Rivers and watersheds

    Course notes on rivers and fluvial processes

      notes from Vanderbilt University
      notes from Colorado State University
      notes from University of Houston
      notes from Univ. of Colorado
      slides from Duke University (part I)
      slides from Duke University (part II)
      slides from Univ. of British Columbia

    Water Resources and watershed studies

      National Park geology: tour of river systems
      Water Use in the United States
      Stream gaging program of the U.S. Geological Survey
      World Rivers Project Environmental Impact of Dams
      Shuttle Imaging Radar -  Rivers
      Global Drainage Basins Database
      U.S. Geological Survey Watershed Ecosystem Studies
      Individual Watershed Studies around the World (not all equally useful, though)
      EPA Enviromapper for watersheds

        Monitoring and Research Activities in the Goodwin Creek, Miss. Experimental Watershed
        Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (Arizona)

      Effects of El Niņo on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential

      The Mississippi River

        "Old Man River" tour
        EPA's web pages on the Mississippi River watershed
        Upper Mississippi River Basin Cartographic Products
        Contaminants in the Mississippi River, 1987-92
        Mississippi River - radar image
        Mississppi River and Tributaries Project
        The Mississippi Basin Carbon Project

        The 1993 flood

        Assessing the 1993 flood on the upper Mississippi River Basin
        Landsat Imagery of the 1993 Mississippi River Flood
        Corps of Engineers 1993 Flood Data
        AGU Web Site: The Great Flood of Summer 1993: Mississippi River Discharge Studied
        Images showing flood damage and channel change (excellent illustrations)

        Mississippi Delta and Atchafalaya River
        Atchafalaya Bay Delta Revaluation Study
        table of contents
        Atchafalaya Basin
        General Information About Coastal Louisiana & CWPPRA

      Arizona

        Arizona Water Issues Summary
        Arizona Water Information
        Verde River Watershed

      Colorado River in Grand Canyon

        Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center
        Controlled Flooding of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon
        Controlled Flooding of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon: the Rationale and Data-Collection Planned
        Grand Canyon Studies:Using Ocean-Research Techniques to Study a River System
        Can Large Releases of Water Restore Habitats in Grand Canyon?
        Studies of Colorado River Sandbars (Beaches) in Grand Canyon at Northern Arizona University

          Earlier version of the NAU Sandbar Study web page with background info

      Rio Puerco watershed in New Mexico - effects of land use and climate change in the desert southwest

      Rio Puerco online - from U.S. Geological Survey global change research program
          Erosion in the Rio Puerco: Geography and Processes
          The Rio Puerco Arroyo Cycle and the History of Landscape Changes
          The Arroyo Problem in the Southwestern United States
          History of Streamflow and Suspended-Sediment Collection in the Rio Puerco Basin, New Mexico
          Tree-ring web pages (not really about the Rio Puerco, but great source on dendrochronology and climate history)
          Modeling channel processes

      California

        Water Resources of California
        California Rivers Assessment
        1998 California floods

      Florida (especially the South Florida/Everglades system)

        South Florida ecosystem
        Central and Southern Florida Project Restudy Home Page
        The Suwannee River Basin Pilot Study:  Issues for Watershed Management in Florida

    Mono Lake, California

      Mono Lake, California
      The Mono Lake Water Issue
      Mono Lake and the politics of water in California
      Mono Lake is saved
      Environmental Sustainability: Mono Lake Study

        Answers to Mono Lake Hydrology exercise

    Floods and related hazards

      Floods and flood plains
      Statewide floods in Pennsylvania, January 1996
      Northern California Storms and Floods of January 1995
      Dartmouth Flood Observatory

      Debris-flow hazards in the United States
      Debris-flow hazards in the Blue Ridge of Virginia


      International case studies

      (note: some of the sites below represent strongly opinionated political positions; as with all sources, please read critically and consider the evidence)

    The Death of the Aral Sea: an environmental calamity

      The Aral Sea Homepage
      Desiccation of the Aral Sea: A Water Management Disaster in
      the Soviet Union
      The Aral Sea
      Animation showing shrinkage of Aral Sea over time
      The Aral Sea Area Desertification Change-Detection Study
      Spatial Hydrology of the Aral Sea Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
      The Aral Sea - Articles and Papers
      Water Features and Water Issues: Aral Sea
      A chronology of the Aral Sea problem
      General information about Aral Sea GIS
      Aral Sea Case Study

    The Three Gorges and the damming of the Yangtze River, China

      Three Gorges Outline
      Three Gorges Campaign
      Three Gorges Probe
      Sediment Problems at Three Gorges Dam: Luna B. Leopold
      China's Three Gorges tour
      National Geographic magazine: September 1997 @ nationalgeographic.com
      Take a Stand on the Yangtze Dam
      Rivers in Peril - Three Gorges Dam
      World Rivers Review online - Feb. 1998, special focus on Three Rivers Dam
          Three Rivers Dam not the answer to China's floods
      Severe floods in China - Summer 1998
      China: Yangtze River Flood (July-August 1998)
      Yangtze River - digital photo gallery

    Sardar Sarovar project on the Narmada River, India

      The Sardar Sarovar Dam Controversy
      The Narmada Valley Development Project
      proXsa: India Alert's Report on Sardar Sarovar Project
      SSP: An Overview
      The World Bank and India : Chapter 13
      Narmada Campaign

    The Aswan Dam and the Nile River and delta

      NILE BASIN HOME PAGE
      WATER RESOURCES ATLAS OF THE RIVER NILE BASIN
      Managing the Nile
      The case of the Nile River Basin
      Disappearing Delta
      Running the Nile
      Nile Simulator: A Windows-Based Hydrologic Simulator of the Nile River system
      The Nile: Technology, Politics, and Environment (course at UMCP)
          Lecture notes from Nile course

    The Amazon River

      Patterns and Processes of Change in the Amazon River Basin

    Transport of Radioactive Nuclides by the Ob and Yenisei Rivers, Russia

      Arctic Nuclear Waste Assessment Program
      Kara Sea

      Russia's Environmental Mess

    Miscellaneous

      Spatial water balance of Texas
      National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program South Platte River Basin Study
      Water quality in the Rio Grande watershed
      Shenandoah watershed study
      Caspar Creek experimental watershed
      World Rivers Review online (multiple articles on environmental problems related to development)
      RiverNet: European Rivers Network
      Sustaining water, easing scarcity: a second update
      International freshwater conflict: issues and prevention strategies