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Objectives
The following ERE program objectives will be addressed in this course:
I. ERE graduates will be able to apply the tools and concepts of mathematics, basic sciences, and engineering science in engineering practice.
II. ERE graduates will be prepared and understand the need to continue their life-long education in mathematics, basic sciences, and engineering science, design, and practice.
IV. ERE graduates will be able to effectively and professionally communicate ideas and technical information to the public and to fellow and other professionals in written and oral reports.
XI. ERE graduates will be literate in the range of laboratory, field and computational tools that are in common use in environmental engineering practice.
XII. ERE graduates will have the ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.
The course objectives are:
- Students will become familiar with common methods used to measure and model components of the hydrologic cycle.
- Students will be prepared to take Hydrology II
- Students will further develop their learning skills and attidtudes to support their efforts in life long learning.
- Students will further develop their technical communication skills.
Grading Policy
- 35 % Homework and Lab Assignments
- 15 % Exam 1 (open book and open notes)
- 15 % Exam 2 (open book and open notes)
- 35 % Cumulative Final (open book and open notes)
Homework and Lab Policy
Homework and lab assignments will be assigned throughout the course. Generally homework and lab ssignments will be due by 5pm on Thursdays in my mail box in HS 18.
Course Schedule
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Topics |
Weekly Assignments |
Assignments Due |
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(1) 1/18 |
Overview |
Read Chapter 1 |
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(2) 1/25 |
Statistical Hydrology Lab 1: Watershed delination |
Read Chapter 2 |
HW 1, Lab 1 |
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(3) 2/1 |
Precipitation Lab 2: Areal Rainfall and Digitzer |
Read Chapter 3 |
HW 2, Lab 2 |
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(4) 2/8 |
Evapotransporation Lab 3: Tour of the Offices of |
Read Chapters 4 - 5 |
HW 3, Lab 3 |
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(5) 2/15 |
Infiltration Lab 4: Problem Session |
Read Chapters 5-6 |
HW 4 |
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(6) 2/22 |
Hydrographs Lab 5: Exam 1 |
Read Chapter 6 |
HW 5 |
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(7) 3/1 |
Routing Methods Lab 6: Infiltration Lab ?? |
Read Chapter 8 |
HW 6 |
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(8) 3/8 |
Routing Methods Lab 7: Tour of Redwood National Park Hydrologic Projects |
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HW 7 |
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Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
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(9) 3/22 |
Groundwater Lab 8: Tour of Arcata (?) |
Read Chapter 9 |
HW 8 |
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(10) 3/29 |
Groundwater Lab 9: Little River Cross Section |
Read Chapter 9 |
HW 9 |
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(11) 4/5 |
Hyrologic Modeling Lab 10: HEC-HMS |
Read Handouts |
HW 10 |
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(12) 4/12 |
Hydrologic Modeling Lab 11: Problem Session |
Read Handouts |
HW 11 |
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(13) 4/19 |
Other Measurement Methods Lab 12 Exam 2 |
Read Chapter 7 |
HW 12 |
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(14) 4/26 |
Hydrologic Issues in California Lab 13 Hydrologic Issues in California |
Read Handouts |
HW 13 |
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(15) 5/3 |
Review Lab 14 GIS (?) |
Review |
HW 14 |
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Finals |
Friday May 14 |
1020-1210 |
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Lab Assignments
Lab 2: Mean Areal Precipitation
http://info.abrfc.noaa.gov/map/map.html
Point Precipitation Measurement, Areal Estimates And Relationships To Hydrologic Modeling
Useful URLS
(Please email any useful URLs and I will add them to this list)
Over View of Hydrology
http://www.uwin.siu.edu/ucowr/hydro/index.html
This page is a description of hydrololgy and career opportunities from the Universities Council on Water Resources.
http://h2o.usgs.gov/public/watuse/wuqa.usage.html
This page provides answers to common questions about water use in the US.
Hydrologic Cycle
http://waterknowledge.colostate.edu/hydr_cyc.htm
This page provides an overview of the hydrologic cycle.
Precipitation
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/history/storm_of_century/storm_of_century.html
This page has a movie of satellite images of the Storm of the Century/Blizzard of 93 (March 13-14, 1993).
http://www.ocs.orst.edu/prism/prism_new.html
This site provides an overview of PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model); a tool that develops data files for GIS (and more). Be sure check out the maps of Annual Average Precipitation for the US and Annual Average Precipitation for California.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/severeweather/severeweather.html
This National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration page gives one access to information about severe weather events. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/severeweather/rainfall.html is a summary of severe rainfall events.
This site provides access to WeatherNet.
http://www.belfort-inst.com/Products.htm
This site provides examples of meteorological measurement
instrumentation.
Weather
http://www.ocs.orst.edu/pub/weather/data/gifs/ir/goes_west/current.gifThis page is a current sattelite view over the Pacific Ocean. If you explore this directory, you can find a movie as well.
http://www.usbr.gov/rsmg/
This page is the USBR's River Systems and Meterology Group.
http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/products/predictions/threats/discussion.html#6-10days
This page provides a 3-10 forcast of threatening weather.
Evaporation
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/research/ogp/papers/peterso2.html
This article discusses pan evaporation has been decreasing around the world.
http://data.ecology.su.se/mnode/Methods/penman.htm
A description of Penman's Method for estimating evaporation.
Hydrographs
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/water/quality/wst.html
From this page you can find the NRCS information for Hydrology and Hydraulics,
including TR-55.
Hydrologic Modeling
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/gradhydro99/hmwk1/hmsintro.htm
This page provides a detailed on-line introduction to HEC-HMS. It is part of
a Hydrology class taught by Professor Maidment at UT Austin.
http://www.wrc-hec.usace.army.mil/
The US Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center has numerous hydrologic models to assist in water management problems. These models can be down loaded from this site, including HEC-HMS.
Other Related URLS
http://water.usgs.gov/public/pubs/circ1123/index.html
This page describes the Stream-Gaging Program of the U.S. Geological Survey and provides access to current and historical data.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/
This page is the home page for the California Data Exchange Center, Department of Water Resources, Division of Flood Management.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
This page is the National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/onlineprod/drought/xmgr.html
This page is the NCDC climate visualization page.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Eureka/climate.html
This page is the Eureka Climate page.
http://www.wrc-hec.usace.army.mil/
The US Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center has numerous hydrologic models to assist in water management problems. These models can be down loaded from this site.
http://www.epa.gov/surf/
This page is called Surf Your Watershed. It allows the public to learn more about issues associated with a given watershed.
http://www.humboldt.edu/~eae1/engr111/lib.html
The last two URLs on this page may be useful. Check for the NCDC and USGS CD-ROMs.
|| Beth Eschenbach ||
|| Environmental Resources Engineering || Humboldt State University ||
This page was developed and is maintained by Beth Eschenbach.
Please send any comments to eae1@axe.humboldt.edu.
Last Updated: 1/18/98