2016
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Program at a Glance
8:30 am
8:30 am
8:30 am
Registration
Posters
Posters
           
9:45 am
WATER management
9:15 am
Eco-Hydrology I
9:00 am
Hydraulics I
   
9:00 am
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
10:45 am
Management of Water Quantity and Quality
10:30 am
Eco-Hydrology II
10:30 am
Hydraulics II
   
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
Snow Hydrology
2 pm
Soil Moisture - Irrigation
2 pm
Erosion and Sedimentation I
     
 
Water and Environmental Sustainability I
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
4 pm
Groundwater - Stream/Aquifer Interactions
4 pm
Climate - Hydrologic impacts
4:00 pm
Erosion and Sedimentation II
 
6:30 pm
  
Adjourn
Adjourn
Hydrology Days Ends
   
Hydrology Days 2016
Program
 
Monday
Date Time Session
March 21 8:30 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 21 9:45 am WATER Management
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
I-WATER 9:45 Dipsa: A Video Game for Stakeholder Engagement when Planning Future Water Resources
    Andre Q. Dozier
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:00 Evaluating groundwater management policies with an integrated hydrologic-economic model of the Republican River Basin
    R. Aaron Hrozencik, Dale Manning, Jordan Suter, Chris Goemans and Ryan Bailey
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 Finding Land and Water Management Practices to Lessen River Pollutant Concentrations in Irrigated Regions
    Christopher D. Shultz, Timothy K. Gates, and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Why do Residents of Utah County, Utah, Dig Shallow Wells in their Backyards?
    Janelle E. Gherasim, Sterling M. Roberts, Skyler K. Tulley, Anthony C. Bradford, Neal B. Christensen, Lawrence T. Kellum, Joshua S. McNeff, Colby Oliverson, Jarrett D. Nichols, Jake V. Sorensen, and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University
     
March 21 10:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 21 11:00 am Management of Water Quantity and Quality
   

Chair: Professor Marzieh Motallebi
Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  11:00 Conditions for a Successful Water Quality Trading Program: Case Study Jordan Lake, North Carolina
    Marzieh Motallebi, Ali Tasdighi, Dana L. Hoag, Mazdak Arabi, and Deanna L. Osmond
Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University, Georgetown, SC
     
  11:15 Water Quality Trading: How to Deal with Uncertainties in Modeling Nonpoint Sources?
    Ali Tasdighi, Mazdak Arabi and Marzieh Motallebi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Water Resources Law of Republic of Indonesia
    Neil Andika and Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Colorado Water Plan: Collective action, public trust, and private ownership of water rights
    Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
 
March 21 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydrology - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Future of Water Resources Systems Analysis: The Science of Sustainable Water Management

Professor Casey Brown
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
     
   
March 21 2:00 pm Snow Hydrology
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 The Sub-Daily Temporal Distribution of Snowmelt
    Ryan W. Webb, Steven R. Fassnacht, and Michael N. Gooseff
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 The Spatial Distribution of Fine Resolution Snow Surface Roughness
    Eric S. Thomas and Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 Integrating the Spatial Variability of Snowpack Properties
    Rob Davis, Cassidi Rosenkrance, Joseph Fattor, Steven R. Fassnacht, Anna K.D. Pfohl
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Using Agent-based Models to Understand Sampling Logistics: An Example of Surveying the Snow
    R. Allen Gilbert Jr. and Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 When and Where Do Enhanced Warming and Snowmelt Occur in Rocky Mountain National Park?
    Glenn G. Patterson, Steven R. Fassnacht and Amanda Weber
Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 Change in the Andes Mountains Snow Cover from 2000 to 2014
    Freddy Saavedra and Stephanie Kampf
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 Homogenization of High Elevation Temperature Data Across Colorado
    Chenchen Ma, Steven R. Fassnacht and Stephanie K. Kampf
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
March 21 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 21 4:00 pm Groundwater - Stream/Aquifer Interactions
   

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 Groundwater aquifer depletion in a Great Lakes State: The effects of pumping restrictions in the North and East Metropolitan Area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul
    Jessica K. Daignault
Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH), Inc.
     
