FINAL SCHEDULE

Last updated 4/10/2024.

Zoom link will be emailed to all registered attendees Wednesday April 10.

Presentations will be in SEEC S228 and posters in SEEC C120C.

Corrections or questions? Email us at hydrosymposium@colorado.edu

Thursday – April 11, 2024

8:30-9:00

Breakfast for registered attendees

9:00-9:10

Introduction: Steering Committee

9:10-9:20

Student presentation: Cora Wiese Moore 

Impacts of Vegetation Growth on Flood Stage for an Urban River Restoration Project

9:20-9:30

Student presentation: Nicholas Guthro

Urban Water Dynamics: Outdoor Consumption Patterns in the Colorado River Basin

9:30-10:00

Invited Speaker: Tanya Heikkila

Breaking Down Barriers to Learning for Adaptive Water Governance 

10:00-10:10

Break

10:10-10:20

Student presentation: Sofía Segovia Escafi

Evaluation of WRF-SAAG precipitation and temperature simulations

10:20-10:30

Student presentation: Behnaz Mirzendehdel

Toward a Green Sustainable Groundwater Restoration Method in Central Valley: Simulating Solar Agricultural Managed Aquifer Recharge (Solar-AgMAR)

10:30-10:40

Faculty presentation: Khosro Ghobadi-Far

Groundwater Depletion in Santa Clara Valley Over the Most Recent Drought in California inferred from Sentinel-1 InSAR Deformation

10:40-10:50

Student presentation: Jason Hanania

Investigating Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions using High Frequency Measurements

10:50-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Darcy LectureMatt Becker

How Groundwater Impacts the People and Ecosystems of the South Pacific Islands

12:00-1:00

Lunch for registered attendees

1:00-1:30

Water Trivia

1:30-2:00

Invited Speaker: James Rattling Leaf, Sr.

Water is Life: Indigenous Perspectives on Water for an Equitable Future

PRESENTED REMOTELY

2:00-2:15

Student presentation: Jonwon Lee, Eric Balderrama Sanchez, and

Jorge Santiago Ramírez Núñez

Pre-development streamflow monitoring in a watershed slated for development

2:15-2:25

Student presentation: 

Naman Kishan Rastogi

Bayesian Hierarchical Network Model for Forecasting Daily River Stage in a River Network

2:25-2:35

Student presentation: 

Elizabeth Simon

Characterizing Ocean Flow to the Galapagos Archipelago

2:35-2:40

Break, walk to poster session SEEC C120C (1st floor, off main atrium)

2:40-3:30

Posters in SEEC C120C (1st floor, off main atrium)

5:30-8:00

HydroSciences Program Dinner for Students, Faculty, and Invited Speakers

Friday – April 12, 2024

8:30-8:55

Breakfast for registered attendees

8:55-9:00

Introduction

9:00-9:20

Student presentation: Anna Wright

Snow in a polar desert: the hydrologic and geochemical contributions to streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

9:10-9:20

Student presentation: Tina Geller

Circulation in Beaufort Sea lagoons with varying river and shelf influence: a numerical modeling study

9:20-9:50

Invited speaker: Keith Musselman

The Arctic Rivers Project: A co-produced assessment of the climate sensitivity of Alaskan & Yukon rivers and fish to support resilient communities

9:50-10:00

Break

10:00-10:10

Student presentation: Jared Collins

Evaluating the Relationship between Streamflow and Hyporheic Active Layer Dynamics in Two McMurdo Dry Valley Streams

10:10-10:20

Student presentation: Dylan Blaskey

Mid-Century Alaskan hydrology in transition: how changing precipitation and evapotranspiration patterns are projected to reshape seasonal streamflow

10:20-10:50

Invited Speaker: Martin Hoerling

Future Colorado River Flows for an Upcoming Generation

10:50-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Keynote: Huilin Gao

Reservoir Dynamics in the Context of Hydrology and Water Resources Management

12:00-1:00

Lunch for registered attendees

1:00-1:30

Posters in SEEC C120C (1st floor, off main atrium)

1:30-1:40

Student presentation: 

Lauren J. Magliozzi

Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Investigating the Camp Fire's Impact on Metal Concentrations in Stormwater

1:40-1:50

Student presentation: 

Madeline Pernat

A “Map” of Hydrologic and System Condition Scenarios for Evaluating Water Management Policies in the Colorado River Basin

1:50-2:00

Faculty presentation: 

Joseph Kasprzyk

Can water resources systems analysis provide generalized knowledge to help society?

1:45-2:00

Break

2:00-2:30

Invited Speaker: Andrew Earles

Incorporating Climate Change & Uncertainty into Stormwater Infrastructure Design

2:30-2:40

Break

2:40-2:50

Student presentation: Theo Kuhn

Stream temperature trends in US National Parks

2:50-3:00

Student presentation: Stacie DeSousa

Exploring Spatiotemporal Urban Flood Drivers Using Multisource Data Integration

3:00-3:10

Student presentation: Maryam Buhamad

Climate change impacts and its effect on cold weather storm water management

3:10-3:20

Student presentation: Anna Pauls

Exploring Biogeochemical Dynamics in the Euphotic Zone: Insights from Large Eddy Simulation with Reduced Carbonate Chemistry Model

3:20-3:30

Student Awards presented by HydroSciences Program Co-Director Holly Barnard

1. Best student presentation and poster

2. 2023 George R. Aiken Graduate Fellowship recipients

  • Mackenzie Bowden PhD EVEN
  • Allison Cook MS EVEN
  • Tim Higgins PhD ATOC 
  • Millie Spencer PhD GEOG

4:30-6:30

Bowling Happy Hour at The Connection sponsored by the Water Buffs student club