Dr. Kite's Teaching and Instructional Page

Dr. J. Steven Kite	Office Location:	222/223 White Hall
Teaching Web Page	Phone:	304-293-5603 ext. 4330
	Email Address:	steve.kite@mail.wvu.edu

Office Hours:	Spring 2007		other times	by appointment
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
by appointment	14:00-15:30	by appointment	11:00-12:00, 14:00-15:30	by appointment

I am in the office at other times, but please call or e-mail before making a special trip to see me.


Undergraduate Courses
Course	Description	Web Page Links
GEOL 101 Dr. Kite teaches Geol 101 only in Spring semesters	Introduction to Physical Geology with focus on Natural Hazards. Study Hints Attendance vs. Grades 1999 Attendance vs. Grades 2001 Attendance vs Grades 2006	Course Description 2006 Schedule & Lectures Test Questions & Quizzes FINAL GRADES "MIX" Password required. .
GEOG 106	Lab to accompany GEOG 107: Physical Geography (lecture). Geog 106 must be taken concurrently with or after Geog 107	Description, Teaching Assistants Schedule and Assignments
GEOL 111 GEOG 111	Lab to accompany GEOL/GEOG 110: Environmental Geosciences (lecture) Geol/Geog 110 must be taken concurrently with or after Geol/Geog 111	Description Schedule Teaching Assistants
GEOL/GEOG 204	Last Taught Fall 2000, Includes Local Field Trips in Class	2000 Schedule & Test Keys Description 1999 Lab Keys Maps Internet Links
GEOL 321 GEOG 321 (Also GEOL 525 *for Grad Students) only in Spring semesters*	Earth-Surface Processes & Landforms: *The Science of Scenery* Matt Finkenbinder is teaching GEO 321 in Spring 2008. See http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~mfinkenbinder/index.htm	Description Schedule Linked to Lecture PowerPoints & Readings Tests Lab Schedule & Exercise Links Lab Introduction Lab "Syllabus" Selected Handouts Old Bibliography
GEOL 404 Summer A	Geology Major Capstone Course in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana	Field Camp Web Page
GEOL 493 (Will be GEOL 427 with Faculty Senate Approval)	Rivers, Floods & Landslides: Applied fluvial geomorphology & related natural hazards in the Appalachian region. Includes Stream Classification and Flood-Frequency Analysis.	Course Description F2006 Schedule & reading links Fall 2005 Schedule & reading links Fall 2004 Schedule w/ links Spring 2003 Schedule, w/ links Fall 2003 Schedule, w/ links


Course	Title	Description, Web Links, etc.
Graduate Courses
GEOL 493 (427)	See GEOL 493 Above	See links under GEO 493 in "Undergraduate Courses"
GEOL 525/ GEOG 525	Problems in Geomorphology	Graduate-level offering concurrent with GEO 321. For Lectures & Tests, see links under GEO 321 in "Undergraduate Courses". Required Labs. Required Stream Restoration Project.
GEOL 621 GEOG 621	Advanced Fluvial Geomorphology *Extended Field Trips* *Required at Student Expense* *(Transportation Provided)*	Fall Semester, commonly in alternate years. Streams, Debris Flows and Landslides, with focus on processes, sedimentology, landforms and classification. A secondary focus is on drainage evolution in the Central Appalachians and Ohio River basin. Fall 2007 Description Fall 2007 Schedule Old Tests Fall 2005 Schedule 2005 Annotated Bibliography Fall 2004 Schedule 2004 Annotated Bibliography Tips for Power Point Presentations Strunk & White: "The Elements of Style"
GEOL 622 GEOG 622	Surficial & Quaternary Geology *Extended Field Trips* *Required at Student Expense* *(Transportation Provided)*	Fall Semester, occaisionaly in alternate years with GEO 621: Next Offering: Unknown. Surficial Geology & Quaternary History, including Surficial Mapping and Glacial Geology. Regional focus on the Appalachians and the Evolution of the Ohio River Basin. 2003 Class Description 2003 Schedule Strunk & White: "The Elements of Style" 1999 Class Description 1999 Schedule

Term Paper, Thesis, & Dissertation Guidelines http://www.geo.wvu.edu/%7Ekite/ThesesGuidelines.html

Professional Studies (Option II) Project Guidelines

The WVU Natural Streams Program website in currently on vacation, but here are some useful web resources. (Contact me if you find bad links or to suggest items to add!)

Rosgen Stream Classification:

http://wildlandhydrology.com/

Rosgen, David L, 1994, A classification of natural rivers: Catena, v. 22, p. 169-199. wildlandhydrology.com/assets/CLASS_OF_NATURAL_RIVERS_300.pdf (Won't load? Try this!)

Alternatives to Rosgen:

Montgomery, D. R., and Buffington, J. M., 1998, Channel Processes, Classification, and Response, in Naiman, R.J., and Bilby, R.E., River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 13-42. URL:
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/teams/soils/Publications/montgomery_buffington_1998.pdf

Tom Blue's web site: http://www.blwi.com/ - click on "downloads"

Kite's 2003 GSA QG&G Presidential Message:

Kite, J. Steven, 2003, Fluvial geomorphology train is leaving the station; shouldn’t we be on board?: Stream Notes (Quarterly): USDA Forest Service Stream Systems Technology Center, Fort Collins, CO, October 2003 issue, p. 6-7. URL http://stream.fs.fed.us/news/streamnt/pdf/StreamOCT4.pdf

Dr. Kite's Faculty Page

Background Image: Cheat Canyon viewed from top of Haystack Rock, Coopers Rock State Forest, WV.
Photo by L. Scott Eaton, James Madison University, 1998 SEFOP Trip led by Steve Kite & Greg Springer

Updated: 26 Jan 2007 Address for this page: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/teaching.html