WATS6155

1. Confidently read any riverscape and be able to map its core characteristics.

2. Differentiate influence of external controls (e.g., climate and catchment) vs. local controls on form and process.

3. Apply principles of geomorphic analysis to a diversity of riverscapes.

4. Recognize the primary controls on riverscape diversity, in which distinctive suites of physical and biotic processes (behavior) help shape the form and character of those landscapes.

5. Understand how hydrologic processes, give rise to hydraulic processes, which in local riverscapes determine the rates, magnitudes and occurrence of fluvial geomorphic processes.

6. Appreciate that topography is a quantitative record of landforms and apply morphometric analysis can be used to map and differentiate those landforms (i.e., geomorphic units).

7. Gain an appreciation of how geomorphic processes of erosion, deposition transport and storage of sediment shape topography and create, maintain, sculpt and destroy distinctive landforms.

8. Understand human impacts on riverscapes and fluvial forces.

9. Recognize how geomorphic analysis is used in practice to help manage riverscapes.