Archived StreamNotes (1992-2012)

 

 

 

 

April 2012 (2.21 MB / 12 pages)

• Hyporheic Zones in Mountain Streams: Physical Processes and Ecosystem Functions.
• Stream Restoration in Dynamic Fluvial Systems.

October 2011 (3.24 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Practical guidelines for monitoring movement of aquatic organisms at stream-road crossings.
• John Potyondy, STREAM Program Manager, Retires.

July 2011 (6.84 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Stream Temperature Monitoring and Modeling: Recent Advances and New Tools for Manager.

April 2011 (1.64 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Assessment of Threats to Riparian Ecosystems in the Western U.S.
• The Western U.S. Stream Flow Metric Dataset

January 2011 (4.36 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Synthesis: Post-Fire Road Treatments of BAER Teams
• Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems
• Saltcedar and Russian Olive Control Science Assessment

October 2010 (5.42 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Understanding Controls on Flow Resistance Along High-Gradient Mountain Streams
• Water, Climate Change, and Forests: Watershed Stewardship for a Changing Climate

July 2010 (974 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Conducting Large In-stream Wood Studies: A Call for Common Metrics
• Cumulative Watershed Effects of Fuel Management in the Western United States

April 2010 (1.99 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Adapting to Climate Change: A Short Course for Land Managers
• Climate Change Bibliography
• Forest Soil Disturbance Monitoring Protocol Tool Kit

January 2010 (2.98 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Comparison of Three Pebble Count Protocols (EMAP, PIBO, and SFT) in Two Mountain Gravel-bed Streams
• The International Instream Flow Program Initiative
• Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
• Literature Synthesis On Effectiveness Of Forest Road BMPs

October 2009 (1.10 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Riparian Vegetation-Flow Response Guilds: A Tool for Determining Environmental Flows for Riparian Vegetation
• BAGS (Bedload Assessment for Gravel-bed Streams) Software Update

July 2009 (2.14 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Bed Load Transport in Gravel-Bed Streams
• Stream Restoration Design Handbook
• Stream Temperature Modeling
• What Countries in the World are Reading Stream Notes?

April 2009 (1.62 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Physical Science and Climate Change: A Guide for Biologists (and others)
• Ask Doc Hydro: Using a Crest-Stage Gage

January 2009 (1.26 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Stream Simulation: An Ecological Approach to Providing Passage for Aquatic Organisms at Road-Stream Crossings
• Effects of Ski Slope Development on Stream Channel Morphology in Colorado

October 2008 (960 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• A Simple Alphanumeric Classification of Wood Debris Size and Shape
• Watershed Assessment of River Stability and Sediment Supply (WARSSS)
• River Variability and Complexity
• StreamStats Update: The Map-based Web Application to Obtain Flow Data from Ungaged Streams
• Training Products and Videos for Identifying Bankfull Stage are Now Available Online

July 2008 (599 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Erosion Risk Management Tool (ERMiT)
• Saving West Coast Salmon

April 2008 (968 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Advancing the Fundamental Sciences Proceedings of the Forest Service National Earth Sciences Conference, San Diego, CA, 18-22 October 2004
• Homogenization of Regional River Dynamics by Dams and Global Biodiversity Implications

January 2008 (1.08 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Post-fire Erosion and the Effectiveness of Emergency Rehabilitation Treatments over Time
• Low-Water Crossings: Geomorphic, Biological, and Engineering Design Considerations

October 2007 (984 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Guidelines for Using Bedload Traps in Coarse-Bedded Mountain Channels
• Recommendations from the International Bedload-Surrogate Monitoring Workshop
• Application of Piecewise Regression to Bedload Data

July 2007 (1.20 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• The WEPP Road Batch Model: A Tool for Reducing Erosion from Trails
• Ask Doctor Hydro: Working with Data Gaps

April 2007 (2.25 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• A Geomorphological Perspective on Things to Think About Before Starting a Gravel Augmentation Project
• The Impacts of ATV Traffic on Undesignated Trails

January 2007 (1.38 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• ICWater: A New Software Tool for Protecting the Nation’s Drinking Water
• The Lassen National Forest Watershed Improvement Program
• Lewis and Clark’s Observations and Measurements of Geomorphology and Hydrology, and Changes with Time

October 2006 (804 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Predicting Channel Responses to Flow Diversions
• Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems: Ecology, Management, and Restoration
• Where’s Penny?

