Water Across Interfaces CUAHSI's Second Biennial Science Meeting Boulder, CO 19-21 July 2010 Acknowledgements CUAHSI would like to acknowledge the contributions, support and assistance from the following organizations and individuals: The National Science Foundation. This meeting is being supported, as part of a cooperative agreement with CUAHSI – NSF/EAR-07-53521. University Consortium for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) for providing facilities and logistical support. In particular Larry Winter, NCAR Deputy Director, for authorizing sponsorship of the meeting and David Gochis NCAR Research Application Laboratory and The Institute for Integrative and Multidisciplinary Earth Studies, for serving as the official meeting host. Additionally, Debbie Griffin, Michelle Rangel and Paula Robinson, for meeting planning and facilities support. The CUAHSI Biennial Program Planning Committee, chaired by Claire Welty, for organizing the meeting technical content. Program committee members included Adam Ward, David Chandler, Jim McNamara, Brian Waldron, Tissa Illangasekare, Juan Valdes, and Mark Hamilton. CUAHSI member institutions for their continuing support. And, the CUAHSI staff, Jessica Annadale, Yoori Choi, Lisa Gray, David Kirschtel, and Conrad Matiuk for their efforts in organizing and managing this meeting. Image credit: background image for program cover and badges - “The Big Splash” by annua22a, flickr.com under creative commons type 3 license BY-NC-SA. CUAHSI Corporate Officers President and Executive Director - Richard Hooper Secretary - Kevin Dressler Treasurer - Brian Waldron CUAHSI Board of Directors Lawrence Band *, Chair Jay Famiglietti • * Carol A. Johnston Lawrence Murdoch º * David L. Freyberg Witold Krajewski Aaron Packman Robyn Hannigan Patricia Maurice Kenneth Potter Tissa Illangasekare Jim McNamara * Scott Tyler Jennifer Jacobs * Claire Welty * members of the executive committee • Past Chair º Chair-elect CUAHSI Members Institutional Members AK University of Alaska - Fairbanks IN Purdue University NY State University of New York - AL University of Alabama University of Notre Dame Buffalo Auburn University KS University of Kansas Cornell University AR Arkansas State University Kansas State University State University of New York - ESF University of Arkansas KY Murray State University Clarkson University AZ Northern Arizona University University of Kentucky Columbia University University of Arizona LA Louisiana State University OH Ohio State University Arizona State University MA Tufts University OK Oklahoma State University CA University of California - Irvine Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. University of Oklahoma Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of OR Oregon State University University of California - Davis Technology Portland State University University of California - Merced Northeastern University PA Carnegie Mellon University University of California - Riverside University of Massachusetts University of Pennsylvania University of California - Los Angeles Harvard University Drexel University University of California - Santa University of Massachusetts - Temple University Barbara Boston Pennsylvania State University University of California - Berkeley MD Johns Hopkins University University of Pittsburgh CO Colorado School of Mines University of Maryland - College RI University of Rhode Island University of Colorado Park SC Clemson University University of Colorado - Colorado University of Maryland - Baltimore University of South Carolina Springs County SD South Dakota State University Colorado State University MI Michigan State University TN University of Tennessee CT University of Connecticut MN University of Minnesota University of Memphis DE University of Delaware MS University of Mississippi TX Texas State University - San Marcos FL Florida State University MT Montana State University University of Texas - El Paso University of Miami University of Montana University of Texas - Arlington University of Florida NC Duke University University of Texas - San Antonio Florida International University University of North Carolina - University of Texas - Austin University of South Florida Chapel Hill Texas A&M University University of Central Florida ND University of North Dakota UT Utah State University GA Georgia Institute of Technology NE University of Nebraska University of Utah University of Georgia NH University of New Hampshire Brigham Young University IA Iowa State University Dartmouth College VA George Mason University University of Iowa NJ Princeton University Virginia Tech University ID University of Idaho Rutgers University (SUNJ) VT University of Vermont Idaho State University NM New Mexico State University WA University of Washington Boise State University University