  4:15 Subsurface contaminant particle tracking given dynamic natural gradients and pumping about wells
    Yuan Gao and Thomas Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Comprehensive Estimation of Solute Transport and Interaction in Surface-Subsurface Hydrologic System using the Linked SWAT-MODFLOW-RT3D Model
    Xiaolu Wei, Ryan Bailey, Rosemary Records, Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Artificial Neural Networks Database Development for Modeling Stream-Aquifer Interactions in the Lower Arkansas River Basin of Colorado
    Faizal Rohmat, John W. Labadie, and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 Groundwater depletion rates estimated from different GRACE products and water balance models of different spatial scale
    Muhammad Ukasha and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:15 Modeling and Managing Artificial Groundwater Recharge in Arid Regions
    Rafey A Siddiqui, Ryan T Bailey and Arif I Osmani
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Freshwater Resources for Selected Atolls -- Recommendations and Conclusions Based on Modeling Study
    Alise M. Beikmann and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
March 21 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Tuesday
Date Time Session
March 22 8:30 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 22 9:15 am Eco-Hydrology I
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
I-WATER 9:15 Early warning system for east Colorado ranchers to reduce N 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 9:30 Algal blooms in the alpine – investigating the coupled effects of chronic nitrogen deposition and climate change on alpine lakes
    Isabella A. Oleksy, Jill S. Baron
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 9:45 Stream Algae Nutrient Limitation Along an Elevation Gradient in the Poudre Watershed, Colorado
    Whitney S. Beck
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 10:00 High elevation lakes in a changing climate
    Kyle Christianson
Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
     
March 22 10:15 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 22 10:30 am Eco-Hydrology II
   

Chair: Professor Steven Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
I-WATER 10:30 Can stream restoration remedy the nutrient pollution problem?
    Roderick W. Lammers and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 10:45 Soil and waterborne amoeba act as long-term environmental reservoirs of pathogenic bacteria
    David Markman
Department of Biology, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Soil Information Linking to the Amoeba-Plague relation within Prairie Dog Colonies
    Brandon Lemire and Steven R. Fassnacht and David Markman
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 Improving water quality forecasting using data assimilation
    Hamideh Riazi,Sunghee Kim, Dong-Jun Seo, Changmin Shin
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
     
  11:30 Optimal Allocation of Leaf-Level Nitrogen Explains Covariation of Vcmax and Jmax
    Jonathan Quebbeman and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Implications of Dynamic Vegetal Processes Affecting Future Water Yield: Consideration of Optimality Theories in Long-Term Hydrologic Modeling
    Jonathan Quebbeman and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
   
March 22 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Hydrology Days Award Lecture - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Water and Energy Cycles Coupling Diagnosed From Remotely Sensed Global Observations

Professor Dara Entekhabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
     
   
March 22 2:00 pm Soil Moisture - Irrigation
   

Chair: Professor Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Adapting a Remote-Sensing Method for Soil Moisture to Account for Regional Soil, Vegetation, and Climatic Characteristics
    Shukran Sahaar and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Downscaling Soil Moisture in Regions with Large Elevation Ranges
    Garret S. Cowley, Jeffrey D. Niemann , Timothy R. Green, Mark S. Seyfried and Andrew S. Jones
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 Evaluating Methods to Downscale Multiple Coarse-Resolution Grid Cells of Soil Moisture
    Dylan C. Hoehn, Jeffrey D. Niemann, Timothy R. Green and Andrew S. Jones
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Integration of an unmanned aircraft system and ground based remote sensing to estimate spatially distributed crop evapotranspiration and soil water deficit through the vegetation soil root zone
    Jeffrey C. Hathaway and José L. Chávez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 Remote Sensing Assessments of Full and Partial Irrigation Regimes to Estimate Conserved Consumptive Use of Agricultural Water in Western Slope of Colorado
    Amandeep Vashisht, Jose Chavez and Perry Cabot
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 Non-hydrostatic hydro-meteorological atmospheric simulations of extreme weather events: WRF and WRF-Hydro models applications to a case study in central Italy
    Francesca Viterbo, Antonio Parodi, Fabio Delogu, Jost von Harenberg, Antonello Provenzale and Dave Gochis
CIMA Foundation, Savona, Italy and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC-CNR), Torino, Italy
     