July 2006 (1.31 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Measuring Stream Temperature with Digital Data Loggers
• Using Multiple Indicators to Detect Geomorphic Channel Changes in Response to Wildfire
• A Peculiar River : Geology, Geomorphology, and Hydrology of the Deschutes River , Oregon

April 2006 (424 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Effects of Fire on Soil and Water
• River Restoration in the Context of Natural Variability
• Introduction to Suspended-Sediment Sampling: CD-based Training

January 2006 (810 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Sediment and Water-Quality Sampling Equipment Information
• StreamStats: Map-based Web Application to Obtain Flow Data at Ungaged Streams

October 2005 (665 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Woody Debris Transport at Road-Stream Crossings
• Riparian Roads and Restoration: Electronic Short Course

July 2005 (469 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Predicting Bedload Transport Rates In Mountain Gravel-Bed Rivers
• National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics (NCED), Stream Restoration Group

April 2005 (634 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• WinXSPRO, A Channel Cross Section Analyzer, Version 3.0
• Watershed Resources Monitoring (WARM) Database
• Modeling Flow and Riparian Cottonwood Populations

January 2005 (880 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• A Guide to Identification of Bankfull Stage in the Northeastern U.S.
• Large Wood for Stream Habitat Restoration in Sand-bed Channels: Harder Than It Looks!
• A Century of Forest and Wildland Watershed Lessons

October 2004 (568 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• A Bedload Trap for Sampling Coarse Gravel and Cobble Transport in Wadeable Mountain Streams
• Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology: The Book
• Dan Cenderelli Joins STREAM

July 2004 (1.74 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• An Approach for Quantifying Channel Maintenance Instream Flows in Gravel-Bed Streams
• The Geomorphic Response of Rivers to Dams: An Electronic Short Course on CD-ROM
• Web Harvester: Access to Long-term Streamflow and Weather Data from Research Watersheds
• Larry Schmidt, STREAM Program Manager Retires

April 2004 (794 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Rapid Evaluation of Sediment Budgets
• National Weather Service Precipitation Frequency Data on the Web
• Doc Hydro: Visual Estimates and Pebble Counts

January 2004 (332 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Attributes of Bedrock Sierra Nevada River Ecosystems
• A Historical Perspective on Regional Channel Geometry Curves
• Fire and Riparian Ecosystems of the Western USA
• John Potyondy Appointed STREAM Program Manager

October 2003 (335 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• An Evaluation of Techniques for Measuring Substrate Embededness
• Commentary: Fluvial Geomorphology
• Doc Hydro: Robert Manning
• USGS Water-Data

July 2003 (121 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Designing Log Contour Basins For Maximum Effectiveness
• Hydrogeological Principles Useful in Predicting the Effects of Streamflow Alterations on Shallow Groundwater and Associated Riparian Vegetation
• STREAM Online Riparian Bibliography -- http://riparian.cfr.washington.edu/
• Ask Doc Hydro: GRADISTAT

April 2003 (990 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• USGS National Flood Frequency Computer Program
• The Importance of Hydrochory (Water Dispersal of Seeds) in Free-Flowing and Regulated Rivers
• A Handbook for Photo Point Monitoring

January 2003 (1.68 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Identifying Bankfull Stage in Forested Streams in the Eastern United States
• A Revised Hydropower Bypass Flow Regime Designed to Mimic Natural Processes
• Landscape Dynamics and Forest Management: A Rich-Media CD-ROM Presentation
• STREAM Web Page Has a New Look

October 2002 ( 1.03 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• The Nature of Flow and Sediment Movement in Little Granite Creek
• The Potential Use of PDAs in Stream Fieldwork
• Regional Channel Geometry Relationships for the Maryland Piedmont Hydrologic Region

July 2002 (1.17 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Viewing Bedload Movement in a Mountain Gravel-bed Stream
• Riparian Plant Ecologist David Merritt Joins Stream Systems Technology Center Staff
• Instream Flows for Riverine Resource Stewardship
• Road Maintenance Training Videos
• Ask Doc Hydro: Current Meter Purchase and Calibration
• Wildland Waters Publication

April 2002 (287 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Still No Water for the Woods
• Protecting Wetland Improvement Investments
• Roughness Characteristics of Natural Channels

