Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2011
March 21 - March 23, 2011
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Program at a Glance
8 aM - 6 pM
Posters
Posters
Posters
8 aM
Registration
Registration
Registration
8:30 - 10 aM
Snow Hydrology
Droughts - Precipitation - Weather
Urban Water and Waste Water Management
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
10 aM - 12
Water Management/Optimization - Crops - Irrigation
Climate Variability and Change
Water Quality
12 - 2 pM

Lunch
Borland Lecture in Hydrology
Lunch
Hydrology Days Award Lecture
Lunch
Borland Lecture in Hydraulics
2 - 4 pM
Flow and Transport Processes in Subsurface Systems I
Water, Atmosphere, Ecosystem Research
Environmental Fluid Mechanics, CFD, Hydraulics
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
4 - 6 pM
Flow and Transport Processes in Subsurface Systems II
Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling
Stream Restoration, Channel Hydraulics, Sediment and Erosion
Adjourn
Adjourn
Adjourn
 
     
     
   

Hydrology Days 2011
Program
 
Monday
Date Time Session
March 21 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 21 8:30 am Snow Hydrology
    Chair: Professor Steven Fassnacht
Department of Forest, Range and Watershed Stewardship, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
March 21 8:30 Practical snow depth sampling around a Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) station: an example at Joe Wright, Colorado
    Amir Kashipazha and Steven Fassnacht
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
  8:45 Spatial variability of snow density over alpine terrain: Central Spanish Pyrenees, Spain
    J.I. López-Moreno, S.R. Fassnacht, J. Latron, J.T. Heath, and K. Musselman
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, CSIC, Zaragoza,, Spain
  9:00 Spatial interpolation of snow water equivalent (SWE) by multivariate regression using surface observations and MODIS satellite data
    Amir Kashipazha, Steven Fassnacht and Stephanie Kampf
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
  9:15 Snowpack Measurement Variability Across the Lago Escondido and Lake Limnopolar Watersheds, Byer’s Peninsula, Antarctica
    S.R. Fassnacht and M. Toro
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
  9:30 Practical methods for using vegetation patterns to estimate avalanche frequency and magnitude
    Sara Simonson
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
     
March 21 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 21 10:00 am Water Management/Optimization - Crops - Irrigation - Salinity
    Chair: Professor Luis A. García
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 Water supply management: emerging trends and issues
    Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:15 Conflicts over Water Quality Management in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
    Masih Akhbari and Neil Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:30 Dworshak Dam-Storage Optimization - Improving Power Generation with Historic and Climate Change Hydrology
    Jeremy Giovando and Andre Dozier
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:45 Using Deterministic and Geostatistical Techniques to Estimate Soil Salinity at The Sub-Basin and Field Scale
    Ahmed Eldeiry and Luis A. García
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:00 Developing Early and Late Planted Corn Regional Crop Coefficients Using A Satellite–Based Energy Balance Model (Reset) in the South Platte River Area of Colorado
    Aymn Elhaddad, Luis A. Garcia, Jon Altenhofen, and Mary Hattendorf
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:15 Clustering of Hydraulic Conductivity Realizations to Reduce Computational Time Analysis for Monte Carlo Simulations
    Ayman Alzraiee and Luis A. García
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:30 Improved Agricultural Irrigation Scheduling Using a Soil Water Content Sensor
    Jordan L. Varble and José L. Chávez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:45 Appraising Surface Water Quantity and Quality in 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
   
March 21 12:00 Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    Borland Lecture in Hydrology
Soil Moisture Processes in the Shallow Subsurface Near Land/Atmospheric Interface- Opportunities, Challenges and New Research Approaches

Professor Tissa H. Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
     
   
March 21 2:00 pm Flow and Transport Processes in Subsurface Systems I
    Chairs: Derrick Rodriguez, PhD and Kathleen M. Smits, PhD
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Colorado School of Mines

