2026 HydroSciences Symposium Schedule (almost final)

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Thursday – April 2, 2026�� �� �� QUALITY OF WATER
9:00 - 9:30	Breakfast + Introductions
9:30 - 9:45	Invited Speaker Anna Hermes�� Charting Impacts and Recovery Five Years After the East Troublesome Fire
9:45 - 9:55	Break
9:55 - 10:10	Effects of Climate Change on Water and Heat Fluxes in the Shallow Subsurface in Cold Regions Joaquin Sainz · CEAE · MS��
10:10 - 10:20	Residence time in a chain of Arctic Alaskan lagoons Tina Geller · ATOC · PhD
10:20 - 10:30	Simulations of Stratified Aqueous Plume Dispersion Anna Pauls · CEAE · PhD
10:30 - 10:40	Water quality and quantity responses to lawn irrigation and low-impact development in a semi-arid urban watershed. Marguerite Lorenzo · CEAE · PhD
10:40 - ��11:10	Invited Speaker Maggie Spangler Source Water Quality Protection at the City of Boulder: Challenges and Opportunities
11:10-11:20	Intra-year variability in freshwater phytoplankton biomass, toxicity, and water chemistry in North American, mid-latitude lakes Abby Ross · EBIO · PhD Student
11:20-11:30	Every winter is different in the mountains! Conditions under ice in mountain lakes. Katie Gannon · EBIO · PhD
11:30-11:35	Break to Setup Virtual
11:35 - 12:05	Invited Speaker Emily Fairfax Beavers as architects of climate resilience�� virtual presentation
12:05-1:05	Lunch
1:05-1:15	Paired stream - air temperature observations reveal spatial and seasonal dynamics in montane streams Theodore Kuhn · GEOG · PhD
1:15-1:25	Evaluating the Effects of Hydrologic Model Choice on Mid-century River Warming in Southeast Alaska Colin Gilbert · GEOG · MS
1:25-1:40	Invited Speaker Riley Mulhern Filters, filters everywhere: dealing with lead in tap water in large buildings
1:40-1:50	Student presentation
1:50-2:00	Examination of price elasticity of residential water in Colorado Jade Foley-Pike · CEAE · MS
2:00-2:05	Break to Setup Virtual
2:05-2:35	Invited Speaker Khalid Osman Exploring Household Water Quality, Affordability, and Tap Water Distrust virtual presentation
2:30-2:40	Break/Poster Setup
2:40-3:30	Posters in SEEC C120CD - side room of 1st floor auditorium see below for poster abstracts
5:30-8:00	HydroSciences Program Dinner for Student Presenters and Invited Speakers
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Friday – April 3, 2026 �� QUANTITY OF WATER
8:30-9:00	Breakfast + Introductions
9:00-9:10	Advances in decision support to aid participatory Colorado River Basin water management Joseph Kasprzyk · CEAE · Assistant Professor
9:10-9:20	Exploring the Use of Vulnerability-Based Analyses with Classification and Regression Trees in Reclamation's Mid-Term Operational Projections Zachary Carpenter · CEAE · MS
9:20-9:30	Student presentation
9:30-10:00	Invited Speaker Clara Chew Which is better: A Ferrari or a Pack of Motorcycles?
10:00-10:10	Break
10:10-10:20	Do Snow Patterns Repeat? Hydroclimatic Influences on Interannual Snow Pattern Variability Lena Nyblade · ERTH · PhD
10:20-10:30	Changes in seasonal snow and downstream drought predictability: an examination of projected western U.S. water resources Kaitlyn Bishay · CEAE · PhD
10:30-10:40	Fusion of existing and emerging snow observations: machine learning integration of Snotel and lidar data Jordan Herbert · ERTH · PhD
10:50-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	KEYNOTE Speaker Jessica Lundquist Patterns in the Peaks: Understanding Western U.S. Snow Hydrology
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-1:30	Water Trivia
1:30-1:40	Variation in water supply prediction among mountain watersheds of the western US and corresponding differences in moisture pathways Jeremy Barroll · CEAE · PhD
1:40-1:50	Colorado River Streamflow Variability and Changing Causal Drivers: Post 2000s analysis Myles Turner · CEAE · MS
1:50-2:00	A Space-Time Statistical Model for Post-Processing of Daily Precipitation Forecasts Naman Kishan Rastogi · CEAE · PhD
2:00-2:30	Invited Speaker Adrienne Marshall When Does the Water Flow? Connecting Snow, Streamflow, and Water Allocations in the Prior Appropriations Systems of the Western U.S.
2:30-2:40	Break
2:40-2:50	Deciphering rock glacier contributions to streamflow using hydrochemistry and radiocarbon ages Maya McDonough · ERTH · MS
2:50-3:00	Effects of Extreme Storms on Diagenesis and Recycling of Silica in the Mississippi Delta. Claire Puranananda · ERTH · PhD
3:00-4:00	Student Awards �� �� QUANTITY vs QUALITY
4:30-6:30	Happy Hour at Bowling at The Connection Sponsored by The Water Buffs��

Posters Thursday April 2��

2:40 - 3:30 pm in SEEC C120CD (1st floor auditorium)

Evaluating Meteorological Controls on Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Sensitivity and Implications for Urban Heat Stress Cambria Danielski · CEAE · Undergraduate	��
Comparison of human perceived temperature between in-situ and reanalysis datasets in Denver, Colorado Nicholas Gurthro · CEAE · PhD	��
Temperature Analysis for Common Waterwise Landscape Types in Urban Heat Island for a Denver Park Leanna Johnson · CEAE · Undergraduate	��
Preparing for the impacts of Colorado's 2026 Snowpack Angelina Kondrat · GEOG · Undergraduate	��
Evaluating Hydro-Climatic Variability within the Prairie Pothole Region Ayon Saha · ERTH · PhD	��
Hydroclimatic Regime Conditioning of Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts in the Western US Olivia Stanley · ERTH · PhD	��
How can automated observational snow networks be used to accurately determine snow-rain temperature thresholds in the western U.S.? Cayden Stratford, Gillian Gallagher, and Ben Livneh · CEAE · Undergraduates and Faculty	��
Augmenting Flume Experiment Data Using a Convolutional Neural Network to Track Wood in Flow Josie Welsh · GEOG · PhD	��
Monitoring Changing Lag Time and Flow Duration at a Developing Site in Parker, Colorado Halee Workman · CEAE · Undergraduate	��

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