Hydrology  EESC  BC 3025

    Curriculum Material EESC BC 3025 - spring 2007

    week

    reading
    homework
    due 
    activity
    case studies/excercises
    1
    1/17



    Introduction


    1/19

    HW 1
    Ans
    Water for the world
    Units, dimensions, and conversions
    2
    1/23
    Ch1,App1: 1-15,235-242
     HW 2
    Ans
    Hydrological cycle
     
     
    1/25
    App2: 243-244,
    The vital fluid


    Structure and properties of H2O

    3
    1/30 & 2/1
    Ch2,App3: 17-41, 245-250
    HW 3
    Ans
     Condensation and precipitation
    Water in everyday life
    4 2/6
     
     

    Evaporation
    Global precipitation/evaporation

    2/8
       HW 4
    Ans
     
    Water resources and climate change
     5
    2/13&15
    Ch3: 43-71


    Principles of fluid dynamics
    2/2003 winter storm
     6
    2/20 & 22
    Ch4: 72-98
    HW 5 Ans
    Open channel hydraulics
    Weirs and laminar flows
    7
    2/27
     Ch5: 99-121


    Floods and droughts
     Mississippi flood 1993

    3/1



    no class

    8 3/6

    HW 6 Ans Dams Controlled floods

    3/8



    Midterm Exam

    9



    3/12-3/18
    Spring Break! 

    10
    3/20 & 22
     Ch6: 123-144
    HW 7
    Ans
    Darcy's law
    Permeameter & sandtanks
    11
    3/27
     


    no class


    3/29
    Ch7: 145-170
    HW 8
    Ans  Goundwater flow
    Groundwater flow model
    12
    4/3



    Groundwater transport
    Mexico City/Ogallala

    4/5

    HW 9
    Ans
    Geophysical techniques

    13
    4/10
    Ch8: 171-197


    Water in the unsaturated zone
    Watershed management

    4/12




    Water for Tucson, AZ
    14
    4/17
    Ch9: 199-221
    HW10
    Ans
    Water issues US
    Cadillac Desert

    4/19

     

    As in Bangladesh groundwater

    4/21/22
    fieldtrip rep. Tu 5/8
    Fieldtrip, BRF 
    15
    4/24



    Global water issues
    China's S-N water transfer

    4/26



    Review





    Tu 5/8 1-4pm
    Final Exam