Date	Topic	Readings
Aug 21	Stream and Watershed Basics Bank-full videos	Leopold, 1994, Ch. 1 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 avail at http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/publications/videos.html Walker, Jennifer, and Rengers, Francis, 2003, Bankfull:Geology 493 CLass Project, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, VHS Videotape, ~ 20 minutes. Other Sources: 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
Aug 28	Cobun & Aarons creeks Field Trip +  Stream and Watershed Basics II	Leopold, 1994, Ch. 2-6, 10-12, 13-14 http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/publications/video/hm%20short.mov
Sep 4	Stream and Watershed Basics III	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 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.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr74/02_chap1.pdf Parent Directory for all chapters: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr74/
Sep 11	Stream Classification and Assessment	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 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.  Pictures of Stream Classes Only: http://www.student.montana.edu/~uessc/esci514/mtgombuffigs.html 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://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/cgi-bin/ereserves.pl?default!file=kite=GEOG=GEOL_493=/montgomery_buffington-channel-0.pdf (note: the link above worked for JSK with MS Explorer but not with Netscape! You may have to cut and paste the address into your browser.) or http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Montgomery_Buffington1998channel.pdf
Sep 18	Guest Field Trip Leader: Jim Anderson, WVU Wildlife Management Stream and Riparian Ecosystems I	Thorne, Bill, 2002, Upper Deckers Creek... Before and After, Deckers Creek Update, Spring 2002, p. 4-5.http://www.deckerscreek.org/UpdateSpr2002.pdf Other Sources: 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.
Sep 25	Test 1	Spring 2003 Test 1 http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Spring2003GEOL493RiversTes1.html
Oct 2	Guest Field Trip Leader: Martin Christ, Friends of Deckers Creek Stream Regulation and River Law Clean Water Act Watershed Association	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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/cwa/ National Wildlife Federation, 2003, http://www.nwf.org/watersheds/cwa.html U.S> Army Corps of Engineers http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/functions/cw/cecwo/reg/sec404.htm Focal Points for the Clean Water Act on GEOL 493 for Test 2 New Other Sites for those who thirst for more Clean Water... Clean Water Act Status: Entire United States © 2003 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/
Oct 9	Stream and Riparian Ecosystems	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://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/cgi-bin/ereserves.pl?default!file=kite=GEOG=GEOL_493=/allan-stream_eco.pdf (note: the link above worked for JSK with MS Explorer but not with Netscape! You may have to cut and paste the address into your browser.) or 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.biogeomorphology.org/Review_biogeomorphology.pdf.  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://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/cgi-bin/ereserves.pl?default!file=kite=GEOG=GEOL_493=/hupp-plant.pdf (note: the link above worked for JSK with MS Explorer but not with Netscape! You may have to cut and paste the address into your browser.) or   http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Hupp1988-plant-0.pdf
Oct 16	Flood Basics 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 Other Sources: Pickering, Mimi, and others, 1985,  Buffalo Creek Revisited [Motion picture], Whitesburg, KY: Appalshop, Inc., 30 minutes
Oct 23	Flood Basics II Floods through Time, Flood Preparedness (First Part of Spring 2003 Lecture)	McCullough, David, 1968, The Johnstown Flood: New York, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 302 p.   Bussler, Mark, 2003, Johnstown Flood, Pittsburgh, PA, Inecon Entertainment Company, DVD, 64 minutes. (See http://johnstownflood.com.) 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/ 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 The Johnstown FLood Museum, 2003, A Brief History of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, URL: http://www.jaha.org/flood/history.htm 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  Hirschboeck, K.K., 1991, 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. 99-104. 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.
Oct 30	Test 2	Focal Points for the Clean Water Act on GEOL 493 Test 2 New Spring 2003 Test 2:  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/GEOL493FRiversTest2.htm Fall 2003 Test 2:  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2003FallGEOL493RiversTest2.htm
Nov 6	FEMA Flood Preparedness (last part of 2003 Spring Lecture) Flood Videos Debris flows	FEMA Web Site (www.FEMA.gov) 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. URL: http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files/nlic/blueridge.htm  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://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/factsheets/html_files/debrisflow/fs176-97.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.
Nov 8 Nov 9	Field Trip	Nov 8: Potomac and Cheat River Floods and more! Nov 9: Ice Mountain Talus Field Work Trip
Nov 13	Landslide Basics I Landslide Basics II	Review a chapter on Mass-Movement (Mass-Wasting, or Landslides) in an intro Physical Geology Textbook: 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 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. Hansen, Michael C., 1995, Landslides in Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey GeoFacts No. 8, 2 p.  On-Line Version Read Abstract and Table 4 Only: 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 Sources: Spring 2003 Rt 119 Landslide Field Trip Images Hungr and others 2001. (Paper as 26 mb .pdf file).
Nov 20	Landslide Geomorphology II Landslide Mitigation and Loss Reduction	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)
Nov 27	No Class	Thanksgiving Recess
Dec 4	Test 3 - Final Exam	6:00p.m. Thursday: Last Class Meeting Fall 2003 Final Exam All Projects due before 4:45 p.m. 8 December (Monday of Exam Week)