Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2014

March 24 - March 26, 2014
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Program at a Glance
8 am - 6 pm
8 am
8:00 - 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 2014
Program
 
Monday
Date Time Session
March 24 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 24 8:00 am Snow Hydrology
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  8:00 Estimating the uncertainty associated with calculated snowpack sublimation
    Douglas M. Hultstrand and Steven R. Fassnacht
Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  8:15 Soil moisture variability beneath a melting snowpack
    Ryan W. Webb and Steven R. Fassnacht
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  8:30 Spatio-temporal Variability in Snowmelt Rates Observed Across the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.
    Karen K. Burke and Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  8:45 The Influence of Pollution Aerosols on Local and Regional Scale Colorado Snowpack
    Stephen M. Saleeby
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  9:00 Measuring Snowpack Sublimation in the Upper Colorado River Basin using the Bowen Ratio Energy Balance Method
    Graham A. Sexstone, David W. Clow and David I. Stannard
Colorado Water Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado
     
  9:15 Rainfall and Snowmelt Rates at Montane Elevations across the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.
    Steven R. Fassnacht, Rosemary M. Records, Glen G. Patterson, Graham A. Sexstone, William E. Sanford, Doug Laraby, Douglas M. Hultstrand, Niah B.H. Venable
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  9:30 Niveograph Interpolation to Estimate Peak Accumulation of SWE in Rocky Mountain National Park
    Glenn G. Patterson and Steven R. Fassnacht
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
     
March 24 9:45 Mid-morning break
     
   
March 24 10:00 am Soil Moisture - Vegetation - Eco Hydrology
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  10:00 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
     
  10:15 Evaluation of a Method to Downscale Intermediate-Resolution Soil Moisture to a Fine-Resolution using Topographic, Vegetation, and Soil Data
    Kayla J. Ranney, Jeffrey D. Niemann, Timothy R. Green, and Andrew S. Jones
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Ecological Optimality of Canopy-Scale Vegetation Properties – Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence
    Jon Quebbeman and Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 Implementation of an Optimal Stomatal Control Approach in the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Model
    Jon Quebbeman and Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Thresholds for runoff generation in ephemeral streams with varying morphology in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, USA
    Joshua D. Faulconer, Stephanie K. Kampf, David J. Cooper and Jeremy Shaw
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 Developing Flow-Ecology Relationships in Southern California
    Sarah R. Eberhart and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
11:30
One-dimensional Solute Transport Models: Parameter Uncertainty Implications for Quantifying Biogeochemical Cycling in Stream Networks
    Erika Smull, Adam Wlostowski and Michael Gooseff
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Investigation of the effects of whitewater parks on aquatic resources in Colorado
    Tim Stephens, Brian Fox, Nell Kolden, and Brian Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
 
March 24 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydrology - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    Role of the Environment in Shaping Malaria Transmission in Africa

Professor Elfatih A.B. Eltahir
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
     
   
March 24 2:00 pm Stochastic Approaches - Climate
   

Chair: Professor Balaji Rajagopalan
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  2:00 Implications of subjectivity in hydrologic model choice and parameter identification on the portrayal of climate change impact
    Pablo A. Mendoza, Martyn P. Clark, Balaji Rajagopalan, Naoki Mizukami, Ethan Gutmann, Andy Newman, Michael Barlage, Levi Brekke and Jeffrey Arnold
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
  2:15 A Markov track model for simulating Typhoon Tracks in North-Western Pacific Ocean
    Byunghyun Song, Balaji Rajagopalan, Gyu-Ho Lim
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO
     
  2:30 Coupled Stochastic Weather Generation Using Spatial and Generalized Linear Models
    Andrew Verdin, Balaji Rajagopalan, William Kleiber and Richard W. Katz
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
  2:45 A Nonlinear Dynamical Systems based Model for Stochastic Simulation of Streamflow
    Solomon Erkyihun, Balaji Rajagopalan and Edith Zagona
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
  3:00 Understanding and Modeling Climate Variability in Ciliwung Watershed, Jakarta, Indonesia
    Mas Yanto, Balaji Rajagopalan, and Edith Zagona
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
     
