AWARDS
The Hydrology Days Award is presented each year in recognition of outstanding and significant contributions to hydrologic science. Recipients of this prestigious award are listed below. We are excited to announce Dr. Soroosh Sorooshian has been selected to receive the 2020 Hydrology Days Award!
More information about Dr. Sorooshian is available here: http://hydrologydays.colostate.edu/keynote-speakers/
Hydrology Days Award Recipients
Soroosh Sorooshian (2020*) – Distinguished Professor – Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, Director, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS), The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine
- *Note – Due to COVID-19, Dr. Sorooshian will present a keynote address when the event can be held in-person (expected for 2022)
Bridget R. Scanlon (2019) Senior Research Scientist – Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
Stephen J. Burges (2018) Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou (2017) Distinguished Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – University of California, Irvine
Dara Entekhabi (2016) Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scott W. Tyler (2015) Professor – Geological Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada – Reno
William W-G Yeh (2014) Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, University of California – Los Angeles
Vijay P. Singh (2013) Distinguished and Regents Professor – Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University
Michael A. Celia (2012) Professor & Director, Princeton Environmental Institute
James Shuttleworth (2011) Regent’s Professor – Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona
Andrea Rinaldo (2010) Director – Ecole Polytechnique Fedarale de Lausanne, Switzerland
George F Pinder (2009) Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont
Wilfried Brutsaert (2008) Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Jean-Yves Parlange (2007) Professor – Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Rafael L. Bras (2006) Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles A Troendle (2005) Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service
Andras Szöllözi-Nagy (2004) Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO
Jose D. Salas (2003) Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (2002) Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Stanley Schumm (2001) Professor Emeritus – Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
Hubert J. Morel-Seytoux (2000) Professor Emeritus – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
Each year at Hydrology Days we honor two speakers by inviting them to present Borland lectures, one in hydrology and the other in hydraulics.
Hydraulics Recipients
Ellen Wohl (2020*) Distinguished Professor – Geology and Geosciences, Colorado State University
- *Note – Due to COVID-19, Dr. Wohl will present a keynote address when the event can be held in-person (expected for 2022)
Fotis Sotiropoulos (2019) Dean – College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University
Jeffrey R. Koseff (2018) Professor – Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Harindra J.(Joe) Fernando (2017) Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor – Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Mark Schmeeckle (2016) Associate Professor – Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Gordan Grant (2015) Research Hydrologist – USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Martin Doyle (2014) Director – Water Policy Program, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
Peter Wilcock (2013) Professor and Department Head – Watershed Sciences, Utah State University
Heidi Nepf (2012) Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen G. Monismith (2011) Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
John M. Buffington (2010) Geomorphologist – Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service
Marcelo H. Garcia (2009) Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
William E. Dietrich (2008) Professor – Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Each year at Hydrology Days we honor two speakers by inviting them to present Borland lectures, one in hydrology and the other in hydraulics.
Hydrology Recipients
Ana Barros (2020*) – Distinguished Professor – Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
- *Note – Due to COVID-19, Dr. Barros will present a keynote address when the event can be held in-person (expected for 2022)
Nandita Basu (2019) Associate Professor – Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology, University of Waterloo
Jeffrey Arnold (2018) Agricultural Engineer – Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS
Thomas J. Jackson (2017) Hydrologist – Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, USDA-ARS
Casey Brown (2016) Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amilcare Porporato (2015) Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute
Elfatih A.B. Eltahir (2014) Breene M. Kerr Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard M. Vogel (2013) Professor Emertius – Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
Jeffrey McDonnell (2012) Professor and Associate Director – Global Institute for Water Security, School of Environment and Sustainability
Tissa H. Illangasekare (2011) Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Shaun Lovejoy (2010) Professor – Dept. of Physics – McGill University
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou (2009) Distinguished Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Dennis P Lettenmaier (2008) Distinguished Professor – Geography, University of California Los Angeles
The Hydrology Days Student Showcase provides an opportunity for students at different points in their careers to exchange ideas, give research presentations and enhance their scientific communication skills. The showcase offers students an enriching environment that sparks peer-to-peer learning and collaboration.
Oral Presentation Awards
The 2019 Student Awardees are featured in a special issue of Colorado Water; the publication produced by the Colorado Water Center devoted to highlighting water research and activities at CSU and throughout Colorado.
- Note – Due to COVID-19, the 2020 event was moved online and no student awards were presented. However, student articles are featured in the 2020 Hydrology Days special issue of Colorado Water
2019 Recipients
1st Place – Mathew Klema (CSU): Assessment of Acoustic Flow Measurement Instrumentation for Mean Flow Measurements (Hydrologic Systems)
2nd Place – Ansley Brown (CSU): Predicting Crop Yield Losses Due to Soil-Water Salinity: Comparison of Traditional and Alternative Approaches (Agricultural Water & Conservation Practices)
3rd Place (tied):
- Erin Dougherty (CSU): Flood-Producing Storms in a Current and Future Climate Using High-Resolution Convection-Permitting Simulations in the United States (Global Environmental Change)
- Zachary Ferrie (CSU): Real-Time Visualization of Advective Groundwater Flow (Groundwater)
- Marissa Karpack (CSU): Quantitative Assessment of Floodplain Functionality Using an Index of Integrity (Global Environmental Change)
- Sujana Timilsina (CSU): Modeling hydrologic processes associated with soil saturation and debris flow initiation during the September 2013 Storm, Colorado Front Range (Hydrologic Systems)
Poster Awards
2019 Recipients
Undergraduate Poster Awards
1st Place – Bradley Simms (CSU): Spatiotemporal Snow Surface Roughness Across Multiple Resolutions
2nd Place – Lily Conrad (UNI): A Hydrologic Analysis Of Big Bear Creek Watershed In Iowa
3rd Place – Julie Dauer (CSU): A Shower Water Reclamation System To Address Colorado House Bill 18-1069
Graduate Poster Awards
1st Place – Ismail Alhelal (CSU): Recovery Of Nitrogen In Multi-Stage Anaerobic Digestion By Nitrification As Acid Source
2nd Place – Katie Knight (CSU): Evaluating The Effects Of Green Stormwater Infrastructure On Urban Street Flooding
3rd Place (tied):
- Alyssa Anenberg (CSU): Effects Of Snow Persistence On Soil Moisture And Soil Water Nitrogen Along The Colorado Front Range
- Cibi Vishnu Chinnasamy (CSU): Characteristics Of Water Use Across 124 Urban Centers In The USA: What Did We Learn?
- Danny White (CSU): Sorting Patterns In Curved Channels: Flume Experiment Observations