Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2006
March 20 - March 22, 200
6
(Download Conference Program in PDF format)

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
     

 

 9:45

Mid-morning break

     
   
March 21  10:00 Remediation - Industrial Releases
    Chair: Tom Sale
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

10:00

Soil Remediation Case Study: ZVI-Clay for Treatment of Tetrachloroethylene Source Zone

 

 

Mitchell Olson and Tom Sale
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523-1320

 

10:15

Installation of an Electrolytic Reactive Barrier for Treatment of Energetic Compounds in Groundwater

 

 

Dave Gilbert, Matthew Petersen, Tom Sale
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

10:30

From Laboratory To The Field: Intermediate Scale Testing, A Necessary Step

 

 

Tissa H. Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Colorado School of Mines

 

10:45

Advancing an Innovative Remediation Technology to Broad Commercial Use

 

 

Tom Sale and Gary Amato
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University

 

11:00

Physical characterization of soils mixed with slurries of clay and zero-valent-iron

 

 

David Castelbaum and Charles D. Shackelford
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

11:15

Modeling Contaminant Mass Transport and Degradation in a Gas-Evolving Electrolytic Permeable Reactive Barrier

 

 

Matt Petersen and Ken Reardon
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
Tom Sale
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

11:30

Benefits of Upgradient Contaminant Flux Reduction

 

 

Lee Ann Rutherford, Tom Sale, and David Dandy
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

11:45

An Evaluation of Three Methods for Estimating Free-product LNAPL Flow Rates through Contaminated Porous Media

 

 

Gabriel Iltis and Tom Sale
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

 

 

March 21

 12:00

Lunch break 

 

 

Presentation of Hydrology Days Award

 

Professor Rafael L Bras

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 21 2:00 Hydrology Days Award Session I
    Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

 

 

 

 

2:00

Frontiers in Hydrologic Science: Complexity and Organization in Hydrology

 

 

Rafael L. Bras
Edward A. Abdun-Nur Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

2:30

In Search of Organization and Complexity in Semiarid Mountain Regions with Monsoonal Climates

 

 

Enrique R. Vivoni
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM.

 

2:45

Ecohydrology of a seasonal cloud forest in Dhofar

 

 

Elfatih A B Eltahir
Ralph M Parsons Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

3:00

Probabilistic treatment of sub-reach-scale bed stress in long-term channel evolution models

 

 

Gregory E. Tucker
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

3:15

Water Balance Controls on Vegetation Productivity Across the Climatic Gradients of the Central United States

 

 

John P. Kochendorfer
The Environmental Institute, University of Massachussets, Amherst, MA
Jorge A. Ramírez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University

 

3:30

Catchment-Scale Variability of Soil Moisture:  Controlling Factors and a Method for Estimation

 

 

Mark A. Perry and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

 

 

 

 3:45

Mid-afternoon break

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 21 4:00 Hydrology Days Award Session II
    Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

 

 

 

 

4:00

Developing a Community Hydrologic Information System

 

 

David G Tarboton
Utah Water Research Laboratory, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Utah State University
David R. Maidment
Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin
Ilya Zaslavsky
San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego

 

4:15

Water Management Requirements for a New Energy Policy

 

 

Neil S. Grigg
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

4:30

Can Absence of Multiple Teleconnection Patterns Lead to Trends in Hydrologic Signals?

 

 

David Small
Cincinnati Earth System Science Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati
Shafiqul Islam and Richard Vogel
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University

 

4:45

Downscaling remotely sensed soil moisture observations to hillslope scales with physically based distributed models through data assimilation

    Alejandro N. Flores, Rafael L. Bras, and Dara Entekhabi
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

5:00

Seasonal and regional variability in scaling properties and correlation structure of high resolution precipitation data in a highly heterogeneous mountain environment (Switzerland)

 

 

Peter Molnar and Paolo Burlando
Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

 

5:15

Reconstructing mechanistic models of alpine basins hydro-climatic behaviour using observed data

 

 

Paolo Perona, Darcy Molnar and Paolo Burlando
Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

 

5:30

Classification of Channel Network Planforms Based on Deviations from Self-Similarity

 

 

Alfonso I. Mejía and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

   
March 21 2:00 Emerging Contaminants: Emerging Technologies
    Chair: Amy Pruden
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