January 2002 (329 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Providing for Stream Function and Aquatic Organism Passage: An Interdisciplinary Design
• A Sampling Frame for Improving Pebble Count Accuracy in Coarse Gravel-Bed Streams
• Excel Spreadsheets for Statistically Analyzing Pebble Count Data
• FISP Sediment Measuring Equipment

October 2001 (485 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Successful Water Allocation Negotiation: What Does it Take?
• Mountain Rivers
• Some Basics About Cottonwood Establishment and Survival

July 2001 (2.34 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Let Rivers Teach Us
• Sampling Surface and Subsurface Particle-Size Distributions in Wadable Gravel-Bed Streams
• Monitoring Wilderness Stream Ecosystems
• Comprehensive Annotated Riparian Bibliography
• FishXing Software Update

April 2001 (784 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Forest Service Stream Classification: Adopting a First Approximation
• Ask Doc Hydro: Safe Wading
• Collection and Use of Total Suspended Solids Data
• Managing River Flows for Biodiversity: Balancing Human Demands and Ecosystem Needs

January 2001 (500 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Position Advocacy by Scientists Risks Science Credibility
• Constructing Temporary Sampling Platforms for Hydrologic Studies
• Stream Channel Responses to Streamflow Diversion on Small Streams in Idaho
• Drinking Water from Forests and Grasslands: A synthesis of the Scientific Literature

October 2000 (902 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Multimedia Training in the Measurement of Stream Discharge
• Solving for Streamflow Without Using Manning's Equation<

July 2000 (763 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• FishXing Software and Learning System
• Hydrologically Connected Roads
• Riparian Management in Eastern U.S. Forests

April 2000 (748 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• How to Build a Bank-Operated Cableway to Measure Stream Discharge and Sediment
• Manning's Equation and the Internal Combustion Engine
• Verifying Roughness Coefficients for Stream Channels in Arizona
• Converting Phi Units to Millimeters
• Comments on Exaggerated Cannel Cross-sections

January 2000 (701 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Alluvial River Ecosystem Attributes
• Bob Deibel Joins Instream Flow Effort
• Regional Hydraulic Geometry Curves of the South Umpqua Area in Southwestern Oregon
• STREAM TEAM Relocates to Natural Resources Research Center

October 1999 (804 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Improving Future Fluvial Classification Systems
• Why Do We Exaggerate Stream Channel Cross-Section Plots? The Case for True Scale Plotting
• Stream Channel Reference Sites: An Illustrated Guide to Field Technique

July 1999 (437 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Measuring Bedload in Coarse-Grained Mountain Channels with Handheld Samplers
• Using Historical Geomorphic Analysis to Characterize Pre-dam Flow Regimes in Ecologically Meaningful Terms
• Scale Considerations and the Detectability of Sedimentary Cumulative Watershed Effects

April 1999 (581 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Channel Maintenance Considerations in Hydropower Relicensing
• Habitat Modeling Not Enough to Save Fish ... or Rivers
• A Framework for Analyzing the Hydrologic Condition of Watersheds

January 1999 (1.06 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Characterizing Hydrologic Regimes in Ecologically Meaningful Terms
• Development of an Individual-Based Trout Instream Flow Model
• Furniss Joins STREAM

October 1998 (1.47 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Calculated Risk: A Tool for Improving Design Decisions
• The Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project Website
• Ask Doctor Hydro - Rip Rap Gradation
• Chronicle of Instream Flow Activities

July 1998 (560 KB / 8 pages)

• Watershed Restoration: Principles and Practices
• Bank Storage and Its Influence on Streamflow
• Ask Doctor Hydro - Suspended Sediment Discharge in the United States
• Sediment Technology for the 21st Century

April 1998 (445 KB / 7 pages)

• An Assessment Methodology for Determining Historical Changes in Mountain Streams
• Designing Forest Stream Crossings Using Bankfull Dimensions and the Computer Program XSPRO

January 1998 (1.25 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Development of an Integrated Water-Level Sensor and Data-Logger System
• A Vision of Future Stream Data Collection
• Ask Doctor Hydro-Round Hole Gravelometers
• Flooding, Land Use, and Watershed Response in the Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington

October 1997 (947 KB / 8 pages)

• Stream Systems Technology Center Launches Internet Website
• WRENSS Procedural Handbook Available on the Internet
• Instream Flow Protection: Seeking a Balance in Western Water Use
• Water, Rivers and Creeks
• Purchasing a Gravelometer

April 1997 (459 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Evaluating Cross-Sections
• Temporal Variation of Bedload
• Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units
• Ask Doc Hydro - Who is Albert Shields?

