El Dia del Agua y La Atmosfera Awards and Prize Winners

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The most recent El Día del Agua y la Atmósfera award and prize winners are listed below.  At the time of award, all students were candidates for degree programs (BS, MS, PHD) in the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences unless noted otherwise. Except for the most recent year, all have completed their degrees and moved on to higher education or professional careers. 

You can read more about the Sponsors of these awards and prizes here. For the list of the annual Super Heroes Awards made to the most outstanding faculty instructors and departmental staff, go here

HISTORY: Awards added in 2023 include the E. Philip Krider Award and The Spirit of Tom Meixner Award.

  • 2024, Patrick Neri
  • 2023, Lauren Cutler, David Morales, Lauren Porter, Hannah Haugen

  • 2024, Lin Ji
    • Machine learning analysis of Martian valley networks: Paleoclimatic implications 
  • 2023, Sidian Chen
    • Pore-scale modeling of PFAS transport in water-unsaturated soils: Air-water interfacial adsorption and mass-transfer processes in thin water films on soil grain surfaces
  • 2022, Amanda Triplett
    • Climate warming-driven changes in the cryosphere and their impact on groundwater-surface water interactions in the Heihe river basin
  • 2021, Chloe Fandel
    • A new tool to assess risk zones and optimize data collection in karst systems
  • 2020, Garrett Rapp
    • Sensitivity of simulated mountain-block hydrology to subsurface conceptualization
  • 2019, Alissa White
    • Water routing through the critical zone: A hydrometric, hydrochemical, and isotopic investigation in northern NM
  • 2018, Antonio Meira
    • Hydrologic assessment of biogeochemical interactions at the sub-meter scale
  • 2017, Alissa White
    • investigating hydrologic and environmental controls on uranium isotopes in a natural mountainous environment
  • 2016, Nicholas Dawson
    • A new snow density model for land data assimilation and modeling
  • 2015, Zhao Yang
    • Urban effects on regional climate, water, and energy demand: A case study in the Phoenix and Tucson corridor
  • 2014, Daniel Ritter
    • Relationship between recharge, redox conditions, and microbial methane generation in coalbeds
  • 2013, Joel Bierderman
    • Compensatory processes dampen impacts of insect-induced forest die-off on catchment water balance and biogeochemical fluxes
  • 2012, Clare Stielstra
    • Quantifying the role of hydrologic variability in soil carbon efflux
  • 2011, Melissa Schlegel
    • Constraining the timing of microbial methane generation in an organic-rich shale using noble gases, Illinois basin, USA
  • 2010, Erika Gallo
    • Controls of monsoonal storm runoff magnitude and quality of urban catchments in the Tucson basin
  • 2009, Ingo Heidbuechel
    • Water transit time controls
  • 2008, Joseph Gustafson
    • Quantifying variations of snow-water-equivalent, chemistry, and water isotopes in a montane snowpack:  Valles Caldera national preserve, New Mexico
  • 2007, Kristopher Kuhlman
    • Development of transient elliptical analytic elements and their direct solution
  • 2006, Mehmet Sarikaya
    • Glaciations in Aladaglar and Sandiras:  new paleoclimatic clues in Turkey
  • 2005, Aleix Serrat Capdevila
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  • 2004, Justin Marble
    • In situ oxidation of TCE NAPL in heterogeneous porous media: 2-D flow-cell experiments
  • 2003, Noah Molotch
    • Assimilation of remotely sensed snow-cover properties into an operational snowmelt model
  • 2002, Dale Rucker
    • A comparison of responses from buried instruments to cross borehole GPR during the advance of a wetting front
  • 2001, Kyle Blasch
    • Application of time domain reflectometry for soil moisture profiling in an ephemeral stream channel
  • 2000, Eric Henry
    • Vadose zone drainage caused by an advancing contaminant plume
  • 1999, James Leenhouts
    • Application of boron isotopes in atriplex canescens for determining fracture flow activity and potential for infiltration at Yucca mountain, Nevada
  • 1998, David Quanrud
    • Efficiency and sustainability of soil-aquifer treatment leading to wastewater reclamation and reuse