2:00

Dense Medium Plasma: A Promising New Water Treatment Approach

 

 

Ashish Sharma, George J. Collins, Cameron Moore
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Amy Pruden
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

2:15

Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARG) in the Environment: Effect of Composting

 

 

H.N. Storteboom, S.C. Kim, K.H. Carlson and A. Pruden
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

2:30

Microbiological Comparison of Two Field-Scale Sulfate-Reducing Permeable Reactive Zones Treating Mine Drainage

 

 

Sage R. Hiibel
Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Luciana P. Pereyra
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Amy Pruden
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Kenneth F. Reardon
Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

2:45

Using Molecular Tools to Monitor a Microbial Consortium Degrading a 12-Chemical Mixture

 

 

Rachel E. Hanson
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
C. Sans
Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy Department, Universistat de Barcelona, Barcelona
M. Hoelscher
Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
A. Pruden
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
K.F. Reardon
Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

3:00

Treatment of MTBE and BTEX at a Local Refinery: Bench and Field Studies

 

 

Maria Raynal, Amy Pruden, Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University

 

3:15

Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARG) Studies in the Poudre River and Northern Colorado

 

 

Ruoting Pei, Amy Pruden, Sung-Chul Kim, and Kenneth H. Carlson
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

3:30

Modeling of Anaerobic Digestion for Agricultural Waste

 

 

Durmus Cesur
San Antonio River Authority, 100 East Guenther, San Antonio, TX 78229
Maurice L. Albertson
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523

 

 

 

 

 3:45

Mid-afternoon break

     
   
March 21 4:00 Urban Hydrology
    Chair: Larry Roesner
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

4:00

Protocols for the Evaluating the Effects of Land-use Patterns and Runoff Management on Urban Streams

 

 

Larry A. Roesner and Christine A. Rohrer
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

4:15

Multipurpose Detention Pond Design for Improved Watershed Management in New Korean Developments

 

 

Daeryong Park
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
Sukhwan Jang
Department of Civil Engineering, Daejin University, Pochun-city, Kyungki-do, 487-711, KOREA
Larry A. Roesner
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

4:30

Quantifying Urban-induced Flow Regime Alteration and Evaluating Mitigation Alternatives Using Mathematical Models and Hydrologic Metrics

 

 

J. L. Edgerly, L. A. Roesner, C. A. Rohrer, and J. A. Gironás
Harold H. Short Urban Water Infrastructure Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

4:45

Effects of Four Catchment Modifications on Urban Runoff

 

 

J.P. Davis, C.A. Rohrer, and L.A. Roesner
Urban Infrastructure Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

5:00

Experimental Analysis And Different Modeling Approaches For A Stormwater Perlite Filter

 

 

José M. Adriasola, Jorge A. Gironás and Bonifacio Fernández
Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

5:15

Watershed Discretization in Urban Watersheds for Rainfall-Runoff Modeling

 

 

Ivan Rivas and Larry A. Roesner
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

5:30

Guidance for Improving Monitoring Methods for Stormwater-Borne Solids

 

 

E.M. Kidner, L.A. Roesner, A. Pruden
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

     
     
   

 March 22

   
March 22   8:00  Climate and Hydrology
    Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

8:15

Variations in Precipitation and Temperature Signals and Characteristic Responses in Autumn and Spring Seasonal Hydrographs: Implications to Water Resource Management in the Gunnison River Basin

 

 

Matter, Margaret A., Luis A. Garcia, and Darrell Fontane
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

8:30

Shifts in Seasonal Columbia River Runoff Associated with Large-Scale Climatic Oscillations

 

 

Steven B. Barton
Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon
Jorge A. Ramírez
Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

8:45

The Influence of El Niño Phenomena on the Climate of Venezuela

 

 

Edilberto Guevara
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carabobo University, Bárbula, Valencia, Venezuela

 

9:00

Oceanic-Atmospheric Variability and Western Snowfall

 

 

Thad Hunter
Department of Civil and Architectural, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Glenn Tootle
Department of Civil and Architectural, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

 

9:15

Seasonal Shifts in the North American Monsoon

 

 

Katrina Grantz Balaji Rajagopalan, Martyn Clark, and Edith Zagona
Dept of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering (CEAE), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 

9:30

Surface temperature patterns and lapse rates:  implications for water resources and studies of mountain climate change

 

