Date

Lecture

References

Outline

Slides

Week 1

Sep 26

Introduction, Wetland definitions

Mitsch and Gosselink,

p 40-42

Outline1,2

 

Week 2

 

Oct 1

World wetlands

 

Mitsch and Gosselink

Ch. 3

 

Koppen Climate Maps

Outline3,4

 

Oct 1

World wetlands, II

 

Mitsch and Gosselink

Ch. 3

RAMSAR site 

Outline3,4

 

Oct 3

Preview of Skagit field trip

 

Oct 6

Saturday field trip to Skagit and Padilla Bay salt marshes

Hi 1:41 AM 8.5’

Lo 8:08 AM 0.9’

Hi 3:51PM 11.2’

Lo 9:49 PM 4.6’

 

Week 3

 

Oct 8

North American coastal systems

Mitsch and Gosselink

Ch. 9,10,11

Outline 5

Sagittaria

Nuphar

Pontederia

Peltandra

Potamogeton

Panicum hemitomon

Redmangrove

Blackmangrove

Pneumatophore

Oct 8

North American inland wetland systems

Mitsch and Gosselink Ch. 12, 13, 14, 15

 

Bog outline

 

Bog PowerPoint

Outline 6

Eriophorum

Tupelo

Sour gum

Pond cypress

Bald cypress

 

 

 

Oct 10

Classification systems

 

Mitsch and Gosselink

Ch 21

 

Cowardin Classification System

 

HGM

Outline 6.5

  Cowardin Map Legends

 

USGS Map Viewer

(Click on Hydrography, Wetlands, Wetland Polygons)

U.S. Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual TR Y-87-1

Week 4

 

 

 

 

Oct 15

Hydrology: water budgets

Mitsch and Gosselink

Ch. 5

Outline 7

 

Oct 15

Hydrology: biological effects

Outline 8

Oct 17

Preview of Sammamish field trip

Oct 20

Saturday: Field trip to freshwater wetlands on Sammamish Plateau

Week 5

Oct 22

Wetland soils physical properties

Mitsch and Gosselink

Ch. 6

 

Rob Harrison's Notes

Outline9,10

 

Oct 22

Wetland soils chemical properties

Rob Harrison's Notes

 

 

Oct 24

Review

 

 

Week 6

 

 

Oct 29

Exam

 

 

Oct 31

Salinity stress; plant adaptations

Mitsch and Gosselink

Ch. 7

Outline 11

Water Potential

 

Oct 31

Waterlogging stress; plant adaptations

 Mitsch and Gosselink

Ch. 7

Outline 12

 

Week 7

 

 

 

Nov 5

Flooding: root responses

Iron toxicity

Outline 13

 

Nov 5

Flooding: shoot responses

 

Outline 14

 

Nov 7

Preview of restoration field trip

 

 

 

Nov 10

Saturday: Field trip to wetland restoration sites

 

 

 

Week 8

 

 

 

 

Nov 12

HOLIDAY    

 

Nov 14

Wetland functions

Mitsch and Gosselink

Ch. 16

Outline 15

 

Nov 14

Wetland loss of function and

Regulatory remedies

Mitsch and Gosslelink

Ch. 17, 18

 

Section 10

Outline 16

 

Outline 16a

 

Week 9

 

 

 

 

Nov 19

HGM

HGM Classification

Outline17

 

Nov 19

HGM

Ch.6, p114

Ch.7, p131-137

Ch.8, p 159-160

in:

Compensating for Wetland Losses.....

Outline 18

 

HGM as Classification Systen

 

Nov 21

How do you design wetlands to perform ecological functions?

 

Outline 19

 

Week 10

 

 

 

 

Nov 26

Tools available for restoration

 

Outline 20

 

Nov 26

Creating and restoring wetlands

Mitsch and Gosselink Ch. 19

 

Stevens and Vanbianchi

Outline 21

 

Nov 28

Treatment wetlands

Mitsch and Gosselink Ch. 20

 Outline 22

 

Week 11

 

 

 

 

Dec 3

Guest Lecture