An initial course schedule is provided below but is subject to change.
GEOMORPHIC & ECOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS FOR RIVER RESTORATION
August 16-20, 2021 Sagehen Creek Field Station, Truckee, California
GEOMORPHIC & ECOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS FOR RIVER RESTORATION
August 16-20, 2021 Sagehen Creek Field Station, Truckee, California
Monday
- 8h Welcome and overview of shortcourse.
- 8h30 Introduction to Sagehen Field Station (Ash Zemenick, Manager)
- 9h Channel processes, patterns & forms, floodplains, vegetation interactions (Kondolf)
- 10h30 Break
- 11h Flow regime adaptation. Organisms in fluvial environments: natural history and population biology (Limm)
- 12h Lunch (Be dressed for the field by the end of lunch)
- 13h Channel adjustments (Kondolf)
- 14h00 Sagehen Creek: Alluvial water table and riparian vegetation, Facies and habitat mapping (Limm, Kondolf) (Sagehen Ck below main camp) Small groups prepare meadow transect and riparian/channel feature/habitat/facies map
- 17h Participant introductions, (classroom, refreshments)
- 18h Controls on ecosystem function. River food webs and ecosystem services (Limm)
- 19h00 Dinner
Tuesday
- 8h Alluvial sediment. Types of sediment problems, grain entrainment and benthos adaptation, frequency and distribution of disturbance (Wilcock)
- 9h Channel classification and the stable channel paradigm (Kondolf)
- 10h Break
- 10h30 Hydrology and hydraulics, estimating transport rates and their uncertainty. Flood frequency & flow duration, estimating critical discharge, sediment transport, uncertainty (Wilcock)
- 11h30 Floodplain overview and re-connection (Tompkins)
- 12h Stream table demonstration concurrent with lunch (Tinoco) Groups of appx ten rotate through for 20min each. (Be dressed for the field by the end of lunch)
- 13h30 Sagehen Creek: Monitoring bed conditions. (Sagehen Ck below main camp) Flow and sediment sampling methods (Shaw). Bed material mapping & sampling (Wilcock, Limm, Kondolf, Shaw)
- 16h30 Pebbles & Cheer: Analyze data from field, sediment transport spreadsheet exercise.
- Calculate frequency of floods, sediment disturbance & transport (classroom, refreshments)
- 18h00 Stream-riparian floodplain restoration in montane environments (Shaw, Kondolf)
- 19h00 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); Perazzo Meadows: pond & plug restoration (Board vans for field trip in parking area above kitchen, Optional: bring swim suit for Truckee River at Wingfield Park)
- 17h45 Discussion of observations from Truckee/Perazzo field trip (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)
- 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)
- 11h Student workshop: Participants present problems faced in their work for discussion. (McBain, , Kondolf)
- 12h30 Course conclusion
- 12h30 Lunch (pack up and clear rooms over lunch break)
- 14h00. Depart Sagehen Ck Field Station