Possible additions for 2006 -

adaptive management - http://www.biohabitats.com/ndg_newsite/newsletter/number.16/


http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/rosgen_profile_Science_2004.pdf


http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/sri/stream_rest_guidebook/sr_guidebook.pdf


Geology 493: Rivers, Floods & Landslides
Tentative Course Schedule Fall 2005
version 3.3, 8 December 

http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/ScheduleGEOL493.html

Check This Site Regularly for "on the Fly" Revisions

Link to NRCS Regional Curves page
http://wmc.ar.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/HHSWR/Geomorphic/index.html 

Dates

Topics

Readings

Week 1


23-25 Aug

Stream and Watershed Basics


Leopold, 1994, Ch. 1-6,
http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/publications/video/hm%20short.mov
Week 2

30 Aug - 1 Sept

 Stream and Watershed Basics II

Bank-full videos










Hurricane Katrina Flooding  Lecture will be unlinked after test 1

Leopold, 1994, Ch. 10-12, 13-14

Walker, Jennifer, and Rengers, Francis, 2003, Bankfull:Geology 493 CLass Project, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, VHS Videotape, ~ 20 minutes.

Stream Systems Technology Center, 2003, Identifying Bankfull Stage in Forested Streams in the Eastern United States,  USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station,  DVD format, 31 minutes. Info avail at http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/publications/videos.html

Other Source:
Stream Systems Technology Center, 1999, A Guide for Field Identification of Bankfull Stage in the Western United States, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, VHS videotape and DVD format, 31 (sic) minutes. Info: http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/publications/videos.html


Fischetti, Mark, 2001, Drowning New Orleans, Scientific American.com. 6 p., http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Fischetti2001SciAmArticleOnNewOrleans.pdf

Timeline on Katrina and Political "Awareness" in D.C. : http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m15547&l=i&size=1&hd=0
or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/KATRINATIMELINE.htm

USGS site with before and after imagery: http://edc.usgs.gov/Katrina.html

Detaled Post-Flood Images: http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/

Oodles of Maps: http://ucgis.org/Katrina/
Week 3
6 Sept
  5:15-7:30  Tu  Little Laurel Run Field Trip

Week 3


8 Sept

Stream Classification
and Assessment

Leopold, 1994, Ch. 8-9

Naiman, R.J., 1998, Biotic Stream Classification, in Naiman, R.J., and Bilby, R.E., eds., River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 97-119. http://www.fish.washington.edu/people/naiman/CV/reprints/chapter_5.pdf or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Naiman1998chapter_5.pdf

Rosgen, David L, 1994, A classification of natural rivers: Catena, v. 22, p. 169-199.  (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) http://www.wildlandhydrology.com/assets/CLASS_OF_NATURAL_RIVERS_300.pdf
or  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Rosgen1994ClassificationRivers.pdf

Bunte, Kristin, and Abt, Steven R., 2001, Sampling Surface and Subsurface Particle-Size DIstributions in Wadable Gravel- and Cobble-Bed Streams for Analysis in Sediment Transport, Hydraulic and Streambed Monitoring, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-74, 428 p. (Read Ch 1 only)
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/BunteAbt2001_chap1.pdf
or  http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr74/02_chap1.pdf
Parent Directory for all chapters: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr74/

Read One of the following Montgomery and Buffington Articles:  Extra Credit for reading both of you write a paragraph on which is more appropriate for this class:

Montgomery, D.R., and Buffington, J.M., 1997, Channel-reach morphology in mountain drainage basins:  Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 109, no 5,
p. 596-611.  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Montgomery_Buffington1997.pdf  or

Montgomery, D. R., and Buffington, J. M., 1998, Channel Processes, Classification, and Response, in Naiman, R.J., and Bilby, R.E., eds., River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 13-42.  URL:
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Montgomery_Buffington1998channel.pdf
Week 4
13 Sept

 4:40-7:15 Tu

Haystack Rock Coopers Rock Field Trip

Meet at White Hall Lot 1
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~ehopkins/CoopersRock/Geol621Photos2.html
Week 4

15 Sept

Classification

 

[2006]

add Estimating Bed Roughness

Rosgen Stream Classification Exercise:
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/%7Ekite/EnochBranchTribClassifExerWVUGeo427.html

Geo 493/427 Future of Enoch Branch Tributary Exercise
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/%7Ekite/EnochBranchTribFutureWVUGeo427.html

[2006] add Barnes, Harry H., Jr., 1967, Roughness Characteristics of Natural Channelsm, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Supply Paper 1849, URL:  http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/wsp_1849/html/pdf.html or pdf of part 1 only. (Part 1 = enough for class.)

