Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2010
March 22 - March 24, 2010

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Program at a Glance
 
 
8 am - 6 pm
8 am
Registration
Registration
Registration
8 am - 9:45 am
9:45 - 10 am
Coffee break
Coffee break
10 - 12 am
12 - 2 pm
2 - 3:45 pm
3:45 - 4 pm
Coffee break
Coffee break
Coffee break
4 - 6 pm
   
Date Time Session
March 22 8:00 am Registration - West Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 22 8:00 am World Water Day
   


East Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
  8:00 World Water Day Kickoff
    Dignitaries Kick-Off – Pledge to support water research, education and outreach

Introductory remarks: Bill Farland, Vice President for Research, Colorado State University
Doug Hutchinson, Mayor City of Fort Collins
Representative Randy Fischer
Representative John Kefalas
Gary Wockner of Clean Water Action for Senator Bob Bacon
  8:45 Announcements, Recognition for Speakers & Dignitaries, The Tap Project
    Reagan Waskom
Colorado Water Institute
  9:00 Introductory Remarks
    Jim Cooney
Vice Provost for International Affairs, Colorado State University
  9:15 Global Water Initiatives at CSU
    Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:30 Keynote Speaker: Securing Water for Multiple Water Futures
    John Matthews
Senior Program Officer for Freshwater Water Programs - World Wildlife Fund
  10:30 Panel Discussion
   

Introductory remarks: Patrick Burns, Vice President for Information Technology/Interim Dean of Libraries

Speaker Panel:
LeRoy Poff (Graduate Degree Program in Ecology)
Bill Kramer (College of Business)
John Stednick (Department of Forest, Rangeland & Watershed Stewardship)
Larry Goodridge (Department of Animal Sciences)
Sybil Sharvelle (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering)

Moderator: Reagan Waskom (Colorado Water Institute)

   
March 22 12:00 Lunch Break - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
   

Borland Lecture in Hydrology
The wide range space-time scaling of precipitation: from stereophotography to gages, radars, satellites, and numerical models

Professor Shaun Lovejoy
Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- NOAA PSL, Boulder, CO

     
   
March 22 2:00 pm Climate Variability and Change - Weather
    Chair: Jorge A Ramírez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Experimenting on the Variability and Predictability of the Colorado River Streamflows
    J. D. Salas, D.J. Lee and C. Fu
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  2:15 Effect of trends on the estimation of extreme precipitation quantiles
    A. Cancelliere, B. Bonaccorso and G. Rossi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
  2:30 Climate Change’s Impact on the Design of Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Infrastructure
    James A. O’Neill II
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  2:45 Effects of temperature change on hydropower generation in snowmelt runoff basins
    Peter Furey, Jordan Lanini, and Stephanie Kampf
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University
  3:00 The Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on the Water Resource System of the Han-River Basin in South Korea - Based on the AR4 SRES A2 Scenario
    Soo Jun Kim, Hwan Don Jun, Byung Sik Kim, Hung Soo Kim
Department of Civil Engineering, Inha University, Seoul, Korea
  3:15 A Review of the 2009 Water Year in Colorado State University
    Nolan J. Doesken, Wendy Ryan and Michael Gillespie
Colorado Climate Center and Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
  3:30 A Tale of Two Sites: Prediction of snow depth distribution at the first-order basin scale in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
    James L. McCreight, Rajagopalan Balaji, Andrew G. Slater, Hans-Peter Marshall
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
     
March 22 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 22 4:00 pm Hydrology Days Celebration
    Chair: Professor Tissa Illangasekare
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
     
