Hydrology  EESC  BC 3025

    Curriculum Material EESC BC 3025 - spring 2012

    current issues schedule

    week

    reading
    homework
    due 
    activity
    case studies/excercises
    1

    1/17
    Ch1
    CW


    Introduction, Water for the world

    1/19
    HW 1
    ans
    Structure and properties of H2O
    Units, dimensions, and conversions
    2
     
    1/24
    Ch2-2.5
    CW
     HW 2
    ans
    Hydrological cycle
     Water in everyday life
    1/26


    Condensation and precipitation
    Global precipitation/evaporation
    2/2003 winter storm
    3

    1/31
    Ch2.6,5.1
    CW
    HW 3
    ans
     Evapotranspiration
    Water resources and climate change
    2/2


    Principles of fluid dynamics
    Bernoulli experiments
    4
    2/7
     Ch 5.2-5.4
    CW
     HW 4
    ans
    Carelton lab, 161 Mudd!
    Hydraulics experiments
    2/9
     

    Open channel hydraulics
    Dams
    Colorado River
    Controlled floods
     5

    2/14
    Ch5.5, 3.7
    CW
    HW 5
    ans
    Floods and droughts
    Mississippi flood 1993
    2/16


    Darcy's law Permeameter & sandtanks
     6

    2/21
    Ch3.1-6,8-13
    CW
    HW 6 ans
    Groundwater flow
    Groundwater flow model
    2/23


    Groundwater transport contamination/cleanup
    7

    2/28
     Ch4.1-4.7
    CW
    HW 7 ans
    Water in the unsaturated zone
    Vineland Superfund site -review
    3/1


    Water quality/chemistry Env. measurements
    8

    3/6
    CW


    US water issues Water for Tucson, AZ
    3/8


    Midterm exam

    9
    3/13&15



    Spring Break! 

    10

    3/20
    CW
    HW 8
    3/29
    CO2 sequestration

    3/22


    Bangladesh groundwater
    11

    3/27
     
    Ch
    CW
    HW 9
    Organism scale: Plant vascular systems
    microscopic investigation of vascular tissue
    3/29
     

     physical and behavioral adaptations
    tomato plant experiments
    12

    4/3
    CW


    HW 10
    Community scale: terrestrial environments
    forest canopy flux models (Black Rock Forest)
    4/5


    aquatic environments
    impact of dams on riparian/lacustrine env.
    13

    4/10

    CW
    HW 11

    Landscape scale: Biomes
    Amazon deforestation
    4/12


    water and the carbon cycle
    flux tower data manipulation

    4/14&15

    fieldtrip rep.
    Fieldtrip, BRF 
    14

    4/17
    CW


    Ecohydrological Change: reconstructing hydrological change
    regional hydrologic reconstruction
    4/19
     
    major changes in the past
    Cases: hemlock decline; green Sahara
    15

    4/24
    CW

    HW 12
    Issues in Ecohydrology: Water & food
    Gimme Green
    4/26


    land use change and hydrology/review
    Global water issues

    TBD


    Final Exam