  • 2024, Patrick Neri
    • How plant fluorescence is affecting our understanding of carbon assimilation in a changing climate
  • 2023, Yike Xu
    • Evaluating airborne high spectral resolution lidar retrievals of mixed layer heights using dropsonde data from the activate campaign over the northwest Atlantic ocean

  • 2024 First Place, 
  • 2024 Second Place, 
  • 2023 First Place  Starlivia Kaska, Storage-Discharge Relationships In Saturated And Unsaturated Zones In The Landscape Evolution Observatory At Biosphere 2 Near Tucson, Arizona
  • 2023 Second Place  Nandita Parekh, Getting The Dirt On Urban Garden Contamination: Environmental Monitoring In The University Of Arizona Community Garden
  • 2022 First Place  Benjamin West, Implementing reservoir operations in Parflow, a fully integrated physical hydrology model
  • 2022 Second Place  Danielle Rehwoldt, Hydrochemical assessment of rare Earth elements in various formation water types in the Paradox basin
  • 2021 First Place  Diana Hsieh, Groundwater depletion in Willcox, Arizona
  • 2021 Second Place  Danielle Rehwoldt, Investigation of hydrochemical characteristics of rare earth elements in various formation water types in the Paradox basin
  • 2020 First Place  Sheila Solis-Arroyo, Modelling the effects of maintenance on artificial recharge basins
  • 2020 Second Place  Alyssa Kirk, Hydrogeochemical modeling study to evaluate potential flowpaths to surface water baseflow in the Lower Cienega Creek, Pima County, Arizona
  • 2019 First Place  Ambria Dell'Oro, Extent of salt dissolution and brine flushing to the Dolores River in the Paradox Valley, Colorado
  • 2019 Second Place Jihyun Kim, Evolution of paleofluids and hydrochemical processes processes in the Paradox Basin
  • 2018 First Place  Jihyun Kim, Modern fluid indicators of sources and migration of paleofluids in the Colorado plateau
  • 2018 Second Place  Rebecca Stolar, Populus fremontii tree ring analysis and semi-arid water source variability over time, San Pedro river, Arizona
  • 2017 First Place  Neha Gupta, Interdisciplinary dialogue to assess coupled natural and human systems
  • 2017 Second Place  Nicole Weber, Effects of the 2013 Thompson Ridge Wildfire on La Jara Creek’s discharge system through stable isotope analysis
  • 2016 First Place  Rachel Tucci, Using water chemistry and isotopic tracers to constrain regional hydrogeology of the Cienega Creek Basin, south-central Arizona
  • 2016 Second Place  Susan Stillman, Evaluation of 22 precipitation and 23 soil moisture products over a semiarid area
  • 2015 First Place  Marissa Melody Earll (MS), Determining the source and availability of nutrients to microbes in a coalbed methane system
  • 2015 Second Place  Brianna McClure (MS), Quantifying the response of dissolved organic matter to wildfire
  • 2014 First Place  Alissa White (PHD), Quantifying the effects of wildfire on the volume and chemical composition of interception
  • 2014 Second Place  Arien Chavez (BS), A water budget for the lower Colorado river multi-species conservation program at the Palo Verde ecological reserve: A riparian habitat
  • 2013 First Place  Diana Zamora-Reyes (MS), The importance of flood heterogeneity for flood frequency analysis in Arizona
  • 2013 Second Place  Alyssa G. Miller (BS), Investigative use of an auto-sampler to determine the water quality of secondary treated wastewater delivered to a constructed recharge site
  • 2012 First Place  Ingo Heidbuechel (PHD), Tracking variations of catchment storage with stable water isotopes
  • 2012 Second Place  Katherine E. Condon (MS), Quantifying the erosion, translocation and deposition of soil organic carbon following wildfire
  • 2011 First Place  Rose McAndrew (MS), Groundwater contaminant transport modeling in the upper Santa Cruz basin
  • 2011 Second Place  Becky Witte (BS CHEE and Engr Mgmt), Evaluating hydraulic responses of soils to cyclic infiltration
  • 2010 First Place  Phoolendra Mishra (PHD), Radial flow to a partially penetrating well with storage in a confined aquifer
  • 2010 Second Place  Andrew Borden (PHD SWES), Pilot tests of enhanced denitrification using ethanol
  • 2009 First Place  Kyle Brown (MS), A multi-tracer approach to determine the impacts of agricultural irrigation recharge on groundwater sustainability in the Saddle mountains basalt aquifer, central Washington, USA
  • 2009 Second Place  Erika Gallo (PHD), Patterns and controls on the hydrochemistry of monsoonal storm runoff across an urban land use gradient in the Tucson basin
  • 2008 First Place  Caitlan Zlatos (MS), Groundwater sources, flow paths, and residence times in the middle Verde river watershed
  • 2008 Second Place  Erika Gallo (PHD), Spatial and temporal patterns in water chemistry of monsoonal storm runoff in the Tucson basin
  • 2007 First Place  Lisette de la Cruz (PHD), Determination of baseflow inputs in riparian areas along a north American monsoon gradient
  • 2007 Second Place  Caitlan Zlatos (MS), Groundwater sources, flowpaths, and residence times in the middle Verde river watershed
  • 2006 First Place  Leland Fuhrig (MS), In-situ chemical oxidation of 1,1-DCE in a low-k zone using potassium permanganate
  • 2006 Second Place  Andrew Hinnell (PHD), Water content measurement errors associated with using angled access tubes
  • 2005 First Place  Julio Canon Barriga (PHD)
  • 2005 Second Place  Frank Barnes (MS)
  • 2004 First Place  Jesse Roach (PHD), Increasing demands, finite supply, water allocation choices, and tradeoffs in the upper Rio Grande 2003-2004
  • 2004 Second Place  Sharon Desilets (PHD), Monsoon season surface water chemistry response following wildfire: 2003 Aspen fire in Sabino canyon, Arizona
  • 2003 First Place  Gavin Fielding (MS), Water through Lif:  A new technique for mapping shallow water tables in arid and semi-arid climates using color infrared aerial photographs
  • 2003 Second Place  Kevin Dressler (PHD), Differences in SWE values between snow telemetry (SNOTEL) and snowcourse stations in the Colorado river basin

