Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2018

March 19 - March 21, 2018
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Program at a Glance
9 am
Registration
9 am
Registration
9 am
Registration
9:15 am
Vulnerability - Urban Hydrology - Climate I
9:15 am
Soil Moisture - Salinity - Water & Health I
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
10:45 am
Vulnerability - Urban Hydrology - Climate II
11:00 am
Soil Moisture - Salinity - Water & Health II
10:30 am
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
       
10:00 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
Water Management
2 pm
Rivers - Hydraulics - Morphodynamics
2 pm
Erosion and Sedimentation I
         
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
4 pm
Groundwater - Contaminants - Remediation
4 pm
Poster Session
4 pm
Erosion and Sedimentation II
         
Adjourn
Adjourn
World Water Day Celebration
Hydrology Days Ends
   
Hydrology Days 2018
Program
 
Monday
Date Time Session
March 19 9:00 am Registration - Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 19 9:15 am Vulnerability - Urban Hydrology - Climate I
   

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

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  9:15 Vulnerability of water resources to nutrient pollution: The usual suspects, urban development and agricultural activities
    Ali Tasdighi, Mazdak Arabi and Marzieh Motallebi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:30 Newcomers have subsidized water in the South Platte River Basin
    Andre Dozier, Benjamin Wostoupal, and Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:45 An Analytical Framework for Assessing Municipal Vulnerability to Water Shortage and Drought Characteristics under Nonstationary Supply and Demand Conditions
    Hadi Heidari, Mazdak Arabi, Andre Dozier, Ali Tasdighi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:00 Risk to Assets and Communities from Coastal Flooding: Quantifying the effect of sea level rise and flood adaptation strategies
    Mahshid Ghanbari and Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 Identifying optimal water conservation and reuse strategies using an urban water demand model for a selection of U.S. cities with distinct climatic conditions and land cover characteristics
    Michael Neale, André Dozier, Sybil Sharvelle, and Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 19 10:30 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 19 10:45 am Vulnerability - Urban Hydrology - Climate II
   

Chair: Dr. Ali Tasdighi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  10:45 Response of municipal outdoor water use to climatic variables across the contiguous U.S.
    Nicole Opalinski and Aditi Bhaskar
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Small-scale Spring and Summer Precipitation Variability
    R. Baiyor, S.R. Fassnacht and N.B.H. Venable
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Colorado State University
     
  11:15 Climatology of Floods in the United States as Observed by Storm Reports and TRMM Rainfall Data
    Erin Dougherty and Kristen Rasmussen
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Evaluation of CMIP5 precipitation trends across multiple scales
    Eric Molten, Kate Musgrave and Christian Kummerow
Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
     
  11:45 Precipitation Features During a Canonical Southeastern Asian Monsoon Event
    Benjamin A. Toms, Susan C. van den Heever, Emily M. Riley Dellaripa, and Stephen S. Saleeby
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
 
March 19 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydrology - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Lessons Learned and Future Directions in Large Scale Hydrologic Assessment

Jeffrey G. Arnold
Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Temple, TX
     
   
March 19 2:00 pm Eco-hydrology - Water Management
   

Co-Chairs: Professor Neil S. Grigg and Professor Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Temporal Information Partitioning Networks reveal ecohydrologic responses to rainfall pulses and drought
    Allison Goodwell and Praveen Kumar
University of Colorado, Denver
     
  2:15 A Method for Efficient Assessment of Parameter Uncertainty in Numerical Model Simulations
    Jeffrey Y. Jung and Jeffrey D. Niemann, Blair P. Greimann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 A River-Reservoir Network Model In TensorFlowTM
    Matthew E. Peacock and John W. Labadie
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  2:45  
    Integrated Water Resource System Planning, Design, and Operation using MODSIM-DSS and Particle Swarm Optimization: Application to the Tripa River Basin, Indonesia
    Faizal Rohmat and John W. Labadie
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 Data Analysis and Parameter Uncertainty of VIC Model Using GLUE and BMC Techniques: Case Study in Diyala River Basin in Iraq
    Saddam Q. Waheed and Jorge A. Ramrez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 Certified Floodplain Managers: What it is and why it can benefit Hydraulic Engineers!
    Susan Cundiff, PE, CFM
Tetra Tech, Fort Collins, Colorado
     
