Sediment Transport
Use locally collected data to calculate hydrologic and hydraulic parameters. Apply to a real world problem.
Context
Audience: grad course in fluvial
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered: basic math, basic open channel flow and sediment transport concepts
How the activity is situated in the course: stand alone exercise
Goals
Content/concepts goals for this activity: Learn how to interpret sediment transport data; apply basic fluvial equations to a real world problem
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity: analysis of data; use of xs calculator s/w
Other skills goals for this activity:
Description of the activity/assignment
Each student reviews a recent USGS publication detailing sediment transport data collection and reduction on the Yellowstone River. Using that report, they answer a series of questions about sediment transport and make some basic hydrologic and hydraulic calculations using data in the report. They also use USGS software to analyze cross-sections on the Yellowstone in a real world application.
Designed for a geomorphology course
Determining whether students have met the goals
Evaluate numeric answers, as well as analytic steps to arrive at answers.
More information about assessment tools and techniques.Download teaching materials and tips
- Activity Description/Assignment (Microsoft Word 28kB Apr28 08)
Other Materials
- xs data (Excel 36kB Apr28 08)
- USGS sed trans report on the upper Yellowstone River (Acrobat (PDF) 1.9MB Apr28 08)
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