Schedule

16th Annual Hydrologic Sciences Symposium

April 7-8, 2022

SEEC 120C and Zoom

All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).

Please contact HydroSymposium@colorado.edu for schedule corrections or questions.

Thursday April 7, 2022

Time

Presenter

Title

8:15-8:45  

 

breakfast of coffee, bagels and fruit

8:45-9:00

Student Organizers: Dylan Blaskey, Devon Dunmire, Natasha Harvey, Taylor Johaneman,Anna Wright

Welcome and Introduction

9:00-10:00

Keynote Speaker Danica Schaffer-Smith

Enhancing watershed resilience through nature-based solutions and adaptive infrastructure management

10:00-10:30

Invited Speaker Nicole Rowan

Protecting and restoring water quality in Colorado through the extremes

10:30-10:45  

 

break

10:45-11:00

Student Presentation Tessa Gorte

Modeling satellite-based Antarctic melt leads to higher Southern Ocean sea ice extent by 2100

11:00-11:30

Invited Speaker Vicki Scharnhorst 

Resilient Infrastructure in a VUCA World

11:30-12:00

Invited Speaker Sara Sanchez

High resolution paleoclimate archives and historical changes in the tropical hydrological cycle

12:00-12:30

 

lunch with Illegal Pete's burritos

12:30-1:30

Invited Speakers  Katherine Lininger, Nicole Rowan, Joel Sholtes & Steve Wondzell

Facilitated by Student Organizer Anna Wright

Career Panel 

1:30-1:45 break

1:45-2:00

Student Presentation Tim Higgins

Using Deep Learning for a High-Precision Analysis of Atmospheric Rivers in a High-Resolution Large Ensemble Climate Dataset

2:00-2:15Student Presentation Noah CampbellFirst Users Areas and Climate-Water Coupling in Western US Basins

2:15-2:45

Invited Speaker Joel Sholtes

How does stream corridor restoration influence local water and thermal energy fluxes?

2:45-3:00

Student Presentation Vanessa Gabel

Rivers and Rocks: A New Model for River Profile Evolution with Heterogeneous Substrate and Bedload Transport

3:00-3:30

 

break

3:30-4:00

Invited Speaker Steve Wondzell

(remote from Oregon)

Riparian restoration strategies to mitigate future changes in climate – or – How long does it take to grow a tree? 

4:00-4:15Student Presenter Lauren Magliozzi and Lane AllenMonitoring the Recovery of the Coal Creek Ecosystem Following the Marshall Fire
4:15-4:30Student Presentation Margaret DiGiornoResolving Flow-Dependent Geochemical Indicators of Groundwater Exchange in the Columbia River, WA

4:30-5:00

Invited Speaker Willem Vervoort 

(remote from Sydney, Australia)

Catchment modelling and data science for sustainable catchment management

Friday April 8, 2022

8:30-9:00 breakfast of coffee, bagels and fruit
9:00-9:30Invited Speaker Melissa Foster

Developing a semi-automated method to estimate reservoir sedimentation at ~30,000 reservoirs across the United States

9:30-9:45

Student Presentation Parth Modi

Winner: Best Presentation Award!

 Investigating the role of snow water equivalent on streamflow predictability during drought

9:45-10:00Student Presentation Eric KennedyReevaluation of snowmelt and phenological controls of carbon sequestration at Niwot Ridge, CO
10:00-10:30Invited Speaker Katherine Lininrger 
10:30-10:45 break
10:45-11:00

Student Presentation Kate Boden

(virtual)

Water in the Age of the Megafire
11:00-11:15Student Presentation Ethan BurnsQuantifying Dynamic Rock Moisture and its Role in Supporting Transpiration in a Montane Catchment of the Colorado Front Range.
11:15 - 11:30Student Presentation Huck Rees

Assessing managed flood retreat and community relocation as a flood mitigation and climate adaptation measure in small communities

11:30 - 12:00 Invited Speaker Ben LivnehLiving in the Extreme: Snow Drought Impacts and the Future of Water Supply Predictability in the Western US
12:00 - 1:00

See list of student presenters below

Lightning Talks
1:00 - 1:15

 

lunch break with Cosmos Pizza

1:15-1:45Led by Student Organizer Natasha HarveyWater Trivia
1:45-2:00Student Presentation Christa Torrens

N:P Ratios and Uptake Dynamics in Intermittent Antarctic Streams

2:00-2:30Invited Speaker Adrianne KroepschThe Puzzle of Cloud Seeding in the American West: Understanding How Weather Modification Became a Response to Aridity 
2:30-3:00

Invited Speaker  Michelle Walvoord

Observing and Modeling the Expansion of Lateral Talik Development in Permafrost Landscapes
3:00 - 3:15 

break

3:15 - 3:30 Hydrologic Sciences Program Co-directors Holly Barnard & Mike GooseffStudent Awards
3:30 - 4:30Keynote Speaker Melisa DiazThe dynamic nature of glacial meltwater in polar regions and its influence on resource limited systems

Student Lightning Talks 

12:00-1:00 Friday April 8

#start timePresenterTitle
 12:00Student Organizer Dylan BlaskeyIntroduction
112:05David WoodsonLong Lead Forecasting of Spring Flows in the Colorado River Using Random Forest
212:10T.R. HeydmanStreamflow Resulting from Forest Disturbance
312:15Mykael PinedaPonderosa Pine Regeneration for the Future of Local Hydrology
412:20Reece Gregory

Examining Spatial Differences in Soil Solute Chemistry in a Semi-arid Montane Catchment, Manitou Experimental Forest, Colorado

512:25

Jessica Rush

Winner: Best Lightning Talk Award!

Understanding the Role of Microbial Organic Matter Reduction to Carbon Biogeochemistry in Northern Peatlands
612:30Joshua MaussArctic Ocean planktonic foraminifera during MIS 5: Understanding Arctic Amplification of climate change from the palaeoclimatological record
712:35Kiersten MaxwellDiatom Populations in Cryoconite Holes in McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
812:40Josie ArcuriExploring ice’s role in river bank migration through permafrost
912:45Elan Rochell-Share, Hogan Warlock, Robert Jonsson-Castellanos, James Hoover, Eric KennedyEvaluating the impact of wind on snow accumulation at Niwot Ridge, CO