Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2012
March 21 - March 23, 2012

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Program at a Glance
8 am - 6 pm
8 am
8:30 - 10 am
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
10 am - 12
12 - 2 pm

Lunch
Borland Lecture in Hydrology

2 - 4 pm
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
4 - 6 pm
Adjourn
Adjourn
Hydrology Days Ends
   
Hydrology Days 2012
Program
 
Wednesday
Date Time Session
March 21 8:00 am Registration - Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 21 8:30 am Experimental Fluid Mechanics - Hydraulic Engineering - Hydraulic Structures
   

Chair: Dr. Amanda L. Cox, Research Associate
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center

     
  8:30 Boundary shear-stress distributions for transverse features in a sinuous channel
    Amanda L. Cox, Christopher I. Thornton, Drew C. Baird, S. Michael Scurlock, and Steven R. Abt
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  8:45 Velocity effects of transverse in-stream structures 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
   
  9:00 Developing Rating Curves for Bedrock Step-Pool Rivers using Sparse Data
    Kevin L. Stuart and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
   
  9:15 Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter Limitations
    Natalie A. Youngblood
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  9:30 Testing levee slope resiliency at the new Colorado State University wave overtopping test facility
    Bryan N. Scholl, Steven Hughes, Christopher Thornton
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
     
March 21 9:45 Mid-morning break
     
   
March 21 10:00 am Environmental Engineering - Water Quality
   

Chair: Professor Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center

     
  10:00 Treatment, Public Health and Regulatory Issues Associated with Graywater Reuse
    Robert Glenn, Larry Roesner, and Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  10:15 Leachability of Graywater Constituents after Application for Irrigation
    Masoud Negahban Azar, Alicia Shogbon, and Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  10:30 Characterizing and Modeling the Hydrologic Properties of Coal Combustion By-Products in Landfill Disposal Sites
    Ryan Webb, John Stormont, Mark Stone, and Bruce Thomson
Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
   
  10:45 Food waste diversion for enhanced methane gas production at the Drake water reclamation facility
    Cristian Arthur Robbins
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  11:00 Water Quality Assessment of Small Water Supply Reservoir Using Statistical and Analytical Methods
    Nicolas A.Gonzalez, N. R. Swain, O. Obregon, G. P. Williams, E. J. Nelson, Dennis L. Eggett
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
   
  11:15 Comparison of Quality of Well Water Provided by a Jesuit Mission with Traditional Water Sources of the Tarahumara Indians, Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, Mexico
    Janae R. Nelson, Michael Thayne, Steven H. Emerman, Patricia K. Garcia, Marc E. Van Wagoner, Michael P. Bunds, and Joel A. Bradford
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
   
  11:30 Determination of two cyclosiloxanes in waste activated sludge and removal by advanced oxidation.
    Harshad Vijay Kulkarni and Pinar Omur-Ozbek
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  11:45 The occurrence and removal of cyanobacterial metabolites Microcystin-LR and Geosmin from source waters.
    Victor Sam and Pinar Omur-Ozbek
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
 
March 21 12:15 pm Lunch - Gray Rock Room - Lory Student Center
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydrology - Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center
    Isotope tracers in catchment hydrology: How far can we go?

Professor Jeffrey McDonnell
Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, Oregon State University
     
   
March 21 2:00 pm Hydrologic modeling - Soil Moisture
   

Chair: Professor Jeffrey Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center

     
  2:00 A Conceptual Model to Estimate Topographically-Dependent Soil Moisture Patterns
    Kevin L. Werbylo, Jeffrey D. Niemann, and Michael L. Coleman
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  2:15 Investigating Controls on Soil Moisture Pattern Types and Their Time Instability
    Michael L. Coleman and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  2:30 Turning rock into saprolite: Linking observations and models of vadose zone dynamics and chemical weathering
    Abigail L. Langston, Gregory E. Tucker, Robert S. Anderson, and Suzanne P. Anderson
Department of Geological Sciences and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
   
