2025 HydroSciences Student Symposium Schedule
Tentative
last updated 4/1/2025
Wednesday– April 9, 2025 | |
6:00-8:00Ìý | 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 |
9:20-9:30 | Student presentation: Kaitlyn Bishay |
9:30-10:00 | Invited Speaker - Laura Sunberg, University of ColoradoMicroplastics in the coastal ocean: the interplay between particle properties and flows |
10:00-10:10 | Break |
10:10-10:20 | Student presentation: Behnaz Mirzendehdel |
10:20-10:30 | Student presentation: Clifford Adamchak |
10:30-10:40 | Student presentation: Anna Wright |
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 |
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 |
1:30-1:40 | Student presentation: Maryam Buhamad |
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 |
2:00-2:30 | Invited Speaker - Katie Spahr, Denver WaterUrban Water Planning at Denver Water and Building a Research Portfolio at a Water UtilityÌý |
2:30-2:40 | Student presentation: Nova Robbins-Waldstein |
2:40-2:50 | Student presentation: Josie Welsh |
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: |
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 |
9:50-10:00 | Break |
10:00-10:10 | Student presentation: Carter Smith |
10:10-10:20 | Student presentation: Jo Martin |
10:20-10:50 | American Water Resources Association – Colorado Chapter Career Panel on HydroScience CareersÌý |
10:50-11:00 | Break |
11:00-12:00 | Keynote - Suzanne Pierce, University of TexasInfrastructure 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 |
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) |
2:30-2:40 | Break |
2:40-2:50 | Student presentation: Santiago Ramirez |
2:50-3:00 | Student presentation: Prasad Thota |
3:00-4:00 | Student Awards |
4:30-6:30 | Happy Hour - Water Buffs Sponsored Bowling at The Connection, UMC |