Sediment Course Materials - 2025
Course Materials 2025
- Advance Instructions for 2025
- Workshop Schedule- as of Sunday Evening - subject to change
- SYMBOLS !!!
Monday
- Wilcock - Introduction
- Wilcock - Sediment Concepts
- Belmont - Logan Canyon Exercise Package (.zip)
- Belmont - Watershed Hydrology and Sediment
Tuesday
- Belmont - Watershed Context & Tools
- Belmont - Predictive Modeling of Post-Wildfire Erosion & Sediment Transport
- Belmont - Brief Overview of Watershed Hydrology & Sediment Dynamics
- Wilcock - Hydraulics Lecture Slides
- Wilcock - Morphodynamics Lecture Slides
- Logan River First Dam Exercise
- Logan River First Dam Approach Gradually Varied Flow Spreadsheet
- Extra spreadsheet exploring unsteady, nonuniform flow: Flood
Wednesday
- How to estimate exponents for Lane's Balance
- Sediment Transport Rates - Lecture Slides
- The Equilibrium Channel Lecture Slides
- Cub River Assignment: Exercise, Input Data, Monte Carlo Spreadsheet, SRC spreadsheet. And NOTES on the solution!
Thursday
- Channel Design Lecture Notes
- Middle Provo Exercise
Solution!!! Spreadsheet with input and output. iSURF. Some images. And a YouTube video going over the solution. You're welcome. - Provo Delta Exercise
Solution!!! Solution spreadsheet. Solution slides. iSURF. And a 2024 YouTube video going over the solution. Almost identical to the 2025 solution
(I changed the hydraulics slightly). - Middle Provo GIS !!!
- Middle Provo DEM!!!!
- Text explaining iSURF hydraulics
Friday - Post-Course Homework
- Your post-course homework is to complete the Provo Delta exercise and email the result to me. In previous years, I asked students to do example problems from the Threshold and Alluvial Channel chapters in the NRCS Handbook. Your are welcome to do those, but I have not looked at them lately and I now think they are a bridge too far for this class. You can the package here.
Finally, my personal USU webpage, which has some more goodies.
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
Some references on sediment transport sampling
- Edwards and Glysson (1999) (the classic)
- Bunte net frame samplers - How to build and deploy - All of her data (!!)
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