Wednesday, November 13, 2024 11:15am to 12:15pm
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1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder, CO 80309
https://www.colorado.edu/ceae/news/boase-seminars/boase-hydrologic-sciences-and-water-resources-engineering-seminar-seriesPresenter: Fabian Nippgen, associate professor, watershed hydrology, University of Wyoming
Topic: Snow, Models, Agriculture: Exploring Western Hydrology from Mountains to Rangelands
Abstract
Snowmelt is the dominant hydrologic driver across the Western US, providing communities, agriculture, and industry with critical water resources. Regions and entire states-like Wyoming-that source most of their water from surface waters are especially vulnerable to fluctuations in water supply from the mountainous regions. Predicting streamflow from snow is crucial for allocating water resources and meeting compact obligations but has proven challenging due to the high degree of spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation and melt. There is a need for better understanding how snow accumulates and melts in the mountains and how that melt water is translated to water in the streams and rivers. I will provide examples from modeling and empirical studies that highlight a range of water resources research, from structural model and climate forcing data uncertainties to incorporating water withdrawals in hydrologic models. I will further introduce the WyACT project, aimed at evaluating climate change effects on both the biophysical and socioeconomic environment in Wyoming’s tri-basin headwater region.
Bio
I graduated with a degree in hydrology from Freiburg University in Germany and then moved to Montana for graduate work at Montana State. There, I realized how appealing open spaces with few people are. After graduating, I moved to the East Coast for a postdoc at Duke University, where it’s similarly crowded as in Europe. At the end of 2017, I moved back west and began working at the University of Wyoming in Laramie (where I hang out with my family and enjoy the great recreational activities Wyoming has to offer).
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