809726 UE Field course Hydrology and Running Water Ecology (2004W)

This field course focusses on concepts dealt with in the accompanying lecture series on Hydrology and Running Water Ecology. It provides introductury lectures preparing two field days at a third-order forest stream in the Wienerwald area. At this site practical skills such as stream reconnaissance, hydological methodology (propellermeter handling, velocity-area method, Statzner hemispheres, gauges, hydraulic stress parameters), sedimentology (various methods of grain analysis), map work, descriptive catchment characteristics, bed morphology, etc. are trained. Team work is strongly encouraged.