El Dia del Agua Award and Prize Winners

The most recent El Dia del Agua 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 Water Resources unless noted otherwise.  Except for the most recent year listed, all have completed their degrees and moved on to higher education (BS candidates to graduate programs) or professional careers in industry, government, or academia and research. 
 
You can read more about the Sponsors of these awards and prizes here. 
 
For a list of the annual Aqua Person Awards--Aqua Man or Aqua Woman--made to the most outstanding junior faculty instructor and senior faculty instructor, go here.

 

The Montgomery Prize

 

  • 2012  Clare Stielstra (MS), Quantifying the role of hydrologic variability in soil carbon efflux

  • 2011  Melissa Schlegel (PHD), Constraining the timing of microbial methane generation in an organic-rich shale using noble gases, Illinois basin, USA

  • 2010  Erika Gallo (PHD), Controls of monsoonal storm runoff magnitude and quality of urban catchments in the Tucson basin

  • 2009  Ingo Heidbuechel (PHD), Water transit time controls

  • 2008  Joseph Gustafson (MS), Quantifying variations of snow-water-equivalent, chemistry, and water isotopes in a montane snowpack:  Valles Caldera national preserve, New Mexico

  • 2007  Kristopher Kuhlman (PHD), Development of transient elliptical analytic elements and their direct solution

  • 2006  Mehmet Sarikaya (PHD), Glaciations in Aladaglar and Sandiras:  new paleoclimatic clues in Turkey

  • 2005  Aleix Serrat Capdevila (PHD)

  • 2004  Justin Marble (PHD), In situ oxidation of TCE NAPL in heterogeneous porous media: 2-D flow-cell experiments

  • 2003  Noah Molotch (PHD), Assimilation of remotely sensed snow-cover properties into an operational snowmelt model

  • 2002  Dale Rucker (PHD), A comparison of responses from buried instruments to cross borehole GPR during the advance of a wetting front

  • 2001  Kyle Blasch (PHD), Application of time domain reflectometry for soil moisture profiling in an ephemeral stream channel

  • 2000  Eric Henry (PHD), Vadose zone drainage caused by an advancing contaminant plume

  • 1999  James Leenhouts (PHD), Application of boron isotopes in atriplex canescens for determining fracture flow activity and potential for infiltration at Yucca mountain, Nevada

  • 1998  David Quanrud (PHD) , Efficiency and sustainability of soil-aquifer treatment leading to wastewater reclamation and reuse

 

The Hargis Awards

 

  • 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 floowing 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

 

Hydrology and Water Resources Awards of Excellence

 

  • 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 hte 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 abaltion 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)

 

Donald R. Davis Undergraduate with Distinction Award

 

  • 2012  Brian Scott Sheppard (BS), The effect of wildfire on rangeland sustainability in the San Rafael valley

  • 2011  Dylan Cobean (BS), Comparison and analysis of the 2009 NASS cropland data layer to 2009 field verified crop data throughout southern Arizona

  • 2010  Philip Calabrese (BS), Constraining the hydrogeology of the Willcox basin in southeast Arizona using natural tracers

  • 2009  Damian Gosch (BS), Inaugural Year

 

Eugene S. Simpson Undergraduate Poster Award

 
  • 2012  Adam M. Karczynski (BS), Inaugural Year, COSMOS neutron data and hydraulic conductivity determination

 

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