 

Jessica Lundquist
CIRES-NOAA ESRL PSD, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

 

 

 

 9:45

Mid-morning break

 

 

 

   
March 22   10:00 Hurricanes - Climate - Science Policy  
    Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

10:00

Hurricanes and Global Warming

 

 

William Gray
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

 

10:20

Hurricanes and Global Warming: Policy and Politics

 

 

Roger Pielke, Jr.
CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

10:40

Climate system complexity and vulnerability approach: A broader perspective on climate change

 

 

Roger Pielke, Sr.
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

 

11:00

Wind, wave and surge-induced damage to woodframe structures during hurricane Katrina

 

 

John van de Lindt
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

11:20

2005 Colorado Water Year

 

 

Nolan Doesken
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

 

11:40

Artists’ Depictions of Catsteps in the Loess Hills of Iowa: Evidence for Mid-Nineteenth Century Climate Change

 

 

Kimberly R. Dillon, Steven H. Emerman, and Pamela K. Wilcox
Department of Biology and Environmental Science
Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa 50125

 

 

 

March 22

 12:00

Lunch break 

 

 

Borland Lecturer in Hydraulics

 

Professor Dr. Willi Hager

ETH-Zurich

 

 

 

   
March 22 2:00 Agro-ecosystems of the Lower Arkansas River
    Chair: Luis Garcia
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

2:00

Assessing and Modeling Irrigation-Induced Selenium in the Stream-Aquifer System of the Lower Arkansas River Valley, Colorado

 

 

Alexander W. Herting and Timothy K. Gates
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University

 

2:15

Improving Drainage of Agricultural Lands for Salinity Problem in the Lower Arkansas Valley

 

 

Rose Rotter and Ramchand Oad
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University
John Wilkins-Wells
Sociology Department, Colorado State University

 

2:30

Using LANDSAT imagery for detecting soil salinity in corn fields: calibration and validation

 

 

Ayman Elhaddad and Luis A. Garcia
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

 

2:45

Improving evapotranspiration estimates in the Lower Arkansas River Valley using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst

 

 

Eric D. Morway, Enrique Triana, Timothy K. Gates
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University

 

3:00

Preliminary Results of Detailed Field Measurements of On-Farm Water Management in the Lower Arkansas River Basin in Colorado

 

 

Andres Jaramillo, Luis Garcia, and Timothy Gates
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University

 

3:15

Uncertainty in Mass-Balance Calculations of Non-Point Source Loads to the Arkansas River

 

 

Jennifer Mueller and Timothy K. Gates
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University

 

3:30

GEODSS:  Spatial Basin-Scale Water Quantity and Quality Modeling in the Lower Arkansas River Valley

 

 

Enrique Triana, John W. Labadie, and Timothy K. Gates
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University

 

3:45

Potential contribution of residuals for better prediction of soil salinity from remote sensing data

 

 

Ahmed Edeiry and Luis A Garcia
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University

 

 

 

 

 3:45

Mid-afternoon break

 

 

 

   
    Hydrologic Modeling - Simulation
    Chair: Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering - CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

4:00

Distributed Modeling of Extreme Floods on a Large Watershed

 

 

John F. England, Jr.
Bureau of Reclamation, Flood Hydrology, Denver

 

4:15

Measuring sediment production from natural hill-slopes and disturbed surfaces in a dry tropical setting- La Parguera, Puerto Rico

 

 

Carlos E Ramos-Scharrón
Dept. of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas-Austin

 

4:30

Hydrologic Analysis and Simulation of the Colorado River System

 

 

Julia A. Keedy, Jose D. Salas, Darrell G. Fontane
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
David H. Merritt
Colorado River Water Conservation District

 

4:45

Developing a Modified GCUH Based on the Geomorphic Characteristics of Korean Mountain Regions

 

 

Hyun-Suk Shin
Department of Civil Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, S. Korea
Pierre Julien
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

5:00

Flow Trend Analysis in the Rouge River Watershed and the Effect of Temporal Resolution on Trend Detection

 

 

C.A. Rohrer and C.L. Hughes
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

5:15

Using Water Quality to Validate Groundwater Modeling Results

 

 

Nathaniel A. Beckman and John D. Stednick
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University
William E. Sanford
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University

 

 

 

 

 3:45

Mid-afternoon break

 

