April 7, 2006
AZ Riparian Council - 20th Anniversary Meeting
WHAT: AZ Riparian Council - 20th Anniversary Meeting & Two Day Workshop, the theme is:
Riparian Issues: Reflections of our Past and Challenges for our Future.
WHEN: April 27-29, 2006
WHERE: The Museum of Northern Arizona (located 3 miles north of Flagstaff on Highway 180).
WHAT: One full day of classroom workshop (Thursday), followed by the
meeting on Friday, and Saturday will be the workshop field exercise and a field trip in the Flagstaff area for those who do not attend the workshop.
The two-day workshop (limited to 50 participants) will provide an overview of the fundamentals of stream geomorphology in the arid Southwest. The Thursday lecture session will include the nature of rivers, alluvial features, sediment transport processes, bankfull stage and its significance, channel classification, and channel adjustments to disturbance.
The Saturday field day includes examples of stream types, field identification of bankfull stage, field survey techniques, and as many interesting stream channel sites as we can fit in. Keep in mind that this is a short course and lots of material will be presented quickly.
On Friday the regular meeting will be held. The theme this year is Riparian Issues: Reflections of our Past and Challenges for our Future. This includes a review of the reasons the Council was formed and what are the challenges for the future.
To give us various perspectives on these topics we've invited Tim Phillips, Flood Control District of Maricopa County; Andy Laurenzi, Sonoran Institute; and Joe Feller, College of Law, Arizona State University.
There will be a panel discussion and an afternoon of technical papers. The program will be posted on the MWS web site soon.
Friday evening we have planned a reception at the Colton House.
Registration:
Registration can be found at http://azriparian.asu.edu/2006/ARC2006registration.pdf
Museum of Northern Arizona http://www.musnaz.org/
Arizona Riparian Council Home Page http://azriparian.asu.edu