Course Contents
(list of module titles)

00 Introduction (instructions, contents, watershed definition)
01 Collection Function...................
02 Storage Function...........................
03 Discharge Function.........................
04 Chemical Reactions Function ...........
05 Habitat Function..............................
06 Attenuation Function....................
07 Flushing Function......................
08 Soil Storage
09 The Water Balance
10 The Resource Buffer Theory
11 Watershed Management
12 Summary and Study Questions, Acknowledgments, and Literature Cited
Running time for the course is about one and one-quarter hours, not including the hour of Handel's Water Music and time to contemplate implication, graph, and photographic slides, and to review study questions. The entire course requires about two and three-and-a-half hours. It may be interrupted and restarted anywhere at any time at the user’s discretion. Peter E. Black

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"Concepts of Watershed Hydrology"

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Unsolicited User Comment:

"It is a masterpiece of expository scholarship, a superbly designed, jargon-free exposition of watershed hydrology, suitable for serious students of the subject from the high-school to the senior undergraduate levels, and interested laymen as well." -- James Dwyer, California

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Highlights:

The best audiovisual/autotutorial short course available: it puts the basic sciences of hydrology and ecology into watershed management.

• Contains no unexplained jargon.
• Consists of 155 animated, text, tabular, photo example, and study question slides
• Clearly establishes the fundamental ecological difference between stormwater- and groundwater-runoff.
• Covers material not considered in most engineering textbooks on hydrology. For example, over sixty percent of the average annual precipitation is subject to evapotranspiration, yet most hydrology texts devote only a few pages to this essential portion of the hydrological cycle.
• Designed for ninth grade Earth Science students, college courses, practicing professionals, and lay public interested in water.
• Ideal for soil and water conservation district personnel, land owners, elected officials, planning boards, consultants, and watershed and lake association staff and members. And students!
• Helps you better understand watershed initiatives.
• Course may be completed in one sitting or at your leisure.
• Modules can be accessed in any sequence, and may be re-visited at any time.

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Book Review Excerpts:

“…watch as these slides appear one by one crisply on the screen as they reveal the dynamics of watersheds…. This package, modestly priced, would be a good supplement to a college course in basic hydrology. … Dr. Black … brings a depth of experience both in the field and in publishing from which students will benefit.” – Peter Wild, US Water News 20(12): 9 December, 2003.

“…would be of interest and help to any student of hydrology. … The pictures and illustrations presented in the CD images will help students visualize important hydrologic concepts. The topics tie important biological and ecological concepts to basic principles of hydrology. It will certainly broaden a student’s perspective on hydrologic science. … Traversing through the CD is very user friendly…. Overall, this manual-CD package is a very useful educational supplement.” – Richard H. McCuen, Journal of the American Water Resources Association 40(3):835. June, 2004. P.S. the only criticism was that earlier editions of the workbook lacked a Table of Contents (there is one in the Short Course itself anyway.). The latest version of the workbook has both that and a comprehensive list of references for further information and study [PEB].

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Fundamentals of Conservation
The Practical and Basic Social Issues.
(A participatory event: workshop date, time, and location to be arranged)

This two-day workshop is a condensation of a three-credit-hour on-campus course entitled Soil and Water Conservation Policy. The purpose of the workshop is to promote understanding of the many categories of human activity that impact conservation concerns so as to better understand current issues and thus participate more effectively as citizens or as professional employees.
Citizen participation in water quality decisions is mandated under federal law and the course focuses on the nonpoint sources of pollution and their prevention and control and the characteristics and behavior of effective partners. The material presented is contained in Conservation of Water and Related Land Resources published in 2000 by CRC Press, Lewis Publishers, and written by the instructor and Brian L. Fisher with a foreword by the late Theodore M. Schad.
The primary tool of the workshop will be lecture, presented with instructive on-site, title, illustrated, and animated slides organizing and simplifying the information underlying conservation of water and related land resources. A booklet of all but the on-site slides provides for organized and informative notes, and will include short essays. Two videos may also be shown, and a guest lecturer will discuss the important role of multi-level government, private, citizen, and non-government organization partnerships in making conservation decisions. One session will be devoted to a mock hearing on a water resource proposal.

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