  • 2023 Kayley McCauley, Coupling Of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds To The Surface And Relationships With Aerosol Properties From Activate
  • 2022 Reza Ehsani  Nowcasting nets: Representation learning for satellite-based precipitation nowcasting using convolutional and recurrent neural networks
  • 2021 Liling Chang  Large influence of climate variations on terrestrial water storage declines over the Euphrates river basin
  • 2020 (inaugural award) Genevieve Rose Lorenzo  Fireworks impacts on air quality in Metro Manila Phillipines, during the 2019 New Year revelry

  • 2023 Oral  Mohammad Formani, Higher Frozen Soil Permeability Represented In A Hydrological Model Improves Spring Streamflow Prediction From River Basin To Continental Scales
  • 2023 Poster  Mica Jarocki, Optimizing Vadose Zone Flow Forecasting Using Water Content And Pressure Head Data
  • 2023 Poster  Jacob Smith, An Analytical Modeling Framework For Determining Site-Specific Soil Screening Levels For Pfas
  • 2022 Oral  Mostafa Javadian, Canopy temperature is regulated by ecosystem structural traits and captures the ecohydrologic dynamics of a semiarid mixed conifer forest site
  • 2022 Poster  Adam Stratman, Origins and residence times of water supporting O'Donnell creek cienega in southeastern Arizona
  • 2021 Oral  Mostafa Javadian, Global trends in evapotranspiration dominated by increases across large cropland regions
  • 2021 Poster  Alcely Lau, Assessment of rainfall forecasts based on canonical correlations of satellite remote sensing data
  • 2020 Oral  Jihyun Kim, The hydrogeochemical evolution of basinal fluids in the Paradox basin: Implications for sources, flowpaths, and residence times
  • 2020 Poster  Amanda Triplett, A comparative study of drought response and recovery in two arid and intensely cultivated mountain valley systems
  • 2019 Oral  Melissa Clutter, Robust design of field measurements for evapotranspiration barriers using universal multiple linear regression
  • 2019 Poster  Neha Gupta, Runoff increases due to urbanization in a semi-arid city
  • 2018 Oral  Jack Anderson, Bioswales: benefit or burden?
  • 2018 Poster  Andrew Daus, Helping a town with culvert design and small-scale flooding issues over a roadway critical to emergency services
  • 2017 Oral  Tyler Rockhill, Investigating the relationship between hydrology and biogeochemistry in semi-arid urban green infrastructure
  • 2017 Poster  Furrukh Bashir, Addressing The Karakoram Anomaly through in-situ observations and reanalysis datasets
  • 2016  Oral  Rodrigo Valdés, Multi-decadal 40- to 60-year cycles of preciptation variability in Chile (South America) and their relationship to the AMO and PDO signals
  • 2016  Poster  Brianna McClure, Examining the impacts of wildfire on DOM quantity and quality in a southern Rockies forested catchment
  • 2015  Oral  Colin P. Kikuchi (PHD), Analysis of subsurface temperature data to quantify groundwater recharge rates in a closed altiplano basin, northern Chile
  • 2015  Poster  Daniel Ritter (PHD), Using noble gases to determine residence time of water in carbon-reservoirs: A test case in the Powder River basin, MT
  • 2014  Oral  Xavier Zapata-Rios (PHD), The role of aspect and water flow paths on silicate mineral weathering in a semiarid mountainous region
  • 2014  Poster  Janelle Gaun (BS), Particulate transport of organic nutrients in disturbed forest catchments
  • 2013  Oral  Jenna L. Shelton (MS), Fate(s) of injected CO2 in a coal bearing formation, Gulf Coast Basin: chemical and isotopic tracers of microbial-brine-rock-CO2 interactions
  • 2013  Poster  Bobby B. Chrisman (MS), Quantifying mesoscale soil moisture with the cosmic-ray rover
  • 2012  Oral  Grey Nearing (PHD), A utility metric for data assimiliation observing system simulation experiments