  2:45 Distributed hydrologic modeling of extreme events on the Lui watershed, Malaysia
    Jazuri Abdullah and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  3:00 Dam overtopping and flood routing with the TREX watershed model
    Andrew Steininger and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University
   
  3:15 Distributed Watershed Modeling of Flash Floods in South Korean Mountains
    Jaehoon Kim and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  3:30 Overbank flow analysis of the Bosque reach of the middle Rio Grande
    Theodore R. Bender and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
   
March 21 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 21 4:00 pm Evapotranspiration - Crop Water Use - Crop Yield
   

Chair: Professor Jose Chavez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center

     
  4:00 Scintillometry for Evapotranspiration estimation over irrigated alfalfa and dry grassland
    Evan Rambikur and Jose L. Chavez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  4:15 Ground-based Remote Sensing of Corn Evapotranspiration under Limited Irrigation Practices
    S. Taghvaeian, J. L. Chavez and N. C. Hansen
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Vegetation Water Use Determined with Energy Balance Models Coupled with Airborne Multispectral Imagery and Weather Data
    Jose L. Chavez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  4:45 Using METRIC to Estimate Surface Energy Fluxes over an Alfalfa Field in Eastern Colorado
    Mcebisi Mkhwanazi, Jose L. Chavez
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University
   
     
March 21 5:30 pm Adjourn
     
 
Thursday
Date Time Session
March 22 8:00 am Registration - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 22 8:15 am Probabilistic and Stochastic Approaches
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
  8:15 A Case Study: Climate Change Decision Support for the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint Basins
    Day, G. N., McMahon, G., Friesen, N., Carney, S.
Riverside Technology, inc., Fort Collins, CO, USA
   
  8:30 Influence of spatial variation in precipitation on artificial neural network rainfall-runoff model
    Andre Dozier
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  8:45 Conditional Probability of Consecutive Rainy Days during Monsoons in Malaysia
    Nur Shazwani Muhammad and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  9:00 On Drought Severity-Duration-Frequency Curve Based On Copula Theory
    Jae Won Kwak, Yeon Soo Kim, Jong So Lee and Hung Soo Kim
Department of Civil Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea
   
  9:15 Probabilistic quantitative precipitation estimates using reanalysis datasets: a comparison of different approaches
    Pablo Mendoza, Balaji Rajagopalan and Martyn P. Clark
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
   
  9:30 Stochastic Weather Generator Based Ensemble Streamflow Forecasting
    Nina Caraway, Balaji Rajagopalan, Andy Wood, and Kevin Werner
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
   
   
March 22 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 22 10:00 am Darcy Lecture - Subsurface Flow and Transport Processes I
   

Chair: Professor Domenico Bau
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
  10:00 Darcy Lecture: Transport of Viruses in Partially Saturated Soil and Groundwater
   
S. Majid Hassanizadeh
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands
   
  11:00 A Selenium Reaction Module for Agricultural Groundwater Systems
    Ryan T. Bailey and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  11:15 Hydraulic conductivity assessment via tracer test data assimilation: comparison between Ensemble Smoother and Ensemble Kalman Filter
    Elena Crestani, Domenico Bau, Matteo Camporese and Paolo Salandin
ICEA Department, Unversity of Padova, Italy
   
  11:30 Reductive Dechlorination and Desorption of Hydrophobic Contaminants in Non-aqueous Media
    Jeramy Jasmann, Thomas Borch, Tom Sale, Jens Blotevogel
Department of Chemistry and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  11:45 CO2 Traps: A New Tool to Monitor Natural LNAPL Loss Rates
    Kevin McCoy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
   
March 22 12:00 Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
  1:00 pm Hydrology Days Award Lecture - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    Multi-scale Models for CO2 Injection into Deep Saline Aquifers