of New Mexico Washington State University IL University of Illinois New Mexico Tech WI University of Wisconsin Northwestern University NV University of Nevada - Reno WV West Virginia University Southern Illinois University University of Nevada - Las Vegas WY University of Wyoming Affiliate Members International Affiliate Members IL Eastern Illinois University AUS Commonwealth Scientific and DNK University of Copenhagen MA Smith College Industrial Research Org. GBR Centre for Ecology and MD Smithsonian Environmental Queensland University of Hydrology Research Center Technology ITA University of Padova NC RTI International University of Queensland University of Trento NH Plymouth State University CAN University of British Columbia JPN Yonsei University NV Desert Research Institute University of Calgary SVN University of Ljubljana OH Cleveland State University University of New Brunswick SWE Swedish Hydrological Council University of Quebec - Institute National de la Recherche Scientifique University of Waterloo Detailed Schedule CUAHSI 2010 Biennial Detailed Session Schedule Monday, July 19 Time Session Room 7:30 – 8:30am Registration & Breakfast Lobby 8:30 – 8:45am Rep. Grace Napolitano (CA-38), Chair, Water & Power Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee Introduction by Jay Famiglietti General Welcome 8:45 – 9:00am Richard Hooper, Executive Director, CUAHSI Auditorium Lawrence W. Band, Board Chair, CUAHSI Claire Welty, Conference Chair, CUAHSI Welcoming Remarks: Roger Wakimoto, Director – NCAR 9:00 – 9:45am Keynote: P.C.D. (Chris) Milly, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory - Global hydrology: riding the interface between yesterday and tomorrow 8:30am – 6:00pm Posters available for viewing 1210 9:45 – 10:15am Break 10:15am – Session 1A – The Atmosphere - Land Surface Interface 12:15pm Moderator: Jennifer Jacobs 1214 10:15 – 10:45 Jay Famiglietti – The human fingerprint on land-atmosphere interactions 10:45 – 11:15 Reed Maxwell – Development of a groundwater-atmospheric model and its use in diagnosing land-atmosphere interactions 11:15 – 11:45 Marc Parlange - Land - atmosphere interactions: field studies and simulations 11:45 – 12:15 Discussion 10:15am – Session 2A – The Groundwater - Surface Water Interface 12:15pm Moderator: Larry Murdoch 1212 10:15 – 10:45 James Kirchner – Hydrological processes revealed by high- frequency chemical dynamics spanning the periodic table 10:45 – 11:15 Judson Harvey – Ecologically relevant measures of groundwater- surface water interactions in flowing aquatic ecosystems 11:15 – 11:45 Aaron Packman – Multi-scale solute and particle transport in rivers 11:45 – 12:15 Discussion 12:15 – 2:00pm Lunch Lobby 2:00 – 4:00pm Session 1B – The Atmosphere - Land Surface Interface Moderator: David Chandler 1214 2:00 – 2:30 William Kustas – Application of thermal temote sensing for multi- scale estimation of evapotranspiration and drought 2:30 – 3:00 Guido Salvucci – The Bouchet-Morton Complementarity Hypothesis: An example of land-atmosphere coupling and an explanation of pan evaporation 3:00 – 3:30 Peter Troch – Hydrological partitioning, vegetation water use and climate sensitivity at catchment scales 3:30 – 4:00 Discussion Schedule - 1 Time Session Room 2:00 – 4:00pm Session 2B – The Groundwater - Surface Water Interface Moderator: David Freyberg 1212 2:00 – 2:30 Roy Haggerty – Surface water or hyporheic transient storage in streams - a false dichotomy? 2:30 – 3:00 Stefan Krause – Hot moments in cold spots - Distributed sensor networks for investigating multi-component reactive transport processes at aquifer-river interfaces 3:00 – 3:30 David Genereux – Coupled water and nitrogen fluxes through a streambed in an agricultural watershed: measurements, patterns, controls 3:30 – 4:00 Discussion 4:00 – 6:00pm Mixer Lobby Poster presentations with author(s) present 1210 Schedule - 2 Tuesday, July 20 Time Session Room 7:30 – 8:30am Registration & Breakfast Lobby 8:30 – 9:30am Plenary – “Reds” Wolman Lecture Auditorium Gordon Grant, Research Hydrologist, USDA Forest Service "Is it a big number or a little number?": Building a societally relevant hydrologic science for the 21st century 8:30am – 6:00pm Posters available for viewing 1210 9:30 – 10:00am Break 10:00 – noon Session 3 – The Land Surface - Groundwater Interface Moderator: Adam Ward 1214 10:00 – 10:30 Brian Smerdon – Attempting to quantify fluxes across the water table: Gleaning some insight from modeling unsaturated flow in semi-arid and sub-humid regions 10:30 – 11:00 Gene-Hua Crystal Ng – Identifying land-surface controls on diffuse recharge: What we can learn by integrating model simulations and unsaturated zone data 11:00 – 11:30 Steven Loheide – The groundwater component of ET and the groundwater subsidy provided to vegetation: Equivalent