  4:00 Perspective on one’s career and research contribution
    Hubert J. Morel-Seytoux
Emeritus Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Economic Concept Based Approach for Multiple-Inequality-Constrained Optimization
    Xiaoniu Guo and Chuan-Mian Zhang
URS, Denver, CO, USA
  5:00 Evapotranspiration From Two Vegetative Covers in a Humid Shallow Water Table Environment
    Mahmood Nachabe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida. Tampa, FL
  5:15 Channel Initiation in the Semiarid Colorado Front Range
    Jameson Henkle
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
  5:30 Evaluation of an EOF-Based Method to Estimate Soil Moisture Patterns at Catchments without Local Soil Moisture Observations
    Frederick A. Busch, Jeffrey D. Niemann, and Michael L. Coleman
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:45 Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Methods to Interpolate Sparse Soil Moisture Observations
    Michael L. Coleman and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
Date Time Session
March 23 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 23 8:30 am Subsurface Flow and Transport I
    Chair: Professor Domenico Baú
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  8:30 Decision Guide for Selecting Remedies for Chlorinated Solvent Releases
    Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  8:45 In Situ Measurement of the Fractal Dimension of Colloid Deposits in Porous Media
    David C. Mays, Orion T. Cannon, Adam W. Kanold, Kevin J. Harris, Tim C. Lei, and Benjamin Gilbert
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Denver
  9:00 Hydrophobic Contaminants in the Subsurface
    Mitchell Olson and Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:15 A Mass Balance Approach to Resolving the Stability of LNAPL Bodies
    Nicholas Mahler and Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:30 A Quantitative Estimate of the Upflow of Thermal Waters at a Dextral Strike Slip Zone at Mount Princeton Hot Springs, Colorado, using Geoelectrical Methods
    Kyle Richards, Andre Revil, Mike Batzle, Abdel Jardani and Allan Haas
Geophysics Department, Colorado School of Mines
     
March 23 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 23 10:00 am Subsurface Flow and Transport II
    Chair: Professor Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 Intermediate-scale Testing for Process Understanding, Model Validation and Up-scaling of Flow and Transport in the Heterogeneous Subsurface
    Tissa Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP) at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  10:15 Finite Element Solution to Groundwater Transport of Dissolved Contaminants Undergoing Decay and Non-Linear Sorption
    Domenico Baú
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:30 Assimilating water table elevation data into a catchment hydrology modeling framework to estimate hydraulic conductivity
    Ryan T. Bailey and Domenico A. Baú
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:45 Updates on Treatment of Contaminants in Low Permeability Zones
    J. Zimbron, A. Bolhari, and T. Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:00 Quantum Chemical Degradation Pathway Prediction for New and Emerging Contaminants
    Jens Blotevogel, Thomas Borch, Arthur Mayeno, and Tom Sale
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University
  11:15 Quantifying Irrigation Return Flow to the South Platte River, Colorado: Stable Isotope Methodology
    Katherine Davila Olmo, William E. Sanford and John D. Stednick
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
  11:30 Using an ADCP to Determine Canal Seepage Loss in an Irrigation District
    Kristoph-Dietrich Kinzli; Matthew Martinez ; Ramchand Oad; Adam Prior and David Gensler
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
March 23 12:00 Lunch Break - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
   

Hydrology Days Award Presentation
River Networks as Ecological Corridors for Species, Populations and Pathogens of Water-Borne Disease

Professor Andrea Rinaldo
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland and Università di Padova, Italy

     
   
