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Rosati , Antonia 1 1 Santa Monica College After the devastating December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, California and other coastal states began installing "Tsunami Warning Zone" and "Evacuation Route" signs at beaches and major access roads. The geography of the Los Angeles area may not be conducive to signage alone...

Reche , Isabel 1 ; Mladenov , Natalie 2 ; Ortega , Eva 3 2 Presenting Author 1 Universidad de Granada 2 INSTAAR, University of Colorado 3 Laboratoire d’Oceanographie Microbienne de Banyuls The conversion of labile dissolved organic matter (DOM) into refractory DOM has consequences for the maintenance of DOM...

Norvell , Audrey S 1 ; Ryan , Joseph Nolte 2 ; McKnight , Diane M 3 ; Ren , Jianhong 4 1 Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. 2 Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. 3 Civil,...

McIntyre , Heather M 1 ; Barry , Roger G 2 1 CU-Boulder 2 CU-Boulder Snow covered area (SCA) represents the largest single component of the cryosphere that fluctuates seasonally. For the mountain west, the distribution and storage of snow is largely within the alpine and subalpine environments known to...

Lowry , Liz 1 1 Leeds School of Business and Environmental Studies Program, CU-Boulder The Colorado River supplies water and electricity to about 27 million people throughout the American Southwest and provides irrigation for nearly 4 million acres of land in the region. Through diligent water management practices, supported by...

Langston , Abigail L 1 ; Tucker , Gregory E 2 1 University of Colorado 2 University of Colorado The processes that form the weathered bedrock profile in mountain catchments are not well understood and directly influence the evolution of mountain topography. Our study focuses on the landscape evolution of...

Jones , Tyler R. 1 ; White , James 2 1 Environmental Studies & INSTAAR, CU-Boulder 2 Geological Sciences & INSTAAR, CU-Boulder Ice cores at Siple Dome, West Antarctic receive the majority of their precipitation from Pacific Ocean moisture sources. Pacific climate patterns, particularly the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, affect the...

Crouch , Caitlin 1 ; Todd , Andrew 2 ; McKnight , Diane 3 ; Ling , Alison 4 ; Robinson , Patrick 5 1 INSTAAR, CU Environmental Studies Graduate Program 2 INSTAAR 3 INSTAAR, CU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 4 Graduate Student, CU Department of Civil and...

Cochrane , Jessica J 1 ; Ge , Shemin 2 1 University of Colorado 2 University of Colorado It is widely accepted that the global climate is changing, yet our understanding of the effect of climate change on groundwater resources is limited. Many questions remain regarding the size of groundwater...

Caldwell , Jason 1 ; Rajagopalan , Balaji 2 1 CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA 2 Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA Water allocations in the Central Valley Project (CVP) of California require the consideration of short- and long-term needs...