Offered by the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics
  December 11-12, 2005
  University of California, Berkeley

Audience: graduate students and younger researchers.

Goal: provide a quick but substantive overview of mountain rivers, geared toward teaching students about ideas and tools of practical use.

NCED Instructors: Bill Dietrich, Gary Parker, Mary Power, and Peter Wilcock

Guest Instructors: Wendy Palen, Leonard Sklar

Sessions included:

Mountain rivers in a landscape context
Channel networks and river morphology
Watershed sediment budgets
Desktop watersheds
Hydraulic geometry of mountain rivers
Hydraulics of mountain rivers
Transport dynamics in mountain rivers
Predicting bed material transport rates
1D morphodynamics of gravel-bed rivers 1
1D morphodynamics of gravel-bed rivers 2
Morphodynamics of bedrock streams
Overview of stream restoration issues for mountain streams
Strategies for gravel augmentation as a part of stream restoration
Mountain stream ecology 1: Effects of floods on river food webs.
Mountain stream ecology 2: Food web changes down river networks
Mountain stream ecology 3: Integrating the effects of land-use and climate changes for river food webs at local to watershed scales.
Student presentations