Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2013

March 25 - March 27, 2013
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Program at a Glance
8 am - 6 pm
8 am
Registration
Registration
Registration
8:30 - 10 am
Registration
Carbon Sequestration
Poster Session
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
10 am - 12
Soil Moisture - Hydrologic Modeling
Stochastic Approaches
Stream Restoration - Morphodynamics
12 - 2 pm

Lunch
Borland Lecture in Hydrology
Lunch
Hydrology Days Award Lecture
Lunch
Borland Lecture in Hydraulics
2 - 4 pm
Darcy Lecture & Groundwater in Agricultural Landscapes
Evapotranspiration - Crop Water Use & Yield
Snow Hydrology
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
Hydrology Days Ends
4 - 6 pm
Contaminant Transport
Hydrologic Modeling - Fires - Water Quality
Adjourn
Adjourn
   
Hydrology Days 2013
Program
 
Monday
Date Time Session
March 25 9:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 25 10:00 am Hydrologic modeling - Soil Moisture
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
  10:00 A physically based approach for the estimation of root-zone soil moisture from surface measurements: application on the AMMA database
    S. Manfreda , L. Brocca , T. Moramarco, M. Fiorentino
University of Basilicata, Italy
     
  10:15 Evaluation of a Method to Estimate Root-Zone Soil Moisture Based on Optical and Thermal Satellite Imagery
    Nathan E. Alburn, Jeffrey D. Niemann, and Aymn Elhaddad
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Evaluation of Sampling Techniques for Observing Topographically-Dependent Variability in Catchment-Scale Soil Moisture Patterns
    Kevin L. Werbylo and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  10:45 Effects of Vegetation on Shallow Soil Moisture at a Semiarid Montane Catchment
    Devin C. Traff and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Fully distributed GEOtop hydrological model integration in OMS3 system
    Giuseppe Formetta, Olaf David, Matteo Dall’Amico, Giovanna Capparelli, Pasquale Versace, Luis Garcia,and Riccardo Rigon
University of Trento, Trento, Italy
   
  11:15 Uncertainty in hydrologic predictions: Modeling a small ungauged basin in the Sahel
    Mikell P. Warms and Jorge A. Ramírez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Spatially distributed modeling of the Colorado River basin: Calibration of the variable infiltration capacity (VIC) model using a Genetic Algorithm
    Jon Quebbeman and Jorge A Ramírez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
March 25 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydrology - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    Hydromorphology: Rewriting Hydrology Textbooks for a Nonstationary World

Professor Richard M Vogel
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
     
   
March 25 2:00 pm Darcy Lecture & Groundwater in Agricultural Landscapes
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
  2:00 Darcy Lecture: Managing groundwater beneath the agricultural landscape
    David L. Rudolph, Ph.D., PE
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
   
  3:00 Quantifying groundwater recharge beneath deficit furrow irrigation: a method comparison
    Jasmeen Moubarak, William Sanford, Jonathan King
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
   
  3:15 Evaluation of the Glover Solution for Estimating Depletion of Groundwater Return Flows to Streams due to Land Fallowing in the Lower Arkansas River Valley, Colorado
    Cale Mages, Ryan T. Bailey, and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 Modeling Selenium and Nitrate Reactive Transport using OTIS-MULTI on the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado
    Erica C. Romero, Ryan T. Bailey, and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:45 Arsenic and other Heavy Metals in Shallow Groundwater in Utah Valley, Utah
    Jonathan N. Hilbert, Adam P. Homer, Devin R. Howard, Daniel J. Zacharias, Preston D. Colledge, Brandon B. Davis, Ryan J. McNamara, Daniel H. Natter, and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
   
   
March 25 4:00 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 25 4:15pm Contaminant Transport
   

