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Koch , Joshua 1 ; McKnight , Diane 2 ; Striegl , Robert 3 ; Runkel , Robert 4 ; Wickland , Kimberly 5 ; Ewing , Stephanie 6 1 USGS 2 INSTAAR 3 USGS 4 USGS 5 USGS 6 USGS The balance between runoff and storage is critical to...

Keen , Richard A. 1 1 University of Colorado Although the Colorado Front Range can be considered a semi-arid climate zone, it is subject to occasional large snowfalls. Â鶹ӰԺ once every two years, on average, a single storm will leave one to two meters of new snow in the foothills...

Jones , Tyler R. 1 ; White , James 2 1 Environmental Studies & INSTAAR, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ 2 Geological Sciences & INSTAAR, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Ice cores at Siple Dome, West Antarctic receive the majority of their precipitation from Pacific Ocean moisture sources. Pacific climate patterns, particularly the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, affect the...

Hellmuth , Molly 1 1 International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at the Earth Institute of Columbia University Achieving water security is a major challenge of the century, particularly in developing country contexts. Population growth and economic development are significantly increasing water demands; while decreasing water quality is...

Gabor , Rachel 1 ; Russell , Nina 2 ; Blum , Alex 3 ; Eilers , Katie 4 ; McKnight , Diane 5 1 INSTAAR and Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado, Â鶹ӰԺ, CO, 80302, USA 2 INSTAAR and Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado, Â鶹ӰԺ, CO, 80302, USA...

Dozier , Jeff 1 1 Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California at Santa Barbara In the 21st century, a crucial question for mountain snowpacks worldwide is: How do we reliably predict snowmelt runoff and associated demand as climate changes, populations grow, land use evolves, and...

Doesken , Nolan 1 1 Colorado State Climatologist and Senior Research Associate, Director, Fort Collins Weather Station Underlying most work in hydrologic science is a basic knowledge of climatic characteristics of precipitation -- the quantity, frequency, intensity, duration of precipitation as well as information on how precipitation varies geographically, seasonally,...

Dairaku , Koji 1 ; Pielke Sr. , Roger A 2 ; Beltran-Przekurat , Adriana B 3 ; Iizuka , Satoshi 4 ; Sasaki , Wataru 5 1 CIRES, University of Colorado 2 CIRES, University of Colorado 3 CIRES, University of Colorado 4 National Research Institute for Earth Science and...

Cullis , James D 1 1 University of Colorado Previous studies in Â鶹ӰԺ Creek, CO, have shown that maximum shear stress is a significant factor in determining the abundance of the nuisance diatom Didymosphenia geminata. The aim of this study was to investigate this observation further in order to determine...

Crouch , Caitlin 1 ; Todd , Andrew 2 ; McKnight , Diane 3 ; Ling , Alison 4 ; Robinson , Patrick 5 1 INSTAAR, CU Environmental Studies Graduate Program 2 INSTAAR 3 INSTAAR, CU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 4 Graduate Student, CU Department of Civil and...