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AGU Hydrology Days 2006
March 20 - March 22, 200
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Hydrology Days 2006

Program at a Glance

8 am - 6 pm
8 - 9:45 am
9:45 - 10 am
Coffee break
Coffee break
Coffee break
10 - 12 am
12 - 1:30 pm

Lunch

Borland Lecturer in Hydrology

Lunch

Borland Lecturer in Hydraulics

1:30 - 3:45 pm
1:30 - 3:45 pm
3:45 - 4 pm
Coffee break
Coffee break
Coffee break
4 - 6 pm
4 - 6 pm

Urban Hydrology

7:30 pm
 

 

March 20

   
March 20 8:00  River Restoration - Hydraulics
    Chair: Brian Bledsoe
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

8:15

A river evolution comparison of adjacent stable and unstable urban watersheds in San Jose, California

 

 

Brett A. Jordan
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
William K. Annable
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo,Waterloo, Ontario
Chester C. Watson
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

8:30

Aerial photographic analysis of riparian vegetation growth and channel change at Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1935-2004

 

 

Daniel Cadol
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, cadol@cnr.colostate.edu
Sara Rathburn
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, rathburn@cnr.colostate.edu

 

8:45

A cost-based risk assessment method for selecting stream restoration design alternatives

 

 

Sue L. Niezgoda
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming

 

9:00

Predicting flow resistance in mountain streams

 

 

Brian P. Bledsoe and Benjamin S. Snyder
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

9:15

Effects of diversion dams on physical characteristics of streams

 

 

Daniel W. Baker and Brian P Bledsoe
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

9:30

Predicting Hydrologic Extremes for Biological Assessment at Ungauged Basins in the Western United States

 

 

Kiran Chinnayakanahalli and David G. Tarboton
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Utah State University
Charles P. Hawkins
Department of Aquatic, Watershed, and Earth Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT

 

 

 

 

 9:45

Mid-morning break

 

 

 

   
March 20 10:00 Bio-Complexity
    Chair: John Loomis
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

10:00

Physical Road and Stream Network Connectivity North Eastern Puerto Rico

    Kirk Sherrill, Melinda Laituri
Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University
Andrew Pike, Fred Scatena, 
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Katie Hein
Department of Aquatic, Watershed and Earth Resources, Utah State University

 

10:15

Individual Recreation Use as a Function of Stream Features: Testing the Influence of Commonly Reported Stream Variables versus Field Level Stream Variables

 

 

Juan Marcos Gonzalez and John B. Loomis
Colorado State University, Dept. Ag. & Resource Economics

 

10:30

Physical and chemical factors affecting the upstream migration of amphidromous shrimp in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico

 

 

D.A. Kikkert, T.A. Crowl, and A.P. Covich
Ecology Center, Utah State University

 

10:45

Geomorphic and anthropogenic influences on tropical stream communities

 

 

T.A. Crowl, C.L. Hein, A. Pike, J.F. Blanco, K. Sherrill, A.C. Covich, and F.N. Scatena

 

11:00

Effects of drought on low flows and freshwater shrimp (Macrobrachium ) distributions in a tropical montane drainage network, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico

 

 

A. P. Covich and T. A. Crowl
Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

11:15

Topography’s Influences on Hydrological Response Units - Without Process Modelling

 

 

S.R. Fassnacht and M.J. Laituri
Watershed Sciences Program, Colorado State University

 

11:30

A generalized multiobjective particle swarm optimization solver for spreadsheet models: application to water quality

 

 

Alexandre Baltar and Darrell G. Fontane
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University

 

11:45

Multiobjective procedure for calibration of hydrologic models using SWARM paradigm

 

 

M. Kashif Gill, Yasir H. Kaheil, Abedalrazq Khalil, Mac Mckee, and Luis Bastidas
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University

 

 

 

March 20

 12:00

Lunch break - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

 

 

Borland Lecturer in Hydrology

 

Professor Upmanu Lall

Columbia University

 

 

 

   
March 20 2:00 Stochastic Approaches I
    Chair: Jose D Salas
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

 

 

 

 

2:00

Hydromorphology: Hydrology in an Evolving World

 

 

Upmanu Lall

Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Columbia University

 

2:30

Multivariate Shifting Mean Plus Persistence Model for Simulating the Great Lakes Net Basin Supplies

 

 

Óli Grétar Blöndal Sveinsson
The National Power Company (Landsvirkjun), Reykjavík Iceland
Jose D. Salas
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

