10th Annual Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium Water in Motion: The Role of an Irreplaceable Resource nd rd April 2 & 3 , 2015 University Memorial Center University of Colorado Boulder The Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program at CU-Boulder Promoting the quantitative study of water in the environment including its role in geologic and biogeochemical processes, ecosystem functions, and global elemental cycling http://hydrosciences.colorado.edu Contents: 2 3 6 7 8 General Information Symposium Schedule Poster Session Sponsors Keynote Speakers General Information Welcome The Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Colorado Boulder welcomes you to the Tenth Annual Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium. Thank you for joining us in showcasing the diversity of ongoing hydrologic research at and around the University of Colorado. Keynote speakers Dr. Jay Famiglietti, Dr. Sally Thompson, and Dr. Andrew Fahlund will address issues at the forefront of hydrology. Talks and posters from students and invited faculty include projects on measuring and modeling snowpack and soil moisture dynamics, surface water and groundwater flow and depletion, biogeochemical processes, hydrologic engineering, and the politics that have shaped our past and dictate the future of hydrology. Join us as we celebrate hydrologic research. Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program The University of Colorado Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program focuses on quantitative studies of water in the environment. This interdisciplinary program is an interdepartmental endeavor, with participating departments that include Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Studies, Geography, and Geological Sciences. In addition, the program has active partnerships with the Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES), Atmospheric and oceanic sciences (ATOC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), United States Geological Survey (USGS), National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and other research units associated with the University of Colorado Boulder. The Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program is intended for currently enrolled and prospective graduate students in science and engineering. The program is designed to encourage students with a variety of undergraduate backgrounds to enter the field. Enrolled students become members of the broader University of Colorado Boulder Geophysical Sciences Program, which has two specialization options: Solid-Earth Geophysics and Hydrologic Sciences. More information can be found on the Hydrologic Sciences Program’s website at http://hydroscience.colorado.edu. 2 – CU-Boulder: Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium 2015 Abstracts Full-text abstracts are available online at: http://hydrosciences.colorado.edu/symposium/abstract_view.php Symposium Schedule Thursday, April 2, 2015 Time Presenter 8:30 - 9:00 Title Coffee & Muffins/Registration 9:00 - 9:15 Diane McKnight Welcome Address 9:15 - 9:30 Jeffrey Rosen Developing And Deploying A Dynamically Updated Source Water Assessment And Response Tool 9:30 - 9:45 Eric Small Monitoring The Terrestrial Water Cycle With Reflected GPS Signals 9:45 - 10:00 Ben Livneh Establishing Proximal Causes Of Soil Moisture Deficits Accompanying Great Plains Drought Development 10:00 - 10:15 Eryan Dai L-band Soil Moisture Mapping using UAS for Validation of SMAP 10:15 - 10:30 15 Minute Coffee Break 10:30 - 10:45 Theodore Barnhart Sensitivity Of Hydrologic Partitioning To Snowpack Dynamics 10:45 - 11:00 Dominik Schneider Establishing Transferable Sub-Pixel Relationships For Estimating Snow Depth From Remotely-Sensed Snow Covered Area And A DEM 11:00 - 12:00 Jay Famiglietti Keynote address: How The West Was Lost 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch/Poster Session (pizza and drinks provided) 1:00 - 1:15 Karl Rittger Determining Snow And Ice Melt Contributions Using MODIS And A Temperature Index Melt Model In The Hunza River Basin 1:15 - 1:30 Elizabeth Houle Inter-Model Diagnostics For Two Snow Models Across Multiple Western U.S. Locations And Implications For Management 3 – CU-Boulder: Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium 2015 1:30 - 1:45 Garret McKay The Effect Of Temperature On The Quantum Yield Of Photochemical Hydroxyl Radical Production From Dissolved Organic Matter 1:45 - 2:00 Aleah Sommers Inside The Ice: Insights From Thermo-Mechanically Coupled Modeling Of High-Elevation Regions Of The Greenland Ice Sheet 2:00 - 3:00 Sally Thompson Keynote address: Streams, Soils, Strategies And (Stressed Out?) Survivors - Ecohydrology In Seasonally Dry Climates 3:00 - 3:15 15 Minute Break 3:15 - 3:30 Roseanna Neupauer Effects Of Time-Varying Streambed Hydraulic Properties On Stream Depletion 3:30 - 3:45 Ellen Wohl The Brief, Tumultuous Life Of Logjams In Rocky Mountain National Park 3:45 - 4:00 Alia Khan Biogeochemical Cycling Of Black Carbon In The Taylor Valley Of The McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica 4:00 - 4:15 Scott Summers U.S. EPA STAR National Center For Innovation In Small Drinking Water Systems 4:15 - 4:30 Cameron Bracken A Spatial Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Approach For Precipitation Extremes 4:30 - 4:45 Arista Hickman Water Resource Engineering In Colorado: Evolution Of A Complex South Platte Operations And Planning Model Friday, April 3, 2015 Time Presenter 9:00 - 9:30 Title Coffee & Muffins/Registration 9:30 – 9:45 Hannah Miller Water/Rock Reactions In Oman Hyperalkaline Aquifers And Implications For Microbial Habitability 9:45 - 10:00 Amy Piscopo Optimization Of Active Spreading Strategies To Remediate Contaminated Groundwater During In Situ Chemical Oxidation 10:00 - 10:15 Jessica Ebert Evolution Of Dissolved Organic Matter Under A Perennially Ice Covered Lake, Antarctica 10:15 - 10:30 15 Minute Coffee Break 4 – CU-Boulder: Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium 2015 10:30 - 11:30 Andrew Fahlund Keynote address: Why Isn't Water Considered Valuable? 11:30 - 11:45 Jorge Figueroa Water For A Brave New World: Commonsense Solutions For The Front Range Of Colorado 11:45 - 12:00 Todd Doherty New Approaches For Protecting The Water-Dependent Natural Environment In Boulder Valley 12:00 - 1:15 Lunch, Panel Discussion, and Break 1:15 - 1:30 Kelsey Cody Explaining Variability In Performance And Collective Action In Self-Governed Irrigation Systems Under Climate Change: The Case Of The San Luis Valley Of Colorado 1:30 - 1:45 Lauren Tomkinson The Center For Water, Earth Science And Technology (CWEST) 1:45 - 2:00 Kathleen Miller An Approach For Assessing The Drought-Resilience Of Colorado’s Transbasin Water Diversions 2:00 - 2:15 Abigail Watson Incorporating Deeply Uncertain Factors Into The Many Objective Search Process: Improving Adaptation To Environmental Change 2:15 - 2:30 15 Minute Break 2:30 - 2:45 Student Awards and Closing 5 – CU-Boulder: Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium 2015 Poster Session Thursday, April 2, 2015, 12:00 - 1:00 # Presenter Title 1. Sarah Evans Characterization Of Groundwater Storage In The Heihe Headwater Watershed, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China 2. Mehran Ghandehari Density-Based Stream Network Extraction From Digital Elevation Models 3. Alice Hill Characterizing The Role And Controls Of Snowmelt In Alpine Groundwater Recharge 4. Josh Jones Examination Of Storm Cycles In A Rocky Mountain Subalpine Snowpack Using Δ18O Analysis And Seasonal Snow Pit Data 5. Simón Mostafa Photochemical Inactivation Of E. Faecalis In The Presence Of Organic Matter 6. Mark Raleigh Which Forcing Data Errors Matter Most When Modeling Seasonal Snowpack? 7. Carleigh Samson Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on TOC Threshold Exceedances for Meeting DBP Regulations 8. Peter Shellito Soil Hydraulic Properties Modeled From Meter To Kilometer Scales Based On In Situ And SMOS Soil Moisture Data 9. Bill Szafranski Simulation Of Daily Flow Data Using A Stochastic Nonparametric Model (K-Nearest Neighbor) 10. Matthew Weingarten High-Rate Injection Is Associated With The Increase In U.S. Mid-Continent Seismicity 11. Alāna Wilson Age And Origin Of Waters: What Hydrogen And Oxygen Isotopes In A Glacierized Catchment Can Tell Us 12. Qinghuan Zhang Hydrologic Simulations In Two Subcatchments Of The Boulder Creek Watershed 6 – CU-Boulder: Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium 2015 SPONSORS Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering ∙Geography ∙Geological Sciences ∙ Environmental Studies ∙Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research ∙CU Graduate School MANY THANKS TO The planning committee: Alice Hill, Kelsey Dailey, Taylor Winchell, Nora Catolico, Mandi Hohner, Caitlin Glover, Peter Shellito, and Kaelin Cawley Faculty Advisors: John Pitlick and Diane McKnight STUDENT PRIZES DONATED BY 7 – CU-Boulder: Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium 2015 Keynote Speakers Dr. Jay Famiglietti — University of California, Irvine and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jay Famiglietti is a hydrologist, a professor of Earth System Science and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and the Senior Water Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. He