Blue Gold Graduates

Past activities

Fall 2022

Led by Lauren Bolotin and Margot Mattson
Social ━ Mission Trail Hike

Emily Deardorff “Comparing the performance of the National Water Model to data-driven hydrological models using hydrological signatures”
Lauren Bolotin “Skill sharing workshop: Resources for identifying and downloading hydrologic data in R”
Margot Mattson “Skill sharing workshop: Introduction to Google Earth Engine”
Lauren Bolotin “Skill sharing workshop: Downloading USGS stream gauge data using R”
Anne Holt “Experience sharing: Working at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project”
Nika Tsitelashvili “Experience sharing: Designing and managing a hydropower plant in Georgia”
Cessia Caballero “The dynamics of land use and land cover change in Brazil and impacts on surface-atmosphere interactions”

Spring 2022

Social — Three Sisters Fall Trail Hike

Lauren Bolotin “A hydrologic signature approach to analyzing post-fire overland flow in U.S. watersheds”
Margot Mattson “Multitemporal image analysis to detect changes in wetland extent and vegetation composition in the Colorado River Delta region”
Camila Abe “Evapotranspiration estimates from remote sensing-based algorithms and flux dower data”
Kelly Hollman “Photoirradiation and degradation kinetics of tire wear particle (TWP) leachates”
Justin Tang “Radar Detection of Narrow Cold Frontal Rainbands (NCFRs) and its Intersections with Urban Southern California Watersheds”
Ryoko Araki “Calibrating using soil moisture seasonality improves water balance in hydrologic models”

Fall 2021


Margot Mattson “Coastal erosion and flooding in Guayaquil, Ecuador”
Dong-Hyun (Donny) Kim “Using landscape data to hypothesize runoff mechanism alteration in urbanized watersheds”
Lauren Bolotin “Investigating relationships between extreme hourly and sub-hourly precipitation in California”
Ryoko Araki “A unique rainfall-runoff process in a humid tropical forest in Sumatra, Indonesia”
Camila Abe “Physiographic characteristics and low flows in a small watershed of Rondonia, Brazil”
Ryoko Araki “How to Take Smart Notes”
Justin Tang “The Role of Narrow Cold Frontal Rainbands on Urban Flooding in Southern California”
Lauren Bolotin “Classifying Salinity Regimes in Western U.S. Rivers and Streams”

Social — Torrey Pines Beach Hike

Spring 2021


Brent Wilder “Incorporate ECOSTRESS evapotranspiration measurements to improve certainty in post-fire vegetation assessments “
Ye Mu “Forests mitigates drought in an agricultural region of the Brazilian Amazon”
Mireille Garcia “An evaluation of microbial pollutant in a watershed with homeless encampments”
Vincent O’hara-Rhi “Predicting flood extent in urban area”
Gabriela Morales “Agricultural responses to changing water supplies in Imperial Valley, California”
Justin Tang “Narrow Cold Frontal Rain bands and Urban Flooding in Southern California”
Ryoko Araki “A signature-based approach to quantify soil moisture dynamics”

Fall 2020


Brent Wilder “Analyzing Sars-cov-2 in wastewater treatment facilities to inform epidemiological monitoring of Covid-19”
Cheyenne Graves “Rain water harvesting in Southern California”
Gabriela Morales “Agricultural responses to changing water supplies in Imperial Valley, California”
Ryoko Araki “Paper review on soil moisture memory”
Ye Mu “Improving the satellite precipitation estimates for rainfall extremes using a dense rain gauge network over the Brazilian Amazon“
Ryoko Araki “Developing diagnostic signatures from in-situ soil moisture networks under different land-uses”
Brent Wilder “Post-fire Vegetation and Hydrologic Recovery in a Mediterranean Climate”

Spring 2020


Ryoko Araki “How to bridge satellite and in-situ observation of soil moisture?”
Sebastian Gnann “What controls baseflow generation at the catchment scale?”
Gabriela Morales “Agricultural responses to changing water supplies in Imperial Valley, California”
Brent Wilder “An analytical solution for rapidly predicting post-fire peak streamflow for small watersheds in southern California”

Fall 2019


Cheyenne Graves “Life Cycle Analysis”
Vincent O’hara-Rhi “Assessment of oil sampling method”
Mireille Garcia “Storm water management in San Diego”
Ryoko Araki “Rainfall-runoff process in Indonesia”
Jose Calderon “”
Brent Wilder “An analytical solution for rapidly predicting post-fire peak streamflow for small watersheds in southern California”
Danielle Hunt “”
Gabriela Morales “Agricultural responses to changing water supplies in Imperial Valley, California”
Kelly Flint “”