  • 2012  Poster  Gina DeRosa (BS), Predicting regime shifts in flow of the Gunnison river under changing climate conditions
  • 2011  Oral  Ingo Heidbuechel (PHD), Determination of the catchment mass transit time distribution
  • 2011  Poster  Joel Biederman (PHD), Changes in snowpack acculumation and ablation associated with mountain pine beetle infestation
  • 2010  Oral  Matthew Narter (PHD SWES), Measurement and estimation of organic-liquid/water interfacial areas for several natural porous media
  • 2010  Poster  Andrew Neal (MS), A simple conceptual framework for analyzing daily measurements of ecohydrological fluxes
  • 2009  Oral  Candice Adkins (MS candidate), Use of chemical and isotopic tracers for estimating ground-water recharge, flow paths, and residence times in the middle San Pedro basin, southeast Arizona
  • 2009  Poster  Stephen Osborn (PHD), 129 I and Sr isotopes as tracers of large-scale fluid migration in the northern Appalachian basin
  • 2008  Oral  Samantha Treese (MS), The effect of eflluent on stream-aquifer interactions
  • 2008  Poster  Kyle Brown (MS), Ages, sources, and mixtures of agricultural irrigation waters and pristine groundwaters in the Saddle mountains basalt aquifer, central Washington
  • 2007  Oral  Hoori Ajami (PHD), Application of GIS-based tools in ecohydrologic modeling: mobile to desktop applications
  • 2007  Poster  Guillermo Martinez Baquero (PHD), Evaluation and diagnosis of the abcd water balance model using the HCDN dataset
  • 2006  Oral  Jesse Roach (PHD), Integrated modeling for hydrologic scenario analysts in the upper Rio Grande basin
  • 2006  Poster  Jennifer Kostrzewski (MS), Solute flux in paired watersheds, Valles Caldera national preserve, New Mexico
  • 2005  Oral  Matthew Weber (PHD)
  • 2005  Poster  Gretchen Oelsner (PHD)
  • 2004  Oral  Alex Furman (PHD), Laplace-transform analytic element solution of transient flow in porous media
  • 2004  Poster  Gretchen Oelsner (PHD), Quantifying nutrient sources and cycling along the upper Rio Grande
  • 2003  Oral  Orestes Morfin (MS), The use of Pb isotopes to characterize Pb fate and transport in an interrupted stream, Aravaipa creek, southeast Arizona
  • 2003  Poster  Carolyn Dragoo (MS), A GIS approach to modeling surface-ground water interactions in riparian ecosystems
  • 2002  Oral  Anne Huth (PHD), Connectivity of hydrologic inputs and nutrient loading during summer floods in the San Pedro river, Arizona
  • 2002 Poster  Elizabeth Robbins (MS), The role of water speedwell on metal uptake at Pinal creek near Globe, Arizona; and Kristie Franz (PHD), Evaluation of ensemble streamflow predictions for the Colorado river basin
  • 2001  Oral  Kristie Franz (PHD), Evaluation of National Weather Service ensemble streamflow predictions
  • 2001  Poster  Kevin Dressler (PHD), Geostatistical interpolation of point-measured SWE in the Colorado river basin
  • 2000  Oral  Terri Hogue (PHD), Development of a multi-step automatic calibration scheme (MACS) for National Weather Service river forecasting models
  • 2000  Poster  Holly Hartmann (PHD), Evaluation of official seasonal climate forecasts for water resources applications in the U.S. southwest
  • 1999  Oral  Stephey Moysey (MS), Tracing hydrological processes using meteoric 36Cl in groundwater
  • 1999  Poster  Holly Hartmann (PHD), Linkages between climatic variability, hydrologic processes, and vegetation dynamics in the U.S. southwest
  • 1998  Oral  Russell Scott (PHD), Water use of two dominant riparian vegetation communities in southeastern Arizona
  • 1998  Poster  Robert Bruant (PHD), Concentration dependent surface tension for aqueous solutions of alkyl-substituted benzenes
  • 1997  Oral  Michael Winchell (MS)
  • 1997  Poster  Ingrid Padilla (PHD)

