ESCI 502 Fluvial Geomorphology Spring 2007 Syllabus

 

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            PRESENTATIONS/POWERPOINTS ARE HERE

 

Week Number

Week of

Topics

Reading/Source

Note

1

Jan 22

Introduction; Time and space

Knighton, Chp. 1;  Schumm and Lichty (1965); Lane and Richards (1997)

http://www.icsu-scope.org/downloadpubs/scope35/chapter12.html

 

 

2

Jan 29

Network and landscape evolution

Schumm (1979) ;

Knighton, Chp. 2 pg. 33-57;

Phillips (2006); Benda and Dunne (1997)

Benda landscape evolution sim movie

3

Feb 5

Desktop watersheds and watershed assessment in ArcView

Stream Notes April 2004;

Bring laptop (if you have one)

4

Feb 12

Desktop watersheds and watershed assessment in ArcView;  Terrain analysis in ArcView

http://www.benthos.org/database/allnabstracts.cfm/db/NewOrleans2005abstracts/id/121

Bring laptop (if you have one)

5

Feb19

Terrain analysis in ArcView

Tarboton (2003) ; Tarboton and Ames (2001)

 

http://www.engineering.usu.edu/cee/faculty/dtarb/

 

Bring laptop (if you have one)

6

Feb 26

Bankfull and effective discharge;

Hydraulic geometry

Emmett and Wolman (2001), Wolman and Miller (1960); Doyle et al (1999); Boyd et al (2000); Leopold and Maddock (1953)

Knighton, Chp. 5, pg. 153-187.

FS video

7

Mar 5

Channel pattern and profile

Knighton, Chp. 5, pg. 205-260.

Bill Locke

 

Mar 12

SPRING BREAK

 

 

8

Mar 19

Open channel hydraulics

Wilcock hydraulics I ; Wilcock hydraulics II

 

9

Mar 26

Hydraulic modeling; Sediment transport

http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/hecras-hecras.html

Wilcock sed trans I,

 

Bring laptop (if you have one)

10

Apr 2

Sediment transport

Wilcock sed trans II, Wilcock sed trans III

Bring laptop (if you have one)

11

Apr 9

Field trip: Hyalite Creek

Hyalite Creek from the mt. front to the Gallatin floodplain: independent/dependent variables; channel forms.

 

12

Apr 16

AAG conference

Bill Locke leads afternoon field trip for final project

 

13

Apr 23

Channel classification; tectonic fluvial processes

Stream Notes Oct 1999 ;  Montgomery and Buffington (1997);  Rosgen (1994),  Leopold and Langbein (1963) ;  TBD

 

 

14

Apr 30

Restoration and applied fluvial geomorph

Kondolf et al (2001); Shields et al (2003); Wohl et al. (2005)

 

15

May 7

Overnight field trip: Paradise Valley/Yellowstone NP/Madison Valley

Trip lead by Bill Locke and Karen