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MU Department of Geography 2007-08 Colloquium Series 

Place-based learning and knowing: Critical pedagogies grounded in Indigeneity

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Dr. Jay Johnson
Department of Anthropology & Geography
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Monday, October 1
4:00 PM
Stewart 106

Good news! Paul Hammond (M.A. candidate) won the Travel Award, runner up for the best student paper in the 2006 China Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, for his paper entitled "Community Eclipse in Shanghai's Lilong." The award will be bestowed on March 9th at the National Meeting of the AAG in Chicago, Il.

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Fall 2006 Lectures

date/time/place: November 10, 2006 @ 3:30PM - 100 Stewart Hall

title: Impact of Bridge Structures on Channel Morphology During a Flood Event along the Colorado Front Range (PDF Flyer 83Kb)

name: Mark W. Bowen, Ph.D. Candidate,

person title/affiliation: University of Kansas

Abstract:

High-magnitude floods have the potential to inflict catastrophic damage on human landscapes.  This research examines the impacts of bridge construction on the natural environment during one high-magnitude flood in two mountain streams in the southern Front Range of Colorado.  The City of Penrose received over six inches of rain in two hours, and the storm resulted in a 100- to 500-year flood in Eight-Mile and Brush Hollow Creeks.  Bridges along U.S. Highway 50 constricted the flow in both streams, which caused severe flooding on the roadway and washed out several roads downstream.  During the event Eight-Mile Creek’s channel morphology constricted the water flow upstream of the bridge, thereby increasing erosion downstream.  On Brush Hollow Creek a small check-dam installed nearly two kilometers downstream of Highway 50 initially restricted flow but subsequently was breached, causing considerable downcutting, as evidenced by several knick-points along the stream.  Human constructs in these watersheds have altered significantly natural channel response to high-magnitude, low-frequency flood events.

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