Chair: Professor Thomas Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
     
  4:15 Water quality impacts of retardation and reaction in low permeability zones in groundwater plumes
    Jennifer Wahlberg, Jack Martin, and Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  4:30 Catalyzed Electrolytic Degradation of 1,4-Dioxane in Contaminated Water
    Jeramy Jasmann, Thomas Borch, Tom Sale, and Jens Blotevogel
Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Analysis of Subsurface LNAPL Body Evolution
    Anna Skinner and Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  5:00 Aquifer Inversion with Simultaneous Estimation of Parameters, Source/Sink, and Boundary Condition
    Jianying Jiao and Ye Zhang
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
     
  5:15 Coupled modeling of water level dynamics and energy use for operational well fields in the Denver Basin
    Jennifer Davis, Thomas Sale, and Michael Ronayne
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
   
  5:30 Sustainable Thermally Enhanced LNAPL Attenuation
    Daria Akhbari , Maria Irianni Renno, Adam Byrne, and Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 25 5:45 pm Adjourn
     
 
Tuesday
Date Time Session
March 26 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 26 8:45 am Carbon Sequestration
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
  8:45 Investigation of multiphase modeling approaches for behavior of supercritical CO2 in deep formations using analog fluids in the laboratory
    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, CO
     
  9:00 Estimation of Surrogate Fluid Constitutive Relationships for Modeling of Tank Test Results to Develop Strategies for Geological Carbon Sequestration
    Hiroko Mori , Toshihiro Sakaki, , Tissa H. Illangasekare
Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
   
  9:15 Stochastic Optimization of the Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
    Brent Cody , Ana González-Nicolás, Domenico Baù
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:30 Estimation of the Sealing Properties of MTU-site (Michigan) for Geological Carbon Storage
    Ana González-Nicolás, Brent Cody and Domenico Baù
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
   
March 26 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 26 10:00 am Probabilistic and Stochastic Approaches
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
  10:00 Estimating the Uncertainty of the Probable Maximum Precipitation
    Jose D. Salas , German Gavilan , and Fernando R. Salas
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 Application of Stochastic Weather Generator based Seasonal Ensemble Streamflow Forecasts to Water Resources Management
    Lianne Daugherty, Edith Zagona and Balaji Rajagopalan
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
  10:30 High-resolution Spatial Estimates of Precipitation in Equatorial Americas by Blending Station and Satellite Data
    Andrew Verdin , Balaji Rajagopalan, and, Chris Funk
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
  10:45 Daily rainfall simulations and return period calculations for Malaysian monsoons
    Nur Shazwani Muhammad and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  11:00 Modeling Large Scale Climate Indicators Using Wavelet-based Time Series Method
    Solomon Erkyihun, Balaji Rajagopalan and Edith Zagona
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
  11:15 Towards a better understanding of hydrologic sensitivity to climate change: impact of hydrologic model choices
    Pablo A. Mendoza, Martyn P. Clark, Balaji Rajagopalan and Naoki Mizukami
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
   
  11:30 Climatic Variability of the West African Monsoon and its Influence on Meningococcal Meningitis Susceptibility
    Daniel Broman, Thomas Hopson and Balaji Rajagopalan
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
   
  11:45 Record Breaking Typhoon Touchdowns on Korean Peninsula during July to September 2012:  Climatological Features and Hydrometeorological Perspective
    Byunghyun Song and Balaji Rajagopalan
Cooperative Institute for Research of Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder
     
   
March 26 12:00 Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Hydrology Days Award Lecture - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    Water Security under Climate Change

Professor Vijay P Singh
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
     
   
March 26 2:00 pm Evapotranspiration - Crop Water Use - Crop Yield
   

Chair: Professor José Chávez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
  2:00 What Drives Spatial and Temporal Variability of Evaporative Demand Across CONUS?
    Michael T. Hobbins
Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, NOAA National Weather Service
   
  2:15 Preliminary Performance Evaluation of the Penman Monteith Evapotranspiration Equation in Southeastern Colorado
    Abhinaya Subedi, José L. Chávez, and Allan A. Andales
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  2:30 Remote sensing for evaluating crop water stress at field scale using infrared thermography: potentials and limitations
    Saleh Taghvaeian, José L. Chávez, Jon Altenhofen, Tom Trout and Kendall DeJonge
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  2:45 Mapping Evapotranspiration with the Remote Sensing ET algorithms METRIC and SEBAL under advective and non-advective conditions: Accuracy determination with weighing lysimeters
    Mcebisi M. Mkhwanazi and José L. Chávez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 A Real-time Common Operating Picture for Managing Water Observations, Operations, and Diversions
    Fernando R. Salas and David R. Maidment
Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
     
  3:15 A Web-Service based Tool to Generate Crop Rotation Management Input Files for Spatially distributed Agroecosystem Models
    Holm Kipka, Olaf David, Jim Lyon, Luis A. Garcia, Timothy R. Green, James C. Ascough II and Ken Rojas
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 Testing a new channel routing component in JGrass-NewAge model
    Giuseppe Formetta, Olaf David and Riccardo Rigon
University of Trento, Trento, Italy
     
     
March 26 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 26 4:00 pm Hydrologic Modeling and Analysis - Water Quality - Fire Impacts
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
     
  4:00 Developing demonstration GSSHA and GS-FLOW models for Upper Susquehanna
    Eleeja Shrestha and James Halgren
Riverside Technology, inc., Fort Collins
   
  4:15 Distributed monsoon flood modeling at Kota Tinggi, Malaysia
    J. Abdullah and P. Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Use of the Manning Equation to Estimate Stream Discharge through Natural Slot Canyons and Artificial Slots
    Holly A. Ivie, Dylan B. Dastrup, Andrew Simister, and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
   
  4:45 Stream flow hydrograph separation using end-member mixing analysis and analytical techniques
    Tonia Hack and William Sanford
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 Quantification of post-wildfire hydrologic response, hillslope erosion, and channel morphology: baseline data following the High Park Fire
    Daniel J. Brogan, Sarah Schmeer, Stephanie K. Kampf, Lee H. MacDonald, and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:15 Impacts of High Park Fire on Poudre River Water Quality
    Clare Steninger and Pinar Omur-Ozbek
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Predictive Modeling of Geosmin, a Taste and Odor Compound, in Northern Colorado Water Supplies
    Glenn Parr and Pinar Omur-Ozbek
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:45 A Plan for Conversion of Stormwater to Groundwater Recharge on the Utah Valley University Main Campus, Orem, Utah
    Dylan B. Dastrup, Gabriela R. Ferreira, Daniel Zacharias, Daniel H. Natter, Lawrence T. Kellum, Brandon B. Davis, Michael R. Alexander, Jeffrey Selck, and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
     
March 26 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Wednesday
Date Time Session
March 27 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 27 8:00 am I-WATER Symposium
   

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

Virginia Dale Room - Lory Student Center
     
  8 - 11:00 I-WATER Research Projects
     
  8:00 Transport of pollutants from cow feedlots in eastern Colorado into Rocky Mountain alpine lakes
    Aaron Piña
Department of Atmospheric Science, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  8:15 Developing social-ecological decision support tools for environmental flows management
    David M. Martin and N. LeRoy Poff
Department of Biology/Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  8:30 Measurement and Modeling of Seasonal Responses of Plant Transpiration to Soil Moisture Deficits
    Grace Lloyd Miner
Department of Soil and Crop Science, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  8:45 Simulations of the High Plains drought of 2012 using the Super-parameterized Community Earth System Model (SP-CESM)
    Isaac D. Medina
Department of Atmospheric Science, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  9:00 A conceptual model for assessing the influence of scale and sediment transport regime on geomorphic sensitivity to environmental change
    Joel Sholtes
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  9:15 Permafrost degradation and biogeochemical cycling in northern Alaska
    Laurel Lynch, Jessica Ernakovich, Matthew Wallenstein
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  9:30 Mechanistic influences of sediment and soil organic carbon storage in mountainous headwaters of the Colorado Rocky Mountains
    Nicholas A. Sutfin
Department of Geosciences, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
   
