Hydrology Days

Hydrology Days 2005

Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2005
March 7 - March 9, 2005
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Hydrology Days 2005 Program at a Glance
	March 7	March 8	March 9
8 am - 6 pm	Posters	Posters	Posters
8 - 9:45 am	River Restoration - Hydraulics	Remote Sensing - GIS	Climate - Drought
9:45 - 10 am	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
10 - 12 am	Landscape Evolution - Fluvial Geomorphology	Water Resources Management	Soil Moisture Dynamics - Water Balance
12 - 1:30 pm	Lunch Borland Lecture Awards	Lunch Hydrology Days Award Lecture	Lunch break
1:30 - 3:45 pm	Fire and Hydrology	Hydrology Days Award Session I	Remediation - Industrial Releases I
1:30 - 3:45 pm		Irrigation	Snow Hydrology I
3:45 - 4 pm	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
4 - 6 pm	Erosion - Sedimentation	Hydrology Days Award Session II	Remediation - Industrial Releases II
4 - 6 pm	Stochastic Approaches - Time Series Analysis	Urban Hydrology	Snow Hydrology II

March 7


March 7	8 AM	River Restoration - Hydraulics
		Chair: Brian Bledsoe Department of Civil Engineering, CSU Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

	8:00	A River Restoration Case Study: Three Forks of the Little Snake River, Colorado John Meyer and Brian P. Bledsoe Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	8:15	Mapping Stream Habitat Heterogeneity Using a Flexible Neighborhood Analysis Algorithm Keith D. Olson Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Christopher O. Cuhaciyan and Brian P. Bledsoe Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	8:30	A Probabilistic Approach for Assessing Effects of Deposited Fine Sediment on Aquatic Insects Blair E. Hurst and Brian P. Bledsoe Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
	8:45	Scale-dependent Relevance of Watershed, Valley, and Reach Descriptors to Benthic Indices Across Nested Ecoregions of the Pacific Northwest Elaina R. Holburn and Brian P. Bledsoe Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 N. LeRoy Poff Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Christopher O. Cuhaciyan Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
	9:00	Multi-Scale Environmental Filters of Benthic Invertebrate Communities in Mountainous Ecoregions of Oregon and Washington Christopher O. Cuhaciyan Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Julian D. Olden Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Brian P. Bledsoe Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins N. LeRoy Poff Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	9:15	Effects of bendway weir characteristics on resulting eddy and channel flow conditions Kristoph-Dietrich Kinzli Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
	9:30	The Effects of Bendway Weirs on Channel Flow Characteristics Paul Schmidt Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

	9:45	Mid-morning coffee break


March 7	10:00	Landscape Evolution - Fluvial Geomorphology

		Chair: Pierre Julien Department of Civil Engineering, CSU Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

	10:00	New Challenges in the Modeling of Landscape Evolution Gary Parker St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
	10:30	Computation of Wash Load in the Yellow River Chih Ted Yang Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Francisco J. M. Simões U.S. Geological Survey, P.O. Box 25046, Mail Stop 413, Lakewood, CO
	10:45	Impacts of Streamflow Production Mechanisms on the Evolution of River Basin Topography: The WE-38 Basin in Pennsylvania Xiangjiang Huang Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University Jeffrey D. Niemann Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
	11:00	Some influences of channel characteristics on sediment surface roughness in a cellular automata model. Nancy E. Brown Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Jorge A. Ramirez Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	11:15	Overview of Particle Size Trends of Gravel Bars on the Upper Rio Chagres, Panama Francis Rengers Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Ellen Wohl Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	11:30	Assessment of Land-Use Impacts on Forced-Pool Characteristics in Constriction-Dominated Channels Jaime Goode and Ellen Wohl Geosciences Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

March 7	12:00	Lunch break
		Presentation of Borland Lectureship Awards: Borland Lecturer in Hydraulics: Professor Gary Parker University of Minnesotta, Twin Cities Borland Lecturere in Hydrology: Professor Renzo Rosso Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy


March 7	2:00	Fire and Hydrology

		Chair: Jose D Salas Department of Civil Engineering, CSU Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

	2:00	Water and fire: wildfire forcing of hydrologic processes Renzo Rosso Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
	2:30	Post-fire Erosion at the Hillslope Scale in the Colorado Front Range: Rates and Controls MacDonald, Lee H., and J. Pietraszak Watershed Science Program, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523
	2:45	Effectiveness of BAER treatments in reducing post-fire erosion after the Hayman Fire, Colorado Front Range Daniella Rough and Lee H. MacDonald Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	3:00	Assessing the role of ground cover in post-fire runoff and erosion using simulated rainfall, Colorado Front Range Darren J. Hughes and Lee H. MacDonald Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship Dept., Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	3:15	Predicting post-fire sediment production at the hillslope scale: Efforts to validate RUSLE and Disturbed WEPP in the Colorado Front Range Isaac J. Larsen and Lee H. MacDonald Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	3:30	Optimization of a Post-Wildfire Hillslope Erosion Model Mary Ellen Miller State University of New York at Buffalo, Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering

	3:45	Mid-afternoon coffee break


March 7	4:00	Erosion - Sedimentation

		Chair: Lee MacDonald Forest, Range, and Watershed Stewardship Department, CSU Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

	4:00	BORAMEP Total Load Analysis of the Low Flow Conveyance Channel on the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico Forrest Jay and Pierre Julien Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
	4:15	Assessing reservoir sedimentation using bathymetric comparison and sediment loading measurements Rathburn, S.L. Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University Finley, J.B. Telesto Solutions, Inc. Klein, S.M Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Whitman, B.R. Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
	4:30	Road Sediment Production and Delivery in the southern Sierra Nevada, California Abby Korte and Lee H. MacDonald Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	4:45	Effects of Forest Thinning on Sediment Production and Soil Moisture in the Central Colorado Front Range Ethan Brown and Lee MacDonald Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins

March 7	4:00	Stochastic Approaches - Time Series Analysis
		Chair: Jorge A Ramirez Department of Civil Engineering, CSU Virginia Dale Room - Lory Student Center

	4:00	Characterizing Droughts for the Colorado River System Zeyad Tarawneh and José D Salas Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
	4:15	Local Polynomial Method for Ensemble Forecast of Time Series Satish Kumar Regonda and Balaji Rajagopalan Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Upmanu Lall Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY Martyn Clark Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Young-Il Moon Department of Civil Engineering, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
	4:30	Forecasting Annual Streamflows of Colorado Rivers Using Oceanic Climatic Variables Chongjin Fu and José D Salas Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
	4:45	Modeling and Simulation of Daily Precipitation Tae-Sam Lee and José D Salas Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
	5:00	Raster-based Analysis and Visualization of Hydrologic Time-Series Richard Koehler, Ph.D. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, Forecast Decision and Training Branch – COMET program, Boulder, CO.
	5:15	Data Extension of Intermittent Streamflows for the Colorado River Tae-Sam Lee and José D Salas Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

		Posters Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

	1	Simulation Of Dispersion Of Pollutant By Eddy Field Chagas, Patrícia and Souza, Raimundo Department of Environmental and Hydraulics Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza – CE – Brasil.
	2	Development of a Numeric Model, with Explicit Solution, to Study Flood Wave Propagation. Chagas, Patrícia and Souza, Raimundo Department of Environmental and Hydraulics Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza – CE – Brasil.
	3	Study of the Depuration Capacity of a River, Considering the Propagation of a Dynamic Wave. Chagas, Patrícia and Souza, Raimundo Department of Environmental and Hydraulics Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza – CE – Brasil.
	4	Solution of Saint Venant's Equation to Study Flood in Rivers through Numerical Methods Chagas, Patrícia Chagas and Souza, Raimundo Department of Environmental and Hydraulics Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza – CE – Brasil.
	5	Geoelectric in Identifying Ground Water Quality Hamid KAHPOOD and Jafar NAJIHAMMODI Water Resources Section,Civil Engineering Dept.,Power Water Insitute of Technology,Tehran,Iran
	6	Groundwater artificial recharge: actuality, topics and geographical analysis C. Miracapillo Fachhochschule beider Basel (FHBB), Basel (CH) G. Barbiero CNR Water Research Institute (IRSA), Rome (I)
	7	Erosion And Runoff Generation From Fire Disturbed Mediterranean Forest Area Maria Cristina Rulli, Silvia Bozzi, Matteo Spada, Daniele Bocchiola, Renzo Rosso Department of Hydraulic, Environmental, Road and Surveying Engineering, Hydraulics, Fantoli Lab Building, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 I-20133 Milano MI Italy
	8	Exploring Relationships Between Geomorphic Factors and Wheat Yield Using Fuzzy Inference Systems Dmitry Kurtener Agrophysical Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia Timothy R. Green USDA- ARS Great Plains Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO Elena Krueger-Shvetsova Agrophysical Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia Robert H. Erskine USDA- ARS Great Plains Systems Research Unit
	9	A Review of Colorado Watershed Projects: Strategies for Implementation Planning and Stakeholder Involvement - In partnership with the Big Thompson Watershed Forum Hilary N. Spitz Department of Forest, Rangeland & Watershed Stewardship; State University, Fort Collins
	10	Evaluating uncertainty of ground-water vulnerability predictions using Latin Hypercube sampling Jason J. Gurdak Geology and Geological Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Water Science Center, Lakewood, CO Sharon L. Qi U.S. Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR John E. McCray Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
	11	Calibration and validation of a rainfall-runoff model simulating infiltration and saturation excess Pasquale Versace, Beniamino Sirangelo and Daniela Biondi Dipartimento di Difesa del Suolo, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
	12	Framework for Prioritizing Regulated River Restoration Marisa Escobar and Greg Pasternack Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, C 95616
	13	Experimental investigation of NAPL migration and source zone formation in saturated heterogeneous media Fritjof Fagerlund Air- and Water Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden and Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO Tissa Illangasekare Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado Auli Niemi Air- and Water Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
	14	Research in the Caspar Creek Experiment Watershed, Northern California Dena Hicks Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University USDA Forest Service: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
	15	Variation of Downstream Channel Morphology in the Tropical Montane Streams of the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico Andrew Pike Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA F.N. Scatena Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
	16	Stochastic Simulation of the Truckee River Flow System Chonjin Fu and José D Salas Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
	17	Modeling Complex Interactions of Overlapping River and Road Networks in a Changing Landscape John Loomis, Melinda Laituri, Jorge A Ramírez, Kirk Sherrill, and Ellen Wohl Colorado State University Alan Covich University of Georgia Paul Box, Todd Crowl and Kaite Hein Utah State University Armando González-Cabán USDA Forest Service Elías Gutíerrez and Luis Santiago University of Puerto Rico Andy Pike, Fred Scatena, and Dana Tomlin University of Pennsylvania
	18	Studies of salt diffusion process and fluxes from seabed sediments to freshwater of the Polder reservoir Xilai Zheng, Zengwen Gao, Junwen Wu Department of Environmental Engineering, Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China
	19	Study on the flow of water through non- submerged vegetation Nehal L Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering College. Hohai University. Nanjing, China. Yan Zhong Ming Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering College. Hohai University. Nanjing, China.
	20	The South Paltte Basin Hydrologic Observatory

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