2:45

A River Flood Warning System Using a Neural Probabilistic Forecasting Model

 

 

Hyun-Suk Shin
Department of Civil Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, S. Korea
Jose D. Salas
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

3:00

An Extreme Precipitation Return Level Map for Colorado's Front Range

 

 

Daniel Cooley, Doug Nychka, and Philippe Naveau
Department of Statistics, Colorado State University

 

3:15

Semiparametric Multivariate and Multi-site Weather Generator

 

 

Somkiat Apipattanavis, Guillermo P. Podesta, Balaji Rajagopalan
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

 

3:30

Interannual Variability and Ensemble Prediction of Upper Blue Nile Basin Kiremt Season Precipitation

 

 

Paul Block and Balaji Rajagopalan
Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado

 

 

 

 

 3:45

Mid-afternoon break

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 20 4:00 Stochastic Approaches II
    Chair: Jose D Salas
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

 

 

 

 

4:00

Forecasting Spring Reservoir Inflows in Churchill Falls Basin in Québec Canada

 

 

Óli Grétar Blöndal Sveinsson
The National Power Company  (Landsvirkjun), Reykjavík Iceland
Upmanu Lall
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction of Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY, USA

 

4:15

Simulating influent water quality parameters using a nearest-neighbor technique

 

 

Erin Towler, Balaji Rajagopalan and Scott Summers
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

 

4:30

Estimating the Return Period of Extreme Hydrologic Droughts

 

 

Z. S. Tarawneh and J. D. Salas
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

4:45

Simple-Scaling of Flood Quantiles in a Small Hortonian Research Watershed: Higher-Order Moments and the Effect of Record Length

 

 

Fred L. Ogden
Dept. of Civil & Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie , WY
Anthony G. Benoit
Environmental Engineering Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

 

5:00

Disaggregating Daily Rainfall into Hourly Quantities

 

 

T.S. Lee and J. D. Salas
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

 

 

March 20 2:00 Sediment - Erosion - Geomorphology - Fires I
Chair: Lee MacDonald

Forest, Range, and Watershed Stewardship Department, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

 

 

 

 

2:00

Predicting variability in post-fire sediment yields: Efforts to validate ERMiT in the Colorado Front Range

 

 

Isaac J. Larsen, Lee H. MacDonald
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University
Peter R. Robichaud, William J. Elliot
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, Idaho

 

2:15

Post-fire Channel Change in Small Mountainous Catchments

 

 

Duncan Eccleston and Lee MacDonald
Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University

 

2:30

Modeling Post-fire Erosion in the Western US

 

 

Mary Ellen Miller
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo
Lee MacDonald
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University

 

2:45

Variability in Total Sediment Load Using BORAMEP on The Rio Grande Low Flow Conveyance Channel

 

 

Seema Shah
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

3:00

A GIS Tool to Analyze Forest Road Sediment Production and Stream Impacts

 

 

Ajay Prasad, David G. Tarboton
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Utah State University
Charles H. Luce
Research Hydrologist, USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID - 83702
Thomas A. Black
Hydrologist, USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID - 83702

 

3:15

Applications of GSTARS Computer Models

 

 

Chih Ted Yang
Colorado State University
Francisco J. M. Simões
U.S. Geological Survey

 

 

 

 

 3:45

Mid-afternoon break

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 20 4:00 Sediment - Erosion - Geomorphology - Fires II
Chair: Lee MacDonald

Forest, Range, and Watershed Stewardship Department, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:00

Which Discharge Rate Controls the Long-Term Geomorphic Evolution of a Watershed?

 

 

Xiangjiang Huang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

4:15

Measuring and Predicting Road Sediment Production in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California

 

 

Abby Korte and Lee H. MacDonald
Watershed Science Program, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University

 

4:30

Sedimentation Problems at the Nakdong River Estuary Barrage and Retrofitting Design for the Gupo bridge piers on the Lower Nakdong River

 

 

Un Ji- and Pierre Julien
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University

 

4:45

Sediment Production from Unpaved Roads, OHV Trails, and Forest Thinning Operations in the Colorado Front Range

 

 

Matthew Welsh and Lee MacDonald
Watershed Science Program, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University

 

5:00

FOREST: A spatially explicit sediment model for forested watersheds

 

 

S. E. Litschert
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
L. H. MacDonald
Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University

 

 

 

     
   

 March 21

     
March 21 8:00 Poster Session
    Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

 

 8:00 - 9:45

 Posters