  3:30 Joint modelling of flood characteristics in Çoruh Basin, Turkey
    Fatih Tosunoglu and İbrahim Can
Department of Civil Engineering, Erzurum Technical University, Turkey
     
March 22 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 22 4:00 pm Climate - Hydrologic impacts
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
I-WATER 4:00 Simulating the 2012 High Plains drought using three single column models (SCM)
    Isaac D. Medina
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  4:15 A Review of the 2015 Water Year in Colorado
    Nolan Doesken, Zach Schwalbe and Noah Newman
Colorado Climate Center, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Hydroclimatic Impact of the ENSO on South Korean Precipitation Patterns
    Jai-Hong Lee and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Maximizing Information from Hydrologic Ensemble Traces Using Alternate Data Displays
    Richard Koehler
NOAA, National Weather Service, UCAR/COMET Program, Boulder, CO
     
  5:00 A model of the distribution of storm depths as resulting from independent storm generating processes
    Matthew E. Peacock
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:15 Flood Frequency Trends and Spatial Patterns across the Western United States
    Jeremy Giovando
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Assessing Impacts of Rainfall Patterns, Population Growth, and Sea Level Rise on Groundwater Supply in the Republic of Maldives
    Chenda Deng and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
March 22 6:30pm World Water Day Celebration
   

Screening of Film:
WATERSHED: Exploring a new water ethic for the new West

CSU Behavioral Sciences Building, Room 131
     
     
March 22 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Wednesday
Date Time Session
March 23 8:30 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 23 9:00 am Hydraulics I
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  9:00 Seismic Dam Break & Damage Modeling
    Humberto A. Gallegos, Angel Huezo, Matthew Alipio, Alex Cividanis, Stephanie Cash, Ryan Meier, and Minh Sou
Department of Engineering & Technologies, East Los Angeles College
     
  9:15 A Study on the Impacts of SMART Tunnel Outflow on Hydraulics of Kerayong River
    Kennard Lai and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:30 The viability of water balance covers constructed with mine tailings and waste rock
    Mohammad Gorakhki and Christopher A. Bareither
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:45 Hydraulic Conductivity of Fly Ash-Amended Mine Waste
    Sultan A. Alhomair and Christopher A. Bareither
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:00 Assessing Dam-Induced Flow Alterations and Channel Enlargement at Hog Park Creek in the Southern Rocky Mountains
    Tyler J. Carleton
Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
March 23 10:15 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 23 10:30 am Hydraulics II
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  10:30 Erosion Caused by Cavitation in Bottom Outlets, Cambambe Dam Case, Angola
    Marcos Cristiano Palu and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 Use of the Manning Equation for the Design of High-Gradient Canals
    Ashley A. Ostraff, Henintsoa Rakotoarisaona, and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
  11:00 A Conceptual Framework for the Use of Machine Learning for the Synthesis of Stream Discharge – Gage Height Rating Curves
    Sarah M. Allen, Steven H. Emerman, Thomas H. Murdock, and Skyler K. Tulley
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
  11:15 Implementing a travel time model for water and energy budgets of complex catchments: Theory, software, and preliminary application to the Posina River
    Marialaura Bancheri, Riccardo Rigon, Giuseppe Formetta and Timothy R. Green
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Ambientale e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
     
  11:30 Classifying Gaining and Losing Streams Using Stream Typology and Distributed Hydrologic Modeling
    Christopher M. Fields and John W. Labadie and Lynn E. Johnson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Storm event hydrograph separation at nested spatial scales in Skin Gulch, Northern Colorado
    Michael Gieschen and Peter A. Nelson
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 Hydraulics - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Turbulence-resolving models in sediment-transporting flows

Professor Mark Schmeeckle
Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Laboratory, USGS, Golden, CO
     