 
3:15
Variability of Summer Hydroclimate Extremes in Southwestern United States
    Srijita Jana, Balaji Rajagopalan, Andrea J. Ray
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
     
  3:30 21st century U.S. Climate in CMIP5 Experiments and its impacts on water yield
    Vinod Mahat, Jorge A. Ramirez and Thomas C. Brown
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
March 24 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 24 4:00 pm Watershed Modeling - ET - Irrigation
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  4:00 Improving the Statistical Representation of a Modeler’s Prior Knowledge to Speed the Evaluation of Model Uncertainty
    Youngjai Jung and Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:15 An Evaluation Procedure of Parameter Sampling Techniques in Watershed Modeling
    Haw Yen, Jaehak Jeong, Wen-Hsiao Tseng, Rosemary M. Records, Min-Kyeong Kim, Mazdak Arabi
Blackland Research & Extension Center, Texas A&M Agrilife Research, Temple, Texas
     
  4:30 Hydrologic modeling of a small ungauged basin in the Sahel: calibration and results
    Mikell P. Warms and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Green-Ampt vs. Curve Number: How different physiographic characteristics of the watersheds call for different approaches in modeling
    Ali Tasdighi and Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
5:00
Measuring water use and crop coefficients for full and deficit irrigated crops
    Thomas Trout
Water Management Research Unit, USDA- Agricultural Research Service
     
 
5:15
Assessing Corn Water Stress Using Spectral Reflectance
    Brenna S. Mefford and Jose L. Chavez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Using ReSET Model to Estimate the Evapotranspiration of the Irrigated Crops in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado
    Ahmed A. Eldeiry, Reagan M. Waskom, and Ayman Elhaddad
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
5:45
Estimating ET on Fine Spatial Scales in Urban Wetlands
    Catherine Kuhn
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
     
   
March 24 7:00pm The Emerald Mile
   

Kevin Fedarko

Lory Student Center Theater

     
  7:00 The Emerald Mile
    Kevin Fedarko
     
     
March 24 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Tuesday
Date Time Session
March 25 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
     
   
March 25 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 25 10:00 am Colorado Floods
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  10:00 A Review of the 2013 Water Year in Colorado
    N.J. Doesken and W.A. Ryan
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 Atmospheric conditions associated with the September 2013 Colorado extreme rainfall and flooding
    Russ Schumacher
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 September 2013 flood and High Park burn in the South Fork Cache la Poudre River near Fort Collins, CO
    Sandra Ryan, Sara Rathburn, Mark Dixon, and Scott Shahverdian
US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO
     
  10:45 The 2012 Fires and 2013 Floods: A knockout combination for the main stem of the Poudre River or business as usual?
    Daniel W. Baker
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Synchronicity of rainfall runoff peak flows across elevations during the September 2013 Colorado Front Range floods
    Stephanie K. Kampf
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 An examination of rainfall amounts and timing of the Front Range Floods the week of September 9-16, 2013
    Zach Schwalbe, Tye Parzybok, Nolan Doesken, Wendy Ryan
Colorado Climate Center and Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Taking September 2013 as a Forewarning – Adaptive Co-Management to Better Prepare for the 100-Year Event
    Margaret T. Herzog, Russell N. Clayshulte, John W. Labadie, and Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Flood Risk Integration: Lessons from U.S. experience
    Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
March 25 12:00 Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Hydrology Days Award Lecture - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
    Optimization of Hydrosystem Management and Operation

Professor William W-G Yeh
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Loas Angeles
     
   
March 25 2:00 pm Groundwater - Contaminant Hydrology
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
   
  2:00 Spatial quantification of non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) contaminants in frozen soil cores using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
    Saeed Kiaalhosseini, Tom Sale, and Jens Blotevogel
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Comparison of methods for estimating natural LNAPL loss rates at field sites based on CO2 flux in soils
    Melissa K. Tracy, Julio A. Zimbron and Tom C. Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 A Novel, Sustainable Technology to Prevent Hydrocarbon Sheens: the Oleophilic Bio Barrier
    Marc Chalfant, Tom Sale and Julio Zimbron
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Use of Soil Heat Fluxes to Evaluate Continuous Natural Loss Rates of Subsurface LNAPL
    Emily Stockwell and Tom Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 Thermally Enhanced Attenuation of Substituted Benzenes
    Zoe Bezold, Tom Sale, and Jens Blotevogel
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 Stochastic Aquifer Inversion with a New Highly Scalable Parallel Solver
    Dongdong Wang, Ye Zhang, He Huang, and Liqiang Wang
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming
     
