HydroLunch Resources
Welcome to our resources page. We will post relevant information here as it becomes available. If you have anything to add to this page, please email Claire and she'll put it up as soon as she can.
Water Courses at Cal
A comprehensive list of water courses at Cal, begun by Sarah Godsey and augmented over time. We'll continually update this list, and welcome input. Please note that the spreadsheet has multiple tabs: "Current" for the current semester, "Fall" for courses generally offered in the Fall, and "Spring" for courses generally offered in the Spring. We strive to keep the "Current" tab up to date for the applicable semester. Please use the others for reference.
See the spreadsheet.
Spring 09 course list.
Past HydroLunch Presentations
Dr. Deborah Argawal presented some of her work on the eScience project up at hte lab. A link to her presentation is: http://bwc.berkeley.edu/DataServerdefault.htm Please select "Presentations" from the left navigation menu, and then the HydroLunch presentation is currently at the top of the list.
Dr. Kara Nelson's presentation on "Sunlight-inactivation on pathogens in water" is available in pdf format here.
Dr. Adina Merenlender presented some of her work on the affect of agriculture and growing development in the Russian River basin on Salmon habitat. See the presentation here. Read an article about a decision tool she created to help vintners here.
Bill Eisenstein's presentation on the Delta is here for your viewing in pdf.
As more become available, we will post them here too.
Water Blogs
Here's a list of blogs that some members of HydroLunch read regularly, and think may be helpful to you too. If you have others to add, please let us know.
http://watercrunch.blogspot.com/
http://aquafornia.com/
http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/
http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/ShaunMcKinnon
http://waterblogged.info/
http://waterfortheages.wordpress.com/
http://hydro-logic.blogspot.com/
http://aguanomics.com
http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/wrca.php
On-line Resources for teaching about Hydrology by Kevin McGuire
REACH project: http://watershed.montana.edu/hydrology/REACH.html
MOCHA project (http://www.mocha.psu.edu/) -- not much there now, but
should be developing more within the next year or two as a grad
student in hydro education is working on this for his/her dissertation
Sci Ed Resource Center: http://serc.carleton.edu/serc
Journal of Geoscience Education: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/index.html
Hydro Wiki, http://www.hydrowiki.psu.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
(A
student project that McGuire did with his snow hydrology class:
research a topic and add it as an entry)
General Information
See two documents, created by Sarah Godsey, about skills you have that are applicable to jobs and courses that should have have under your belt as a hydrologist.
Recommended Courses
Applicable Skills
There was a question brought up recently as to wether or not you can have someone at a library find a document for you and copy or scan it. Indeed you can! But you'll have to pay. Want more information on the next best thing to having your own personal library/document retrieval elf?
Visit the Baker Document Delivery Service.
Do you use the UC Subscription to gain access to Water Resources Reseach (WRR)? Do you sometimes have trouble getting access because all of the licenses are in use? Here is some help:
- If you use Firefox to gain access through UCLinks, be aware that it often opens up two brower windows. The system then counts you as TWO users. Close any browser window you are not actively using.
- If you have two articles open at one time, that will count as two users as well. Download what you need quickly and shut the windows as a courtesy to others.
- If you continue to have access problems, please contact the Earth Sciences Librarian, Fatemah van Buren, at 643.2684 or fvanbure@library.berkeley.edu
Zotero.org is a research management system which allows you to organize your research materials, add notes and even produce correct citations all with a Firefox plug in. That's the only hitch, you have to use Firefox to get it, but that's not so bad, is it? This is web-based, but because you download some software, you can also use it off line. Give it a try, tell us what you think.
Equipment Directory
We are working to compile an equipment directory of lab equipment throughout the University. Do you know of something that is useful, but is sitting in a lab where only a few others know about it? Share the information; others will be grateful.