Professor Michael A. Celia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
     
   
March 22 2:00 pm Subsurface Flow and Transport Processes II
   

Chair: Professor Domenico Bau
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
  2:00 Experimental analysis of supercritical CO2 migration at laboratory scale aimed to investigate capillary trapping
    Luca Trevisan, Elif Agartan, Hiroko Mori, Tissa H. Illangasekare, Abdullah Cihan, Jens Birkholzer, and Quanlin Zhou
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
     
  2:15 Analyzing Potential Improvements to a Semi-Analytical CO2 Leakage Algorithm
    Brent Cody, Ana Gonzalez-Nicolas, Domenico Bau
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  2:30 Potential Impacts of Carbon Sequestration on Freshwater Aquifers: Adding Pieces to the Puzzle
    Assaf Wunsch, Alexis K. Navarre-Sitchler, John E. McCray
Hydrological Science and Engineering Program, Colorado School of Mines, Golden
   
  2:45 Carbon geological sequestration: effects of parameter uncertainty on fluid overpressure and CO2 leakage
    Ana Gonzalez-Nicolas, Brent Cody and Domenico Bau
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  3:00 Fundamental study of CO2 gas exsolution and flow in the shallow subsurface during leakage from a geologic sequestration site
    Michael Plampin, Toshihiro Sakaki, Tissa Illangasekare,Rajesh Pawar
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Enviornmental Processes, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
     
  3:15 Temporal Partitioning of a Chlorinated Solvent Release Between Transmissive and Low Permeability Zones
    A. Bolhari and T. Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  3:30 Groundwater Analysis of Atoll Islands in the Federated States of Micronesia: Observations, Modeling, and Training
    Ryan T. Bailey and John W. Jenson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
     
March 22 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 22 4:00 pm Climate - Water - Weather
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
  4:00 Great Missouri River Flood of 2011: Lessons for the future
    Neil S. Grigg
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University
   
  4:15 Changing Hydrology of a Large, Floodplain Lake in Response to Geomorphic Alterations at the Head of the Mississippi River Delta
    Frank L Willis and Richard F Keim
Willis Engineering and Scientific LLC, Alexandria, LA and School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA
   
  4:30 Impact of Climate Change on Wetland Functions
    Duck Gil Kim, Hee Sung Noh, Na Rae Kang, and Hung Soo Kim
Department of Civil Engineering, Inha University, Korea
   
  4:45 A Review of the 2011 Water Year in Colorado
    Nolan Doesken and Wendy Ryan
Colorado Climate Center, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 Meeting the Global Challenges of Water Scarcity
    Brian Richter
Global Freshwater Strategies, The Nature Conservancy
     
March 22 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Friday
Date Time Session
March 23 8:00 am Registration - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 23 8:00 am I-WATER Symposium
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center

     
  8 - 10:00 I-WATER Research Projects
     
  8 - 8:30 Integrated flow-based model to assess trade-offs under watershed management scenarios
    Dylan Harrison-Atlas
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
  8:30 - 9 Scale Dependency of Fluvial Morphodynamics and Sensitivities to Environmental Change
    Joel Sholtes
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9 - 9:30 Climate change and water resources in semiarid regions
    Isaac Medina
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  9:30 - 10 Socio-ecological optimization for the provision of environmental flows
    David Martin
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
     
  10 - 12:00 Internal I-WATER Program Assessment
     
  10 - 12:00 Internal I-WATER Program Assessment
    All I-WATER Trainees, I-WATER PI's, I-WATER Faculty Mentors
     
   
March 23 8:00 am Poster Session
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
  1 Downstream Effects of Diversion dams on Riparian vegetation communities in the Routt National Forest, Colorado
    Simeon Caskey
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
   
  2 Modeling hydrology in a Rocky Mountain peatland
    Dave Millar, David Cooper, and Michael Ronayne
Department of Forestry and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University
   
  3 Application of the Cowell Index to Monthly Streamflow Analysis
    Robert T Milhous
Hydrologist, Torries Peak Analysis, Fort Collins, Colorado
   
  4 Evaluating the spatial variability of snowpack properties across a northern Colorado basin
    G.A. Sexstone and S.R. Fassnacht
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
   
  5 Rapid assessment of a large-magnitude snow avalanche event in Colorado
    Sara Simonson, Steven Fassnacht and Scott Toepfer
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
   
  6 Perceived Climatic Warming and Drying Near the Khangai Mountains, Mongolia Explored Through Station Record Length Analysis
    N. B. H. Venable, S. R. Fassnacht, G. Adyabadam, Tumenjargal S.
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
   
  7 Synthetic unit hydrograph using Nash model with geospatially estimated parameters in the mid-sized watershed
    Kang Boosik and Kim JinGyeom
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dankook University, Republic of Korea
   
  8 Numerical modeling of soil water flow under different vegetation cover types in urban environments of the Colorado Front Range
    Edward A. Gage and David J. Cooper
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
   
  9 Intermediate scale testing and modeling for improving fundamental understanding of dissolution trapping in deep geologic formations
    Elif Agartan, Tissa Illangasekare, Abdullah Cihan, Jens Birkholzer, Quanlin Zhou and Luca Trevisan
Center for Experimental Study of Environmental Subsurface Processes (CESEP), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
   
  10 The effect of fire on the thermal properties of soils
    Elizabeth A. Kirby, Kathleen M. Smits, and William J. Massman
Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines
   
  11 Material Characterization for Intermediate Scale Testing to Develop Strategies for Geologic Sequestration of CO2
    Hiroko Mori, Toshihiro Sakaki, Tissa H. Illangasekare
Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden
   
  12 Analysis of Future Discharge in Nakdong River Basin According to Effect on Climate Change
    Hyun Suk Shin, Tae Seok Shon, and Mi Eun Kim, Ji Ye Im
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
   
  13 The Study on the Development of Flood Forecasting and Warning System in On-cheon Stream
    Hyun Suk Shin, Mi Eun Kim, Young Su Jang, Tae Seok Shon
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
   
  14 Evaluating the evolution of vapor intrusion pathways using electrical resistance tomography in heterogeneously-packed intermediate-scale sand tank tests
    Luke Shannon, Kathleen M. Smits, and Tissa H. Illangasekare
Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden
   
  15 Removal Rates In A Subsurface Flow Wetland And A Comparison To Free Water Surface Wetlands
    Margaret Hollowed and Sybil Sharvelle
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  16 Beyond Lees Ferry: Assessing the Long-term Hydrologic Variability of the Lower Colorado River Basin
    Lisa C. Wade, Balaji Rajagopalan , Jeffrey J. Lukas, and David Kanzer
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
   
  17 Assessment of Climate Change on the Arkansas River Basin
    Fariborz Nasr Azadani and Darrell G Fontane
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  18 Statistical Downscaling using Hybrid Model of Multi-Site Artificial Neural Network and Random Cascade Scheme
    Kang Boosik, Moon Soojin, and Kim Jungjoong
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dankook University, Republic of Korea
     
  19 Influence of digital elevation model resolution on terrain based hydrologic parameters for a subalpine catchment, Front Range, Colorado
    Blaine Hastings and Stephanie Kampf
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
   
  20 Relative Sensitivity of the Seasonal Snow Zones to Climate Warming in the Western United States
    Cara Moore, Stephanie Kampf, Eric Richer, Brandon Stone
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
   
  21 Log Jams and Carbon Storage in Headwater Streams in Colorado's Front Range
    N. D. Beckman and E.E. Wohl
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
   
  22 Coupling updated flow duration curves from downscaled climate change predictions with sediment transport relations to estimate future transport regimes in the Yampa Biver basin.
    Joel Sholtes
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  23 Determination of the Area Weighted Curve Number Distribution in a South Miami Catchment Utilizing Maximum Likelihood Classification in ArcGIS
    Jessica Seersma
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
     
  24 Petroleum Hydrocarbon Sheens in Surface Water - Governing Processes and Solutions
    Alison Hawkins, Julio Zimbron, Tom Sale, Mark Lyverse, and Pat Hughes
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  25 Geomorphic classification for arid ephemeral streams using channel geometry and basin characteristics
    Nicholas A. Sutfin, Ellen Wohl and Jeremy Shaw
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
   