  • 2023  Dylan Girone, Brandolyn Baeza, Eden Harper, and Dylan Simpson, Do Models Established In The 1980S Accurately Predict Flowering For Five Sonoran Plant Species Under Current Conditions Of Drought And Warmer Average Temperatures?
  • 2022  Stella Heflin, Bias-adjusted satellite-based and reanalysis products show agreement in estimating north American monsoon season precipitation
  • 2021  Sierra Bettis, Carbon and nitrogen fluxes in green-infrastructure basins
  • 2020  Jacob Ridlinghafer (BS HAS-EHY), Relating pyrogenic carbon accumulation to modern and historic fire regimes: Using estimates of peak flow rate and USLE to predict erosion
  • 2019  Kevin Strongman (BS HAS-Atmo), Comparing different sounding parameters at KTUS to flood reports during the monsoon across southeast Arizona from 1990-2017
  • 2018  Amanda Minke (BS EHY), Using fresh water algae to remove lead from water
  • 2017  Erin Gray (BS EHY), Using water isotopes and SO4/Cl Ratios to investigate the hydrology of wetlands in the Las Cienegas
  • 2016  Anthony Luketich (BS SNRE), Economic evaluation of urban green-infrastructure systems: A case study in Tucson, Arizona
  • 2015  Rachel S. Tucci (BS EHY), Sources of recharge to groundwater in Davidson canyon, southeast Arizona: An isotopic tracer study
  • 2014  Ryan D. Toomey (BS EHY), The analysis of infiltration rates within recharge basins by tilling and varying water depth
  • 2013  Samantha McEntire (BS EHY), Understanding salinity stress in citrus
  • 2012  Brian Scott Sheppard (BS EHY), The effect of wildfire on rangeland sustainability in the San Rafael valley
  • 2011  Dylan Cobean (BS EHY), Comparison and analysis of the 2009 NASS cropland data layer to 2009 field verified crop data throughout southern Arizona
  • 2010  Philip Calabrese (BS EHY), Constraining the hydrogeology of the Willcox basin in southeast Arizona using natural tracers
  • 2009  Damian Gosch (BS EHY), Inaugural Year