March 23 2:00 pm River Networks - Ecology - Ecohydrology
    Chair: Professor Jorge A Ramírez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Hydrology and Biodiversity: a Crucial Link for a Sustainable Future
    Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
  2:30 A Generalized Habitat Model for Rocky Mountain Streams
    Thomas K. Wilding, N. LeRoy Poff, and Brian Bledsoe
Department of Biology, Colorado State University
  2:45 Under What Conditions Do Parallel Channel Networks Occur?
    Kichul Jung, Jeffrey D. Niemann, and Xiangjiang Huang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  3:00 Representation of Urbanized Terrain and Its Use in a Morpho-Climatic Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph
    Jorge Gironás, Jeffrey D. Niemann, Larry A. Roesner, Fabrice Rodriguez, and Hervé Andrieu
Dept. de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  3:15 A physically-based method for channel extraction in a watershed model
    Emily L. Boyd and Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  3:30 Application of Hydrologic Metrics to Quantify Stream Health in Small-Scale Urban Environment
    Steve K. Roznowski and Larry A. Roesner
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  3:45 Current and Future Vulnerability of U.S. Water Supply to Shortage
    Romano Foti, Jorge A. Ramírez and Thomas C. Brown
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
March 23 4:00 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 23 4:00 pm Poster Session
    Chair: Professor Jorge A. Ramírez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
Date Time Session
March 24 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 24 8:30 am Water Resources
    Chair: Professor Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  8:30 Using a Geostatistical Approach for Soil Salinity and Yield Management
    Ahmed A. Eldeiry and Luis A. Garcia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  8:45 Improving Irrigation System Performance in the Middle Rio Grande through Scheduled Water Delivery
    Nathi Manana, Kristoph-Dietrich Kinzli, Ramchand Oad, Luis Garcia, David Patterson, and Nabil Shafike
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:00 Water governance: toward a model to address global water needs
    Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:15 Hydrological Assessment of the Upper Arkansas River Basin in Chaffee County, Colorado
    G.H. Steed, T. K. Gates, J. D. Niemann and J. W. Labadie
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:30 WARPLAM DSS: using Cluster Analysis as an approach to delineate water resources planning and management regions
    Coelho M., A.C., Fontane, D.G., Labadie, J., Vlachos, E., Braga, B.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
March 24 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 24 10:00 am Hydraulics - Erosion and Sedimentation - Fluid Mechanics
    Chair: Professor Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 Cheongmi Stream Hydraulic Modeling Analysis
    Jaehoon Kim and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:15 Applicability of Gradient Terraces in Surface Mine Reclamation
    X. Shawn Huang, Lyle W. Zevenbergen and John N. Cochran
River Engineering, Ayres Associates
  10:30 Numerical Analysis of the Performance of River Spanning Rock Structures: Evaluating effects of structure geometry on local hydraulics
    Christopher L. Holmquist-Johnson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:45 Application of GSTARS3 to Xiaolangdi Reservoir Sedimentation and Flushing
    Jungkyu Ahn and Chih Ted Yang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:00 Dam Breach Analysis for a Tailings Storage Facility
    Carmen Bernedo Sanchez and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:15 Study on Density Currents in a Stratified Reservoir
    Sangdo An and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:30 Runoff, Erosion, and Effects of Mulching on Burned Pine and Eucalyp-tus Plantations, Central Portugal
    Prats S.A.,MacDonald L.H.,Ferreira A.J.D., Keizer J.J.
CESAM – Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar; Departamento de Ambiente e Ordenamento, Uni-versidade de Aveiro, Portugal
   
March 24 12:00 Lunch Break - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
   

Borland Lecture in Hydraulics
How will climate change affect fluvial geomorphology and salmonid habitat in mountain basins?

Dr. John M. Buffington
US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID

     
   
