2025 HydroSciences Student Symposium Schedule

Tentative

last updated 4/1/2025

Wednesday– April 9, 2025

6:00-8:00ÌýDinner for All Student Presenters with Invited Speakers

Thursday – April 10, 2025

8:30-9:00Breakfast + Introductions
9:00-9:10

Student presentation: Sydney Carr

Investigating the emergence of climate change signals in the Upper Colorado River Basin

9:10-9:20

Student presentation: Colin Gilbert

Validating the Results of a Coupled Daily Discharge and Stream Temperature Model for Southeast Alaska

9:20-9:30

Student presentation: Kaitlyn Bishay

Evaluating the effect of spatial discretization on the predictive ability of western U.S. snow-streamflow relationships

9:30-10:00
Invited Speaker - Laura Sunberg, University of Colorado

Microplastics in the coastal ocean: the interplay between particle properties and flows

10:00-10:10Break
10:10-10:20

Student presentation: Behnaz Mirzendehdel

Simulation of hydrologic processes across transboundary watersheds: the role of delayed precipitation on drought

10:20-10:30

Student presentation: Clifford Adamchak

Mercury Storage, Export, and Process Rates in Two Beaver-Dominated River Corridors in the Colorado, Rocky Mountains

10:30-10:40

Student presentation: Anna Wright

Permafrost Degradation Drives Shifts in Stream Geochemistry and Chemostasis in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

10:40-10:50

Student presentation: Theo Kuhn

Patterns and hydroclimatic controls on stream temperature change in US national parks

10:50-11:00Break
11:00-12:00
Keynote - Diane McKnight, University of Colorado
12:00-1:00Lunch
1:00-1:20Water Trivia
1:20-1:30

Student presentation: Indigo Heine

Reverse Weathering in the Gulf of Papua: Silicon Isotope Compositions of Deltaic Porewaters

1:30-1:40

Student presentation: Maryam Buhamad

Analyzing Urban Rain-on-Snow Events

1:40-1:50

Student presentation: Rachel Middleton

Characterizing Extreme Monsoonal Rainfall Trends with Self-Organizing Maps

1:50-2:00

Postdoc presentation: Zahra Amiri

Evapotranspiration and soil water content estimation of four urban landscape vegetations using UAV-based multispectral and thermal imagery

2:00-2:30
Invited Speaker - Katie Spahr, Denver Water

Urban Water Planning at Denver Water and Building a Research Portfolio at a Water UtilityÌý

2:30-2:40

Student presentation: Nova Robbins-Waldstein

A Call for Coexistence: Evaluating Beaver-Mediated Hydrologic Restoration and Policy Gaps in Colorado’s Disturbed Watersheds

2:40-2:50

Student presentation: Josie Welsh

Large Wood Deposition in Forested River Corridors During Overbank Floods: Insights from Flume Experiments

2:50-3:00

Student presentation: Virgil Alfred

Geomorphic Response to Low-Head Dam Removal in Steep Mountain Streams

3:10-4:00Break/poster setup
3:10-4:00Posters with Ice cream by Sweet Cow sponsored by the Water Buffs student club

Friday – April 11, 2025

8:30-9:00Breakfast + Intro
9:00-9:10

Researcher presentation:

The NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission: Status and Hydrologic Science Contributions

9:10-9:20

Student presentation: Bryan Gager

Using Stream Outflow Data to Hindcast Ice Dynamics for a Subalpine Lake in Colorado

9:20-9:50
Invited Speaker - Isabella Oleksy, University of Colorado
9:50-10:00Break
10:00-10:10

Student presentation: Carter Smith

GRACE and GRACE-FO Observations of Small-Scale Hydrological Signals: Case Study of Surface Water in the Lake Mead

10:10-10:20

Student presentation: Jo Martin

10:20-10:50
American Water Resources Association – Colorado Chapter Career Panel on HydroScience CareersÌý
10:50-11:00Break
11:00-12:00
Keynote - Suzanne Pierce, University of Texas

Infrastructure focused on Interstitial Spaces: How AI assisted workflows accelerate integrated water science

12:00-1:00Lunch
1:00-1:30Posters with coffee and cookies sponsored by the Water Buffs student club
1:30-1:40

Student presentation: Myles Turner

Regression Trees to Model Decisions and Uncertain Factors in a Water Quality Decision Problem

1:40-1:50

Student presentation: Christina Thompson

Modeling Beaver Dam Hydraulics and Pond Sediment Storage at the Watershed Scale in the Central Rocky Mountains in Colorado, USA

1:50-2:00

Student presentation: Naman Kishan Rastogi

A Bayesian-Hydraulic Hybrid Framework for Monsoon Flood Warning in the Brahmaputra Basin

2:00-2:30
Invite Speaker - , Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (remote)
2:30-2:40Break
2:40-2:50Student presentation: Santiago Ramirez
2:50-3:00

Student presentation: Prasad Thota

Modeling space-time variability using multivariate semi-Bayesian hierarchical framework for seasonal total and extreme precipitation in the U.S. Northern Great Plains

3:00-4:00Student Awards
4:30-6:30Happy Hour - Water Buffs Sponsored Bowling at The Connection, UMC