Week 5- Tuesday

20 Sep

 Test 1

Fall 2005 Test 1: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/2005_GEOL493_Test1.html

2004-2005 Test 1 Does NOT include all material covered on 2003 tests.
Fall 2004 Test: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/%7Ekite/2004Test1Geo427.html 

Spring 2003 Test 1: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Spring2003GEOL493RiversTes1.html
Fall 2003 Test 1: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2003FallGEOL492_427Test1.html

Week 5 Thursday

22 Sep		 No class Dr. Kite "under the weather"

2006 Add in
Jefferson N. Keaton, Terence Messinger, and Edward J. Doheny, 2005,
Development and Analysis of Regional Curves for Streams in the Non-Urban
Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province, Maryland, Virginia, and West
Virginia  U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5076
http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/sir2005-5076/

Week 6

27 Sept
 4:40-7:30
Deckers Creek Trip w/ Dr. Martin Christ, Friends of Deckers Creek.
Meet in Lot 1.
 Friends of Deckers Creek home page, URL: http://www.deckerscreek.org/

Christ, Martin, 2002, Acid Mine Drainage in Decker Creek, What We Know So Far, Dellslow, W. Va. , Downstream Alliance, 28 p, 1 map. URL: http://www.deckerscreek.org/WhatWeKnowSoFar.pdf

 Other Readings of Interest:
Christ, Martin, 2002, The Richard Mine: a Key to Creek Restoration in Morgantown: Deckers Creek Update, Spring 2002, p. 1 & 7. http://www.deckerscreek.org/UpdateSpr2002.pdf
Christ, Martin, 2003, Steering the Creek Right: Stakeholders form the Deckers Creek Restoration Team: Deckers Creek Currents, Number 9, Spring 2003, p. 3.
http://www.deckerscreek.org/CurrentsOnlineSpr03.pdf
Christ, Martin, 2003, Richard: friendly community, unfriendly mine problem Deckers Creek Currents, Number 10, Summer 2003, p. 3.  http://www.deckerscreek.org/CurrentsOnlineSum03.pdf

Week 6

29 Sep		 The River Continuum Concept Allan, J.D., 1995, The river continuum concept, in Allan, J.D., ed. Stream Ecology Structure and Function of Running Waters: London, Chapman & Hall, p. 276-281, URL: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Allan1995Stream_eco.pdf

Baptist, M.J., 2001, Review on biogeomorphology in rivers: processes and scales. CFR report 3, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 19 p. URL:
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Baptist2001Review_biogeomorphology.pdf

Week  7
4 Oct
 Stream and Riparian Ecosystems

Hupp, Cliff R., 1988, Plant ecological aspects of flood geomorphology and paleoflood history, in Baker, Victor R., Kochel, R. Craig, and Patton, Peter C., editors, Flood Geomorphology: New York, John Wiley and Sons, p. 335-356.
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Hupp1988-plant-0.pdf

Bernhardt, E. S., Palmer, M.A., Allan, J.D., Alexander, G., Barnas, K., Brooks, S., Carr, J., Clayton, S., Dahm, C., Follstad-Shah, J., Galat, D., Gloss, S. , Goodwin, P., Hart, D., Hassett, B., Jenkinson, R., Katz, S., Kondolf, G.M., Lake, P.S., Lave, R., Meyer, J.L., O’Donnell, T.K., Pagano, L., Powell, B., and Sudduth, E., 2005,  Synthesizing U.S. River Restoration Efforts; Science, v. 308, p. 636-637, URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/308/5722/636.pdf?ijkey=Igy6Hm3ViHgoY&keytype=ref&siteid=sci 

or http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/BernhardtEtAl2005_SynthesisUSRiverRest.pdf


Burkhead, Noel, 2005,  Logperch.mpg,  in Logperches: Masters of the Stone: U.S. Geological Survey Florida Integrated Science Center - Center for Aquatic Resource Studies (16mg download):
http://cars.er.usgs.gov/Southeastern_Aquatic_Fauna/Freshwater_Fishes/Logperch/Logperch.mpg
 
Other Readings of Interest: 
Rabeni, C.F., and Jacobson, R.B., 1993, The importance of fluvial hydraulics to fish-habitat restoration in low-gradient alluvial streams: Freshwater Biology, v. 29, p. 211-220.
Thorne, Bill, 2002, Upper Deckers Creek... Before and After, Deckers Creek Update, Spring 2002, p. 4-5.http://www.deckerscreek.org/UpdateSpr2002.pdf
Montgomery, David R., 2004, Geology, geomorphology, and the restoration ecology of salmon: GSA Today: Vol. 14, No. 11, pp. 4–12. http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Montgomery2004GSATodaySalmon.pdf
Week 7
6 Oct

