Hydrology Students

Students in the Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program are based in one of the participating departments. On this page, we post information about open opportunities to work with HSE faculty (research and teaching opportunities), and information on current HSE students, as well as recent graduates.

Note that we receive many notifications about professional opportunities for our graduates, but we are not allowed to post those. Please contact HSE faculty to find out more about these postings.

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Open Opportunities: current research or teaching opportunities with HSE faculty.

The Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden Colorado is seeking applications for several graduate assistantships.

Current Students

Adam Atchley - MS Student, "Vegetation controls on hillslope processes"
Tammer Barkouki, PhD student, "Multicomponent reactive transport processes in subsurface porous media"
Peter Brinton- MS student, "Hydrologic properties of co-disposed mine waste"
Liz Conover- MS Student, "Contaminant plume characterization using statistical and inverse methods"
Arianne Dean, MS Student, Topic in hydrogeophysics to be determined.
Jason Dihn - MS student, Topic to be determined
Taylor Dixon- MS student,"Hyporheic-zone solute transformation an agricultural headwater stream"
Andrew Gruel, MS Non-Thesis student
Erica Hanley, MS Student, "Contaminant transport in hydrologic systems"
JoAnne Huie - MS Non-thesis student, "Hydrologic tracer tests analysis via numerical inversion"
Jara Johnson - MS Non-thesis student
Liz Major- MS student, "Experimental comparison of classical and Non-local transport theories"
Jeremy Meyer- MS Non-thesis student
Steven Meyerhoff - "Modeling heterogenous surface water-groundwater interactions, heterogeneity, water quality"
Kristin Mikkleson - PhD student,"Metal transport across stream-ground water interface in mountainous terrain"
Michael Morse, PhD student, "Effects of vadose zone moisture content on slope stability"
Kristin Muirhead - MS student, Topic to be determined.
Lindsay Peters, MS Student, "Reactive contaminant transport in ground water"
Kyle Richards- PhD student, "Geophysical Investigations and Groundwater Modeling of Hydrogeothermal Systems"
Sarah Roberts- PhD student, "Fate and Transport of Organic Wastewater Contaminants in Environmental Systems"
Cassia Roe - MS Non-thesis student
Kristen Schmidt - MS Non-thesis student
Erica Siirila, MS Student, "Residence times of pollutants in assorted porous media"
Leigh Simmons, MS Student, "Environmental aqueous chemistry"
Matt Somogyi, MS Non-Thesis student
Melissa Stratton, MS Non-thesis student
Paul Schulte- MS student, "Plume monitoring through wireless sensor networks"
Jennifer Sepulvado - PhD student, "Fate and transport of emerging organic contaminants"
Megan Smith- PhD student, "Polymer-enhanced chemical-oxidation and bioremediation of organic contaminants in ground water"
John Williams - PhD student, "Groundwater-land-surface interactions for wind-energy forecasting"
Assaf Wunsch - PhD Student, "Influence of carbon sequestration on water chemistry in overlying aquifers"

Past Students (NOTE:the HSE Program was started in 2006)

Aurora Bouchier- MS Hydrology 2009, "Rate-limited desorption of rhodamine as seens in NaCl/RhWT co-injection experiments in two small, mountain headwaters."
Martin Briggs- MS Hydrology 2009, "Hyporheic and in-channel dead zone transient storage parameters estimate scales in 1st through 5th order streams of the Ipswich River watershed, Massachusetts"
Clint Carney- PhD Hydrology 2009, "Uncertainty evaluation for management of the groundwater-surface water system in the vicinity of Sutherland Reservoir and Gerald Gentlemen Station, Lincoln County, Nebraska"
Kathleen Lindstrom- MS Hydrology 2009, "Modeling subsurface transport of pollutants from onsite wastewater systems"
Rob Payn - PhDHydrology 2009, "Stream-groundwater exchange in the context of valley structure and implications for scaling stream hydrologic and ecosystem understanding"
Christina Story, MS Hydrology 2009, "Hyporheic zone water toxicity to benthic macroinvertebrates in an alpine stream "
Carter Thurman - MS Hydrology 2009, Optimizing subsurface LNAPL remediation at a former petroleum refinery
Bryce Tillotson- MS Hydrology 2009, "Nitrogen transformations below soil wastewater treatment systems"
Scott Formolo- MS Hydrology 2008, "Estimating source term for ground water contamination via time series analysis."
Tamee Albrecht - MS Hydrology 2008, "Evaluating the impact of petroleum production on water quality by sequential statistical and hydrochemical analysis"
Kimberly McDugle- MS Hydrology 2008, "Estimating source term for ground water contamination via flow and transport model inversion"
Nate Monnig - MS Hydrology 2008, Numerical Modeling of transport in operator-stable fractal fields
Teresa Nealon- MSHydrology 2008, Modeling changes in stream flow from industrial activities or climate change using WARMF focusing on critical habitat for 4 fish species"
Jordan Revielle- MS Hydrology 2008, The effects of conditioning operator stable fractional Brownian motion fields on solute transport
Stephanie Ashley-Schmidt- M.S. Hydrology, 2007, "Hydrologic evaluation of plugging Dinero Tunnel to improve water quality in Lake Fork Creek, a tributary to the Arkansas River"
Jordan Dimick- M.S. Hydrology 2007, "Spatial distribution and multivariate analysis of water chemistries within Chaffee County, Colorado"
Mia Tucholke - M.S. Hydrolog 2007, "Statistical assessment of denitrification rates for watershed-scale assessments"
Barbara Robinson, MS NT Hydrology 2000, "Watershed Hydrology"

Before the HSE Program was created, many hydrology graduate students received their degree from the CSM Geology and Geological Engineering Department. A link to a list of those individuals is below.

Former hydrology graduate students in Geology & Geological Engineering