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March
20 |
8:00 |
River Restoration - Hydraulics |
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Chair: Brian Bledsoe
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center |
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8:15 |
A river evolution comparison of adjacent stable and unstable urban watersheds in San Jose, California |
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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 |
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8:30 |
Aerial photographic analysis of riparian vegetation growth and channel change at Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1935-2004 |
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Daniel Cadol
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, cadol@cnr.colostate.edu
Sara Rathburn
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, rathburn@cnr.colostate.edu |
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8:45 |
A cost-based risk assessment method for selecting stream restoration design alternatives |
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Sue L. Niezgoda
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming |
|
9:00 |
Predicting flow resistance in mountain streams |
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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 |
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Daniel W. Baker and Brian P Bledsoe
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins |
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9:30 |
Predicting Hydrologic Extremes for Biological Assessment at Ungauged Basins in the Western United States |
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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 |
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9:45 |
Mid-morning
break |
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March 20 |
10:00 |
Bio-Complexity |
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Chair:
John Loomis
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, CSU
Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center |
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10:00 |
Physical Road and Stream Network Connectivity North Eastern Puerto Rico |
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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 |
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10:15 |
Individual Recreation Use as a Function of Stream Features: Testing the Influence of Commonly Reported Stream Variables versus Field Level Stream Variables |
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Juan Marcos Gonzalez and John B. Loomis
Colorado State University, Dept. Ag. & Resource Economics |
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10:30 |
Physical and chemical factors affecting the upstream migration of amphidromous shrimp in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico |
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D.A. Kikkert, T.A. Crowl, and A.P. Covich
Ecology Center, Utah State University |
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10:45 |
Geomorphic and anthropogenic influences on tropical stream communities |
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T.A. Crowl, C.L. Hein, A. Pike, J.F. Blanco, K. Sherrill, A.C. Covich, and F.N. Scatena |
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11:00 |
Effects of drought on low flows and freshwater shrimp
(Macrobrachium ) distributions in a tropical montane drainage network, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico |
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A. P. Covich and T. A. Crowl
Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA |
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11:15 |
Topography’s Influences on Hydrological Response Units - Without Process Modelling |
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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 |
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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 |
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M. Kashif Gill, Yasir H.
Kaheil, Abedalrazq Khalil, Mac Mckee, and Luis Bastidas
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University |
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March
20 |
12:00 |
Lunch
break - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center |
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Borland
Lecturer in Hydrology
Professor Upmanu
Lall
Columbia
University |
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March 20 |
2:00 |
Stochastic Approaches
I |
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Chair: Jose D Salas
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center |
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2:00 |
Hydromorphology:
Hydrology in an Evolving World |
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Upmanu Lall Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Columbia
University |
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2:30 |
Multivariate Shifting Mean Plus Persistence Model for Simulating the Great Lakes Net Basin Supplies |
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Óli Grétar Blöndal Sveinsson
The National Power Company (Landsvirkjun), Reykjavík Iceland
Jose D. Salas
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins |
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2:45 |
A River Flood Warning System Using a Neural Probabilistic Forecasting Model |
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Hyun-Suk Shin
Department of Civil Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, S. Korea
Jose D. Salas
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
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3:00 |
An Extreme Precipitation Return Level Map for Colorado's Front Range |
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Daniel Cooley, Doug Nychka, and Philippe Naveau
Department of Statistics, Colorado State University |
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3:15 |
Semiparametric Multivariate and Multi-site Weather Generator |
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Somkiat Apipattanavis, Guillermo P. Podesta, Balaji Rajagopalan
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado |
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3:30 |
Interannual Variability and Ensemble Prediction of Upper Blue Nile Basin Kiremt Season Precipitation |
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Paul Block and Balaji
Rajagopalan
Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado
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3:45 |
Mid-afternoon
break |
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March 20 |
4:00 |
Stochastic Approaches
II |
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Chair: Jose D Salas
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center |
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4:00 |
Forecasting Spring Reservoir Inflows in Churchill Falls Basin in Québec Canada |
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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 |
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4:15 |
Simulating influent water quality parameters using a nearest-neighbor technique |
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Erin Towler, Balaji Rajagopalan and Scott Summers
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado |
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4:30 |
Estimating the Return Period of Extreme Hydrologic Droughts |
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Z. S. Tarawneh and J. D. Salas
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins |
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4:45 |
Simple-Scaling of Flood Quantiles in a Small Hortonian Research Watershed: Higher-Order Moments and the Effect of Record Length |
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Fred L. Ogden
Dept. of Civil & Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie , WY
Anthony G. Benoit
Environmental Engineering Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT |
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5:00 |
Disaggregating Daily Rainfall into Hourly Quantities |
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T.S. Lee and J. D. Salas
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins |
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March 20 |
2:00 |
Sediment
- Erosion - Geomorphology - Fires I |
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Chair:
Lee MacDonald
Forest, Range, and Watershed
Stewardship Department, CSU
North Ball Room - Lory Student Center |
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2:00 |
Predicting variability in post-fire sediment yields: Efforts to validate ERMiT in the Colorado Front Range |
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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 |
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2:15 |
Post-fire Channel Change in Small Mountainous Catchments |
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Duncan Eccleston and Lee MacDonald
Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University |
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2:30 |
Modeling Post-fire Erosion in the Western US |
|
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Mary Ellen Miller
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo
Lee MacDonald
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University |
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2:45 |
Variability in Total Sediment Load Using BORAMEP on The Rio Grande Low Flow Conveyance Channel |
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Seema Shah
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
|
3:00 |
A GIS Tool to Analyze Forest Road Sediment Production and Stream Impacts |
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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 |
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3:15 |
