Web links 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

      Water Use in the United States
      Stream gaging program of the U.S. Geological Survey
      Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential
      World Rivers Project
      Environmental Impact of Dams
      Shuttle Imaging Radar -  Rivers
      Global Drainage Basins Database
      Individual Watershed Studies around the World (not all equally useful, though)
        Monitoring and Research Activities in the Goodwin Creek, Miss. Experimental Watershed
        Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (Arizona)

      The Mississippi River

        "Old Man River" tour
        Upper Mississippi River Basin Cartographic Products
        Contaminants in the Mississippi River, 1987-92
        Mississippi River - radar image
        Mississppi River and Tributaries Project
        The 1993 flood
        Mississippi River Flood of 1993 (good description of how, where, and why)
        Assessing the 1993 flood on the upper Mississippi River Basin
        Landsat Imagery of the 1993 Mississippi River Flood
        Corps of Engineers 1993 Flood Data
        SAST Home Page and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Server
        AGU Web Site: The Great Flood of Summer 1993: Mississippi River Discharge Studied
        TM Flood
        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
        Experimental flood builds habitat in the Grand Canyon
        Grand Canyon flood!excerpts from PBS video

      California

        Water Resources of CaliforniaCalifornia Rivers Assessment

      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

    Floods

      Floods and flood plains
      Statewide floods in Pennsylvania, January 1996
      Northern California Storms and Floods of January 1995
      Dartmouth Flood Observatory
      Flood summary report - Hurricane Floyd
      China - Yangtze River Floods, Summer 1998
      Severe floods in China - summer 1998
      Dartmouth Flood Observatory report on 1998 Yangtze flooding
      Dartmouth Flood Observatory report on 1999 Yangtze flooding
      1998 flooding from Hurrican Mitch in Central America

    The Death of the Aral Sea: an environmental calamity

      The Aral Sea Homepage

      The Aral Sea Area Desertification Change-Detection Study
      Spatial Hydrology of the Aral Sea Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
      Aral Sea Case Study

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

      Three Gorges Outline
      Three Gorges Campaign
      Sediment Problems at Three Gorges Dam: Luna B. Leopold
      China's Three Gorges tour
      National Geographic magazine: September 1997 @ nationalgeographic.com
      The Three Gorges controversy -- Planet ENN, Jan. 20, 1997
      Take a Stand on the Yangtze Dam

    Sardar Sarovar project on the Narmada River, India

      The Sardar Sarovar Dam Controversy
      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

      Managing the Nile
      Disappearing Delta
      Running the Nile
      Nile Lecture 01 -- Introduction
      Nile Archive

    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