ESS 230: Rivers and Beaches
Introduction to Earth surface environments, the processes that shape them, how humans affect them and are affected by them. Weekend field trips examine mountains, rivers, deltas/estuaries, beaches, and environments beyond. Focus on linkages between these environments to illustrate coupling between landscapes and seascapes.
Lecture: M W F 1:30-2:20
Johnson Hall 075
Lab: W 2:30-3:20
Johnson Hall 111
Instructor
David Montgomery
dave@ess.washington.edu
Johnson Hall 341
Instructor
Chuck Nittrouer
nittroue@ocean.washington.edu
Marine Sciences Building 111B
General Course Information
Note: This page contains files from earlier years, but is being updated for 2009- ESS/Ocean 230 Syllabus (MS Word) (updated 9/29/2009)
Lectures (Powerpoint files)
- Source to Sink 2009 .PPT or .PDF
- Mountains: Weathering 2007 .PPT or .PDF
- Soils 2009 .PPT
- Erosion 2009 .PPT
- Materials and Sediments 2009 .PPT
- Beyond the Beach 2009 .PPT
- The Floor of Puget Sound 2009 .PPT
- Marine Sedimentation 2009 .PPT
- Estuaries and Deltas 2009 .PPT
- Alluvial Rivers 2009 .PPT
- Bedrock Rivers 2009 .PPT
- Floodplain and River Response 2009 .PPT
- River Restoration 2009 .PPT
- Human Impacts on Rivers 2009 .PPT
- Human Impacts on Estuaries and Deltas 2009 .PPT
- Beaches: Part 1 2009 .PPT
- Beaches: Part 2 2009 .PPT
- Washington Beaches 2009 .PPT
- King of Fish: The Thousand-year Run of Salmon 2009 .PPT
- Dirt: Erosion of Civilizations 2009 .PPT
Exam Preparation
Field Trips/Labs
- Field Trip 1: Mt. Rainier to Nisqually Delta PDF (3 mb) or PPT (30 mb)
Nisqually Field Trip Questions (MSWORD)- Field Trip 1 related links 2007 (optional):
- View Field Trip #1 stops in Live Search / Microsoft Virtual Earth
- View Field Trip #1 stops in Google Maps
- Field Trip 1 location file for Google Earth (KMZ)
- National Park Service slideshow of 2007 flood damage (PDF)
- Field Trip 2: ESS/Ocean 230 Cruise Questions (MS Word)
- Field Trip 2 Plots:
- Plot EB-1A.PDF (Elliot Bay Station 1)
- Plot EB-1B.PDF (Elliot Bay Station 1)
- Plot EB-2A.PDF (Elliot Bay Station 2)
- Plot EB-2B.PDF (Elliot Bay Station 2)
- Plot EB-3A.PDF (Elliot Bay Station 3)
- Plot EB-3B.PDF (Elliot Bay Station 3)
- Plot NR-1A.PDF (Nisqually Reach Station 1)
- Plot NR-1B.PDF (Nisqually Reach Station 1)
- Field Trip 3: Olympic Peninsula Rivers & Beaches (MS WORD)
Course Reserves
- Library Reserve Instructions (Powerpoint file)
- "Ocean Basins" from Oceanography, M.G. Gross, Prentice Hall (PDF)
- "River Deltas" from The Coast of Puget Sound, J.P. Downing, Puget Sound Books (PDF)
- "Sediments" from Oceanography, M.G. Gross, Prentice Hall (PDF)
- "The Estuarine Environment" from The World Ocean, W.A. Anikouchine and R.W. Sternberg, Prentice-Hall (PDF)
- "River Deltas" from Coasts, R.A. Davis, Prentice-Hall (PDF)
- "Inshore Oceanography," from The World Ocean, Anikouchine and Sternberg, Prentice-Hall (PDF)