Syllabus
The entire website for this course constitutes the official syllabus for the course that faculty are supposed to provide students with within the first week of class. This page addresses the schedule of events and activities for the class.
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Schedule
Click on the links below to access the conent for each day, including the weekly video podcasts.
Considering the online lecture component of the course, there are 1101 minues of video podcasts over 27 classes, yielding an average of 40.8 minutes per class.
| Week |
Dates |
Topic |
| Week 1 |
FOREST HYDROLOGY |
|
| 08-Jan | 1. Intro to hydrology and ecology | |
| 10-Jan | 2. Forest hydrology- interception | |
| 12-Jan | 3. Forest hydrology- evapotranspiration | |
| Week 2 | 15-Jan | No class |
| 17-Jan | 4. Tropical forest hydrology | |
| 19-Jan | 5. Human impacts on forest hydrology | |
| Week 3 | 22-Jan | Group activity 1. Forest hydrology |
| 24-Jan | Group presentations on forest hydrology | |
|
CLEARED LANDS AND URBAN AREAS |
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| 26-Jan | 6. Rangeland hydrology | |
| Week 4 | 29-Jan | 7. Hydrologic impacts of landscape urbanization |
| 31-Jan | 8. Consequences and management of urbanization impacts | |
| 02-Feb | 9. Urban hydrology "plot" scale studies | |
| Week 5 | 05-Feb | Group activity 2. Urban hydrology |
| 07-Feb | Group presentations on urban hydrology | |
| 09-Feb | Exam #1 | |
| Week 6 |
WETLANDS, FLOODS, AND FLOODPLAINS |
|
| 12-Feb | 10. Hydrogeomorphic classification of wetlands | |
| 14-Feb | 11. Hydrology of tidal wetlands | |
| 16-Feb | 12. Hydrology of nontidal wetlands | |
| Week 7 | 19-Feb | No Class |
| 21-Feb | 13. Wetlands in the landscape context | |
| 23-Feb | 14. Flood hydrology | |
| Week 8 | 26-Feb | 15. Floodplain geomorphology, hydrology, and ecology |
| 28-Feb | Group activity 3. Wetland hydrology | |
| 01-Mar | Small-group presentations on wetland hydrology | |
| Week 9 |
LANDSCAPE MODELING |
|
| 04-Mar | Exam #2 | |
| 06-Mar | 16. Physically-based lumped hydrological models | |
| 08-Mar | 17. Distributed watershed modeling | |
| Week 10 | 11-Mar | 18. Assessment of watershed functions using distributed models |
| 13-Mar | 19. Hydrology in ecological models | |
| 15-Mar | 21. Ecohydraulics | |
| Week 11 | ##-Mar |
20. Interdisciplinary landscape models (NO for 2024) |
| 19-Mar | Final Exam (6 pm in Teaching and Learning Complex 1218) | |
