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Art Gold and Kelly Addy delivered talks at the 2007 Biennial Estuarine Research Federation Conference.


Dr. Gold's Fall 2007 Class

NRS 316 students at stream lab

NRS 361: Watershed Hydrology and Management

Class Syllabus

Laboratory and Field Trip Schedule

Useful Websites

Homework

 

 

 

Course Outline

  Topic Dingman 2002 Readings Dingman 1994 Readings Other Readings & Materials
1A. Watershed Dynamics - Overview 10-12 14-17;
64-68

ESA Issue 3: Nonpoint Source Poll. (web link)
USGS Circ. 1225: Sources (pdf)
USGS Circ. 1225: Nutrients (pdf)
Intro to Watershed Hydrology (pdf)
D&L: Chapter 14 (pdf)

1B. Loading, Retention, Concentration, Response 472-473 472-473 Brief Unit Intro (doc)
Properties & Conversions (doc)
Conversions & Equivalents (pdf)
Lab 2 Exercises (doc)
1C. Loading Models    

Rules to Determine Concentrations (doc)
class handout (doc)

1D. Watershed Mapping    

Watershed Mapping (pdf)
NPS Pollution Simulation model
Watershed Delineation exercise (doc)

2A. Precipitation: Air masses & meterology 94-102; 106 87-99 D&L: Chapter 4 (pdf)
2B. Precipitation: characteristics & measurement 130-137; figs 4-38, 4-41, 4-51 122-125; figs 4-36, 4-39, 4-48 Chapter 2 (pdf)
2C. Precipitation: Predicting return intervals

 

 

 Predicting the frequency of hydrologic events (doc)
Data and Example: Kingston, RI (doc)
Hurricane Risks in Southern RI (doc)
When Scientific Predictions are so good they are bad (doc)
3. Macroinvertebrates    

Macroinvertebrates & Bioassessment (pdf)
EPA Rapid Assessment Protocols (pdf)

4A. Surface Runoff: Factors affecting runoff 408-417; fig 9-41 409-416; Fig 9-10; Table 9-10 D&L: Chapter 9 (pdf)
4B. Surface Runoff: Predicting volumes & rates 445-449 389-393

D&L: Chapter 10 (pdf)
Peak Runoff Rate vs. Time of Concentration (pdf)

4C. Surface Runoff: Urban runoff     Computing peak runoff for small watersheds (doc)
Computing runoff volumes (doc)
Human alteration of hydrographs (doc)
TR 55 Rainfall distribution comments (doc)
4D.

Surface Runoff: Watershed Runoff Controls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

class handout on Low Impact Development

5. Stream Flow & Stream Morphology 608-619 536-543 gaging & measurement (lab handout)
6. Ground Water
    

D&L: Chapter 7 (pdf)
USGC Circular 1139 (pdf)

7. Lake & Reservoir Management    

Lake and Reservoir Management class handout:
Chapter 2, pages 21-49
Chapter 5

 

Homework

Topic
Homework
1B. Loading, Retention, Concentration, Response
1C. Loading Models
2C. Predicting Return Storms
4B. Runoff Volume

 
student measuring
 
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