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| Name | Affiliation | Lecture Topic | Key Terms | Additional Resources | Intended Audience |
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| Shahryar Ahmad | University of Washington | Water-Energy Nexus: Ushering in a New Frontier in Smart Hydropower Generation through Artificial Intelligence (Ahmad, S.K. and Hossain, F., 2019. A generic data-driven technique for forecasting of reservoir inflow: Application for hydropower maximization. Environmental Modelling & Software, 119, pp.147-165. | |||
| Erin White | National Park Service - Yellowstone National Park | Water Stewardship in the World’s Most Iconic Water Park: Yellowstone National Park; or related topics with a nexus to hydrology in Yellowstone National Park. | hydrology, groundwater, water resources, water quality, environmental engineering, tracer studies, microbial ecology, stream restoration, water rights | Intro level Undergrad eg. Intro to Hydrology | |
| Robia Shaheen | University of the Punjab, Pakistan | Water Scarcity Impacts and Challenges of Water Governance in the world with special reference to Pakistan | Other | ||
| Laura DeCicco | USGS | Using R to discover USGS water data (or other R focused discussions) | rstats dataRetrieval | General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science | |
| Scott Hamsahw | University of Vermont | Using concentration-discharge relationships during storm events to study watershed behavior. Also applications of machine learning (artificial neural networks) in hydrology for pattern recognition and forecasting. | Machine Learning, Erosion Sediment Transport, Concentration-discharge | General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science | |
| Raymond Slade | Certified Professional Hydrologist & Adjunct Professor | Use of dye to trace water movement , Hydrologic extremes in Central Texas: catastrophic floods and severe droughts, Storm rainfall statistics | |||
| Adrian Harpold | University of Nevada Reno | Unexpected snow response to climate, Mountain hydrology under change | |||
| Maram Alrehaili | University of Florida | The use of GIS techniques in hydrology studies | Spatial Spectrum , NDVI,DEM ,MNDWI | General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science | |
| Sabina Khatri | Government of Nepal-Ministry of Water Resources | Sustainable Groundwater Usage in plains or in the mountains and Real-field practice | |||
| Éowyn Campbell | University of Calgary | Surface water/groundwater interactions Isotope hydrogeochemistry Fluvial geomorphology Land use and flooding | Hydrogeology, river chemistry, MBR, water isotopes | Intro level Undergrad eg. Intro to Hydrology | |
| Mesenbet Yibeltal Sebaht | Senior lecturer and researcher | Surface Hydrology, Groundwater Hydrology, Watershed Hydrology, Water balance | Water balance, infilitration, unsaturaed groundwater zone | General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science | |
| Emily Stephan | NYC Parks | Stream Assessments in NYC (forthcoming), Mapping landscape nutrient and denitrification processing | |||
| Anne Jefferson | Kent State University | Stormwater management (esp. effects at catchment scale) (doi: 10.1002/hyp.10736), Isotope hydrology | |||
| Viviana Re | University of Pisa, Department of Earth Science | Socio-Hydrogeology, Microplastic contamination in groundwater (state of the art and future challenges) | General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science | ||
| Jack Wittman | INTERA, Inc. | Simple tools to help solve important GW problems, Water Well Designs - advantages of vertical, angled, horizontal wells | |||
| Niko Wanders | Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Seasonal forecasting of drought (doi:10.1175/JHM-D-18-0040.1), High-resolution water temperature modelling (doi:10.1029/2018WR023250), Global hydrological modelling of drought in general | |||
| Behzad Ghanbarian | Geology Department, Kansas State University | Scale and its effect on flow in porous media | Scale-dependent permeability, Finite-size scaling analysis, Pore-scale simulations, Pore-scale heterogeneity | Upper level / Grad eg. Catchment Science | |
| Manuela I. Brunner | National Center for Atmospheric Research | Regional floods in the United States (Paper under review), Future streamflow regime changes in the United States | |||
| Tim Scheibe | Pacific Northwest National laboratory | Reactive Transport Modeling of Microbial Dynamics (10.2138/gselements.15.2.111), Multiscale Modeling of Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport (10.1111/gwat.12179), River Corridor Hydrobiogeochemistry (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.414) | |||
| Amber S Jones | Utah State University | Quality Assurance and Quality Control of Hydrologic Time Series Data Managing and Sharing Scientific Data: Using HydroShare to Facilitate Publication and Reproducibility | data management, time series, monitoring, reproducibility | Other | |
| Nicholas John Stanislaus Kinar | University of Saskatchewan | Measurement and Monitoring of Environmental Phenomena for Water Resources: Electronics, Systems Science, Teaching and Innovation | electronics; measurement systems; environmental monitoring | Kinar, N. J., Pomeroy, J. W., and Si, B.: Signal processing for in situ detection of effective heat pulse probe spacing radius as the basis of a self-calibrating heat pulse probe, 9, 293–315, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-293-2020, 2020. Kinar, N. J.: Introducing electronic circuits and hydrological models to postsecondary physical geography and environmental science students: systems science, circuit theory, construction, and calibration, Geosci. Commun., 4, 209–231, https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-4-209-2021, 2021. Kinar, N. J. and Pomeroy, J. W.: Measurement of Terrestrial Snow, in: Oxford Bibliograhies in Geography, Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199874002-0225, 2021. |
