Hydrology for Planners ~ LA222

About the course

Hydrology for Planners (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning 222) has been offered annually since 1973, when Luna Leopold introduced the course to the Berkeley campus. This graduate-level course, taught by Associate Professor Matt Kondolf, presents an overview of relevant hydrologic, hydraulic, and geomorphic processes, to provide the planner, ecologist, architect, and environmental scientist with insight sufficient to coordinate with technical specialists in the field of hydrology. 

The course also reviews relevant regulations and policies, and presents case studies illustrating hydrologic principles and measurement methods. The course is not intended to duplicate more specialized courses offered in such fields as engineering hydrology, coastal engineering, or geology, but rather to provide an integrated overview. 

The course takes a process- and field-based approach to hydrology, and emphasizes interdisciplinary perspectives. After eight field and laboratory exercises presenting methods in the field, the students undertake a substantial independent term project involving original research. All the term projects undergo peer and instructor review, revision, and are then added to the permanent collection of the UC Water Resources Center Archives, where they can be searched on the Melvyl catalog. Most projects since 2004 are also available on-line at http://repositories.cdlib.org/wrca/.
 
 

Course Materials


Spring 2009 Syllabus

Spring 2009 Schedule

Exercises

Readings
Survey Info from Rune:
Autolevel
Base Maps
Field Survey Techniques
Two Decades Stream Rest		 Info from Ausaf Rahman:
Outline
Ecosan Transparencies
OPP-RTI
SEWA

ACOE Info from Holly Costa:
Brief Regulatory Info
Overview of Reg Division
The Value of ACOE

 
Course Lectures

Lecture 1 (1/20)

Lecture 2 (1/22)

Lecture 3  (1/27)

Lecture 4a (1/29) Survey 

Lecture 4b (1/29) Water Mgmt 

Lecture 5 (2/3) Storm Water 

Lecture 6  (2/10)

Lecture 7 (2/12) 

Lecture 8 (2/17)   SF Water  

Lecture 9 (2/19)

Lecture 10 (2/24) 

Lecture 11 (2/26)

Lecture 13 (3/3) Modeling

Lecture 14 (3/10) GW Pollution

Lecture 15 (3/12)

Lecture 16 (3/31) San Joaquin WQ

Lecture 17 (4/2) Part 2

Lecture 18 (4/9) Coast

 Lecture 19 (4/9) Green Inf

Lecture 20 (4/14) Sheds & Buffers

Lecture 21 (4/21) ACOE Regs

Lecture 22 (4/30) Wetland Hydro

Lecture 23 (5/5) Global River Rest

Lecture 24

Term Projects

Term project guidelines
Independent term projects are presented each year in a public symposium:

Term projects available as full .pdf downloads.