  3:30 Physically based Stochastic Inversion Assessing Aquifer Parameter and Boundary Condition Uncertainty
    Dongdong Wang and Ye Zhang
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming
     
March 25 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 25 4:00 pm Reactive Transport - Arsenic - Salinity
   

Chair: Professor Ryan T Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  4:00 Exploring BMP Practices for Decreasing Selenium in the Lower Arkansas River Valley
    Erica C. Romero, Ryan T. Bailey, and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:15 Using Geospatial Techniques and Remote Sensing to Reduce the Number of Soil Salinity Samples
    Ahmed A. Eldeiry and Luis A. Garcia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
   
  4:30 Arsenic and other Heavy Metals in Utah Lake and its Tributaries
    Jillian Hopkinson, Sterling Roberts, Samuel Nofchissey, Jeremiah McDonald and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
  4:45 Arsenic and other Heavy Metals in Surface Water in Swaziland, Southern Africa
    Sterling Roberts, Matthew Walker and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
  5:00 The Effect of Surface Lithology on Arsenic in Surface Water and Groundwater in Mustang Valley, Nepal Himalaya
    Steven H. Emerman, Janae R. Nelson, J. Kade Carlson, Tracy Kemp Anderson, Anusha Sharma, Basanta Raj Adhikari
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
  5:15 Assimilation Capacity of Low-k zones
    Rachael L. McSpadden and Mitchell R. Olson and Thomas C. Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Comparing the Glover-Balmer method with a calibrated groundwater model to estimate aquifer-stream impacts due to altered field water management
    Cale A. Mages, Ryan T. Bailey, and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 25 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Wednesday
Date Time Session
March 26 8:00 am Registration - Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 26 9:30 am I-WATER Symposium
   

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

Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  9:30 Implications of flood response decision support framework on making room-for-the-river: A case study of the St. Vrain Creek
    André Dozier, Daniel Brogan, Peter Leipzig-Scott and Ryan Fitzpatrick
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:45 Dendrochronological techniques to extend discharge records and explore rates of floodplain turnover, Yellowstone River, Montana
    Derek Schook and Sara L. Rathburn
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  10:00 Novel riparian systems of the West: the composition of an irrigation system
    Erick A. Carlson and David J. Cooper
Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 The marginal water cost of carbon gain: Patterns of emergence in the Ball-Berry slope parameter by plant functional type
    Grace Lloyd Miner and William L. Bauerle
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Transport of pollutants from eastern Colorado into the Rocky Mountains via upslope winds
    Aaron J. Piña
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 Simulating the 2012 High Plains drought using three single column versions (SCM) of BUGS5
    Isaac D. Medina
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University.
     
  11:00 Banking carbon: Riparian carbon storage in headwater streams
    Nicholas A. Sutfin
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 A prioritization framework for multi-objective fire management: A case study of the High Park Fire and the City of Fort Collins’ water supply
    Codie R. Wilson, Dylan Harrison-Atlas, David M. Martin andDavid Kamin
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Groundwater Governance for Oil and Gas Development in Colorado: The case of rule 609
    Karie Boone
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Urban and Industrialized Watersheds Have Elevated Water Risk and Limited Opportunities to Mitigate Risk through Water Trading
    Alexander Maas
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
   
March 26 2:00 pm I-WATER Symposium
   

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

Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  2:00 Modeling stakeholder decisions with fuzzy set theory for environmental flows management
    David M. Martin and N. LeRoy Poff
Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Ensemble-Based Analysis of a Colorado Rain and Hailstorm: Forecast Uncertainty and Understanding of Weather Information by Front Range Decision-Makers
    Vanessa Vincente
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 Quantifying ecosystem services: science for decision makers
    Dylan Harrison-Atlas
Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University.
     