Applications of GSTARS Computer Models |
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Chih Ted Yang
Colorado State University
Francisco J. M. Simões
U.S. Geological Survey |
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3:45 |
Mid-afternoon
break |
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March 20 |
4:00 |
Sediment
- Erosion - Geomorphology - Fires II |
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Chair: Lee MacDonald
Forest, Range, and Watershed Stewardship Department, CSU
North Ball Room - Lory Student Center |
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4:00 |
Which Discharge Rate Controls the Long-Term Geomorphic Evolution of a Watershed? |
|
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Xiangjiang Huang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
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4:15 |
Measuring and Predicting Road Sediment Production in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California |
|
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Abby Korte and Lee H. MacDonald
Watershed Science Program, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University |
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4:30 |
Sedimentation Problems at the Nakdong River Estuary Barrage and Retrofitting Design for the Gupo bridge piers on the Lower Nakdong River |
|
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Un Ji- and Pierre Julien
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University |
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4:45 |
Sediment Production from Unpaved Roads, OHV Trails, and Forest Thinning Operations in the Colorado Front Range |
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Matthew Welsh and Lee MacDonald
Watershed Science Program, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University |
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5:00 |
FOREST: A spatially explicit sediment model for forested watersheds |
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S. E. Litschert
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
L. H. MacDonald
Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University |
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March
21
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March 21 |
8:00 |
Poster Session |
|
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Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
North Ball Room - Lory Student Center |
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8:00
- 9:45
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Posters |
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9:45 |
Mid-morning
break |
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March 21 |
10:00 |
Remediation
- Industrial Releases |
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Chair: Tom Sale
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center |
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10:00 |
Soil Remediation Case Study:
ZVI-Clay for Treatment of Tetrachloroethylene Source Zone |
|
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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 |
|
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
|
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
|
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Gabriel Iltis and Tom Sale
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
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March 21 |
12:00 |
Lunch break |
|
|
Presentation of Hydrology Days Award
Professor Rafael L Bras
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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March 21 |
2:00 |
Hydrology
Days Award Session I |
|
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Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center |
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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 |
|
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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 |
|
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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 |
|
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Gregory E. Tucker
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder |
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3:15 |
Water Balance Controls on Vegetation Productivity Across the Climatic Gradients of the Central United States |
|
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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 |
|
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Mark A. Perry and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
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3:45 |
Mid-afternoon
break |
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March 21 |
4:00 |
Hydrology
Days Award Session II |
|
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Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center |
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4:00 |
Developing a Community Hydrologic Information System |
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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 |
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4:15 |
Water Management Requirements for a New Energy Policy |
|
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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? |
|
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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 |
|
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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) |
|
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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 |
|
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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 |
|
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Alfonso I. Mejía and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
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March 21 |
2:00 |
Emerging Contaminants: Emerging Technologies |
|
|
Chair: Amy Pruden
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
North Ball Room - Lory Student Center |
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|
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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 |
|
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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 |
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3:45 |
Mid-afternoon
break |
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March 21 |
4:00 |
Urban
Hydrology |
|
|
Chair: Larry Roesner
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
North Ball Room - Lory Student Center |
|
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|
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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 |
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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 |
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March
22
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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 |
|
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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 |
|
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Jessica Lundquist
CIRES-NOAA ESRL PSD, University of Colorado, Boulder |
|
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9:45 |
Mid-morning
break |
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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 |
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March 22 |
12:00 |
Lunch break |
|
|
Borland Lecturer in Hydraulics
Professor Dr. Willi Hager
ETH-Zurich |
|
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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 |
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2:45 |
Improving evapotranspiration estimates in the Lower Arkansas River Valley using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst |
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Eric D. Morway, Enrique Triana, Timothy K. Gates
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University |
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3:00 |
Preliminary Results of Detailed Field Measurements of On-Farm Water Management in the Lower Arkansas River Basin in Colorado |
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Andres Jaramillo, Luis Garcia, and Timothy Gates
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University |
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3:15 |
Uncertainty in Mass-Balance Calculations of Non-Point Source Loads to the Arkansas River |
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Jennifer Mueller and Timothy K. Gates
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University |
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3:30 |
GEODSS: Spatial Basin-Scale Water Quantity and Quality Modeling in the Lower Arkansas River Valley |
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Enrique Triana, John W. Labadie, and Timothy K. Gates
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University |
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3:45 |
Potential contribution of residuals for better prediction of soil salinity from remote sensing data |
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Ahmed Edeiry and Luis A Garcia
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University |
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3:45 |
Mid-afternoon
break |
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Hydrologic
Modeling - Simulation |
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Chair:
Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering - CSU
Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center |
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4:00 |
Distributed Modeling of Extreme Floods on a Large Watershed |
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John F. England, Jr.