March 26 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
  10:00 Ensemble-Based Analysis of the June 2012 Rain and Hailstorm in Colorado Springs, CO: Forecast Uncertainty and Communication of Weather Information to Front Range Decision-Makers
    Vanessa Vincente
Department of Atmospheric Science, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 Water: Allocation and valuation strategies under increasing scarcity
    Alexander S Maas
Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Closing the gap: a framework to inform ecosystem service quantification at multiple scales
    Dylan Harrison-Atlas
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 New Streams of the West - Irrigation Canals as Intermittent and Ephemeral Streams
    Erick Carlson
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and I-WATER Program, Colorado State University
     
  11 - 12:00 Internal I-WATER Program Assessment
     
    Internal I-WATER Program Assessment
    All I-WATER Trainees, I-WATER PI's, I-WATER Faculty Mentors
     
     
     
   
March 27 8:00 am Poster Session
   

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

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
     
  1 CSU Ventures - Helping Bright Ideas Become Great Innovations
    Steve Albers, Steve Foster, Jessica Joslin, Jeremey Chignell, Esteban Hincapie, Jason Prapas and Scott Fulbright
CSU Ventures, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
   
  2 Investigating the Feasibility of Using Ecozones in the Design of Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment by Analyzing the Sensitivity of Cover Effectiveness to Climate, Vegetation and Soil Parameters
    Joel Barber and David Benson
Department of Geology and Geological Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
   
  3 A development of a fuzzy methodology to study the propagation of a flood wave in Potengi River, Rio Grande do Norte - Brazil
    Sales, Raquel Jucá de Moraes ; Araújo, Juliana Alencar Firmo de; Santos, Silvia Helena ; Souza, Raimundo Oliveira de
Universidade Federal do Ceará e bolsista da CNPq, Ceará, Brazil
   
  4 Development of a methodology for the calculation of the risk of eutrophication in the a reservoir in the state of Ceará, Brazil
    Araújo, Juliana Alencar Firmo de; Sales, Raquel Jucá de Moraes ; Santos, Silvia Helena ; Souza, Raimundo Oliveira de
Universidade Federal do Ceará e bolsista da CNPq, Ceará, Brazil
     
  5 Application of the Fuzzy Theory in a Reservoir Operation Model to Study the Behavior of the Regularized Flow
    Santos, Silvia Helena ; Araújo, Juliana Alencar Firmo de; Sales, Raquel Jucá de Moraes ; Souza, Raimundo Oliveira de
Universidade Federal do Ceará e bolsista da CNPq, Ceará, Brazil
     
  6 Evaluation of L-Moment and PPCC method to determine the best regional distribution of monthly rainfall data (Case study: Northwest of Iran)
    Amirataee, B. Montaseri, M. and Rezaei, H.
Department of Water Engineering, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
   
  7 Analysis and Evaluation of Stormwater Quality and Quantity Performance for Three Permeable Pavement Systems in Fort Collins, Colorado
    Eli Gruber, Chris Olson, and Larry A. Roesner
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  8 Assessing current and future effects of climate change on groundwater in Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park
    Sharla Stevenson
National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado
   
  9 Interpreting watershed scale hydrological alterations from widespread mountain pine beetle infestation using stable isotopes
    Lindsay A. Bearup , Reed M. Maxwell, David W. Clow , John E. McCray and Jonathan O. Sharp
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
   
  10 Reconstructing Streamflow to Nowhere: Long-term Variability of Flow Into the San Luis Valley Closed Basin, Colorado, USA
    N. B. H. Venable , P. M. Brown , S. R. Fassnacht
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
   
  11 Inverse Modeling of Groundwater Flow in a Fractured Aquifer under Confined Condition
    Yifan Zhang, Ye Zhang, Dongdong Wang
Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie
   
  12 Evaluation of streamflow depletion induced by groundwater withdrawals and irrigation reservoirs
    Nam Won Kim and Jeongwoo Lee
Water Resources Research Division, Water Resources & Environment Research Department, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, South Korea
   
  13 Flood Frequency Analysis using Daily Flood Data based on SWAT model
    Nam Won Kim and Jeong Eun Lee
Water Resources Research Division, Water Resources & Environment Research Department, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, South Korea
   