  2:45 Cottonwood Mortality and Hydrologic Manipulation: A study of gradients and thresholds in regulated and natural flow regimes in northwest Colorado
    Derek Schook, Joel Sholtes, Erick Carlson and David Cooper
I-WATER Ph.D. Fellows
     
  3:00 Stakeholder vulnerability to water stress in the South Platte River Basin
    Amber N. Childress
Department of Ecosystem Sciences and Sustainability, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 Sediment Transport Magnitude-Frequency Metrics for Process-Based Channel Design
    Joel Sholtes
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 Litter-induced priming in the Arctic: Does plant litter chemistry mediate decomposition of old soil organic matter?
    Laurel Lynch
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology & Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
March 26 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 26 4:00 pm I-WATER Symposium
   

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

Grey Rock Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  4 - 6:00 Internal I-WATER Program Assessment
    All I-WATER Fellows, I-WATER PI's, I-WATER Faculty Mentors
     
     
     
   
March 26 8:00 am Poster Session
   

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

North Ball Room - Lory Student Center

     
 
 
 
1
Modeling Sediment Yield and Deposition Using Swat Model: A Case Study of Cubuk I and Cubuk II Reservoirs, Turkey
 
Umit Duru, Ellen Wohl, Mazdak Arabi, Sara Rathburn, Mehdi Ahmadi, and Rosemary Records
Geosciences, Colorado State University
 
 
 
2
Numerical Analysis for Bed Changes Considering Discharge Variation at the River Confluence Section
 
Eunkyung Jang and Un Ji
River and Coastal Research Division, Water Resources and Environment Research Department, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Goyang-Si, Korea
 
 
 
3
Stable Channel Evaluation with Design Constraints in Cheongmi Stream, South Korea
 
Un Ji and Eunkyung Jang
River and Coastal Research Division, Water Resources and Environment Research Department, Korea Insti-tute of Construction Technology, Goyang-Si, Korea
 
 
 
4
Spatial Precipitation Trends and Effects of Climate Change on the Hawai’ian Hualalai Aquifer
 
Alyssa Hendricks and Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
 
 
 
5
Comparison of point and gridded data sources for use in hydroclimatic modeling of the Khangai Mountain region, Mongolia
 
N. B. H. Venable, S. R. Fassnacht and G. Adyabadam
Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University
 
 
 
6
Using water infrastructure to manage ecohydrologic impacts of climate change in the upper Green River basin
 
Ryan R. McShane and N. LeRoy Poff
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Department of Biology, Colorado State University
 
 
 
7
High-resolution Radar-based QPE and Flash Flood Forecasting for Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
 
Haonan Chen, V. Chandrasekar, Dong-Jun Seo, and Arezoo Rafieei Nasab
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University
 
 
 
8
Implications for riparian vegetation of potential climate-induced changes to flow regime in a Western stream
 
Rosemary M. Records, Mazdak Arabi, Steven R. Fassnacht, Walter Duffy, Mehdi Ahmadi, and Katherine C. Hegewisch
Department of Geosciences and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
 
 
 
9
Comparing Roughness Metrics with Geometric-based Roughness Lengths for a Snowpack Surface
 
Iuliana Oprea, Steven R. Fassnacht, George Borleske, and David Kamin
Department of Mathematics
 
 
 
10
Extreme low flow characteristics of Colorado River: A diagnostic study for an application to water resources management
 
Maryam Pournasiri P. and Indrani Pal
College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado Denver
 
 
 
11
Selected Hydrological Tools for Instream Flow Analysis
    Robert T Milhous
Hydrologist, Fort Collins, CO
     
 
12
Assessing Water Stress Risk in a Variable Climate in the American Southwest
    Spencer Stump and Indrani Pal
College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, Denver
     
 
13
The other side: Non-Engineering aspects of engineering projects in developing countries
    Ryan W. Webb
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
14
CSU’s Water MOOC: What Happens when 13 Professors and 500 Stu-dents Participate in a Tuition-Free, Credit-Free Online Course?
    Glenn G. Patterson, Julie Kallenberger, and Reagan Waskom
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
 