  • 2023  Jeffrey Switzer, Influence Of Seasonal Precipitation Amounts On Stream Water Source Contributions
  • 2022  Dylan Girone, A forecast evaluation of the north American summer monsoon precipitation near Arizona in recent years
  • 2021  Matthew Ford, The impact of government dairy subsidies on groundwater levels in Arizona
  • 2020  Rachel Spinti (BS HAS-EHY), A history of reservoir storage and regional development in the continental United States
  • 2019  Tiffani Cáñez (BS EHY), Investigation of the extent of fresh and brackish groundwater to inform better management of decreasing groundwater levels in the Willcox Basin, SE Arizona
  • 2018  Samantha Swartz (BS EHY), Evaluating rainwater-harvesting basin curb-cuts: how voluteer maintenance impacts infiltration
  • 2017  Mekha Pereira (BS EHY), A study of improved quality effluent discharged from Agua Nueva Water Reclamation Facility to the Lower Santa Cruz River
  • 2016  David Reyes (BS EHY), An improved resolution, spatially-distributed global model of sediment discharge and forecasting under future climate scenarios
  • 2015  Laura Nakolan (BS EHY), Response of infiltration rate to improvements in effluent quality at the Sweetwater Recharge Facility
  • 2014  Alyssa G. Miller (BS EHY), Water quality changes at Southern Avra Valley Storage and Recharge Project (SAVSARP) show higher than expected concentrations of total hardness as a result of cation exchange, mineral dissolution and precipitation
  • 2013  Chelsea Kestler (BS EHY), Arsenic biomineralization and the role of sulfate in landfill settings
  • 2012  Adam M. Karczynski (BS EHY), Inaugural Year, COSMOS neutron data and hydraulic conductivity determination

Virtual conference and corporate awards were first made at the first virtual conference in 2020 necessitated by the Covid pandemic. These awards continue to be made at the hybrid conferences--now virtual and in-person--held since that time.

Arizona Hydrological Society-Tucson Chapter (Oral)

  • 2023 Hector Leopoldo Venegas Quinones, Estimating Groundwater Levels From Satellite Data And Machine Learning: A Novel Approach For Water Management
  • 2022 Diana Hsieh, Using isotopes and modeling to determine effects of rock dams on infiltration
  • 2021 Sidian Chen, A pore-network-based upscaling framework for the thermodynamic phase change behaviors of multicomponent fluids in nanoporous media

Arizona Hydrological Society, Tucson Water, Michael Block, & Michael Carpenter (Poster)

  • 2020 William Duy, Using machine learning to predict saturated hydraulic conductivity

Geosystems Analysis, Inc. (Poster)

  • 2023 Danielle Tadych, Exploring Groundwater Drought Response Through The Lens Of Groundwater Regulation And Surface Water Availability In Arizona
  • 2022 Chandler Noyes, Using argon-39, noble gases, and water stable isotopes to infer changes in recharge to the semi-arid Tucson basin (Arizona, USA) over the Holocene
  • 2021 Davian Peterson, Hydrologic impacts of historic atmospheric rivers on the Rillito creek watershed in Tucson, Arizona
  • 2020 Sidian Chen, Pore-scale modeling of thermodynamic phase change behaviors of multicomponent fluids in nanoporous media.

Matrix New World Engineering (Oral)

  • 2023 Lourdes Mendoza-Fierro, Evaluation Of Extreme Precipitation Forecasts Using Convective-Permitting Modeling To Improve Streamflow Simulations In Tarapacá Region, Chile
  • 2022 Sidian Chen, Pore-scale modeling of multiphase fluid flow, multispecies transport, and phase change in nanoporous materials
  • 2021 Sunyi Yuan, Modeling atmospheric dispersion of pesticide particles in Yuma county
  • 2020 Chloe Fandel, Representing uncertainty with diverse model ensembles: A test case in an alpine karst system.

Pima County Environmental Quality (Oral & Poster)

  • 2023 (oral) Dalia Portillo, A Lens Into The Past: Using Hec-Ras To Visualize Probable Paleoflood Conditions In Osuga Valles, Mars
  • 2023 (poster) Cassidy Soloff, Characterization Of Atmospheric Variables Across The Northwest Atlantic: Analysis Of Transit Flights During The Nasa Activate Mission
  • 2022 (oral) Camilo Salcedo, Near-optimal selection of multiconfirmatory sampling locations in water distribution systems
  • 2022 (poster) Lauren Cutler, Re-evaluation of low cloud amount relationships with lower-tropospheric stability and estimated inversion strength
  • 2021 (oral) Reza Ehsani, Assessment of very high-resolution radiometer (AVHRR) for snowfall retrieval in high latitudes using CloudSat and machine learning
  • 2021 (poster) Danielle Tadych, Exploring the impact of groundwater regulation and surface water availability on groundwater levels and pumping in Arizona
  • 2020 (oral) Mostafa Javadian, Drought effect on dust storm severity and predictability
  • 2020 (poster) Breanna Claybourne, Using hydrologic models in the decision-making process

Pima County Flood Control District (Oral)

  • 2023 Sam Dahl, The Influence Of Mid-Latitude Troughs On The Predictability Of Rapidly Intensifying (Ri) Hurricanes In The Gulf Of Mexico
  • 2022 Patricia Puente, Connections between low frequency streamflow extremes and nonlinear dynamics in the upper Colorado basin
  • 2021: Luis De La Fuente, Using big-data to develop catchment-scale hydrological models for Chile
  • 2020: Alexa Marcovecchio, Impacts of melt season precipitation on early and late Arctic sea ice melt onset.

Salt River Project (Oral)

  • 2023 Gillian Noonan, Numerical Investigation Of Mining-Induced, Hydromechanically-Coupled Responses For A Nevada Mine Site
  • 2022 Luis de la Fuente, Hydro-LSTM: A hydrological approach to LSTM machine learning based modeling
  • 2021 Jihyun Kim, Activation of deep groundwater flow in the Paradox basin
  • 2020 Sean Schrag-Toso, Isotopes, geochemistry, citizen science, and local partnerships as tools to build upon a fractured understanding of the hydrology of the Patagonia mountains

Stanley N. Davis Award from Peter Mock Groundwater Consulting, Inc. (Poster)

  • 2023 Ryan Russell, Investigating The Use Of Field Lysimeter Data In A Mathematical Model Simulating The Fate And Transport Of Per- And Polfluoralkyl (Pfas) Substances In The Vadose Zone
  • 2022 Xenia De Gracia, Conceptual model of mine tailings columns for reactive contaminant transport experiments
  • 2021 Amanda Triplett, Exploring the impacts of warming induced cryosphere changes on surface and groundwater storage in the Heihe river basin
  • 2020 Jen Steyaert, Developing a national framework for historic reservoir operations

Tucson Water (Poster)

  • 2023 Abigail Kahler, Tailoring Hydrologic Modeling For Improved Water Resources Decision Support: An Approach To Ensemble Modeling
  • 2022 Danielle Tadych, Exploring connections between groundwater storage and management settings using observations from groundwater models and GRACE data in Arizona

Tucson Water, Michael Carpenter, HAS Department (Poster)

  • 2021 Chandler Noyes, Fossil groundwaters: Relict of past climates or flow system size?

Vaisala (Poster)

  • 2020 Madeleine Holland, Snowpack drivers and trends over the contiguous United States