  14 Spatial Extension of Runoff Data Using a Lumped Concept Model
    Nam Won Kim and Yong Jung
Water Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, South Korea
     
  15 An integrated hydrologic analysis considering ephemeral stream runoff characteristics in Cheonmi-cheon watershed, Jeju Island
    Nam Won Kim , IL Moon Chung and Han Na Na
Water Resources & Environment Research Department, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, South Korea
     
  16 Characterization of Microbial Communities Mediating Anaerobic Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons along a Depth Transect in NAPL Zones
    Maria Irianni Renno , Daria Akhbari, Adam Byrne, Tom Sale and Susan De Long
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  17 An Index to Cottonwood Establishment Potential
    Robert T Milhous
Hydrologist. Fort Collins, Colorado
     
  18 Dynamic Data Integration and Stochastic Inversion of a Two-Dimensional Confined Aquifer
    Dongdong Wang , Ye Zhang and Juraj Irsa
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming
     
  19 Building a Physical Effectiveness Monitoring Protocol for Design Channels at Road-Stream Crossings
    Heidi Klingel, Dan Cenderelli, Ellen Wohl
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  20 Evaluating water quality ecosystem services of wetlands under climatic change
    Rosemary M. Records , Mazdak Arabi, Steven Fassnacht and Walter Duffy
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  21 Multi-year impacts of sedimentation during managed aquifer recharge
    Andrew J. Racz , Andrew T. Fisher , Calla M. Schmidt , Marc Los Huertos , Brian S. Lockwood
Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
     
   
March 27 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 27 10:00 am Stream Restoration - Morphodynamics - Erosion and Sedimentation
   

Chair: Professor Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
     
  10:00 Let’s be honest: addressing key uncertainties in stream restoration design and decision-making
    Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 Progress in the morphodynamics of bedrock-alluvial rivers
    Peter A. Nelson and Giovanni Seminara
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Improving the stream restoration design process with decision analysis, predictive design, and online portals
    Daniel W. Baker
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 A consideration of channel morphology, flow regime variability and sediment transport relations in determining effective discharge
    Kevin Werbylo, Joel Sholtes and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Mechanics of Sediment Plug Formation in the Middle Rio Grande, NM
    Kiyoung Park and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  11:15 Magnitude - Frequency analysis revisited:  Effective discharge for gravel bedload in Rocky Mountain streams shifts to highest recorded flows when based on accurate transport relations
    Kristin Bunte , Dan A. Cenderelli, Kurt W. Swingle, Steven R. Abt
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  11:30 Data Processing of the Middle Rio Grande – Elephant Butte Reach, New Mexico
    Katharine E. Anderson and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Geomorphic Analysis of the Middle Rio Grande – Elephant Butte Reach, New Mexico
    Tracy E. Owen and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
March 27 12:00 Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydraulics - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    Sediment Transport in River Channel Design

Professor Peter R. Wilcock
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
     
   
March 27 2:00 am Snow Hydrology
   

Chair: Professor Steven Fassnacht
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
     
  2:00 Changes in the amount and days with snowfall across the Northern Great Plains of the United States
    Mikaela L. Cherry, Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1476 USA
   
  2:15 Trends in snow accumulation and melt in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA
    Glenn G. Patterson, Steven R. Fassnacht and Amanda Weber
Watershed Science, Colorado State University
   
  2:30 Modeling Small Watershed Snowmelt Hydrographs Using Snow Telemetry Data
    David C. Deitemeyer and Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
   
  2:45 Using Airborne Lidar to Assess the Variability and Scaling of Snow Depth Retrievals from Satellite-Based Altimeters
    G.A. Sexstone and S.R. Fassnacht
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
   
  3:00 Snow Depth Variability and Sampling
    Steven R. Fassnacht, Juan Ignaçio López-Moreno, Graham A. Sexstone, Evan J. Blumberg, Amir H. Kashipazha
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
   
March 27 3:15 pm Hydrology Days 2013 ends