GEOL 5390 - Fluvial Geomorphology

• Be familiar with common field techniques, including measurements of channel geometries and stream health assessments.
• Be familiar with stream restoration concepts and methodologies.
• Graduate student abilities are tested by extra quantitative and qualitative problems added to the five assignments given to all students.
• Graduate students are held to a higher standard than undergraduate students. Graduate students must demonstrate a greater ability to understand and synthesize course topics.
• Know and understand the hydraulics of open channel flow from both general and quantitative perspectives.
• Know the major controls on channel geometries and morphologies, including those acting at the reach and watershed scales.
• The extra quantitative problems for graduate students possess greater complexities and the qualitative questions require deeper syntheses than are expected of undergraduate students.
• Understand how stream ecology is strongly linked to river morphologies and behaviors.
• Understand the mechanics of sediment entrainment, transport, and deposition.