   
March 23 2:00 pm Erosion - Sedimentation I
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
I-WATER 2:00 Defining Dominant Discharge: A Sediment Yield Perspective
    Joel Sholtes
Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Stable Channel Design Tool Using the Capacity/Supply Ratio (CSR)
    Travis R. Stroth and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 The effects of sediment supply and self-formed stratigraphy on alternate bar morphodynamics
    Andrew R. Bankert and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Assessing Uncertainty due to the Selection of a Sediment Transport Equation Using Univariate and Multivariate Bayesian Model Averaging
    Youngjai Jung and Jeffrey D. Niemann and Blair P. Greimann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 Runoff and sediment transport through riparian buffers in a Rocky Mountain headwater catchment
    Kira C. Puntenney, Kevin D. Bladon, and Uldis Silins
Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
     
  3:15 Properties of netting attached to bedload samplers affect hydraulic and sampling efficiency
    Kristin Bunte, Kurt W. Swingle, Steven R. Abt, and Dan A. Cenderelli
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 Laboratory and Numerical Simulation of the Accelerated Erosion Model for Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater
    Sterling M. Roberts, Katie A. Merten, Marissa R. Keck, Eric L. Hadley, Mark A. Christiansen, David J. Griggs (deceased), and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University
     
March 23 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 23 4:00 pm Erosion - Sedimentation II
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  4:00 Morphodynamics of riffle-pool sequences in the middle Elwha River, Washington
    Jacob A. Morgan and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 4:15 Connectivity of runoff and sediment from hillslope to watershed-scale in the High Park Fire
    Codie Wilson, Stephanie Kampf , Sandra Ryan
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Effects of closing and decommissioning forest roads as determined with rainfall simulations
    Gabriel Sosa-Perez and Lee H. MacDonald
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Impacts of capping contaminated sediments at groundwater-surface water interfaces
    Calista Campbell and Thomas Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 Sorting in gravel bed channels under varying degrees of meandering and sediment supply
    Tess Hanson and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:15 Optimization of Sangju Weir operations to mitigate sedimentation problems
    Hwa Young Kim and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Assessment of Irrigation-Influenced Groundwater Flow and Transport Pathways Along a Stream Reach
    David T. Criswell, Timothy K. Gates, and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
March 23 2:00 pm Water and Environmental Sustainability Across the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities I
   

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

Gray Rock Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Introduction to Water and Environmental Sustainability Symposium
    Wei Gao
Director of the Confucius Institute at CSU, Assistant Vice Provost for China Programs
     
  2:10 Introduction of Topics I: Challenges
    Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS, CSU
     
  2:15 Anhui Agricultural University – CSU Initiatives on Water, Environmental Sustainability, Extension, and Economic Development
    Louis Swanson
Vice President for Engagement, CSU
     
  2:30 Climate Change Impacts on Water for Agricultural Production
    Xin-Zhong Liang
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland
     
  2:45 Snow Data Assimilation and Its Use in Hydroclimate Prediction
    Zong-Liang Yang, Yongfei Zhang, Yonghwan Kwon, Peirong Lin and Long Zhao
The University of Texas at Austin
     
  3:00 Water Resources in High Mountain Asia: An Initial Exploration with Particular Attention to Contributions by Colorado State University (CSU) - Past, Present & Future
    George F. Taylor II
Visiting Fellow, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 The City of Shanghai, China “Sponge-City” Initiative – Research Collaboration between Colorado State University and East China Normal University
    Chris Olson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
March 23 3:30 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
     
   
March 23 3:45 pm Water and Environmental Sustainability Across the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities II
   

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

Gray Rock Room - Lory Student Center
     
  3:45 Introduction of Topics II: Opportunities
    Melinda Laituri
Dept of ESS, CSU
     
  3:50 The Aquatic Ecological Characteristics of Highland Rivers in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
    Xu Mengzhen, Zhao Na, Zhou Xiongdong, Wang Zhaoyin
State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University
     
  4:15 Estimating Groundwater Contributions to Streamflow in Headwater Catchments
    William E. Sanford
Geosciences, CSU
     
  4:30 Water Chemistry in Changing Headwater Glacier
    Ed K. Hall
Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Networks and Modeling Headwater Systems
    Yuefei Huang
Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University
     