  3:30 The History of Water and Vegetation in Bears Ears National Monument, Southeastern Utah
    Morgan S. Abbott, Steven H. Emerman, Samuel I. Nofchissey, Paul G. Bushman, Dustin Joe, Janelle E. Gherasim, Stephen R. Campbell, and Skyler K. Tulley
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
     
March 19 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 19 4:00 pm Groundwater - Contaminants - Remediation
   

Chair: Professor Professor Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  4:00 Research on Characteristics of Groundwater Recharge in Weishan Irrigated District Based on Bromide Tracer
    Xin Cong, Zhenghe Xu and Tong Wang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:15 Hydrogeologic characterization of the Todos Santos Aquifer, Baja California Sur, Mexico
    Marissa M. Fichera and William E. Sanford
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 New Module to Simulate Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in Small- Scale Alluvial Aquifer Systems
    Luke Flores and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Understanding carbon nanoparticle transport in heterogeneous porous media: Influence of particulate and dissolved organic matter
    Tyler C. Gilkerson and William E. Sanford
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 Four-year Oleophilic Bio-Barrier demonstration results
    Laura Tochko and Thomas Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:15 Reactive Transport of Selenium and Nitrogen in Groundwater and Surface Water Systems in the Lower Arkansas River Valley, Colorado
    Ibraheem A. Qurban, Ryan T. Bailey, Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Developing a coupled SWAT-MODFLOW model assessing groundwater depletion in the Republican River Basin
    Soheil Nozari and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 19 5:45 pm Adjourn
     
 
Tuesday
Date Time Session
March 20 9:00 am Registration - Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 20 9:15 am Soil Moisture - Salinity - Water & Health I
   

Co-Chairs: Professor José L. Chavez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  9:15 Distribution of Soil Water Salinity and Impacts on Maize Yield in Gypsiferous Irrigated Fields with Subsurface Drainage
    A.J. Brown, A. A. Andales, T. K. Gates, J. L. Chavez, and B. D. Craig
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:30 Remote Sensing of Soil Salinity for Use in Irrigation Water Management
    Brian D. Craig, Jose L. Chávez, Timothy K. Gates, A.J. Brown, and Allan A. Andales
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:45 Recapping Water Year 2017
    Peter Goble
Colorado Climate Center and Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  10:00 Hydro-epidemiology: modeling the water-health nexus
    Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 A look into the role of public perception on the evolution of wastewater treatment
    Sydney S. Turner and Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 How Clean is Clean Enough? Assessing Edge-of-Field Nutrient Runoff
    R.D. Harmel, R.A. Pampell, A.B. Leytem, D.R. Smith, and R.L. Haney
USDA-ARS
     
     
March 20 10:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 20 11:00 am Soil Moisture - Salinity - Water & Health II
   

Co-Chairs: Professor Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  11:00 Statistical Analysis of Soil-Moisture Patterns for Probabilistic Downscaling
    Jordan P. Deshon, Jeffrey D. Niemann, Timothy R. Green, and Andrew S. Jones
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 Soil moisture dynamics in a Colorado field: Stability and threshold crossing times under annual crops and perennial vegetation
    Timothy R. Green, Robert H. Erskine, P. Suresh C. Rao, Jeffrey D. Niemann, Stephanie Kampf, Jorge A. Ramirez
Center for Agricultural Resource Research, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA, Fort Collins,CO
     
  11:30 Evaluation of an Optical/Thermal Remote-Sensing Method for Root-Zone Soil Moisture that Accounts for Regional Characteristics
    Shukran Sahaar, Jeffrey D. Niemann, and Aymn Elhaddad
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Assessing Near Surface Soil Moisture Variability for Improved Sampling
    Yidi Wang and Steven R. Fassnacht
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability – Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
   
March 20 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Hydrology Days Award Lecture - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Fifty Years Observing Issues in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering

Professor Stephen (Steve) J. Burges
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
     
