In Spring 2020, my Watershed Hydrology class transitioned to online in mid-March. This spurred me to create more blog posts and YouTube videos to provide content for the remaining units of the course. This substantial effort added to work I had been doing over the past several years to provide online resources to students in the class. Before we moved to fully online instruction, the goal of my blog posts were to free up class time for hands-on activities, by moving some of the methodological topics online. Obviously, after we moved online, the goal of my materials was to teach all of the content that I thought it was important for students in my class to know.
In this blog post, I provide links to the blog posts I had previously written for teaching purposes on precipitation, evapotranspiration and other topics and a listing of the blog posts I created during Spring 2020, including those with all of my resources on soil moisture and infiltration, streamflow generation, streamflow, and flooding.
Course Context and my Reflections on Spring 2020
Precipitation
- Measuring precipitation: rain gauges and point precipitation data sources
- Measuring precipitation: radar and satellite based measurements
Evapotranspiration and Interception
- Measuring actual evapotranspiration with weighing lysimeters
- Measuring evapotranspiration components
- Conifers capture the snow, but do they intercept it?
Soil Moisture and Infiltration
- How I taught Soil Moisture and Infiltration online in Spring 2020 (this post has everything I did and includes links to the other blog posts under this heading, so if you want one-stop shopping, this is the link to click)
- How wet is the unsaturated zone?
- How easily water moves in soil depends on how big the soil pores are, how well they are connected, and how wet they are
- Measuring infiltration capacity in the field
Streamflow (Runoff) Generation
- How I taught Streamflow Generation online in Spring 2020 (this post has everything I did and includes links to the other blog posts under this heading, so if you want one-stop shopping, this is the link to click)
- How does water that falls on land get to streams?
- How flow generation controls stream hydrographs
- Zooming out: how climate and landscapes control streamflow generation
Streamflow
- How I taught Streamflow online in Spring 2020 (this post has everything I did, so if you want one-stop shopping, this is the link to click)
Flooding
- How I taught Flooding online in Spring 2020 (this post has everything I did and includes links to the other blog posts under this heading, so if you want one-stop shopping, this is the link to click)
- Note: The blog post above contains a number of links to other posts (not listed here) with many case studies of particular floods and flood generating mechanisms.
- A riverine flooding cookbook, vol. 1: meteorological floods
- Levees and the illusion of flood control
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