Week 1: Watersheds and Water Mass Balances
Week 2: Precipitation, Measurement, and Historical Data
Week 3: Evaporation, Transpiration
Week 4: Infiltration, Water at the Land-Surface
Week 5: Runoff Processes, Infiltration and Saturation
Week 6: Streamflow, Hydrographs, Land Use Change
Week 7: Flood Prediction and Flood Frequency Analysis
Week 8: Midterm Exam
Tentative SCHEDULE
| Week | Lecture | Lab or Field Trip |
| 1 | Watersheds and Water Mass Balances | Lab: Watershed |
| 2 | Precipitation, Measurement, and Historical Data | Weekend field trip to the Old Croton Dam and Aqueduct |
| 3 | Evaporation, Transpiration, Evapotranspiration | Water budget of Mono Lake 1 |
| 4 | (Quiz #1) Infiltration, Water at the Land-Surface | Water budget of Mono Lake 2 |
| 5 | Runoff Processes, Infiltration and Saturation Excess Flows | Lab: infiltration |
| 6 | Streamflow, Hydrographs, Land Use Change | Lab: stream flow |
| 7 | Flood Prediction and Flood Frequency Analysis | Lab: flood frequency |
| 8 | Midterm Exam | Green Infrastructure Field Trip |
| 9 | Porous Media | Lab: Porosity, specific yield, specific retention |
| 10 | Basics of Groundwater flow | Lab: Groundwater Hydrology Part B |
| 11 | Darcy’s Law | Lab: Groundwater Hydrology Part A |
| 12 | (Quiz #2) Flow Modeling, Wells, and Pumping Tests | Lab: Darcy’s law |
| 13 | Water Quality and Groundwater Contamination | Lab: water quality data and pollution sources |
| 14 | Groundwater Remediation | Review |
| 15 | FINAL EXAM |
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