2023 SCHEDULE
GEOMORPHIC & ECOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS FOR RIVER RESTORATION
Monday
- 8h Welcome and overview of shortcourse (Kondolf, Wilcock)
- 8h30 Introduction to Sagehen Field Station
- 9h Channel processes, patterns & forms, floodplains, vegetation interactions (Kondolf)
- 10h30 Break
- 11h Alluvial Sediment. Types of sediment problems, grain entrainment and benthos adaptation, frequency and distribution of disturbance (Wilcock)
- 12h Lunch (Be dressed for the field by the end of lunch)
- 13h Flow regime adaptation. Organisms in fluvial environments: natural history and population biology (Limm)
- 14h15 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 Stream-riparian floodplain restoration in montane environments (Shaw, Kondolf)
- 19h00 Dinner
Tuesday
- 8h Channel adjustments (Kondolf)
- 9h 15 Controls on ecosystem function. River food webs and ecosystem services (Limm)
- 10h15 Break
- 10h45 Hydrology and hydraulics, estimating transport rates and their uncertainty. Flood frequency & flow duration, estimating critical discharge, sediment transport, uncertainty (Wilcock)
- 12h Stream table demonstration concurrent with lunch (Hansen) Groups of appx 10-12 rotate through for 20min each. (Be dressed for the field by the end of lunch)
- 13h15 Floodplain overview and re-connection (Tompkins)
- 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)
- 16h30 Pebbles & Cheer: Analyze data from field, sediment transport spreadsheet exercise.
- Calculate frequency of floods, sediment disturbance & transport (classroom, refreshments)
- 18h00 Channel classification and the stable channel paradigm (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, Sega, Litchfield, Shaw) Truckee River Gorge: human alterations and restoration strategies (Sega); Truckee River downtown Reno: urban river restoration (Litchfield); Perazzo Meadows: pond & plug restoration (Shaw) (Board vans for field trip in parking area above kitchen, Optional: bring swim suit for Truckee River at Wingfield Park)
- 17h30 Discussion of observations from Truckee/Perazzo field trip (classroom)
- 18h Overview of stream restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin, preview of Thursday’s field trip (Swanson and others)
- 19h Dinner
Thursday
- (prepare bag lunch during breakfast)
- 8h Field trip to Upper Truckee River, Truckee River Marsh, Meeks Ck, Blackwood Ck (Swanson, Carroll, Kondolf, Limm, Wilcock) (Board vans for field trip in parking area above kitchen, Optional: bring swim suit for Lake Tahoe at Meeks Ck)
- 18h00 Discussion of observations from field trip. (classroom)
- 19h00 Dinner
Friday
- 8h Student workshop, Part 1: Participants present problems faced in their work for discussion. (McBain, Swanson, Kondolf)
- 9h30 Short break
- 9h45 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)
- 11h45 Lunch (pack up during lunch hour)
- 13h Restoring river connectivity/processes. Restoring process, Espace de Liberté (Kondolf)
- 14h Student workshop, Part 2: Participants present problems faced in their work for discussion. (McBain, Wilcock, Kondolf)
- 1600 Course conclusion, depart Sagehen (Reno airport shuttle departs at 15h)
2024 Course will be held August 19-23, 2024, at Sagehen Creek Field Station in Truckee, California. The 2024 schedule is in progress. Once finalized, it will be posted here. Thank you very much for your interest in the course!