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Returning to Colorado State University 33-years later: A summary of the continuing career and impact of Dr. Tissa Illangasekare
    Derrick Rodriguez
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
  2:15 Experimental study of the capillary trapping during supercritical CO2 sequestration through analogue test fluid injection at small to intermediate laboratory scales
    Luca Trevisan , Tissa H. Illangasekare, Derrick Rodriguez, Abdullah Cihan, Jens Birkholzer, and Quanlin Zhou
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Colorado School of Mines
  2:30 Numerical simulation of CO2 injection into deep saline aquifers
    Ana Gonzalez-Nicolas, Brent Cody, and Domenico Baú
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
  2:45 Design of Experiment and Response Surface Modeling of CO2 Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers
    Baozhong Liu and Ye Zhang
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming
  3:00 The Application of Chaos, Fractals and SDE’s to the Study of Multiphase Flow
    David Dean
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
  3:15 Multi-site CO2 Sequestration Optimization using a Dynamic Programming Approach
    Brent Cody, Ana Gonzalez-Nicolas, and Domenico Bau
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  3:30 Air entrapment behavior in small scale coarse soil pockets in the shallow subsurface
    Toshihiro Sakaki, Anuchit Limsuwat, and Tissa H. Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Colorado School of Mines
  3:45 Stable Isotope Signature, Groundwater Return Flow and Seasonal Changes in the South Platte River
    Katherine Davila Olmo, William E. Sanford and John Stednick
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
March 21 4:00 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 21 4:15 pm Flow and Transport Processes in Subsurface Systems II
    Chair: Professor Domenico Baú
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  4:15 Validation of a New Conceptual Model of TCE Vapor Generation from Dissolved Groundwater Plumes
    Carolyn Sauck, Tissa Illangasekare, Toshihiro Sakaki, Benjamin Petri, John Christ
Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines
  4:30 Estimating the Spatial Distribution of First-Order Solute Decay Constants in Groundwater Systems
    Ryan T. Bailey and Domenico A. Baù
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  4:45 Desorption and transport of uranium in contaminated aquifers: Bridging the gaps between laboratory and field scales
    Michael B. Hay, Derrick R. Rodriguez, Andrew W. Miller, Matthias Kohler, Kelly J. Johnson, James A. Davis, and Gary P. Curtis
ESE Division, Colorado School of Mines
  5:00 Quantifying Natural LNAPL Losses Using CO2 Traps
    Kevin McCoy, Julio Zimbron, and Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:15 Thermal conductivity of soils as affected by temperature
    Kathleen M. Smits, Toshihiro Sakaki and Tissa H. Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Colorado School of Mines,
  5:30 Aquifer Storage and Recovery Optimization
    Anne Maurer
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:45 Enhanced 3D visualizations to support CSM development and remedial system optimization
    Matt Spurlin, Melissa Straten, Craig Divine, Adam Griffin and Kelly Houston
ARCADIS-US, Inc., Site Investigation and Remediation Division, Boulder, Colorado
 
Tuesday
Date Time Session
March 22 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 22 8:30 am Droughts - Precipitation - Weather
    Chair: Professor Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  8:30 Colorado Drought Index Comparison
    Wendy Ryan and Nolan Doesken
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
  8:45 Determination of Distribution Functions Model for Annual Rainfall at Hulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia
    Jazuri Abdullah and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:00 Spatial Distribution of Rainfall Events in Selangor, Malaysia
    Nur Shazwani Muhammad and Pierre Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:15 Fort Collins Weather Station Instrumentation Comparison
    Wendy Ryan and Nolan Doesken
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
  9:30 Review of the 2010 Water Year in Colorado
    Nolan J. Doesken, Mike Gillespie and Wendy Ryan
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
March 22 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 22 10:00 am Climate Variability and Change
    Chair: Professor Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 Stochastic Hydrology in the Framework of Climate Variability and Change
    José D. Salas
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:30 Vulnerability of Future U.S. Water Supply to Shortage
    Romano Foti, Jorge A Ramírez and Thomas C Brown
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:45 Impacts of climate change on the hydrologic response of headwater basins in Colorado
    Caleb R. Foy, Mazdak Arabi, and Jorge A. Ramírez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:00 Estimation of Non-stationary Design Flow in the Upper Green River Basin under Climate Change Scenarios
    Taejung Song and Gi-Hyeon Park
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
  11:15 Extended Hirsch Method for Probabilistic Stream Flow Forecasting
    Simon Draijer
Riverside Technology, Inc .
  11:30 Local Understanding of Hydro-climatic Changes in Mongolia
    T. Sukh, S.R. Fassnacht, M. Fernández-Giménez and M. Laituri
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
  11:45 Vulnerability of hydropower generation in snowmelt-driven basins to nonstationary climate: A case-study of Dworshak Reservoir in Idaho
    Andre Dozier, Jordan Lanini, Peter Furey, and Stephanie Kampf
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
March 22 12:00 Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    Hydrology Days Award Lecture
At last it is possible to measure area-average soil moisture!