   
March 20 2:00 pm Rivers - Hydraulic Structures - Morphodynamics
   

Chair: Professor Robert Ettema
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Bedload traps and Helley-Smith samplers yield different transport rates and particle sizes of gravel bedload
    Kristin Bunte, Kurt W. Swingle, Rob Ettema, Steven R. Abt and Dan A. Cenderelli
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Estimation of Flood Zones along Ungauged Gravel-Bed Braided Rivers
    Alireza Nowroozpour and Robert Ettema
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 Interference of Dual Spillways Operations
    Jai Hong Lee, Pierre Y. Julien, and Christopher Thornton
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Discharge Rating Equations for Pneumatically-Automated Overshot Gates
    Caner Kutlu and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 Use of the Manning Equation for Predicting the Discharge of High- Gradient Canals and Natural Streams
    Nicholas D. Udy, Steven H. Emerman, Ashley A. Ostraff, Sarah M. Allen, Henintsoa Rakotoarisaona, Janelle Gherasim, Alison M. Stallings, Jeremy N. Saldivar, Kenneth L. Larsen, and Morgan Abbott
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
  3:15 Understanding geomorphic response to floods: the role of scale and gradients
    Joel Sholtes, Steven Yochum, Julian Scott, and Brian Bledsoe
Sedimentation and River Hydraulics Group, Technical Services Center, Bureau of Reclamation, Lakewood, CO
     
  3:30 Morphodynamic numerical modeling of sediment transport and deposition around run-of-river dams
    Robert W. Queen and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:45 United States Ice Jam Trends and the Consequences for Large River Systems
    Jeremy Giovando
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:00 River-connected mountain meadows: Exploring patterns of biogeochemical change in headwater wetlands
    Tristan Weiss, Tim Covino, and Alex Brooks
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Warner College of Natural Resources, CSU
     
     
March 20 4:15 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 20 4:00 pm Poster Session
   

Chair: Dr. Ali Tasdighi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1 Characterization of urban water use and water demand forecasting using the Integrated Urban Water Model in Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Giovana Batista, Mazdak Arabi, Sybil Sharvelle, and Andre Dozier
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2 Seasonal Streamflow Effects of Lateral Connectivity in Unconfined Mountain Valley Bottoms
    Alex Brooks, Tristan Weiss, and Tim Covino
Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  3 Uncertainty in flood routing: Diffuse wave models by fuzzy set theory approach
    Maria Patricia S. Castro and Karyna O. C. Lucena and Alice R. de Souza and Ticiana F. Vidal and Raimundo O. de Souza
Department of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Ceará
     
  4 Baseflow response to stormwater infiltration: Exploring feasibility of using spatial arrangements of infiltration sites to manage baseflow
    Benjamin E. Choat and Aditi S. Bhaskar
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5 Technical and Administrative Feasibility of Alluvial Aquifer Storage and Recovery on the South Platte River of Northeastern Colorado
    Cibi Vishnu Chinnasamy, William C. McIntyre and David C. Mays
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  6 Dirty Snow: Constructing a Model for Emergence of Dust Layers in the Colorado Snowpack to Improve Melt Prediction
    Caroline R. Duncan and Steven R. Fassnacht, Jeff E. Derry
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  7 Evaluation of multispectral remote sensing derived vegetation indices to estimate reflectance-based crop coefficients and seasonal evapotranspiration rates for grass pastures in western Colorado
    Sumit Gautam, Perry Cabot, and José L. Chávez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  8 The Spatial Distribution of Fine Resolution Snow Surface Roughness
    Eric S. Thomas, Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  9 Applications of Satellite Moisture Products to Help Forecasters Enhance Their Forecasts: The West Coast Winter of 2016-17
    Sheldon J. Kusselson
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
     
  10 Riparian area evapotranspiration with implications on water resource management
    Matthew R. Lurtz, Ryan R. Morrison, Aditi S. Bhaskar, and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11 Evaluation of soil moisture data assimilation to improve hydrologic partitioning over agricultural areas
    Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig, Ben Livneh, Eric Small, and Andrew Badger
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
     
