This course has been discontinued
This 4-hour interactive online course discusses the geomorphological principles that should form the basis of a river restoration project to yield stable channel dimensions that are commensurate with the catchment context and observed natural variability. One of the important themes addressed in this course is that natural rivers could be realistic analogues for channel restoration design. In light of this, the enhanced procedure should accommodate levels of uncertainty as a function of natural variability in estimates of restored channel dimensions.
This course is the third in a series of 'Channel Restoration' courses based upon the US Army Corps of Engineers Manual by Soar and Thorne, Channel Restoration Design for Meandering Rivers, September 2001. The first two courses are prerequisites for this course.
There will be a multiple-choice quiz at the end of this course.