JD Photo: Horsethief Canyon on
the Colorado River
Required Readings: These need to be read in advance of the river trip.
Course Syllabus
(revised April 24 2009)
Growth
Rates and Stream Flow
Ecophysiology
Forest
Inventory
How Much
Water?
Controlled Floods
Owens
and Moore on Transpiration
The ET
Toolbox
Water in the West
Materials to Bring tied to your role as an assistant in the introductory
class:
Overview of
Field Work planned for 2009
2009 Full Class Research Project on Tamarisk Stand Transpiration
Random
Number Table
Calibrating and Using an Abney Level
Stream
Discharge (group project for introductory class)
Stream Characterization: The Rosgen approach
Level I Stream Classification Table
Level
I to Level II Matrix
Summary of Stream Classification
Pitlick's Forest Service Study of the Colorado River 1999
Dominguez Creek Detailed Maps (Gunnison Trip)
Salt Creek
Detailed Maps (Colorado Trip)