Abstract
- Integrated water resources planning is an example of a large-scale, long-term infrastructure planning problem that is impacted by climate change and multiple potential design alternatives and goals. Traditionally, simulation models were used to
- The City of Boulder is responsible for supplying reliable, high-quality treated water to 120,000 customers. The reliability and quality of the water supply result from short-term operational decisions, long-term planning efforts and policy
- Profound changes in hydrology are occurring in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The Yukon River Watershed, covering 330,000 square miles in Alaska and western Canada, is no exception. Since 2006 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the
- Urban development leads to changes in stormflow and baseflow, although the magnitude of these changes varies by city. This presentation will examine trends in streamflow with urbanization at the national scale (across the United States) and in
- Over a billion people globally depend on snowmelt runoff to meet water demands, predominantly from snow that accumulates annually in mid-latitude mountains. Decades of observations show that this natural reservoir is at risk; snow water equivalent
- Poised at the interface of rivers, ocean, atmosphere and dense human settlement, estuaries are driven by a large array of natural and anthropogenic forces. Long-term study of San Francisco Bay illustrates responses to five common agents of change
- Reservoirs are typically considered too young and dynamic to validate paleolimnological analysis (Filstrup et al. 2010). Using biological and mineralogical proxies, three shifts were identified in the history of Possum Kingdom Lake, successfully
- Groundwater supports streamflow and ecosystems in semi-arid, montane catchments, which are environments considered particularly sensitive to climate change. Despite its importance, the relationship between groundwater and streamflow is not well
- In the McMurdo Dry Valleys [MDV], Antarctica, little is known about concentration-discharge (C-q) relationships for biological solutes such as DOC. Because MDV streams are low in organic carbon and experience large diel fluctuations in discharge (q)
- The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) rapid mass loss is primarily driven by an increase in meltwater runoff, which highlights the importance of understanding the formation, evolution and impact of meltwater features on the ice sheet. Buried lakes are