Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

Teaching

  • WR304, Sustainable Watersheds:  Introduces students to key watershed science and management concepts.  Course content includes the physical processes affecting water and sediment movement and how these processes interact with ecosystems and human activities.  Syllabus
  • WR416, Land Use Hydrology:  Presents fundamental concepts in the science of hydrology with a focus on how land use affects hydrologic processes.  Course content includes precipitation, land surface energy budget, subsurface flow, runoff generation, channel flow, and hillslope processes. Syllabus
  • WR/CIVE524, Modeling Watershed Hydrology: Introduces major concepts and skills in hydrologic modeling with an emphasis on the conceptual foundation of existing models.  Course content includes lumped, quasi-distributed, and distributed modeling. Syllabus
  • WR616, Hillslope Hydrology and Runoff Processes:  Readings course that covers seminal papers and current research on flow processes at hillslope to small catchment scale.   Syllabus