Professor W. James Shuttleworth
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona
   
March 22 2:00 pm Integrated Water, Atmosphere, Ecosystem Research
    Chair: Professor Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Evapotranspiration response of a high elevation Rocky Mountain (Wyoming, USA) forest to a bark beetle epidemic
    John Frank, Bill Massman, and Brent Ewers
U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO
  2:20 Measurements of Surface Energy Balance Components in Dryland Wheat/Fallow and Limited-Irrigation Corn
    T.R. Green , S.A. Saseendran, R.H. Erskine, L.R. Ahuja, M.R. Murphy, L. Ma, W.C. Bausch and A.A. Andales
USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Agricultural Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO, USA
  2:40 A conceptual model for soil moisture estimation and downscaling based on topographic attributes
    Michael L. Coleman and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  3:00 Dynamics of Self-organized Vegetation Patterns
    Romano Foti and Jorge A Ramírez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  3:20 Mapping nitrogen deposition to identify critical nitrogen loads for nutrient enrichment and acidification of sensitive U.S. mountain lakes
    Eric E. Richer and Jill S. Baron
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
     
March 22 3:40 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 22 4:00 pm Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling
    Chair: Professor Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  4:00 The Integration of GIS and Watershed Erosion Models to Support the Assessment of Surface Mine Reclamation
    X. Shawn Huang, Anthony B. Alvarado, Lyle W. Zevenbergen , and John N. Cochran
River Engineering, Ayres Associates
  4:20 Mangyeong River Hydraulic Modeling Analysis
    Jaehoon Kim and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  4:40 Single objective vs. multi-objective calibration of watershed models
    Mahdi Ahmadi and Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:00 Comparison of Bayesian and Alternative Parameter Searching Techniques in Hydrosystem Modeling
    Haw Yen and Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
 
Wednesday
Date Time Session
March 23 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 23 8:20 am Urban Water and Waste Water Management I
    Chair: Professor Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  8:20 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
  8:40 Is Graywater Reuse a New Way to Water Sustainability and What Is Its Effects on Soil Quality?
    Masoud Negahban Azar , Sybil Sharvelle, Mary Stromberger and Larry Roesner
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:00 Simultaneous Phosphorus and Nitrogen Removal in Wastewater by Using Aluminum Based Water Treatment Residual
    Qian Liang, Lucas Loetscher, Sybil Sharvelle, and Kenneth Carlson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  9:20 Source Separation and Treatment of Anthropogenic Urine
    Kim Fewless, Larry Roesner, and Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
March 23 9:40 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 23 10:00 am Water Quality
    Chair: Professor Ken Carlson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 Geospatial Analysis of Phosphorus Concentrations on the Poudre River in Northern Colorado
    Stephen Goodwin, Cortney Cowley, Ji-Hee Son, Mazdak Arabi, and Kenneth Carlson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:20 Geospatial Analysis of the Occurrence and Transport of Phosphorus in the Poudre River Basin in Northern Colorado
    Cortney Cowley, Stephen Goodwin, Ji-Hee Son, Mazdak Arabi and Kenneth Carlson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  10:40 Reactive stream stabilization for minimizing transport of phosphorus and nitrogen from agricultural landscapes
    Ji-Hee Son , Chester C. Watson , David S. Biedenharn, Kenneth H. Carlson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:00 Responses of Urban Shallow Lakes to Early Stages of Rehabilitation
    Xiaoju Zhang and Larry. A. Roesner
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:20 Removal of Odorous Algal Metabolite from Horsetooth Reservoir Water by Powdered Activated Carbon
    Kirk Koester and Pinar Omur-Ozbek
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  11:40 A Review of Occurrence and Mitigation of Algal Odorants and Toxins in Surface Waters
    Pinar Omur-Ozbek
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
March 23 12:00 Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    Borland Lecture in Hydraulics
Hydrodynamic Processes in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta: Examples of hydrodynamic processes that might be important and probably are hard to model

Professor Stephen G. Monismith
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
     
