Geology 493: Rivers, Floods & Landslides
Partial Course Schedule Fall 2006
final version Dec 7

http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2006ScheduleGEOL493.html

Check This Site Regularly for "on the Fly" Revisions

Dates

Topics

Readings Etc.

Week 1


22-24 Aug

Stream and Watershed Basics Lect. 1, 2 & 3

Bank-full videos

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


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


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


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

Week 2
29 Aug
 Field Trip

5:30-6:45

Meet in Lot 1 across from White Hall
 Cobun Creek near MUB Building & Kennedy Center  

All field trips are weather permitting... but remember this is a class on floods, so we will probably go into the field except in extreme circumstances, such as > 30 cm of snow on the roads, severe lightning risk (in which case we may go out but stay in the vans), tornado warnings (not just tornado watches), or impending bolide impact.  Dress according to the weather and weather forecast.
Week 2
31 Aug

Stream and Watershed Basics Lect. 1, 2 & 3


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

Week 3
5 Sept
 Field Trip

5:30-6:45
 
Meet in Lot 1 across from White Hall
 Deckers Creek Field Trip

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 3


7 Sept

Stream Classification Lect. 4 & 5

Leopold, 1994, Ch. 8-9


Malakoff, David, 2004, The River Doctor, Science, v. 305, p. 937-939. http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/rosgen_profile_Science_2004.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

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
Week 4
12 Sept

No Class

 Kite giving paper to Office of Surface Mining Conference in Farmington, New Mexico
Catch Up on Class Reading Assignments!
Week 4
14 Sept		 No Class Maryland at WVU football game 7:30 p.m. Go 'eers!
Catch Up on Class Reading Assignments!
Week 5
19 Sept
 Stream Classification Lect. 4 & 5

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

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 5- Thursday

21 Sep

 Test 1

Fall 2005 Test 1: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~Kite/2005GEOL493Test1.html
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 6

26 Sept
 Field Trip

5:30-6:45
 
Meet in Lot 1.
 Aroboretum "Gullies" and Granville Island Field Trip

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.
Week 6
28 Sept

Consequences of river regulation works: altered fluvial processes &  increasing flood hazard




Lecture by Dr. Timea Kiss, Szeged University, Hungary

Week 7

3 Oct		 Geomorphic Assessment

 

Estimating Bed Roughness

Regional Curves (for Hydraulic Geometry)
 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/

Barnes, Harry H., Jr., 1967, Roughness Characteristics of Natural Channels, 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. )

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 7

5 Oct
 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  8
10 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

North Carolina Division of Forest Resources Riparian and Wetland Tree Planting Pocket Guide
http://www.dfr.state.nc.us/publications/RiparianPocketGuide.pdf

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 8
12 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/   

Sunday 15 Oct
9-5		 Field Trip Cheat River, Including Horseshoe Run Restoration Project
Week 9 Tu 17 Oct

Flood Basics

Leopold, 1994, Ch 7


Neeley, 1986, p. 110-125.

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

Th Oct 19

 Flood Basics

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
Tu 24 Oct
No Class

 Dr. Kite in Philadelphia, Geological Society of America Meeting
Week 10
Th 26 Oct
 Buffalo Creek 1972: "I didn't see God drivin' no slate truck ..."

Appalshop, 1975, The Buffalo Creek flood: an act of man. [Motion picture], Whitesburg, KY: Appalshop, Inc.  Available after class in WVU AV Library: DV1359.  See discussion guide at this URL:
http://www.appalshop.org/buffalo/media/BCF-Discussion-Guide.pdf

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

Sunday 29 Oct
9-5
 Field Trip Coopers Rock, Cheat Canyon, Big Sandy, Muddy Creek

Neeley, 1986, p. 1-109, 126-171, with focus on p. 7 & 19-57.

Week 11

Tu 31 Oct
Hurricane Floods in West Virginia

Hurricane  Flooding

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

Nelson, Stephen A., 2006, Hurricane Katrina - What Happened? A Field Trip - The Geology of the Katrina Disaster in New Orleans, Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences, Tulane University,  http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/Katrina/

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

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

Oodles of Maps: http://ucgis.org/Katrina/

Nelson, Stephen A. & Leclair,Suzanne F., 2006,Katrina's unique splay deposits in a New Orleans neighborhood:GSA Today v. 16, no. 9, p. 4–10, URL 

http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1130/GSAT01609A.1


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 11

Th 2 Nov

Test 2

Fall 2006 Test 2: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2006FallGEOL493RiversTest2.htm
Fall 2005 Test 2: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2005FallGEOL493RiversTest2.htm
Fall 2004 Test 2: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2004FallGEOL493RiversTest2.htm
Fall 2003 Test 2: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2003FallGEOL493RiversTest2.htm

Spring 2003 Test 2:  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/GEOL493FRiversTest2.htm
Week 12
Tu 7 Nov		 No Class
WVU Election Day Recess
                      or
Test 2 Make-up Date 5:30 p.m.
Week 12
  9 Nov

Maximum Envelope Curves,
Flood Preparedness, & Flood Fatalities


FEMA & Flood Insurance Maps

 FEMA Web Site (www.FEMA.gov)

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

Other Readings TBA

Week 13

14, 16 Nov

Landslide Basics I

 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


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.

Crowell 1997 (Mine Subsidence)

18-26 Nov

No Class

Thanksgiving Recess
Week 14
28, 30  Nov
 Landslide Basics II

Debris Flows


Humans as Geomorphic Agents


 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

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 15
Tu Dec 5 		Landslide Mitigation  
& Loss Reduction
  
Case Studies
  
Affordable Storage 2003
& Uffington 2006
  
Kings Family Restaurant early 2000s
  
New River Gorge: South Nuttall 1940, Elverton 2001
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

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.
Week 15
Th Dec 7
 Test 3 - Final Exam

Final Exam at  5:30 p.m. Thursday

NEW Study Guide

Fianl Exam: Fall 2006 http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2006GEO427Final%20Exam.htm
Final Exam: Fall 2005 http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2005Geol493Test3_files/v3_document.htm
Final Exam: Fall 2004 http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2004FallGeol493Test3.htm
Final Exam: Fall 2003 (note typo)  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2004Geol493Test3.htm
Finals Week

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

Possible addition for 2009

Dean, Cornelia, 2008, Follow the Silt: New York Times, 24 June 2008 (revised 25 June 2008), 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/science/24stream.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Possible additions for 2006 -

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


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

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

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

Haystack Rock Trip - Meet at White Hall Lot 1
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~ehopkins/CoopersRock/Geol621Photos2.html


Readings from Earlier Offerings

Topic
"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

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.

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