 

 

   
March 22 2:00 Snow Hydrology I
    Chair: Steven Fassnacht
Forest, Range and Watershed Stewardship Department, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

2:00

Assessing the Spatial and Temporal Surface Roughness Using Digital Imagery

 

 

Mark V. Corrao and Steven R. Fassnacht
Watershed Science Program, College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University

 

2:15

Spatial scaling characteristics of snow depth

 

 

Ernesto Trujillo and Jorge A. Ramírez
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
Kelly Elder
Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO

 

2:30

Snow depth scaling properties examined at multiple spatial extents

 

 

Jeffrey S. Deems
CSU Watershed Science
Steven R. Fassnacht
CSU Watershed Science

 

2:45

Comparison of the spatial organization of snow depth between a forested environment and an alpine environment

 

 

Ernesto Trujillo and Jorge A. Ramírez
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
Kelly Elder
Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA

 

3:00

Computational time step of winter water balance for snow losses at United States meteorological stations

 

 

Steven R. Fassnacht
Watershed Science Program, College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University

     

 

 3:45

Mid-afternoon break

 

 

 

   
March 22 4:00 Snow Hydrology II
    Chair: Steven Fassnacht
Forest, Range and Watershed Stewardship Department, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

4:00

Reconstructing snow water equivalent in the Rio Grande headwaters using remotely sensed snow cover data and a spatially distributed snowmelt model

 

 

Noah P. Molotch
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
University of Colorado at Boulder

 

4:15

Geostatistical Methods for Estimating Snowmelt Contribution to the Annual Water Balance in an Alpine Watershed

 

 

Douglas M. Hultstrand, Steven R. Fassnacht, and John D. Stednick
Watershed Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Robert C. Musselman
Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA, Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

4:30

Annual hydrochemical fluxes from alpine-subalpine catchments in the Snowy Range, Wyoming

 

 

Dena L. Hicks
Watershed Science Master’s Student, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
John D. Stednick, Steven R. Fassnacht
Watershed Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Robert C. Musselman
Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

4:45

Diurnal changes in isotopic and chemical content of a headwater stream during snowmelt runoff

 

 

Ken Hill, Hillary Hamann1, Mark Williams, and Nel Caine
 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder

1 Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

 

5:00

Evaporation in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica: A Model of Fractionation across Riparian Zones

 

 

Melissa Northcott and Michael Gooseff
Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden

 

5:15

Estimating Changes in Snow Pack Characteristics at The Aspen Ski Area For The Years 2030 And 2100

 

 

Brian Lazar and Joel Smith
Stratus Consulting Inc., Boulder, Colorado
Mark Williams
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
Tom Wigley
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.

 

 

 

    CSU Wind Ensemble Performance:  H2O

University Center for the Arts - Edna Rizley Griffin Concert Hall

Conductor: Dr. Steven J. Moore

     

 

 

 

March 21 8:00

 Posters

    Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     

 

1

Micron-Size Zero-Valent Iron Emplacement in Porous Media Using Polymer Additives: Column and Flow Cell Experiments

 

 

M. Oostrom
Environmental Technology Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
T.W. Wietsma and M.A. Covert
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
Richland, Washington
V.R. Vermeul
Environmental Technology Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington

 

2

LNAPLs do not always Float: An Example Case of a Viscous LNAPL under Variable Water Table Conditions

 

 

M. Oostrom
Environmental Technology Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
C. Hofstee
TNO, Geo-Energy Division, Utrecht, The Netherlands
T.W. Wietsma
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
Richland, Washington

 

3

Plant species composition reveals temporal and spatial dynamics of snow slides in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado

 

 

Sara Simonson
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Thomas Stohlgren
USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins

 

4

Water Balance Evaluation and Regionalization Of Albania Rivers Basin

 

 

Niko Pano, Bardhyl Avdyli
Hydrometeorological Institute
Marenglen Bukli,Koco Gjoka,
Institute of Applied Mathematics

 

5

Post-processing Numerical Weather Forecasts of Precipitation Using Neural Networks

 

 

Raul Passerini and Jorge A. Ramirez
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University

 

6

Capacity versus supply limited sediment transport in the Colorado Plateau

 

 

Robert T. Milhous
US Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

7

GIS as a framework for decision support and workflow management systems for watershed management

 

 

Durmus Cesur
Watershed Management, GIS Program, San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio, TX 78229

 

8

Water Resources in Korea

 

 

Yongdeok Cho
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

9

Dry season modeling in Cojedes State, Venezuela by drought analysis of Tirgua river flows

 

 

Edilberto Guevara
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carabobo University, Venezuela
Franklin Paredes, Nahir Carballo, Luís Rumbo
Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Ezequiel Zamora. San Carlos, Venezuela.

