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May 02, 2024
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GEOL 5750 - Watershed and Stream Hydrology
This course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to physical hydrologic processes and techniques at the watershed scale. Students examine the hydrological cycle and its components, water budget, hydrological pathways, streamflow and flow frequency analysis, surface water and groundwater interactions, and hydrologic modeling and emerging technologies.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to define the key processes in the hydrologic cycle.
- Students will be able to conduct water budget analysis in a watershed.
- Students will be able to delineate flow pathways at the watershed scale.
- Students will be able to explain how surface erosion can be controlled or maintained at acceptable levels in different landscapes and vegetative types.
- Students will be able to calculate streamflow discharge from knowledge of streamflow velocity and cross-sectional area of the stream.
- Students will be able to conduct flood frequency analysis.
- Students will be able to explain hydrologic processes that influence fluvial geomorphology and the resulting landscape features.
- Students will be able to quantify surface water and groundwater exchanges occur in streams and explain how groundwater recharge occurs in different landscape settings.
- Students will be able to explain hydrologic modeling processes.
- Students will be able to apply hydrological models or tools to evaluate a current watershed problem.
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