   
March 23 2:00 pm Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Hydraulics
    Chair: Professor Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 On the turbulent Prandtl in stably stratified turbulence
    Karan Venayagamoorthy and Derek Stretch
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  2:15 Evaluation of turbulent Prandtl (Schmidt) number parameterizations for stably stratified environmental flows
    Zachary A. Elliott and Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  2:30 Passive scalar dispersion around submerged obstacles in tidal flows using numerical simulation
    Hyeyun Ku and Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  2:45 Numerical simulation of intrusive gravity currents
    Sangdo An and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  3:00 Hydraulics and mixing efficiency of small drinking water disinfection systems
    Jordan M. Wilson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  3:15 Interflow dynamics of turbid density currents in thermally stratified Imha Reservoir, S. Korea
    Sangdo An and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
March 23 3:30 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 23 3:45 pm Stream Restoration, Channel Hydraulics, Sediment and Erosion
    Chair: Professor Christopher Thornton
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  3:45 Geomorphic Lessons Learned from Floodplain Interactions and Urban Stream Natural Channel Restoration
    David Bidelspach PE, MS MEng.
Stantec Consulting
  4:00 An innovative, low cost stream restoration and mitigation in the Flint Hill Prairie region of North Central Oklahoma
    Michael J Geenen,
Stantec Consulting, Fort Collins, CO
  4:15 Restoration of Four Rivers in Korea
    Kiyoung Park and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  4:30 An Assessment of the Uncertainty in Sediment Transport Simulations Due to Parameter Estimation and the Selection of a Sediment Transport Equation
    Shaina Sabatine and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  4:45 Fine sediment in pool-tail areas measured with pebble counts, grid counts, and armor samples
    Kristin Bunte, Steven R. Abt, John P. Potyondy, Kurt W. Swingle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:00 Maximum outer-bank velocity reduction for vane-dike fields installed in channel bends
    S. Michael Scurlock, Amanda L. Cox, Christopher I. Thornton, and Drew C. Baird
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:15 Methodology for calculating shear stress in a meandering channel
    Kyung-Seop Sin, Christopher I. Thornton, Amanda L. Cox and Drew C. Baird
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:30 Development of transition mat scour protection design methodology and comparison to the state-of-the-practice
    Michael O. Turner, Amanda L. Cox, Christopher I. Thornton
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  5:45 Evaluation of Sedimentation and Erosion Trends in the Sacramento River near the M&T/Llano Seco Pump Station
    James L. Woidt, Amanda L. Cox, and Christopher I. Thornton
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
 
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Everyday
All day
 Posters
    Chair: Professor Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
    GIS for Environmental Management
    Durmus Cesur
San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio, TX
    Thermally Enhanced Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon Impacted Subsurface
    Natalie Rae Zeman, Susan K De Long and Tom C Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
    Mapping of Snow Transition Zones in the Colorado Front Range
    Cara Moore, Stephanie Kampf, Eric Richer, Steven Fassnacht, Brandon Stone, and Michael Lefsky
Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
    Potential Community Water and Cost Savings Resulting from Reuse and Conservation Practices as Predicted by an Integrated Urban Water Model
    Matthew Becker
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
    Dependence of Hydraulic Conductivity on Measurement Scale in an Alpine Glacial Till
    Tyler B. Houghton, Michael J. Ronayne and John D. Stednick
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
    Identifying and Quantifying Hydrologic Processes Underlying Recent Wetland Loss in Yellowstone National Park
    Derek Schook and David Cooper
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University
    Aspen Dorm Graywater Reuse Project
    Brock Hodgson and Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
    Modified Nanofiltration Membranes for Selective Separation of Sugar Solutions
    Heath H. Himstedt, Katie Marshall, Sarah Williams, Ranil Wickramasinghe
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
    Spatial variability of fines affects results from various grid-count sampling schemes
    Kristin Bunte, Steven R. Abt, John P. Potyondy, Kurt W. Swingle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
    Peak Streamflows of the Animas River at Durango, Colorado
    Robert T Milhous
Torries Peak Analysis, Fort Collins, Colorado
    Stochastic Analysis of Crop Yield Uncertainty, Field Scale Study
    Ayman Alzraiee and Luis A. García
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
    Comparison of Drainage and Evapotranspiration from Three Irrigation Plans
    Jonathan H. King and William E. Sanford
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
    An Evaluation of Hydraulic Retention Time on Water Quality Performance
    Jason Messamer, Chris Olson, and Larry A. Roesner
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University