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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Content of lectures: 1) Water cycle, physical-chemical properties of water 2) Water balance equation, role of water in the landscape 3) Hydrologic extremes 4) Hydrologic measurements 5) Evaluation and interpretation of hydrologic data 6) Hydrologic forecast and modelling 7) Rainfall runoff regimes in Czechia and worldwide 8) Catchment as an ecosystem 9) Lakes - its typology and origin 10) Limnology of water bodies 11) Water quality 12) Human pressure on water cycle and water in landscape 13) Czech and EU legislation 14) Synhesis - global/regional problems in water related issues
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Class attendance
- 26 hours per semester
- Semestral paper
- 24 hours per semester
- Preparation for exam
- 30 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The goal of the course is to introduce students to basic principles of functioning of hydrosphere and water ecosystems. The course explains the essential processes in water courses and lakes with emphasis on the use of such skills in further studies, designing own research projects, or further practice work. The course covers basic knowledge of water balance, statistical assessment of hydrological data, limnology, water quality and pollution, human pressures on water ecosystems, and legislation concerning water related issues.
The course is meant to provide the student with the basic knowledge. Students are supposed to understand basic principles of the water cycle, its movement within the landscape, physical and chemical processes in lakes and rivers. Students will be able to describe and use different methods and tools frequently used within the field of study. They should also be able to find and understand different information sources (e.g. hydrologic forecasting). On this basis, students should be able to interpret different data sources and to explain various hydrology related processes observed directly outdoors.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge at a high school level.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Combined exam, Seminar work
The student must present a report on selected water related topic in sufficient quality for credits. Combined final exam consists of written test, where the theoretical knowledge is examined (min. 50% correct for access to the oral exam). In the following oral part, the student must prove his/her understanding of the studied topics and draw his/her own conclusions out of it (70% correct to pass).
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Recommended literature
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Hornberger G. M. (2014): Elements of physical hydrology. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 378 pp..
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Kalff J. (2002): Limnology: inland water ecosystems. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 592 pp..
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Kopáček J., Hejzlar J., Rulik M. (2021): Voda na Zemi. Nakl. JU v Č.B., 399 str..
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Ward A. D., Trimble S. W., Burckhard, S. R., Lyon, J. G. (2016): Environmental Hydrology, 3rd Edition. CRC Press, 695 pp..
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