15
Hydropower Energy Simulation Using Mike 11 Model: A Case Study in South Germany's Small Run-Of-River Hydropower Plants
    Frezer Seid Awol and Silvia Matz
Stuttgart University/SMEC International, Tanzania
     
 
16
Improving Water Resource Resilience For Arid Ranchlands: Modeling Hydrologic Response to Best Management Scenarios In Wyoming’s Powder Basin
    Catherine D. Kuhn
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
   
March 26 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 26 10:00 am Erosion and Sedimentation
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  10:00 An Improved Method for Calculating the Manning Roughness Coefficient for Estimation of Stream Discharge through Slot Canyons in Southern Utah
    Jeff Selck, Holly A. Ivie, Steven H. Emerman, Dylan B. Dastrup, Andrew W. Simister, Devin R. Howard and Andrew W. Fletcher
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University
   
  10:15 Erosion mapping and sediment yield of the Kabul river basin, Afghanistan
    Shukran Sahaar and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Review of Sediment Plug Factors - Middle Rio Grande, NM
    Jonathan S. Rainwater and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University,
     
  10:45 Post-Fire Erosion Response and Recovery, High Park Fire, Colorado
    Sarah R. Schmeer, Stephanie K. Kampf, Lee H. MacDonald
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Analysis of variations in channel width and sediment supply on riffle pool dynamics, before and after dam removal
    Andrew K. Brew , Jacob A. Morgan, and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 Road sediment production and delivery: Effects of road decommissioning
    Gabriel Sosa-Perez and Lee H. MacDonald
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
 
11:30
Effects of land use/cover changes on erosion and sediment yield for the N’djili River Basin, Democratic Republic of Congo
    Patrick Ndolo Goy and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
March 26 12:00 Lunch - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydraulics - North Ball Room - Lory Student Center
   

Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches to sediment transport, biogeochemistry, and environmental law
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Professor Martin Doyle
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, 
Duke University

     
   
March 26 2:00 pm Urban Hydrology - Flood Routing - Water Quality
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  2:00 An urban hydrologic and hydraulic model for planning reductions in combined sewer overflows to the Missouri River
    Perrin Niemann, Emily Holtzclaw and James E. Theiler
CH2M HILL
     
  2:15 Expedient Simulation of Flood Extent over Large Land Areas using Digital Elevation Data and Flow Estimates
    Michael L. Follum
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 Impacts of disaggregation on modeled hydrologic responses
    Andrew Augustine, Chris Olson, Jeff Niemann, and Jorge Gironás
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Smart Water Grids and Network Vulnerability
    Olga A. Martyusheva and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 Occurrence of Cyclic Volatile Methylsiloxanes in Surface Waters
    Yu Zhang and Pinar Omur-Ozbek
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 The effects of wildfire retardants on surface water quality
    Brent Morgensen and Pinar Omur-Ozbek
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 Calculating Premium of Water Quality Trading for Jordan Lake, NC
    Marzieh Motallebi, Dana L. Hoag, Mazdak Arabi and Caela O’Connell
Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, Colorado State University
 
 
 
3:45
A Water Quality Model Comparison of Potential Impacts from Bioenergy Crop Land Conversions: Switchgrass versus Hardwood
    Zachariah Seiden and John Schwartz
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
     
March 26 4:00 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 26 4:15 pm Global Hydrologic Issues
   

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

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center

     
     
  4:15 Rainwater Catchment Analysis to Assess Existing and Potential Water Supply for Micronesian Atoll Islands
    Corey D. Wallace and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Recovery of Atoll Aquifers from Marine Overwash Events: Federated States of Micronesia
    Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Water Resources Management in South Korea
    Hwayoung Kim and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 Large-scale Climatic Patterns and Precipitation in South Korea
    Jai-Hong Lee and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:15 Heterogeneity of Synoptic Hydro-Meteorological Conditions Linked With Flooding Disasters in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) Region
    Shada Elalem, Maryam Pournasiri Poshtiri and Indrani Pal
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,University of Colorado, Denver
     
   
March 26 5:30 pm Hydrology Days 2014 ends