Sediment Course Materials - 2023



Advance Instructions for 2023 - This is the link to your pre-course homework

Workshop Schedule- as of Sunday Evening - subject to change

SYMBOLS !!!


Readings

Wilcock et al Primer
Wilcock and DeTemple 2005 - Persistent Armor Layers and application of the inverse Wilcock-Crowe transport model
Wilcock 2023 - Beyond Bankfull - At last an initial statement - in writing - of the approach presented in this workshop
Wilcock 2001 - Practical approach to estimating sediment transport rates
Wilcock and Crowe 2003 - The surface-based mixed-size transport model

 Erwin et al: Provo River Monitoring Paper

Barnes: The Manning's n picture book from USGS

rmrs-gtr74: Everything you might ever want to know about sampling river bed sediment. Bunte, Kristin: Abt, Steven R. 2001. Sampling surface and subsurface particle-size distributions in wadable gravel-and cobble-bed streams for analyses in sediment-transport, hydraulics, and streambed monitoring. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-74. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 428 p.

Required: Grabowski Reading

Optional: The River Styles Framework

Optional: Sediment Cascades in Active Landscapes

Optional: Naden 2010 Sediment Cascades Chapter 10

Belmont library

Reid and Dunne 1996
Reid and Dunne Tools

Bisson, Montgomery, Buffington 2017
Garcia - Sediment Transport Text

Parker - Mixed-size Transport Chapter

Schmidt and Wilcock 2008

NRCS 654 Handbook

NRCS 654 Case Studies

NRCS 654 Appendices

Some references on sediment transport sampling
Edwards and Glysson (1999)  (the classic)
Wood (2014) Acoustic Doppler Sediment Sampling
Gea et al (2020) Rock knocking
Bunte net frame samplers - How to build and deploy - All of her data (!!)
No scoop bedload sampler?

A couple papers on 1d morphodynamic modeling
Wiele et al. (2007) Grand Canyon
Cui et al. (2011) Practical considerations (esp. Marmot Dam)
A very useful talk by Yantao Cui at the 2011 EWRI Conference

Course Materials 2023


Monday


Wilcock - Introduction

Wilcock - Sediment Concepts

Belmont - Watershed Hydrology and Sediment

Belmont - Logan Canyon Exercise package (zip)

Tuesday


Belmont - Monday Review
Belmont - Watershed Tools and Techniques
Belmont - FIRE!
Wilcock - Hydraulics Review (also notes on morphodynamic modeling and on flushing flows)

Logan River First Dam: Picnic, Field Visit, and Exercise
and the spreadsheet Logan R First Dam Approach Reach

Wednesday


Wilcock Estimating Sediment Transport
Wilcock Sediment transport and the equilibrium channel

Logan River Rendezvous Park: Picnic, Sediment Sampling Discussion, Walk Stream Project

Leonard Cub River Overview and Guidance
Cub River Exercise

Thursday

Wilcock Sediment Transport & Channel Design
Middle Provo River Design Problem
Provo Delta Design Problem
Provo River GIS
2019 Tyler Slides

Friday

Friday Field Trip Slides
Provo Projects Overview


Post-Course Homework

Teaching bundle: This is a zipped file containing your post-class assignment. It includes the three chapters from the NRCS handbook and worked spreadsheets that do the NRCS worked examples for a threshold channel (Ch. 8) and alluvial channel (Ch. 9) and take them to the next level or two. No, it is not as smooth as a textbook but the spreadsheets are pretty well annotated and you should be able to work through them. Also included is the paper in which we use inverse iSURF to demonstrate that armor layers appear to persist. Also included is a set of lecture notes used for a 1/2 day short course last April at the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference. Mostly the same - but there are a few different twists.