General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science |
| Jennifer Drake | University of Toronto | Low Impact Development & Stormwater Management (can do overview or specific technology like green roofs, bioretention or permeable pavements), How Disasters Shape Water Resources Policy: The Ontario Exeperience (Hurricane Hazel and the Walkerton Crisis), From Drained cities to Sponge cities the history of urban drainage infrastructure and policy | |||
| Gretchen Miller | Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University | Introduction to Managed Aquifer Recharge (ASR, ASTR, and Infiltration BMPs), All About Phreatophytes: Principles of Groundwater Uptake by Vegetation, link, Hydrology Research at the Texas A&M Soltis Center: Tracking the Water Cycle in the Rainforest, link | General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science | ||
| Sanjib Sharma | Pennsylvania State University | Improving flood hazards estimation and communication to inform decision-making | Hydrology, meteorology, climatology, uncertainty quantification, decision science | Other | |
| Elizabeth Perera | York University | Iceland and its local patchy wetlands (sites) (DOI: 10.1007/s13157-016-0784-1), Juneau Icefield Research Project, Infiltration in Volcanic Soils (DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(06-076)[ORRADOTTIR]2.0.CO;2) | |||
| Nasrin Fathollahzadeh Attar | PhD of water resources engineering, faculty of agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, IRAN | Hydrology and time series (10.3390/app10020571), Machine learning techniques in water resources engineering (10.1016/j.compag.2018.08.029), Hydraulics | |||
| Woonsup Choi | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | hydrological modeling; drought diagnosis; drought propagation | streamflow, hydroclimatology | Intro level Undergrad eg. Intro to Hydrology | |
| Jerad Bales | CUAHSI | Hydrologic Data Collection | |||
| Kamini Singha | Colorado School of Mines | Hydrogeology and hydrogeophysics, broadly | Geophysics, Hydrogeology | Intro level Undergrad eg. Intro to Hydrology | |
| Sam Zipper | Kansas Geological Survey | How and why does groundwater pumping affect streamflow?, Why you should get a job at your state geological survey (better for more of a discussion format than lecture), Corn, Cannabis, and… Kansas? Groundwater’s role in landscape-scale water and ecosystem sustainability (Covers ~3-4 different papers) | |||
| John England | US Army Corps of Engineers | Historical Floods, Paleoflood Data, and US Flood Frequency Guidelines - Bulletin 17C | flood hydrology, hazards | Bulletin 17C Resources | Intro level Undergrad eg. Intro to Hydrology |
| Jakob F Steiner | ICIMOD (International Center for Mountain Development)/Utrecht University | high mountain catchment hydrology, with links to the cryosphere; set up of field monitoring in challenging environments (Himalaya, Greenland); natural hazards in high mountain environments | Cryosphere, Energy balance model, debris-covered glaciers | Upper level / Grad eg. Catchment Science | |
| Thomas Y. Chen | U.S. Technology Policy Committee | Harnessing machine learning using Python for hydrological research | deep learning, computer vision, programming | General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science | |
| Nils Moosdorf | Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research | Groundwater ocean interaction | Submarine groundwater discharge | General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science | |
| Eswar Rajasekaran | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | Estimation of evapotranspiration and soil moisture from remote sensing, Remote sensing for drought monitoring | |||
| Christopher Chini | Air Force Institute of Technology | Energy Water Nexus , Water Footprints of Cities | |||
| Melinda Erickson | U.S. Geological Survey | Drinking water aquifers: Groundwater contaminants from below and above | Arsenic, Manganese, Nitrate, Chloride | Upper level / Grad eg. Catchment Science | |
| Rebecca Barnes | Colorado College | Disturbance and watershed carbon dynamics (10.1021/acs.est.7b04717), Nitrogen in Freshwater Tidal Zones (10.1029/2019JG005164), Importance of Role Models & Mentoring to Broadening Participation | |||
| Jerad Bales | CUAHSI | CUAHSI Tools for Discovering and Managing Data, Climate warming and water resources--what do we know? | |||
| Alexandre Martinez | University of California Irvine | Climate Data Analysis, Hydrogeology, Time series analysis in hydrology | |||
| Darren Ficklin | Indiana University | climate change and the hydrologic cycle, watershed modeling | |||
| Sam Prentice | USDA Forest Service | Applied watershed science and management in National Forests - can tailor topics / format to meet audience | Watershed science, postfire, Q&A | Other | |
| Ashish Mishra | Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India | Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Hydrology | Remote Sensing, GIS, Hydrology, Satellite Data, Digital Elevation Model | Intro level Undergrad eg. Intro to Hydrology | |
| Matthew Siegfried | Colorado School of Mines | Antarctic subglacial hydrology | |||
| Adam Ward | Indiana Univ. | Clean Water Act / Waters of the US, River corridor exchange / Hyporheic Exchange | |||
| Lara Fowler | Penn State | water law & policy (and anything related), groundwater governance in the east, The use of dispute resolution & water (and food/energy) | General audience / GenEd eg. Intro to Environmental Science | ||
| Aditi Bhaskar | Colorado State University | Urban water use + others), Urban water balances (+ others), Streamflow change with urban development (+ others) | |||
| Nicole Gasparini | Tulane University | Managing the deltaic lower Mississippi River | |||
| Julia Knapp | ETH Zurich | Catchment-scale isotope hydrology, short-term water quality dynamics | |||
| Skuyler Herzog | Indiana University | Hyporheic Zone Restoration/Engineering |