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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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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
(290 minutes of video podcasts over 7 classes,
yielding 41.4 minutes per class)

03-Jan 1. Intro to hydrology and ecology
05-Jan 2. Forest hydrology- interception
07-Jan 3. Forest hydrology- evapotranspiration
Week 2 10-Jan 4. Tropical forest hydrology
12-Jan 5. Human impacts on forest hydrology
14-Jan Group activity 1. Forest hydrology
Week 3 17-Jan No class
19-Jan Group presentations on forest hydrology

CLEARED LANDS AND URBAN AREAS
(233 minutes of video podcasts over 6 classes,
yielding 40 minutes per class)

21-Jan 6. Rangeland hydrology
Week 4 24-Jan 7. Hydrologic impacts of landscape urbanization
26-Jan 8. Consequences and management of urbanization impacts
28-Jan 9. Urban hydrology "plot" scale studies
Week 5 31-Jan Group activity 2. Urban hydrology
02-Feb Group presentations on urban hydrology
04-Feb Exam #1
Week 6

WETLANDS, FLOODS, AND FLOODPLAINS
(346 minutes of video podcasts over 8 classes,
yielding 43 minutes per class)

07-Feb 10. Hydrogeomorphic classification of wetlands
09-Feb 11. Hydrology of tidal wetlands
11-Feb 12. Hydrology of nontidal wetlands
Week 7 14-Feb 13. Wetlands in the landscape context
16-Feb 14. Flood hydrology
18-Feb 15. Floodplain geomorphology, hydrology, and ecology
Week 8 21-Feb No Class
23-Feb Group activity 3. Wetland hydrology
25-Feb Small-group presentations on wetland hydrology
Week 9

LANDSCAPE MODELING
(232 minutes of video podcasts over 6 classes,
yielding 39 minutes per class)

28-Feb Exam #2
02-Mar 16. Physically-based lumped hydrological models
04-Mar 17. Distributed watershed modeling
Week 10  07-Mar 18. Assessment of watershed functions using distributed models
09-Mar 19. Hydrology in ecological models
11-Mar 21. Ecohydraulics
Week 11 ##-Mar

20. Interdisciplinary landscape models (NO for 2020)

14-Mar Final Exam (1 pm in Wellman Hall Room 25)
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