17th Annual Hydrologic Sciences Symposium Schedule
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Attending remotely? Details will be emailed 4/11 to .
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | ||
8:30 - 9:00 | Breakfast | Continental: coffee, bagels, fruit |
9:00 - 9:10 | Introduction | Ìý |
9:10 - 9:35 | Invited SpeakerÌý | Mega-drought Demands Mega-changes: Can the Western USA Learn from South Africa’s Response to the Day Zero Drought? |
9:35 - 9:45 | Student presentation Madeline Pernat | |
9:45 - 10:00 | Break | Ìý |
10:00 - 10:10 | Student presentation Jared Collins | Evaluating the Use of Aerial Drones to Provide Early Indicators of Algal Blooms in Wonderland Lake |
10:10 - 10:40 | Invited Speaker | Water SustainabilityÌý In A Changing World |
10:40 - 10:50 | Student presentation Nathan Bonham | |
10:50 - 11:00 | Break | Ìý |
11:00-12:00 | KEYNOTE | The evolution of Hydrologic Forecasting — serendipity from failure and when things don’t quite work out |
12:00-12:45 | Lunch | Pizza for speakers &Ìý |
12:45 - 1:30 | Lightning Talks | Group 1 (see below) |
1:30 - 2:15 | Invited Speaker (virtual) | The Co-evolution of Humans, Climate, Water, Earth and Biota: The Next Chapter? |
2:15 - 2:30 | Break | Ìý |
2:30 - 3:00 | Bingo | Ìý |
| 3:00 - 3:10 | Student presentation | Beaver dams as sites of carbon accretion and sediment storage and implications for river restoration |
3:10 - 3:20 | Student presentation Katherine McCredie | |
3:20 - 3:50 | Invited Speaker | The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Lessons Learned from Colorado River Restoration Projects |
6:00 - 8:00 | Ìý | Dinner for Student Presenters with Invited Speakers |
Thursday, April 13, 2023 | ||
8:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | Continental: coffee, bagels, fruit |
| 9:10-9:20 | Student presentation | Flash floods sequester organic matter at drought-stricken Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico |
9:20 - 9:30 | Student presentation Santiago RamÃrez-Núñez | Understanding how urbanization affects streamflow in the Denver Metro area |
9:30 - 10:00 | Invited Speakers Hillary Hamann and | Impacts of innovative water security solutions on water literacy: A case-study from Aurora, Colorado |
10:00-10:15 | Break | Ìý |
10:15 -10:25 | Student presentation Kevin Rozmiarek | |
| 10:25-10:35 | Student presentation William Johnson | Shifts in riverine biofilms induced by WUI-fires and wastewater effluent |
10:35 - 11:05 | Invited Speaker | Understanding the Wood Regime to Support Stream Management |
11:05 - 11:15 | Student presentation | Understanding Arctic Precipitation: How and When Does it Change in CESM2? |
| 11:15-11:25 | Student Presentation | Optimizing a high-resolution river temperature model for Alaskan Rivers |
| 11:25-11:35 | Postdoc Presentation | Hindcasted bioenergetics modeling of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) within the Kenai River system to inform future climate projections |
11:45-12:15Ìý | Lunch | SandwichesÌýfor speakers &Ìý |
12:15- 1:15 | Water Trivia | Ìý |
1:15 - 2:00 | Lightning Talks | Group 2 (see below) |
2:00 - 2:15 | Break | Ìý |
2:15 - 3:15 | Please check your assumptions at the coastline: 15 years of wading through salt marshes | |
3:15 - 3:30 | Student Awards Codirectors Holly Barnard and Mike Gooseff | Best Student Presentation Best Lightning Talk |
4:00 - 5:00 | Water Buffs Happy Hour | Location |
LIGHTNING TALKS
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Group 1 Wednesday 12:45 - 1:30
Speaker | Title | Time |
| Cole Cochran | Constraining carbon stocks and sediment residence times of geomorphic surfaces in a permafrost river system | 12:45-12:50 |
| Kaitlyn Bishay | Can Remotely Sensed Snow Disappearance Explain Seasonal Water Supply? | 12:50-12:55 |
| Nicholas Guthro | Examining Outdoor Residential Water Use in the Urban Areas of the Colorado River Basin | 12:55-1:00 |
| Dixie Poteet | Non-Perennial Stream Monitoring in a Semi-Arid Rangeland Slated for Development | 1:00-1:05 |
| Joshua Ferry | Grain Size Distribution Analysis of Coastal Deltaic Sediments in Wake of Hurricane Ida | 1:05-1:10 |
| Christina Rorres | Investigation of Barium as a Temperature Proxy in Corals | 1:10-1:15 |
| Natalie Aranda | Tardigrade Abundance and Grazing Habits in the Freshwater Streams of the Dry Valleys | 1:15-1:20 |
| Ìý | Questions | 1:20-1:30 |
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Group 2 Thursday 1:15-2:00
Speaker | Title | Time |
| Tina Geller | Variability of Residence Time in Arctic Back-Barrier Estuaries | 1:15-1:20 |
| Brianna Undzis | Bed Shear Stress on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Shelf: A Numerical Modeling Study | 1:20-1:25 |
| Stacie DeSousa | Using Citizen-Reported Data to Determine Spatiotemporal Trends in Pluvial Flooding in Denver, Colorado | 1:25-1:30 |
| Jacob Kravits | Incorporating Programming Into an Undergraduate Hydrology Course: Lessons Learned | 1:30-1:35 |
| Harry Brodsky | The Well Geochemistry Logger (WGL): An open-source platform for continuous, in-situ groundwater chemistry measurement | 1:35-1:40 |
| Leo Zook | Niwot Ridge Snow Hydrology Intern Research | 1:40-1:45 |
| Ìý | Questions | 1:45-2:00 |
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