Current concepts used to describe water and chemical movement on watersheds scales. Conceptual models of flow at watershed scales, saturated/unsaturated flow and transport processes, and techniques for measuring soil moisture, soil potential, and lateral surface and subsurface flow.
Athena Title
Hillslope Hydrology Seminar
Prerequisite
WASR(FORS) 4110/6110-4110L/6110L or GEOL 4220/6220 or GEOG 4030/6030 or CRSS 4600/6600 or CRSS 4600E/6600E or permission of school
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
This is predominantly a readings class in which students will read much of the classic literature on hillslope hydrology.
Each week, students will read several papers and write notes about the key points and problems of each paper.
Students will also conduct field and outdoor laboratory exercises to help illustrate principles and problems of hillslope hydrology.
Students will be required to write a three-to-six-page critique and summary of a paper or a closely related set of papers on hillslope hydrology.
Topical Outline
Week 1 - Some Old Time Religion
Week 2 and 3 - Partial Area Concept, Slope Models
Week 4 - Alan Freeze: Numberical Modeling of Hillslope Flow Processes
Week 5 and 6 - Flow in Layered Soils
Week 7 - Topographic Effects
Week 8 - Macropores
Week 9 and 10 - Old Water, New Water
Week 11 - Modeling; TOP Model; Wigmosta Model
Weeks 12 through 14 - Current Events (Various Papers from 1990 to the Present)
