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Wednesday– April 9, 2025

Thursday – April 10, 2025

Student presentation: Sydney Carr

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

Student presentation: Colin Gilbert

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

Student presentation: Kaitlyn Bishay

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

Invited Speaker - Laura Sunberg, University of Colorado

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

Student presentation: Behnaz Mirzendehdel

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

Student presentation: Clifford Adamchak

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

Student presentation: Anna Wright

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

Student presentation: Theo Kuhn

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

Keynote - Diane McKnight, University of Colorado

The truth is in the stream: hydrologic hypotheses for designing field studies and interpreting their results

Student presentation: Indigo Heine

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

WINNER! Best presentation by a PhD student!

Student presentation: Maryam Buhamad

Analyzing Urban Rain-on-Snow Events

Student presentation: Rachel Middleton

Characterizing Extreme Monsoonal Rainfall Trends with Self-Organizing Maps

Postdoc presentation: Zahra Amiri

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

Invited Speaker - Katie Spahr, Denver Water

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

Student presentation: Nova Robbins-Waldstein

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

Student presentation: Josie Welsh

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

Student presentation: Virgil Alfred

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

Friday – April 11, 2025

Researcher presentation:

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

Student presentation: Bryan Gager

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

Invited Speaker - Isabella Oleksy, University of Colorado

Mountain lake responses to global change

Student presentation: Carter Smith

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

Student presentation: Jo Martin

American Water Resources Association – Colorado Chapter Career Panel on HydroScience CareersÌý

Keynote - Suzanne Pierce, University of Texas

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

Student presentation: Myles Turner

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

Student presentation: Christina Thompson

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

WINNER! Best presentation by a MS/MA/BA/BS student!

Student presentation: Naman Kishan Rastogi

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

Invite Speaker - , Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (remote)

Student presentation: Santiago Ramirez

Analysis of the rainwater harvesting potential for residential irrigation in Colorado’s main urban areas under future climate conditions

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