Hillslopes, Rivers and People

GEOL351 & CE361 (Spring 2005)

W. Cully Hession                         Paul Bierman

Civil & Environmental Engineering          Geology Department

University of Vermont                          University of Vermont

Email: Hession@cem.uvm.edu               Email: paul.bierman@uvm.edu

Phone: 802-656-1953                           Phone: 802-656-4411

 

Listserve Email: MORPHGRADSEM@list.uvm.edu

Student Topics/Presentations

Date

Leaders

Topics & Bibliographies

to read

3/09/05

Jessica Clark

Kelly McCutcheon

Stream Habitat (Jess)

LWD Impacts (Kelly)

Crowder2000 (pdf)

Abbe1996 (pdf)

Salmon (pdf)

3/16/05

Pete Munoz

Evan Fitzgerald

SW Ponds (Pete)

Urban impacts (Evan)

Fennessey2001 (pdf)

Booth2002 (pdf)

Bledsoe2002 (pdf)

3/30/05

Andrea Pearce

Danica Lefever

Channel Diversity (Andrea)

Remote Sensing (Danica)

Bartley2005 (pdf)

Legleiter2004 (pdf)

4/6/05

Ryan Owens

Lisa Passerello

Historic Impacts (Ryan)

Legacy Impacts (Lisa)

Foster2001 (pdf)

Beach1994 (pdf)

4/13/05

Charley Eiseman

Dan Wells

Beaver (Charley)

River Ice (Dan)

Naiman1994 (pdf)

Scrimgeour1994 (pdf)

4/20/05

Abby Hood

Luke Reusser

Geomorph & Avians (Abby)

Gullies, NZ (Luke)

Scott2003 (pdf)

Gomez2003 (pdf)

Marden2004 (pdf)

4/30/05

Cookout!

Matt Jungers

Amanda Devine

Fire Erosion (Matt)

Snowmelt Erosion (Amanda)

Roering2005 (pdf)

Ollesch2005 (pdf)

 

Earlier Readings & Discussions

Discussion or

Read-by Date

General Topic Area

Discussion Leader

Assigned papers (pdf)

Related papers (pdf)

01/26/05

Sediment Budgets

Bierman

Dietrich 1978 (pdf)

Kirchner 2001 (pdf)

 

02/02/05

Mountain Rivers, Human Impacts

Bierman

Benda 1990 (pdf)

Wemple 2001 (pdf)

 

02/09/05

Vegetation & Channel Morphology

Hession

Zimmerman 1967 (pdf)

Sweeney 2004 (pdf)

Hession 2003 (pdf)

02/16/05

Hubbard Brook

LTER

Bierman

Graf 1979 (pdf / pics)

Hornbeck 1970 (pdf)

Bierman 2005 (pdf)

02/23/05

Urban Impacts

Hession

Wolman 1967 (pdf)

Trimble 1997 (pdf)

Pizzuto 2000 (pdf)

 

03/02/05

Virtual Rivers

Ellen Wohl (CSU)

Virtual Rivers

-         paper (pdf)

-         tables (pdf)

-         figures (pdf)

Mountain Rivers

* Earth Surf Proc & Landforms (pdf)

* Journal of Hydrology (pdf)

Other Interesting ~pbierman/classes/gradsem/2005/papers-Topics Covered

Journal Impact Rankings

·        McCuen Editorial (pdf)

·        Table of Impact Factors, short (pdf)

·        MS Excel File w/Impact Factors by Several Disciplines (xls)

 

COOL Video - Dec 11, 2004 Massive landslide on the Sultan river

 

Participant Expectations & Grading

Read the articles BEFORE the discussion date.

PARTICIPATE in discussions.

LEAD a discussion as our resident expert on a paper/topic of your choice.

Create a web-based ANNOTATED REVIEW on the topic of your choice (from 6-10 articles).

Relax, have fun, learn…….

You’re all graduate students…….. need we say more?

Textbooks

None

Links

 

Last revised: 08-18-2005 (prb)