  5:00 Water Allocation and Desertification in Northwestern China from a Social Science Perspective
    KuoRay Mao
Department of Sociology, Colorado State University
     
  5:15 Closing Questions and Remarks
   

Discussion led by Steven Fassnacht and Melinda Laituri
CSU

     
March 23 6:00 pm Hydrology Days 2016 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   Soil and waterborne amoeba act as long-term environmental reservoirs of pathogenic bacteria
    David Markman
Department of Biology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Stream Algae Nutrient Limitation Along an Elevation Gradient in the Poudre Watershed, Colorado
    Whitney S. Beck
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Algal blooms in the alpine – investigating the coupled effects of chronic nitrogen deposition and climate change on alpine lakes
    Isabella A. Oleksy, Jill S. Baron
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Can stream restoration remedy the nutrient pollution problem?
    Roderick W. Lammers and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   High elevation lakes in a changing climate
    Kyle Christianson
Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Early warning system for east Colorado ranchers to reduce N 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   Dipsa: A Video Game for Stakeholder Engagement when Planning Future Water Resources
    Andre Q. Dozier
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Connectivity of runoff and sediment from hillslope to watershed-scale in the High Park Fire
    Codie Wilson, Stephanie Kampf , Sandra Ryan
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Defining Dominant Discharge: A Sediment Yield Perspective
    Joel Sholtes
Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Simulating the 2012 High Plains drought using three single column models (SCM)
    Isaac D. Medina
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
   
March 23 9:00 am Poster Session
   

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

North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
    Adapting subsurface drip irrigation system to deficit irrigation
    Manijeh Mahmoudzadeh Varzi and Ramchand Oad
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
    Channel Initiation of Headwater Streams in Western Colorado
    Krista K. Garrett and Ellen E. Wohl
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
    Measurements needed to ground-truth surface soil water content across a homogenous terrain
    Rachel Habermehl, Steven R. Fassnacht and Anna Pfohl
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
    The influence of lateral hydrologic connectivity on ecosystem metabolism in an active beaver meadow
    Pam Wegener, Tim Covino, Stephanie Kampf, Shad Lacy, and Ellen Wohl
Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Department, Colorado State University
     
    Should We Care About Frost? The Relevance of Sublimation onto the Snowpack
    Jacob Olson, Connor Mitts, Steven R. Fassnacht, Anna K.D. Pfohl
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
    Examining trends in streamflow in the Southern Rocky Mountains
    Anna K. D. Pfohl, Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
    Hydrologic response along the intermittent-persistent snow transition of the Western U.S.
    John C. Hammond, Freddy Saavedra and Stephanie Kampf
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
    Assessment and management of saline irrigation-return flows in areas affected by tile drain networks
    Miles B. Daly, Ryan T. Bailey, Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
    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
     
    Mapping Snow Surfaces Using Photogrammetry Versus Lidar
    R. Allen Gilbert Jr. and Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
    Environmental flows: research science versus applied science
    Robert T Milhous
Hydrologist, Fort Collins, Colorado
     
    Combining Mongolian Herder and Station Observations of Hydro-climate Change
    Sukh Tumenjargal, Steven R. Fassnacht, Arren Mendezona Allegretti, Niah B.H. Venable, Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez, Batjav Batbuyanand and Melinda J. Laituri
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State Universityand National Security Council, Government of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
     
    Benthic Community Structure along a Disturbance Regime - Vulnerability to Extreme Flooding
    Scott Morton, NL Poff, Erin Larson, Boris Kondratieff, Rachel Harrington, Kayce Anderson, Chris Funk, Alex Flecker
Department of Biology, Colorado State University
     
    Implications of Hydraulic Conditions of the San Acacia Reach for the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow
    Corinne Horner
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
    Impact of Climate Change on Spring Discharge in the White Mesa Cultural and Conservation Area, Manti-La Sal National Forest, Southeastern Utah
    Kenneth L. Larsen, Skyler K. Tulley, Janelle E. Gherasim, Paul E. Morris, Jared R. Abbott, Ephram C. Matheson, Brock O. Howell, Daniel J. Zacharias, and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University