 Stream Regulation and River Law

Clean Water Act
 
Watershed Associations

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2003, Introduction to the Clean Water Act (Web Site)  URL: http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/cwa/

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, undated, Section 404 of the Clean Water Act,  web site URL: http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/functions/cw/cecwo/reg/sec404.htm

Other Sites for those who thirst for more Clean Water...
Clean Water Act Status: Entire United States © 2004 Environmental Defense
http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/water/cwa-us.tcl#maps

Eco-Portal - The Environmental Sustainability.Info Source 
http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/Water/Rivers/   

Week 8

Tu 11 Oct
 4:30 - 7:15
Local  Field Trip		 Streams in Reclaimed Mine Lands of Monongalia County
Week 8
Th 13 Oct
 No Class Dr. Kite in Salt Lake City, Geological Society of America Meeting
Week 9
Tu 18 Oct		 No Class Dr. Kite in Salt Lake City, Geological Society of America Meeting
Week 9 Th 20 Oct

Flood Basics I

Buffalo Creek 1972: "I didn't see God drivin' no slate truck ..."

Leopold, 1994, Ch 7

Appalshop, 1975, The Buffalo Creek flood: an act of man. [Motion picture], Whitesburg, KY: Appalshop, Inc.

West Virginia State Archives.
http://www.wvculture.org/history/buffcreek/bctitle.html

U.S. Geological Survey, 2000, Some Perspectives on Climate and Floods in the Southwestern U.S. http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/natural/floods/

Other Sources:
Hirschboeck, Katherine K., 1991, Hydrology of floods and droughts, climate and floods: in Paulson, R.W., Chase, E.B., Roberts, R.S., and Moody, D.W., Compilers, National Water Summary 1988-89--Hydrologic Events and Floods and Droughts:U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 2375, p. 67-88. URL  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Hirschbeock1991.pdf

Pickering, Mimi, and others, 1985,  Buffalo Creek Revisited [Motion picture], Whitesburg, KY: Appalshop, Inc., 30 minutes

Week 9

Tu Oct 25

 Flood Basics II

Johnstown 1889

McCullough, David, 1968, The Johnstown Flood: New York, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 302 p. 

National Park Service, 2002, Run for Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889, URL: www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/5johnstown/5johnstown.htm

Johnstown Area Heritage Association, 2004, A Brief History of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, web site URL:  http://www.jaha.org/FloodMuseum/history.html

Johnstown Area Heritage Association, 2004, Facts about the Johnstown Flood, web site URL:  http://www.jaha.org/FloodMuseum/facts.html

Other Sources:
Law, Anwei, 1997, The Great Flood. Johnstown Area Heritage Association, 106 p.
Degen, Paula, and Degen, Carl, 1984, The Johnstown Flood of 1889: The Tragedy of the Conemaugh. Eastern Acorn Press,  64 p. 
Guggenheim, Charles, 1989, The Johnstown Flood: Johnstown Flood Museum, 26 minutes, Black and White, Price: $24.95

Week 10 Th Oct 27

Test 2

Spring 2003 Test 2:  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/GEOL493FRiversTest2.htm
Fall 2003 Test 2: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2003FallGEOL493RiversTest2.htm

Fall 2004 Test 2: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2004FallGEOL493RiversTest2.htm
Week 11
Tu 1 Nov 		Landslide Basics I
2005: Order of Presentations Juxtaposed to Accomodate Huricane Series Talk

Review a chapter on Mass-Movement (Mass-Wasting, or Landslides) in an intro Physical Geology Textbook

Fonner, R. F., 1987, Homeowner's guide to geologic hazards: Mountain State Geology, West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, p. 1-9. Revised 1999 version on line at http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/geohaz/geohaz3.htm

Week 11

Th 3 Nov

6:00 pm

Gold Room Bennett Tower
 Hurricane Floods in West Virginia

Floods through Time, Flood Preparedness

FEMA

FIRM maps http://msc.fema.gov/

Other Sources:
Kite, J. Steven, and Torres, Neidi, 1988, A short history of flooding in the Cheat River basin, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, Morgantown WV, West Virginia University (unpublished manuscript), 29 p.

