An initial course schedule is provided below but is subject to change.
Monday
- 8h Introduction to Sagehen Field Station: Essential survival information (Jeff Brown, Manager)
- 9h Course overview, some key concepts (Kondolf)
- 9h30. Channel processes, patterns & forms, floodplain interactions (Kondolf)
- 10h30 Break
- 11h Riparian vegetation, channel processes, and habitats (VanDam)
- 12h Lunch (Be dressed for the field by the end of lunch)
- 13h Channel adjustments (Kondolf)
- 14h Flow regime adaptation. Organisms in fluvial environments: natural history and population biology (Limm)
- 15h Sagehen Creek: Alluvial water table and riparian vegetation, Facies and habitat mapping (Limm, VanDam, Kondolf) (Sagehen Ck below main camp) Small groups prepare meadow transect and riparian/channel feature/habitat/facies map
- 17h Participant introductions, first meeting of project assessment teams (Nodine) (classroom, refreshments)
- 18h30 Geologic/geomorphic overview of Truckee River basin (Adams)
- 19h30 Dinner
Tuesday
- 8h Alluvial sediment. Types of sediment problems, grain entrainment and benthos adaptation, frequency and distribution of disturbance (Wilcock)
- 9h Controls on ecosystem function. River food webs and ecosystem services (Limm)
- 10h Break
- 10h30 Hydrology and hydraulics, estimating transport rates and their uncertainty. Flood frequency & flow duration, estimating critical discharge, sediment transport, uncertainty (Wilcock)
- 11h30 Channel classification in river restoration (Kondolf)
- 12h30 Stream table demonstration concurrent with lunch (Sytsma) Groups of appx ten rotate through for 20min each. (Be dressed for the field by the end of lunch)
- 14h Sagehen Creek: Monitoring bed conditions. (Sagehen Ck below main camp) Flow and sediment sampling methods (Shaw). Bed material mapping & sampling (Wilcock, Limm, Kondolf, Shaw)
- 17h Pebbles & Cheer: Analyze data from field and introduce spreadsheet exercise.
- Calculate frequency of floods, sediment disturbance & transport (classroom, refreshments)
- 18h30 Stream-riparian floodplain restoration in montane environments (Natali, Shaw)
- 19h30 Dinner
Wednesday
(prepare bag lunch during breakfast)
- 8h Incorporating sediment transport in channel design. Equilibrium vs performance-based channel design. (Wilcock)
- 9h30 Field Trip to the Truckee River basin (Kondolf, Wilcock, Pittman, Litchfield, Natali, Shaw) Truckee River Gorge: human alterations and restoration strategies (Pittman); Truckee River downtown Reno: urban river restoration (Litchfield); Perrazzo Meadows: pond & plug restoration (Natali, Shaw) (Board vans for field trip in parking area above kitchen, Optional: bring swim suit for Truckee River at Wingfield Park)
- 17h Assessment teams meet to compile results from field trip
- 17h30 Discussion of observations from Truckee/Perrazzo field trip, led by project assessment teams (classroom)
- 18h15 Overview of stream restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin, preview of Thursday’s field trip (Swanson and others)
- 19h30 Dinner
Thursday
(prepare bag lunch during breakfast)
- 8h Field trip to Upper Truckee River, Truckee River Marsh, Meeks Ck, Blackwood Ck (Shaw, Swanson, Cody, Kondolf, Wilcock) (Board vans for field trip in parking area above kitchen, Optional: bring swim suit for Lake Tahoe at Meeks Ck)
- 18h Teams meet to compile results from assessments of projects on field trips (classroom)
- 18h30 Discussion of observations from field trip, led by project assessment teams (classroom)
- 19h30 Dinner
Friday
- 8h Trinity River Restoration Program and geomorphic studies: large-scale restoration at the program scale, geomorphic flow basis & application (tracer rocks, riparian scour, sediment transport, release hydrographs. (McBain) (with short break at 9h)
- 10h15 Short break
- 10h30 Restoring river connectivity/processes. Restoring process, Espace de Liberté (Kondolf)
- 11h30 Learning from restoration projects: ideas and discussion (Kondolf, McBain, Natali)
- 12h15 Lunch (pack up and clear rooms over lunch break)
- 13h30 Student workshop: Participants present problems faced in their work for discussion. (McBain, Natali, Sytsma, Nodine, Kondolf)
- 16h Closing comments and discussion