20th Annual Hydrologic Sciences Student Research Symposium

Water Quality vs Water Quantity

The HydroSciences Symposium was held in April 2-3 2026 in SEEC S228 and online.

Posters were presented Thursday April 2 2:55-3:45 pm in SEEC C120CD (sideroom to the 1st floor auditorium)

Applications for student presentations and posters were open February 2 to March 23, 2026.

Registration (in person or via Zoom) for attendees is open February 7 through the symposium.

Invited Speakers

KEYNOTE Jessica Lundquist 🦬 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington
Clara Chew 🦬 Senior Scientist at Muon Space
Emily Fairfax 🦬 Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota
Anna Hermes 🦬 Senior Watershed Scientist at Northern Water
Adrienne Marshall Assistant Professor of Hydrologic Sciences & Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines
Riley Mulhern 🦬 Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at CU Boulder
Khalid Osman Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University
Maggie Spangler 🦬 Water Quality Engineer at the City of Boulder

🦬 In honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Student Research Symposium, this year many of our invited speakers are CU Buffs! MS, PhD, PostDoc alums or new faculty!

Steering Committee

Nick Guthro PhD CEAE
Theo Kuhn PhD GEOG
Lena Nyblade PhD GEOL
Nova Snow Robbins-Waldstein MS ENVS
Matt Sabin PhD CEAE
Millie Spencer PhD GEOG
Sierra Weirrens MS GEOL

Questions? Please email us at hydrosymposium@colorado.eduThe HydroSciences symposium provides a great opportunity and friendly setting for students to learn what their fellow students and researchers are doing, both within and outside their sub-discipline.

Abstracts are accepted from graduate and undergraduate students, researchers, and faculty at CU Boulder and other colleges and universities as well as Colorado hydroscience researchers from the community and institutions such as USGS, NOAA, or NCAR.

The 20th Annual Hydrologic Sciences Student Symposium will be held April 2-3, 2026 in SEECS228 and online.

Please join us to share your research or learn from others.

For more information about preparing your abstract or other questions, please email us at hydrosymposium@colorado.edu