Course description
Tenetative Schedule, Goals, etc.
Stream Gauging Docs and Tutorials
Topographic Mapping Docs and Tutorials
Rocky Branch Creek
Handheld GPS Exercise
Field Trip
Final Project and Report

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Course description
This is a graduate-level seminar designed to provide students with field and laboratory experience in hydrology, water quality, sedimentology, soils, and geomorphology.  It will have three components: 

• (1) indoor round-table discussions to go over readings about field and lab methods;
• (2) outdoor field excursions to examine, measure, survey, and sample soils, streams, sediment, slopes, etc.;
• (3) indoor laboratory exercises to process samples and learn lab techniques. 

Readings will preceed field excursions and lab sessions to provide instruction and equipment orientations. 
Field work will concentrate on sites near campus (probably Rocky Branch Creek at Pickens Street), and will include basic surveying (total station, GPS, etc.), sediment sampling (bulk density, coring, etc.), water quality sampling, and discharge and sediment flux measurements.  We will establish a stream gauge and calibrate it with a stage-discharge curve and a sediment-rating curve.  This will involve installing a stage sensor, digital data logger, and ISCO automated water sampler, measuring streamflow, and sampling total solids for a range of discharge events, and surveying the channel to make a large-scale map.  There will be a weekend field trip to the tri-state area (NC, GA, SC) that involves two nights of camping to visit the Coweeta Hydrology lab, Tallulah Falls, Standing Indian Park. 
Lab work will include GISci computer processing of field survey map data (GPS and total station) as well as sedimentology and water-quality measurements in the biogeomorphology lab.  Techniques will include particle-size analysis, optical microscopy, bulk density, filtering water samples, etc.  
   Previous lab or field experience is not required but some experience in physical geography, geology, surveying, or hydrology, and enthusiasm for learning how to measure, analyze, and map water and earth materials outdoors and in the lab are important.