 

10

Overtopping analysis – the state of the practice

 

 

Amanda L. Cox
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University

 

11

Estimating a stream restoration design discharge

 

 

Tyrel S. West
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming,

 

12

A tool to delineate watersheds and river network for multiple sites spread over large Digital Elevation Models

 

 

Kiran Chinnayakanahalli and David G. Tarboton
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT
John Olson, Ryan Hill, and Chris Kroeber
Department of Aquatic, Watershed, and Earth Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT

 

13

Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Productivity of Stromatolites, Great Salt Lake, Utah

 

 

Ashley Nielson and David Naftz
U.S. Geological Survey-Utah Water Science Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84119

 

14

Improving Irrigation Water Use in the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District using a Decision Support System

 

 

Ramchand Oad and Kristoph Kinzli
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

15

Irrigated agriculture and ecology in the Arikaree river basin: finding a sustainable future

 

 

Linda Vandamme and Ramchand Oad
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University.

 

16

Time series analysis of riverine ecosystems

 

 

Robert T Milhous
US Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

17

Hydrologic Analysis for Stream Restoration Study on Junjung River, Penang, Malaysia

 

 

Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar, Shanker Kumar Sinnakaudan
Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

18

Effects of Snow-making, grading, and timber harvest on stream channel morphology in the White River National Forest, Colorado

 

 

Gabrielle David
Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences
Brian P. Bledsoe
Colorado State University, Department of Civil Engineering
Dave M.  Merritt
USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station
Ellen Wohl
Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences

 

19

Assessing Performances of Learning Algorithms when Trained using Incomplete Data

 

 

M. Kashif Gill, Tirusew Asefa, and Mac McKee
Utah Water Research Laboratory and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University

 

20

The performance assessment of surfactant enhanced remediation in a two dimensional heterogeneous aquifers

 

 

Mini Mathew, Yongcheol Kim and Tissa Illangasekare
Center for experimental studies, Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines

 

21

A Stochastic Differential Equation Approach for Modeling DNAPL Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media

 

 

D. W. Dean and T. F. Russell
Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado
T. H. Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP), Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

 

22

Biologically Enhanced Mass Transfer of PCE from DNAPL Pools: Model Development and Evaluation at Intermediate Scales

 

 

Kent C. Glover, Tissa H. Illangasekare and Junko Munakata-Marr
Colorado School of Mines, Division of Environmental Science and Engineering

 

23

Intermediate-scale experimental methods utilized for the investigation of dissolved phase DNAPL plume persistence in field material representing three typical field domains

 

 

Derrick Rodriguez and Tissa Illangasekare
Colorado School of Mines, Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP)

 

24

Tempe-cell based static capillary pressure – saturation relationships for sands: Conventional averaging method vs. point measurement

 

 

Toshihiro Sakaki and Tissa Illangasekare
Colorado School of Mines, Environmental Science and Engineering, Golden, Colorado

 

25

Thermally Enhanced Mass Transfer from Entrapped DNAPL Sources

 

 

Jose Gago and Tissa Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Colorado School of Mines, Golden

 

26

Pacific Oceanic / Atmospheric Variability and the Wind River Range

 

 

Kyle Cheesbrough, Tom Watson and Glenn Tootle
Department of Civil and Architectural, University of Wyoming

 

27

Determination of non-aqueous phase liquid residual saturation in saturated zone due to water flooding

 

 

Anuchit Limsuwat, Jose Gago, and Tissa H. Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP), Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines

 

|PROGRAM | CALL FOR PAPERS | SUBMIT PAPERS ONLINE | REGISTER |



Disclaimer | Equal Opportunity

For Questions or comments regarding this 
web site please contact the
Webmaster

For Questions or comments regarding 
Hydrology Days contact:
hydrologydays@engr.colostate.edu

     

© Colorado State University
Hydrology Days 2003
By
Jorge A. Ramirez