Bureau of Reclamation, Flood Hydrology, Denver |
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4:15 |
Measuring sediment production from natural hill-slopes and disturbed surfaces in a dry tropical setting- La
Parguera, Puerto Rico |
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Carlos E Ramos-Scharrón
Dept. of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas-Austin |
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4:30 |
Hydrologic Analysis and Simulation of the Colorado River System |
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Julia A. Keedy, Jose D. Salas, Darrell G. Fontane
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
David H. Merritt
Colorado River Water Conservation District |
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4:45 |
Developing a Modified GCUH Based on the Geomorphic Characteristics of Korean Mountain Regions |
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Hyun-Suk Shin
Department of Civil Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, S. Korea
Pierre Julien
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
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5:00 |
Flow Trend Analysis in the Rouge River Watershed and the Effect of Temporal Resolution on Trend Detection |
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C.A. Rohrer and C.L. Hughes
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
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5:15 |
Using Water Quality to Validate Groundwater Modeling Results |
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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 |
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3:45 |
Mid-afternoon
break |
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March 22 |
2:00 |
Snow
Hydrology I |
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Chair: Steven Fassnacht
Forest, Range and Watershed Stewardship Department, CSU
North Ball Room - Lory Student Center |
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2:00 |
Assessing the Spatial and Temporal Surface Roughness Using Digital Imagery |
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Mark V. Corrao and Steven R. Fassnacht
Watershed Science Program, College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University |
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2:15 |
Spatial scaling characteristics of snow depth |
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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 |
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2:30 |
Snow depth scaling properties examined at multiple spatial extents |
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Jeffrey S. Deems
CSU Watershed Science
Steven R. Fassnacht
CSU Watershed Science |
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2:45 |
Comparison of the spatial organization of snow depth between a forested environment and an alpine environment |
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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 |
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3:00 |
Computational time step of winter water balance for snow losses at United States meteorological stations |
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Steven R. Fassnacht
Watershed Science Program, College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University |
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3:45 |
Mid-afternoon
break |
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March 22 |
4:00 |
Snow
Hydrology II |
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Chair: Steven Fassnacht
Forest, Range and Watershed Stewardship Department, CSU
North Ball Room - Lory Student Center |
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4:00 |
Reconstructing snow water equivalent in the Rio Grande headwaters using remotely sensed snow cover data and a spatially distributed snowmelt
model |
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Noah P. Molotch
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
University of Colorado at Boulder |
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4:15 |
Geostatistical Methods for Estimating Snowmelt Contribution to the Annual Water Balance in an Alpine Watershed |
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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 |
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4:30 |
Annual hydrochemical fluxes from
alpine-subalpine catchments in the Snowy Range, Wyoming |
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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 |
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4:45 |
Diurnal changes in isotopic and chemical content of a headwater stream during snowmelt
runoff |
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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 |
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5:00 |
Evaporation in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica: A Model of Fractionation across Riparian Zones |
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Melissa Northcott and Michael Gooseff
Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden |
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5:15 |
Estimating Changes in Snow Pack Characteristics at The Aspen Ski Area For The Years 2030 And 2100 |
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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. |
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CSU Wind Ensemble Performance: H2O
University Center for the Arts - Edna Rizley Griffin Concert Hall
Conductor: Dr. Steven J. Moore
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March 21 |
8:00 |
Posters
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Chair: Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil Engineering, CSU
North Ball Room - Lory Student Center |
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1 |
Micron-Size
Zero-Valent Iron Emplacement in Porous Media Using Polymer Additives: Column and Flow Cell Experiments |
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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 |
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2 |
LNAPLs do not always Float: An Example Case of a Viscous LNAPL under Variable Water Table Conditions |
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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 |
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3 |
Plant species composition reveals temporal and spatial dynamics of snow slides in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado |
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Sara Simonson
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Thomas Stohlgren
USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins |
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4 |
Water Balance Evaluation and Regionalization Of Albania Rivers Basin |
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Niko Pano, Bardhyl Avdyli
