NREM 662 Watershed Hydrology

Instructor: Office: Phone: email: website:

Ali Fares, Assist. Prof. Watershed Hydrology Sherman 242 956-6361 afares@hawaii.edu www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/faresa/

Course Description: This course will provide students with a fundamental understanding of the principles of managing small watersheds. Students will:

1. acquire a fundamental understanding of the hydrologic cycle, the interactions among the hydrosphere, atmosphere and land-use management (forest, agriculture and urban) effects on the amount, timing and quality of water resources
2. Develop the ability to quantify the magnitude of hydrologic entities in small watersheds. They will have some hands on watershed management such as rainfall, effective rainfall, canopy rainfall interception, evapo-transpiration, infiltration, stream flow and hydrographs.
3. Relate hydrologic information to land use management. Students will study impact of different management practices on natural resources
4. Understand impact of different watershed management on hydrology, water quality, of the surface and groundwater resources, and urban flooding.

Topics Outline:

• The hydrologic cycle: an overview
• Watershed characteristics
• Precipitation and Interception
• Evapo-transpiration
• Soil Water Storage
• Infiltration
• The runoff process
• Soil properties
• Hydrologic Methods
• Wetlands Hydrology & Management
• Riparian Area Management
• Erosion
• Tropical watershed management
• Socioeconomic considerations in watershed management
• Water quality
• Watershed planning and protection