was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board, and he was the Founding Director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling (UCCHM) at UC Irvine. Before joining UCI in 2001, Jay was on the faculty of the Geological Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he helped launch the program in climate and the UT Environmental Science Institute. Jay and his team have been researching and communicating about water and climate change — in academics, in business, in government and to the general public — for over 25 years. He appeared as a featured expert in the water documentary Last Call at the Oasis and in CBS News 60 Minutes. Jay is a frequent speaker, an avid writer and a regular contributor to National Geographic Water Currents and to Huffington Post. His research is often featured in the international news media, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Economist, CNN/Fareed Zakaria GPS and network television news. Jay is a regular guest on National Public Radio, BBC Radio and other public radio shows. He is currently working on his first book on the disappearance of groundwater resources the world over. Dr. Sally Thompson — University of California, Berkeley Dr. Thompson is assistant professor of surface hydrology at UC Berkeley. She originally trained as an environmental engineer at the University of Western Australia, and worked for several years as an environmental engineering consultant. Dr. Thompson undertook her doctoral work in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University as a General Sir John Monash Fellow, and worked as a research specialist at Duke and Purdue Universities prior to her appointment at UC Berkeley. She was awarded the 2013 American Geophysical Union Early Career Award in hydrology. 8 – CU-Boulder: Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium 2015 Mr. Andrew Fahlund — Deputy Director, California Water Foundation Mr. Fahlund serves as the Deputy Director of the California Water Foundation, a collaboration of the West’s leading philanthropists, dedicated to advancing a sustainable future for the farms, cities, and environment of California. In this capacity he leads a team of 10, providing grants to leaders in the water field and engaging directly to reform policy, demonstrate innovations, and build the field. Previously, Mr. Fahlund served as Executive Director of Stanford University’s Water in the West program. Water in the West seeks to improve freshwater policy and practice throughout the American West by engaging in interdisciplinary research and convening diverse stakeholders in collaborative dialogue. Prior to joining Water in the West, Andrew served as Senior Vice President for Conservation with the advocacy group American Rivers. Leading a staff of 50, his department was responsible for developing, advocating, and implementing innovative policy and science tools to protect and restore healthy rivers and the communities that depend upon them. Mr. Fahlund’s principle focus was reforming policies and practices affecting the ability of human and natural communities to adapt and prepare for a changing climate. Toward this end, he and his staff published two volumes, “Natural Security” which profiles communities that have embraced promising practices and “Weathering Change,” which outlines ten areas for reform of federal policy. Mr. Fahlund also directed American Rivers’ fieldwork and national policy efforts to modify the operation of dams and remove those that no longer make sense. He chaired the Hydropower Reform Coalition and served on the board of the Low Impact Hydropower Institute. Mr. Fahlund has also focused on federal water resource management and governance with a specific emphasis on interstate compacts and water disputes. He has served on several governmental advisory groups, testified before the United States Senate and House of Representatives as well as numerous federal agencies, and participated in various policy forums and negotiations addressing water policy in the United States. Mr. Fahlund received his M.S. in Natural Resource Policy from the University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment with honors. He previously worked as a water conservation advocate in Colorado, a field archaeologist in the Pacific Northwest, and an instructor in human ecology and field archaeology at Colorado College. When he is not at work, he can often be found paddling or fly-fishing, or exploring various environs with his wife Jill, son Zach and dog Olive. 9 – CU-Boulder: Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium 2015
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