Engineering And The Environment: Informing And Influencing Policies And Projects

Belanger , Laura 1 1 Western Resource Advocates The West is a special place with remarkable natural resources, a high quality of life, and a strong economy that continue to attract new residents. In Colorado our population is projected to double by 2050 from 2010 levels. However our water supplies...

Scaling Nitrogen Effects And Management Issues From Small Watersheds To The Globe: Towards An International Nitrogen Management System

Baron , Jill 1 1 USGS, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory – Colorado State University The alteration of the global nitrogen (N) cycle is one of the greatest global changes on Earth today. Industrial production of synthetic N fertilizers using the Haber-Bosch process is the major reason we have and can...

Disentangling The Importance Of Snowmelt Rate, Timing, And Amount On Runoff Production

Barnhart , Theodore 1 ; Molotch , Noah 2 ; Tague , Christina 3 1 INSTAAR / CU Boulder 2 INSTAAR / CU Boulder 3 University of California Santa Barbara The mountain snowpack is important for runoff generation across the western United States. Near surface warming alters the amount of...

High-Intensity Rain Storm Connects Hillslopes To Channels In A Steep Semi-Arid Catchment

Anderson , Suzanne 1 ; Murphy , Sheila 2 ; Rossi , Matt 3 ; Hammock , Garrett 4 ; Anderson , Robert 5 1 INSTAAR/Dept. of Geography 2 USGS 3 Earth Lab 4 INSTAAR/Dept. of Geology 5 INSTAAR/Dept. of Geology Hydrologic transport in ephemeral streams is inherently limited to...

Seeded And Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE)

Aikins , Joshua 1 ; Friedrich , Katja 2 1 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 2 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ SNOWIE (Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment) was conducted between 7 January and 17 March 2017 in the Payette Basin in west-central Idaho. The overarching goal of SNOWIE is to...

Plot Scale Snowmelt Patterns In A Conifer Forest: Improving Physically Based Model Representation Of Sub-Canopy Hydrometeorology

Musselman , Keith N. 1 ; Molotch , Noah P. 2 ; Margulis , Steven A. 3 1 UCLA, (INSTAAR visting grad. student) 2 CU Geography, INSTAAR 3 UCLA We present the use of detailed canopy structure as measured by hemispherical photographs taken at locations coinciding with 24 ultrasonic snow...

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