NRS 361: Watershed Hydrology and Management
Laboratory and Field Trip Schedule (Fall 2011)
Readings for Lecture Topics
(note: all document titles are linked to PDFs)
I. Watershed Dynamics
I-A: Sources of Nutrients and Pesticides (USGS)
I-B: Nutrients (USGS)
I-C: Introduction to Watershed Ecology (O'Keefe et al.)
I-D: Lecture One Notes
2. Mass Balance and Risk Assessment
2-A: How To Deal With Unit Conversions
2-B: Conversions and Equivilent Table
2-C: How to Calculate Nitrogen Dilution
2-D: Watershed Ecological Risk Assessment
2-E: Introduction to Hydrology, Risk and Pollutants
3. Receiving Waters
3-A: Understanding Lake Ecology
3-B: Limnology Primer
3-C: Vollenweider Model
3-D: Macroinvertebrates and Bioassessment
3-E: Nitrate in Coastal Waters (Oviatt and Gold)
4. Precipitation
4-A: Precipitation Primer
4-B: Predicting Floods (NYT Article)
4-C: Stationarity Is Dead (SCIENCE Article)
5. Overland Runoff
5-A: How to Calculate Flood Hazard Part 1 (pp 279-300)
5-B: How to Calculate Flood Hazard Part 2 (pp 305-313)
5-C: How to Compute Peak Runoff and Detention Storage
5-D: Design Storm Properties - TR55 Model
6. Groundwater
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6-A: Aquifer Definitions and Concepts
6-B: Groundwater and Wells
6-C: How To Map Groundwater Flow Patterns
6-D: How To Compute Groundwater Flow
6-E: Groundwater and surface water: A single resource (USGS Circular 1139)
6-F: Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers
