The Texas Water Resources Institute has published its latest Annual Report, focusing on accomplishments and project highlights from 2019.
We are conducting 15 one-day urban riparian and stream restoration trainings in and around large urban centers such as Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. A three-day advanced urban riparian and stream restoration training will be held in Dallas.
Training materials will help attendees
- understand urban stream functions,
- understand impacts of development on urban streams,
- recognize healthy versus degraded stream systems,
- assess and classify a stream using the Bank Erosion Hazard Index (BEHI), and
- comprehend differences between natural and traditional restoration techniques.
A variety of topics will be explained through class-room style teach in the morning session including
- the hydrologic cycle,
- basics to stream morphology,
- stream classification,
- stream instability,
- stream restoration,
- stabilization structure,
- vegetation and monitoring and
The afternoon will be spent performing hands-on activities in the field at a nearby stream to learn surveying and monitoring techniques. Participants will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the training.
Course Outline
- Hydrologic cycle
- Introduction to stream morphology
- Bankfull discharge
- Stability
- Channel measurements
- Stream classification
- Stream instability
- Stream restoration
- Stabilization structures
- Vegetation
- Monitoring and evaluation
Lucas Gregory
lfgregory@ag.tamu.edu
Lucas Gregory, Ph.D., currently serves as associate director of research – physical sciences.
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EM-127 Urban Stream Processes and Restoration Program Training Booklet
Sep 2019
Clare Entwistle, Nathan Glavy and Fouad Jaber
News
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CANCELED: Urban Stream Processes and Restoration Training workshop on March 18 in Austin.
The Texas Water Resources Institute has published the newsletter, Natural Resources Training Courses Update, with a list of scheduled trainings for 2020.
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The Texas Water Resources Institute’s Urban Riparian and Stream Restoration Program will host two workshops in April for professionals interested in conducting stream restoration projects.
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI)’s Urban Riparian and Stream Restoration Program will host an Urban Stream Processes and Restoration workshop from 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Nov. 29 in Belton.
From a math major to a watershed saver, Clare Entwistle, Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) research associate, knows that protecting riparian areas is important for the future of Texas.
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Riparian and natural resource professionals discussed current innovations and issues in riparian restoration and management at the Urban Riparian Symposium: Balancing the Challenges of Healthy Urban Streams Feb. 15-17 in Houston at Rice University’s BioScience Research Collaborative Building.
The Urban Riparian Symposium will be held Feb. 15-17, 2017, in Houston, and natural resource professionals are invited to attend, share ideas and discuss management and policy issues.
Even in cities, amidst the tall buildings, fast cars and busy people, there are still natural resources that need protection — particularly urban riparian areas, according to Nikki Dictson, Texas Water Resources Institute Extension program specialist. These vegetative buffers found along rivers and streams are complex ecosystems that include the land, plants, animals and network of streams within them.
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