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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

8:30 - 9:00

Breakfast

Continental: coffee, bagels, fruit

9:00 - 9:10

Introduction

Student Steering Committee

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9:10 - 9:35

Invited SpeakerÌý

Mike Kerwin

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

The Relative Importance of Model Structure and Predictor Variables for Water Supply Forecasting in the Southwest US

9:45 - 10:00

Break

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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

Mazdak Arabi

Water SustainabilityÌý

In A Changing World

10:40 - 10:50

Student presentation

Nathan Bonham

post-MORDM: mapping policies to synthesize optimization and robustness results for decision-maker compromise

10:50 - 11:00

Break

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11:00-12:00

KEYNOTE

Thomas Adams

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)

Upmanu Lall

The Co-evolution of Humans, Climate, Water, Earth and Biota: The Next Chapter?

2:15 - 2:30

Break

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2:30 - 3:00

Bingo

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3:00 - 3:10

Student presentation

Huck Rees

Beaver dams as sites of carbon accretion and sediment storage and implications for river restoration

3:10 -

3:20

Student presentation

Katherine McCredie

Stream Water Quality and Soil Health After Compound Disturbance: A History of Forest Harvesting, Severe Wildfire, and Post-Fire Management in a Western Oregon Watershed

3:20 - 3:50

Invited Speaker

Sharon Bywater-Reyes

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Lessons Learned from Colorado River Restoration Projects

6:00 - 8:00

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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

Abby Eckland

Flash floods sequester organic matter at drought-stricken Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico

9:20 - 9:30

Student presentation

Santiago Ramírez-Núñez

Understanding how urbanization affects streamflow in the Denver Metro area

9:30 - 10:00

Invited Speakers

Hillary Hamann and

Meghan McCarroll

Impacts of innovative water security solutions on water literacy: A case-study from Aurora, Colorado

10:00-10:15

Break

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10:15 -10:25

Student presentation

Kevin Rozmiarek

Atmosphere to surface profiles of water vapor isotopes and meteorological conditions over the northeast Greenland ice sheet reveals the role of sublimation to the ice sheet hydrological cycle

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

Dan Scott

Understanding the Wood Regime to Support Stream Management

11:05 - 11:15

Student presentation

Sean Leister

Understanding Arctic Precipitation: How and When Does it Change in CESM2?

11:15-11:25

Student Presentation

Dylan Blaskey

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

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1:15 - 2:00

Lightning Talks

Group 2 (see below)

2:00 - 2:15

Break

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2:15 - 3:15

Alicia Wilson

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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