Home Videos
Week 12
Tu 8 Nov		 No Class
Dr. Kite in Cacapon State Park for Stream Restoration Meeting
Week 12
Th 10 Nov

Landslide Basics II

Debris Flows

 Campbell, Russell H., Varnes, David J., Fleming, Robert W., Hampton, Monty A., Prior David B.,  Sangrey, Dwight A., Nichols, Donald R., and Brabb, Earl E., 1985, Landslide classification for identification of mud flows and other landslides, in Campbell, Russell H., editor, Feasibility of a nationwide program for the identification and delineation of hazards from mud flows and other landslides: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-276, p. A1-A24 (Click Here for a .pdf file).

Lessing, Peter, Kulander, Byron R., Wilson, Bruce D., Dean, Stuart L., and Woodring, Stanley M., 1976, West Virginia landslides and slide-prone areas: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Environmental Geology Bulletin No. 15, 64 p.

Spiker, Elliott C., 2000, and Gori, Paula, L., 2000,  National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy, a Framework for Loss Reduction: U.S. Geological. Surv. Open-File Report 00-450, 59 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/ofr-00-0450/ofr-00-0450.pdf

Crowell 1997 (Mine Subsidence)

Week 13

Tu 15 Nov


Odds & Ends Landslides III


 

 Iverson, Richard M., 2002, Highlights from USGS Debris Flow Flume Studies, 1 VHS videotape. 

Costa, John E., and Williams, Garnett P., 1984, Debris-flow dynamics: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 84-606, 1 VHS videotape. JSK Notes

Gori, Paula L., and Burton, William C., 1996, Debris-Flow Hazards in the Blue Ridge of Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet-159-96.  http://landslides.usgs.gov/learningeducation/blueridge.php
or http://landslides.usgs.gov/learningeducation/docs/fs159-96.pdf
 


Highland, Lynn M., Ellen, Stephenson D., Christian, Sarah B., and Brown, William M., III, 1997, Debris-Flow Hazards in the United States : U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 176-97, 4 p. URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-176-97/fs-176-97.pdf  or http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-176-97/fs-176-97.html

Potter, Noel, Jr; Delano, Helen L., 1997, The Carlisle (PA) deluge revisited; a debris flow in 1779: Geological Society of America, 1997 Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, v. 29, no. 6, p. 411.

Read Abstract and Table 4 Only in
Hungr, O.; Evans, S.G.; Bovis, M.J.; and Hutchinson, J.N., 2001, A review of the classification of landslides of the flow type: Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, v. 7, no. 3, p. 221-238. (On-line abstract Only)
Other Source:
Hungr and others 2001. (Paper as 26 mb .pdf file).

Week 13

Th 17 Nov 		No Class Make-up for Extra Time Spent on Field Trips this Semester

19-27 Nov

No Class

Thanksgiving Recess
Week 14
29 Nov-
1 Dec
 Landslide Mitigation  
& Loss Reduction

Case Studies 		Spiker, Elliott C., and Gori, Paula L., 2000, National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy - a

Framework for Loss Reduction: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-450. URL

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/ofr-00-0450/ofr-00-0450.pdf
Week 15
Tu Dec 7 		"Restoration" Economy
 Cunningham, Storm, 2002, The Restoration Economy: The Greatest New Growth Frontier: Immediate & Emerging Opportunities for Businesses, Communities & Investors,Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1st edition, 300 p. Read "Preface" "Introduction" and "Quick Summary of The Restoration Economy"   See http://www.restorationeconomy.com/

International City/County Management Association,  Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation, Smart Growth Network, URL http://nemo.osu.edu/pdf/gettosg.pdf
or http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/ShortVersGettingToSmartGrowth.pdf  READ ONLY p. i-ii. &77-86
Week 15
Th Dec 8
 Test 3 - Final Exam

Final Exam at  5:30 p.m. Tuesday
Final Exam: Fall 2003 (note typo)  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2004Geol493Test3.htm
Final Exam: Fall 2004 http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2004FallGeol493Test3.htm
Finals Week

All Projects due before 4:45 p.m. 14 December (Wednesday of Exam Week)


 
 Readings from Earlier Offerings

Topic

Donaldson, Alan C., 1968, Geology of the Arboretum: Arboretum Newsletter, v. 18, no. 1, West Virginia University Department of Biology, Morgantown, West Virginia, 6 p.

Spring 2003 Rt 119 Landslide Field Trip Images

Affordable Storage (Mon River Trail Mile 12) Landslide Images
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2004GEO427AffordableStorageLandslide.htm

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Trail of the Month: Mon River Rail Trail System, West Virginia,  August 2004, http://www.railtrails.org/find/totm/archives/04-08.asp