  12 Implementation of the parametric CLIGEN weather generator with multisite and multivariate technique: study case in Diyala river basin in Iraq
    Saddam Q. Waheed and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  13 Modeling the hysteretic relation of a snow-covered area (SCA), snow depth, and a dynamic surface roughness (z0)
    Jessica Sanow and Steven R. Fassnacht
Watershed Science-Geoscience, Colorado State University
     
  14 How often does Frost Occur?
    Preston J. Benko, Jessica M. Jackman, Kelsey J. Thomas, Steven R. Fassnacht, Anna Pfohl, and Jessica Sanow
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Colorado State University
     
  15 Distribution of velocities in a cross section using the logD method: Application to a cross section of the Wainiha River
    Robert T Milhous
Hydrologist, Fort Collins, Colorado
     
  16 Can water conservation save agriculture?
    Benjamin C. Wostoupal, André Q. Dozier, Mazdak Arabi, and Christopher G. Goemans
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  17 Application of Multiplicative Random Cascades to Spatially Downscale Observed Terrestrial Water Storage Anomalies
    Muhammad Ukasha and Jorge A Ramírez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 20 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Wednesday
Date Time Session
March 21 9:00 am Registration - Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 21 10:30 am Environmental Fluid Mechanics
   

Chair: Professor Professor S. Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  10:30 Flow dynamics through a suspended cylindrical patch
    Jian Zhou and S. Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 Some insights for parameterizing mixing in stably stratified turbulence
    Amrapalli Garanaik and Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 An Initial Investigation of the Long-term Use of Random Packing Material (RPM) in Contact Tanks
    Jessica L. Baker and Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 Flow velocity measurements in a laboratory flume with ADV and LDA: a comparative study
    Alex Carpenter, Amrapalli Garanaik, Marie Rastello, Karan Venayagamoorthy, and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Curvature effects on flow dynamics in river bends
    Aseperi Oladapo and S. Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 The Use of Finite Element Modeling to Increase the Efficiency of Low Environmental Impact Hydropower
    Janelle E. Gherasim, Steven H. Emerman, and Kevin Shurtleff
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
 
March 21 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydraulics - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    The Interaction between Gravity Currents and Breaking Internal Waves

Professor Jeffrey R. Koseff
William Alden Campbell and Martha Campbell Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
     
   
March 21 2:00 pm Erosion - Sedimentation I
   

Chair: Professor Robert Ettema
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Added Sediment Concentration in The Porong River, Indonesia, from the Sidoarjo Mud Volcano Diversion
    Neil Andika and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Tracking the Fate of Sediment After an Extreme Flood
    Johanna S. Eidmann, Sara L. Rathburn, Ken Huson
Department of Geology, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 Analysis of Sediment Transport Formulas using a Data Mining Technique with Applications to South Korean Rivers
    Eun-kyung Jang, Un Ji, Woonkwang Yeo and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Assessing the Impacts of Wildfire on Sedimentation and Runoff in the Colorado Front Range
    Aaron Heldmyer, Ben Livneh, Stephanie Kampf
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
  3:00 Estimation of Soil Erosion Risk of the Euphrates River Watershed Using RUSLE Model, Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques
    Saleh Issa Khassaf and Ali Hussein Jaber Al Rammahi
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Basrah, Iraq
     
  3:15 Sediment Wave Propagation Modeling in the Doce River after the Fundão Tailings Dam Break in Brazil
    Marcos C. Palu and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 Sediment erosion in zero-mean-shear turbulence
    Marie Rastello, Hervé Michallet and Jean-Louis Marié
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LEGI, 38000 Grenoble France
     
     
March 21 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 21 4:00 pm Erosion - Sedimentation II
   

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

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  4:00 Scaling Post-fire Effects from Hillslopes to Watersheds: Processes, Problems, and Implications
    Lee H. MacDonald, Dan Brogan, Peter A. Nelson, Stephanie Kampf, and Joe W. Wagenbrenner
NREL and Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  4:15 A New Way to Calculate the Mean Annual Sediment Yield
    Chun-Yao Yang and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 GIS-based Analysis of Specific Degradation of South Korean River Basins
    Woochul Kang and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Rainfall thresholds for post-fire runoff and erosion from plot to watershed scale
    Codie Wilson, Stephanie Kampf, Joe Wagenbrenner
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
   
