This seminar, featuring weekly guest speakers, covers the resources of Putah Creek: which are critical and why. It also teaches about the physical processes of the flowing water, land inundation, and river channel dynamics interact with the ecological processes, the vegetation, and the wildlife. Theā¦
Lecture 9: Megan Harns, of the John Muir Institute for the Environment at UC Davis, talks about her experiences with Putah Creek.
Lecture 8: Katherine Holmes from the Solano County Resource Conservation District discusses resource conservation districts in regards to Putah Creek.
Lecture 7: Ken Davis, an aquatic biologist, addresses protecting Putah Creek's aquatic resources.
Lecture 6: Erik Ringleberg, a biologist from BSK Associates and a riparian systems expert, addresses the riparian aspects of Putah Creek.
Lecture 5: Melanie Truan, wildlife ecologist and biomonitoring director for the UC Davis Museum Wildlife and Fish Biology, talks about the creeks wildlife.
Lecture 4: Libby Earthman, executive director of the Putah Creek Council, talks about the public stewardship of the creek.
Lecture 3: Kathryn Salfen, Yolo County Resource Conservation District, gives the class a perspective of the creek corridor.
Lecture 2: Rich Marovich, Putah Creek stream keeper, talks about the creek in regards to his job.
Lecture 1: Course coordinator Eric Larsen, Landscape Architecture Program, introduces the geomorphology and hydrology of Putah Creek.