2025 HydroSciences Student Symposium Schedule

Tentative

last updated 4/10/2025

Wednesday– April 9, 2025
6:00-8:00��	Dinner for All Student Presenters with Invited Speakers
Thursday – April 10, 2025
8:30-9:00	Breakfast + 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
10:00-10:10	Break
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
10:50-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	Keynote - Diane McKnight, University of Colorado The truth is in the stream: hydrologic hypotheses for designing field studies and interpreting their results
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-1:20	Water Trivia
1:20-1:30	Student presentation: Indigo Heine Reverse Weathering in the Gulf of Papua: Silicon Isotope Compositions of Deltaic Porewaters WINNER! Best presentation by a PhD student!
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 Utility��
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
3:10-4:00	Break/poster setup
3:10-4:00	Posters with Ice cream by Sweet Cow sponsored by the Water Buffs student club
Friday – April 11, 2025
8:30-9:00	Breakfast + 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 Mountain lake responses to global change
9:50-10:00	Break
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 Careers��
10:50-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	Keynote - Suzanne Pierce, University of Texas Infrastructure focused on Interstitial Spaces: How AI assisted workflows accelerate integrated water science
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-1:30	Posters 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 WINNER! Best presentation by a MS/MA/BA/BS student!
1:50-2:00	Student presentation: Naman Kishan Rastogi A Bayesian-Hydraulic Hybrid Framework for Monsoon Flood Warning in the Brahmaputra Basin
2:00-2:10��	Break
2:10-2:40	Invite Speaker - , Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (remote)
2:40-2:50	Student presentation: Santiago Ramirez Analysis of the rainwater harvesting potential for residential irrigation in Colorado’s main urban areas under future climate conditions
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
3:00-3:30	Student Awards
4:30-6:30	Happy Hour - Water Buffs Sponsored Bowling at The Connection, UMC

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2025 HydroSciences Student Symposium Schedule

Wednesday– April 9, 2025

Thursday – April 10, 2025

Invited Speaker - Laura Sunberg, University of Colorado

Keynote - Diane McKnight, University of Colorado

WINNER! Best presentation by a PhD student!

Invited Speaker - Katie Spahr, Denver Water

Friday – April 11, 2025

Invited Speaker - Isabella Oleksy, University of Colorado

American Water Resources Association – Colorado Chapter Career Panel on HydroScience Careers��

Keynote - Suzanne Pierce, University of Texas

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

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

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