January 1997 (225 KB / 4 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Book Review: California Rivers and Streams: The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use
• Ask Doc Hydro - Miner's Inch

October 1996 (399 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Applied River Morphology
• Use and Misuse of Channel Classification
• Hydrology Workshop Proceedings
• Ask Doc Hydro - Armor and Pavement

July 1996 (276 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Reducing Observer Bias in Pebble Counts
• Some Thoughts on Solo Surveying
• Some Thoughts About Laser Levels
• Ask Doctor Hydro - Ice Formation in Riparian Areas

April 1996 (286 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Gravelometers: Gravel Templates for Pebble Counting in Gravel-Bed Streams
• Stream Activities
• Ask Doctor Hydro - Measuring Discharge at Seeps and Springs
• The RIVER Field Book

January 1996 (98 KB / 8 pages)

• Summary of Technical Testimony in the Colorado Water Division 1 Trial
• Stream Habitat Quantification by Use of the Froude Number
• Ask Doctor Hydro - Particle Size Classification Systems
• Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project Technical Advisory Committee

October 1995 (281 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Artificial Stream Restoration: Money Well Spent Or An Expensive Failure?
• Stream Systems Technology Center Receives Award

July 1995 (351 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• A Pebble Count Procedure for Assessing Watershed Cumulative Effects
• A Geomorphic Risk Assessment of Potential Fish Habitat Impacts from Forest Management in Southeast Alaska
• Ask Doctor Hydro - Cause of River Boils
• Reducing Tire Pressures Decreases Road Sediment Yield
• Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology

April 1995 (176 KB / 4 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• A Video Guide to Field Identification of Bankfull Stage in the Western United States
• Ask Doctor Hydro - Using Floats to Measure Discharge

January 1995 (197 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• A Research Strategy for Understanding Stream Processes
• Protecting and Restoring Aquatic Ecosystems
• Ask Doctor Hydro - STREAM TEAM Activities
• Summary of Fluvial Study Site Data
• Watershed Training Opportunities Notebook

October 1994 (227 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• A Classification of Natural Rivers
• Parshall Flume Correction Program
• Ask Doctor Hydro – Tonnes or Tons
• Beaver: Water Resources & Riparian Habitat Manager

July 1994 (919 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Stream Channel Reference Sites: An Illustrated Guide to Field Technique
• Stream Bank Erosion and Flushing Flows
• Ask Doctor Hydro ◦Silt and Pebble Counts
• The Origin of Q

SPECIAL SUMMER ISSUE 1994 (709 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Book Review: “A View of the River” by Luna Leopold
• Documenting Channel Condition in New Mexico
• Riprap Design for Streambank protection
• Looking for a Good Slug of Sediment

April 1994 (1.20 MB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Hydrology & Form of Spring-Dominated Streams
• Stream Channel & Riparian Reference Areas
• Flow Resistance & Manning's Equation

January 1994 (867 KB / 8 pages - Section 508 Compliant)

• Streamflow and Recreation Report
• Instream Flow for Recreation Handbook
• Ask Doctor Hydro: Pebbles & Bedrock
• Catalog of Continuing Education in Hydrology

October 1993 (559 KB / 8 pages)

• STREAM Activities
• Statistically Testing Wolman Pebble Counts
• Ask Doctor Hydro

July 1993 (615 KB / 8 pages)

• Equal Mobility of Riverbed Material
• Ask Doctor Hydro
• Book Review: Stream Hydrology

April 1993 (615 KB / 8 pages)

• Would the REAL BANKFULL Please Stand Up!
• Colorado Water Division 1 Court Case Decided
• XSPRO: A Channel Cross-Section Analyzer Error
• Dr. Burchard Heede Retires
• Editorial Policy

January 1993 (493 KB / 8 pages)

• User Needs Assessment Summary
• Computer User Survey Results
• Reprint of “Stream Dynamics: An Overview for Land Managers”
• Improved Sediment Transport Model XSPRO – A Channel Cross-Section Analyzer

October 1992 (220 KB / 4 pages)

• Introducing the Stream Systems Technology Center