Hydrometeorological Institute
Marenglen Bukli,Koco Gjoka,
Institute of Applied Mathematics |
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5 |
Post-processing Numerical Weather Forecasts of Precipitation Using Neural Networks |
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Raul Passerini and Jorge A. Ramirez
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University |
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6 |
Capacity versus supply limited sediment transport in the Colorado
Plateau |
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Robert T. Milhous
US Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado |
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7 |
GIS as a framework for decision support and workflow management systems for watershed management |
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Durmus Cesur
Watershed Management, GIS Program, San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio, TX 78229 |
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8 |
Water Resources in Korea |
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Yongdeok Cho
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
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9 |
Dry season modeling in Cojedes State, Venezuela by drought analysis of Tirgua river flows |
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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. |
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10 |
Overtopping analysis – the state of the practice |
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Amanda L. Cox
Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University |
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11 |
Estimating a stream restoration design discharge |
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Tyrel S. West
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming, |
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12 |
A tool to delineate watersheds and river network for multiple sites spread over large Digital Elevation Models |
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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 |
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13 |
Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Productivity of
Stromatolites, Great Salt Lake, Utah |
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Ashley Nielson and David Naftz
U.S. Geological Survey-Utah Water Science Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84119 |
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14 |
Improving Irrigation Water Use in the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District using a Decision Support System |
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Ramchand
Oad and Kristoph Kinzli
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University |
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15 |
Irrigated agriculture and ecology in the Arikaree river basin: finding a sustainable future |
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Linda Vandamme and Ramchand Oad
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University. |
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16 |
Time series analysis of riverine ecosystems |
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Robert T Milhous
US Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado |
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17 |
Hydrologic Analysis for Stream Restoration Study on Junjung River,
Penang, Malaysia |
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Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar, Shanker Kumar Sinnakaudan
Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia |
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18 |
Effects of Snow-making, grading, and timber harvest on stream channel morphology in the White River National Forest, Colorado |
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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 |
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19 |
Assessing Performances of Learning Algorithms when Trained using Incomplete Data |
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M. Kashif Gill, Tirusew Asefa, and Mac McKee
Utah Water Research Laboratory and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University |
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20 |
The performance assessment of surfactant enhanced remediation in a two dimensional heterogeneous aquifers |
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Mini Mathew, Yongcheol Kim and Tissa Illangasekare
Center for experimental studies, Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines |
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21 |
A Stochastic Differential Equation Approach for Modeling DNAPL Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media |
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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 |
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22 |
Biologically Enhanced Mass Transfer of PCE from DNAPL Pools: Model Development and Evaluation at Intermediate Scales |
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Kent C. Glover, Tissa H. Illangasekare and Junko Munakata-Marr
Colorado School of Mines, Division of Environmental Science and Engineering |
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23 |
Intermediate-scale experimental methods utilized for the investigation of dissolved phase DNAPL plume persistence in field material representing three typical field domains |
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Derrick Rodriguez and Tissa Illangasekare
Colorado School of Mines, Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP) |
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24 |
Tempe-cell based static capillary pressure – saturation relationships for sands: Conventional averaging method vs. point measurement |
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Toshihiro Sakaki and Tissa Illangasekare
Colorado School of Mines, Environmental Science and Engineering, Golden, Colorado |
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25 |
Thermally Enhanced Mass Transfer from Entrapped DNAPL Sources |
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Jose Gago and Tissa Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Colorado School of Mines, Golden |
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26 |
Pacific Oceanic / Atmospheric Variability and the Wind River Range |
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Kyle Cheesbrough, Tom Watson and Glenn Tootle
Department of Civil and Architectural, University of Wyoming |
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27 |
Determination of non-aqueous phase liquid residual saturation in saturated zone due to water flooding |
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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 |