  26 Debris Flow Chronology and Analysis of Controls on Debris Flow Occurrence in the Upper Colorado River Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
    Kyle Grimsley
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  27 Using Conditional Probability Maps to Manage Soil Salinity and Crop Yield
    Ahmed A. Eldeiry and Luis A. Garcia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
   
March 23 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 23 10:00 am Computational Fluid Dynamics - Hydraulic modeling
   

Chair: Professor Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
  10:00 Lateral mixing of passive scalars around porous obstacles in tidal flows
    Hyeyun Ku and Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  10:20 Evaluation and Improvement of RANS Turbulence models for Stably Stratified Environmental Flows
    Farid Karimpour and Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:40 Computational Modeling of Baffled Disinfection Tanks
    Zachary Taylor and Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  11:00 Relevant length scales and time scales in shear flow turbulence
    Benjamin Mater, Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy, and Lakshmi Dasi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  11:20 Flow structures and dynamics of stably stratified turbulence
    Simon M. Schaad and Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:40 Sustainable channel width analysis for the Middle Rio Grande, NM
    Kiyoung Park and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
 
March 23 12:00 Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydraulics - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    How vegetation alters water motion, and the feedbacks to environmental system structure and function

Professor Heidi Nepf
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
     
   
March 23 2:00 pm Watershed Science
   

Chair: Professor Stephanie Kampf
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
  2:00 Land use and watershed science: a 30-year perspective on lessons learned and what we should be worrying about?
    Lee H. MacDonald
Watershed Science Program, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
   
  2:20 "Developing a watershed monitoring project" revisited: What to measure, in what order and why?
    Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Dept. of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
   
  2:35 Hydrology, hydrochemistry and implications for water supply of a cloud forest in Central America
    Luis A. Caballero, Brian K. Richards, Shree K. Giri and Tammo S.Steenhuis
Department of Environment and Development Studies, Zamorano University, Honduras
     
  2:50 Water Rights Consulting: a Colorado-Based Perspective
    Matthew J. Welsh, P.H.
Headwaters Corporation, Denver, Colorado
   
  3:05 Conceptual model for complex river responses by expanding Lane's relation
    David Dust and Ellen Wohl
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  3:20 Coarse particulate organic matter transport in two Rocky Mountain streams
    Kristin Bunte, Kurt W. Swingle, Steven R. Abt, John P. Potyondy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
   
March 23 3:35 Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 23 3:50 pm Wild Fires - Watershed Impacts
   

Chair: Professor Lee MacDonald
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, CSU

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
  3:50 Effects of thinning and a wildfire on sediment production rates, channel morphology, and water quality in the upper South Platte watershed
    Zamir Libohova, Lee MacDonald, and Deborah Entwistle
United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.
     
  4:05 Increased Erosion Risk after Wildfires
    Peter R. Robichaud
Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, Idaho
   
  4:20 Runoff and sediment production from forest fires at two scales
    Juan de Dios Benavides-Solorio and Lee H. MacDonald
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agricolas y Pecuarias, Guadalajara, Mexico
   
  4:35 Twelve years of post-fire erosion and runoff research in the Colorado Front Range
    Joseph W. Wagenbrenner and Peter R. Robichaud
Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman and Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Moscow, Idaho
   
  4:50 Exploring Post-Wildfire Erosion using Terrestrial Lidar
    Francis Rengers and Gregory Tucker
Geological Sciences Department, University of Colorado, Boulder.
   
  5:05 NetMap integrated tools and watershed data: scientifically based and spatially explicit solutions for natural resource management.
    Sam Litschert and Lee Benda
Earth Systems Institute, Fort Collins, CO
   
  5:20 Concluding Remarks
    Lee H. MacDonald
Watershed Science Program, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
   
March 23 5:30 pm Hydrology Days 2012 ends