On Water

LA258 Fall 2008 Instructor: Matt Kondolf, GSI: Toby Minear

California Water: An Interdisciplinary Seminar

This seminar meets monthly during the California Water colloquia and for small seminar meetings in between. Besides attending the colloquia themselves, course requirements are background readings, participation in seminar discussion, and short (<5pp) paper on a topic relevant to one of the colloquia subjects. (1 unit, S/U or P/F, can be repeated for credit)

Colloquia (fall 2008) held in Wurster Hall auditorium (Rm 112 Wurster) 5.30-7pm. Reception and meet the speaker, outside Room 112 Wurster Hall - 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m; lecture, including questions & answers - 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Seminars held in Wurster 315-D or Water Resources Center Archives (410 O’Brien Hall) 5-7p

September 2nd Organizational meeting, overview of readings for delta colloquium.

Readings: Delta Vision Task Force: 1. Vision document, 2. Implementation plan (3rd draft), posted at: http://deltavision.ca.gov/DeltaVision-DraftTaskForceVision.shtml

Other readings: ReEnvisioning the Delta, the Great Delta Charrette, posted at:http://landscape.ced.berkeley.edu/~delta/

September 9th Saving the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: An Ecosystem & Water Delivery System in Crisis Richard M. Frank, Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law

September 16th Seminar discussion of Delta issues and Delta Vision process

October 7th Seminar discussion of California water regulation

Readings:

Littleworth, Arthur L. and Garner, Eric L., 2007. California Water II, Chapter 8: State Water Resources Control Board--Its Role in Water Rights and Water Quality Regulation. (pp.187-227)

Water Education Foundation, 2005. Layperson’s Guide to Water Rights Law. 

California Department of Water Resources, 2005. California Water Plan Update 2005: Water Allocation, Use and Regulation in California (Vol. 4, pp.4.37-4.53)

October 14th Successes and Failures in California Water Regulation, Gary Wolff, Vice-chair California State Water Resources Control Board

November 4th Seminar discussion

Readings: (I.D. and password available from your GSI or Professor.)

Sophocleous, M.A., 1997. Managing water resources systems: Why "safe yield" is not sustainable.Ground Water, 35(4): 561.

Sophocleous, M.A., 2000. From Safe Yield to Sustainable Development of Water Resources —the Kansas Experience. Journal of Hydrology, 235(1-2): 27-43.

Sophocleous, M.A., 2005. Groundwater recharge and sustainability in the High Plains aquifer in Kansas, USA. Hydrogeology Journal, 13(2):351-365.

Optional:
Sophocleous, M.A., 2007. The Science and Practice of Environmental flows and the Role of Hydrogeologists. Ground Water, 45(4): 393-401.

November 18th Groundwater Sustainability and its Application in Kansas Marios Sophocleous, Senior Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey

December 2nd Seminar discussion

Readings: (I.D. and password available from your GSI or Professor.)

Byron, Earl R. and Goldman, Charles R., 1989. Land-Use and Water Quality in Tributary Streams of Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada. J. Environ. Qual. 18:84-88.

Jassby, Alan D., Reuter, John E. and Goldman, Charles R., 2003. Determining long-term water quality change in the presence of climate variability: Lake Tahoe (U.S.A.) Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 60: 1452-1461.

Swift, Theodore J., Perez-Losada, Joaquim, Reuter, John E., Jassby, Alan D., and Goldman, Charles R., 2006. Water clarity modeling in Lake Tahoe: Linking suspended matter characteristics to Secchi depth. Aquat. Sci. 68: 1 - 15.

Weible, Christopher M., 2007. Stakeholder Perceptions of Scientists: Lake Tahoe Environmental Policy from 1984 to 2001. Environmental Management 40:853-865.

Additional Readings:

Winder, Monika, Reuter, John E., and Schladow, S. Geoffrey, 2008. Lake warming favours small-sized planktonic diatom species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 23 September.

[Unidentified author, 2008]. Asian clam, a new nearshore invasive species in Lake Tahoe.

December 9th Lake Tahoe: What Will It Look Like in 2040? Geoffrey Schladow, Director, Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Professor, UC Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering