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Kent’s hydrology class deals primarily with methods for estimating the flow in rivers given watershed inputs like precipitation, evaporation, and infiltration. It is primarily for surface process and engineering geology graduate students here in the Geology department, although students from Biology’s stream ecology program often take the course.
Like the other classes in this series (Fluvial Sediment Transport and Coastal Processes), this class stresses outside labwork. During the last four weeks of the semester, we use the nearby Cuyahoga River as a natural lab to measure discharge, and set up a Class A pan to measure evaporation.
Hydrology is taught every year in the spring.