March 24 2:00 pm Stream Restoration - Urban Hydrology - Wastewater Treatment
    Chair: Professor Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 On a Water Supply Index: Poudre River Case Study
    Robert T Milhous
Torries peak Analysis. Fort Collins, Colorado USA
  2:20 Comparing the Full Spectrum and Multi-Level Detention design for Urban Stormwater Detention Facilities
    Xiaoju Zhang and Larry A. Roesner
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  2:40 Innovative methods for guiding process-based restoration: A case study from Lulu City wetland, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
    Zan Rubin, Sara Rathburn and Ellen Wohl
Geosciences Department, Colorado State University
  3:00 Geospatial Analysis of the Occurrence and Transport of Antibiotics in Irrigation Ditches and the Poudre River in Weld County
    Cortney Cowley, Masih Akhbari, Masoud NegahbanAzar, Mazdak Arabi, and Kenneth Carlson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  3:20 Phosphorus Removal in Wastewater Treatment Lagoons Using Water Treatment Residuals
    Qian Liang, Lucas Loetscher, Sybil Sharvelle, Kenneth Carlson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
    Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 24 4:00 am Stream Restoration - Urban Hydrology - Wastewater Treatment
    Chair: Professor Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  4:00 Graywater Application for Landscape Irrigation: Greenhouse Experiments
    Alicia Shogbon and Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  4:20 Anaerobic Digestion of Blackwater on the CSU Foothills Campus
    Gallagher, Neal T. and Sharvelle, Sybil E.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  4:40 World-wide Search and Review of Advanced Sewerage-System Design and Technology
    Kim LeMonde and Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:00 Graywater Reuse: a Sustainable Water Management Strategy and its Effects on Soil Properties
    Masoud Negahban Azar, Sybil Sharvelle, Larry Roesner and Chris Olson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:20 Evaluating Contaminant Removal Rates of Graywater Utilizing a Constructed Wetland Treatment System
    Jesse Bergdolt and Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
March 23   Posters
    Chair: Professor Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
    GIS for Floodplain Management
    Durmus Cesur
San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio, TX
    Assessing the effect of compaction from motorized winter recreation on snowpack properties in the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
    J. Heath, S.R Fassnacht, and K.J. Elder
Dept. of Forestry, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University
    Stepwise Nonparametric Disaggregation of Seasonal to Daily Streamflow Volumes conditional on Hydrologic and Large-Scale Climatic Signals
    José M Molina, Jorge A Ramírez and David A Raff
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
    Experimental and numerical studies on role of air flow in transient water retention behavior in one dimensional layered system subjected to drainage and wetting
    Anuchit Limsuwat, Toshihiro Sakaki, Abdullah Cihan, Tissa H. Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
    Statistical Modeling of Daily Stream Temperature for Mitigating Fish Mortality
    Jason Caldwell and Balaji Rajagopalan
CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Evaluation of Volatilization from NAPL Sources under Low Velocities with Implications for the Vapor Intrusion Pathway
    Benjamin Petri, Tissa Illangasekare, Toshiro Sakaki, Carolyn Sauck and John Christ
Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
    Understanding TCE Vapor Generation from Dissolved Groundwater Plumes under Fluctuating Water Table Conditions
    Carolyn Sauck, Tissa Illangasekare, Toshiro Sakaki, Benjamin Petri, John Christ
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP) at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
    An up-scaled two dimensional study for in-situ remediation of DNAPL contaminated aquifers using modified Nano-Zerovalent Iron
    Menka Mittal, Tanaphon Phenrat, Abdullah Cihan, Hye-Jin Kim, Gregory V. Lowry and Tissa Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP) at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
    Shallow subsurface soil moisture behavior as affected by heat source boundary conditions: Experimental and modeling investigation
    Kathleen M. Smits, Abdullah Cihan, Toshihiro Sakaki, and Tissa H. Illangasekare
Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines
    Modeling Dry Ravel in 3D
    Mary Ellen Miller, Pete Robichaud and Pete Wohlgemuth
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University
    Comparison of adaptive methods using multivariate regression splines and artificial neural networks for the forecast of rain and temperatures in the Mantaro river basin
    Karen Latínez
Instituto Geofísico del Perú, Lima, Perú
    The Application of the Fuzzy Set Theory in Natural River, to study Flood Risk Analysis as Function of its Hydraulic Parameters
    Silvia Helena Santos, Patrícia Freire Chagas, Carla Freitas Andrade, Vanessa Uetaand Raimundo Souza
Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
    Application of Mathematical Modeling to Study Flood Wave Behavior in Natural River as Function of Hydraulic and Hydrological Parameters of the Basin
    Patrícia Freire Chagas, Silvia Helena Santos, Carla Freitas Andrade, Vanessa Ueta and Raimundo Souza
Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
    Application of Fuzzy Set Theory on the Saint Venant Equations to Study Flood Wave Propagation in Natural Rivers
    Vanessa Ueta, Patrícia Freire Chagas, Silvia Helena Santos, Carla Freitas Andrade and Raimundo Souza
Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
    Flood Risk Analysis of Cocó Urban River in Fortaleza, Brazil
    Carla Freitas Andrade, Vanessa Ueta, Patrícia Freire Chagas, Silvia Helena Santos, and Raimundo Souza
Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
    A Study on Model Development for Analysis on Debris Flow
    Kyewon Jun, Changdeok Jang , Byonghee Jun and Pierre Y. Julien
Kangwon National University, Samcheok, South Korea
    Variability of Snow Density Measurements in the Rio Esera Valley, Pyrenees Mountains, Spain
    S.R. Fassnacht, C.M. Heun, J.I. Lopez-Moreno and J. Latron
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
    Comparison of Neutron Moisture Meter and Watermark Sensor Readings in a Field Experiment of Full and Limited Irrigation of Corn
    K.C. DeJonge, A.A. Andales, N.C. Hansen, and J.C. Ascough II
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
    Surface Grafting of Poly Acrylic Acid onto Nanofiltration Membranes for pH Response
    Heath Himstedt, Katie Marshall, Ranil Wickramasinghe
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
    Revisiting Soil-Terrain Relationships at a Long-Term Agroecosystem Study Site
    Robert H. Erskine, Timothy R. Green, Lucretia A. Sherrod, and Gary A. Peterson
USDA-ARS Agricultural Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO
    Upscaling soil hydraulic functions based on connectivity in heterogeneous porous media
    Abdullah Cihan, Tissa H. Illangasekare, Anuchit Limsuwat, Toshihiro Sakaki
Environmental Engineering and Science, Colorado School of Mines, Golden
    Colorado Alpine Dust Deposition and Associated Continental Winds
    Morgan Phillips
Colorado Climate Center and Bureau of Land Management