cE766: Watershed Management
This is a full semester course covering the state-of-the-art decision analysis methods for watershed management.
Who should attend?
Anyone who is curious about how limited resource systems should be managed when:
(i) the system are complex,
(ii) there are significant uncertainties regarding the future of the system, and
(iii) there are stakeholders with conflicting preferences.
Prerequisites
A knowledge in basic hydrology, optimization methods, and programming is useful, though not mandatory.
Course Overview
Course Schedule
Course Goals
- To explain various aspects of catchment functioning and how it affects resource availability
- To define and identify the XLRM components of environmental management problems
- To create decision problems from real world examples of environmental problems
- To analyze decision problems using R/Matlab/…
Lectures
Lecture No./Day/Date
1/T/Jan 4: Lecture 1a
1/T/Jan 4: Lecture 1b
2/M/Jan 8: Lecture 2
3/T/Jan 11: Lecture 3
4/M/Jan 15: Lecture 4
5/T/Jan 18: Lecture 4 contd.
6/M/Jan 22: In Class Exercises
7/T/Jan 25: Lecture 5
8/M/Jan 29: Lecture 6
9/T/Feb 1: Lecture 7
10/M/Feb 5: Lecture 8
11/T/Feb 8: Lecture 8 contd.
12/M/Feb 12: Lecture 9
13/T/Feb 15: Lecture 9 contd.
14/M/Feb 19: Lecture 10
15/T/Feb 22: Lecture 11
16/M/Mar 5: Lecture 12
17/T/Mar 8: Lecture 13
18/M/Mar 12: Lecture 14a
19/M/Mar 12: Lecture 14b
20/T/Mar 15: Lecture 15
21/M/Mar 19: Lecture 16
22/T/Mar 22: Lecture 16 contd.
23/M/Mar 26: In Class Exercises: Stoch. Optim.
24/M/Apr 2: In Class Exercise: MO
25/T/Apr 5: Lecture 17
26/M/Apr 9: Lecture 18
27/T/Apr 12: Lecture 19
Tutorials
1/ Coding Tutorial
Readings
Lecture No./ Reading
1/ Cohen 1995
1/ CWP
1/ Hirji 1996
2/ Chapter 4 in Lempert et al. 2003
4/ Vogel_FlowDurationCurves
4/ Surface Hydrology Handout
5/ Driscoletal2002_Joint_SW_GW_Budget
5/ Carteretal2011_Recharge_Estimation
5/ GroundWater_Estimation_India_2009
6/ Vannote1980_RiverContinuum
6/ EcosystemServices
7/ NaimanChapter4
8/ Smith&Zeder2013_Anthropocene
8/ Vorosmartyetal2000
9/ Downingetal1974_ConjunctiveUse
9/ Fosteret&vanSteenbergen2011_ConjunctiveUse
11/ Admiraaletal.2013_Measures
12/ Raje&Mujumdar2010_Measures
12/ Kodikaraetal.2010_Elicitation
12-15/ Uncertainty Handout
16/ BORGMOEA
17/ Singhetal2015
18/ Petersonetal2003
18/ Quinnetal2016
19/ WatershedDevelopmentGuidelinesGoI2011
19/ Wanietal2017
Assignments
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 2 data
Assignment 2 base code matlab
Assignment 2 base code R
Assignment 3