March 21 6:00 pm World Water Day Celebration
Lyric Cinema
1209 North College Avenue
     
  6:15 pm Introduction by:
Reagan Waskom, CSU Water Center and Colorado Water Institute
Sonali Diddi, Department of Design and Merchandising
Richard Fox, Sustainable Living Association
  6:30 pm

Screening of:
River Blue - Can Fashion Save the Planet?
     
     
March 21 6:00 pm Hydrology Days 2018 ends
     
   
March 21 10:00 am Snow Hydrology
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 Simulating the nonlinear response of alpine and subalpine snowpacks to climate warming
    Keith S. Jennings and Noah P. Molotch
Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
     
  10:15 Snowmelt runoff timing and snow ablation
    Anna K.D. Pfohl and Steven R. Fassnacht
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Snow depth measurement via time-lapse photography and automated image recognition
    Kevin Brown and Steven Fassnacht
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University
     
  10:45 Combining Ground Penetrating Radar with Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning to Observe the Spatial Distribution of Liquid Water Content in Seasonal Snowpacks
    Ryan W. Webb, Noah P. Molotch, and Michael Fend
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
     
  11:00 Simulating snowmelt-driven streamflow in small mountain catchments with the GEOtop model using a novel calibration method
    Andrew Fullhart and Thijs Kelleners
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
     
  11:15 Using snow data assimilation within an Ensemble Streamflow Prediction framework to improve water supply volume forecasting for the Upper Colorado River Basin
    Danielle Perrot, Paul Micheletty, Jay Day, John Lhotak, Gi-Hyeon Park
Water Resources Management Division, RTI International
     
  11:30 Spatial Snow Surface Roughness Across Multiple Resolutions
    Bradley Simms
Department of Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
   
March 21 2:00 pm Confucius Institute Session I
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 On economy-hydrology effect of water price adjustment in the Wohu basin
    Ke Kong
School of Resources and Environment, University of Jinan, Jinan P. R. China
     
  2:20 Dilemmas of State-led Environmental Conservation in China: Environmental Target Enforcement and Public Participation in Minqin County
    KuoRay Mao and Qian Zhang
Department of Sociology, Colorado State University
     
  2:40 Development of Managed Aquifer Recharge in China
    Weiping Wang
School of Resources and Environment, University of Jinan, Jinan P. R. China
     
  3:00 Aquatic Ecology in the Upper Yellow River Basin
    Mengzhen Xu, Xiongdong Zhou, Wei Liu
State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing
     
     
March 21 3:20 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 21 3:40 pm Confucius Institute Session II
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  3:40 Toward Understanding Changes in Large-Scale Floodplain Connectivity Caused by Levees
    Kara Scheel, Ryan R. Morrison, Antonio Annis, and Fernando Nardi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:00 A review of sediment environment of Nansi Lake from Shandong Province, China
    Liyuan Yang
School of Resources and Environment, University of Jinan, Jinan P. R. China
     
  4:20 A half-century of change? Analyzing precipitation and streamflow trends across the Khangai Mountain region of Mongolia
    Niah B. H. Venable, Steven R. Fassnacht
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability – Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  4:40 How We Observe Snow, Winter Weather and Climate Change – A Survey of Northern Colorado
    William J. Milligan IV, Steven R. Fassnacht, Niah B.H. Venable, Jessica Thompson
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability – Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
   
March 21 6:00 pm World Water Day Celebration
Lyric Cinema
1209 North College Avenue
     
  6:15 pm Introduction by:
Reagan Waskom, CSU Water Center and Colorado Water Institute
Sonali Diddi, Department of Design and Merchandising
Richard Fox, Sustainable Living Association
  6:30 pm

Screening of:
River Blue - Can Fashion Save the Planet?
     
     
March 21 6:00 pm Hydrology Days 2018 ends