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Overview of the OSU Stream Hydrology Trailer Program
Marley Beem Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management September 2009
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What are stream trailers?
4 x 8 ft pan, a bed of plastic grit, a pump and a reservoir to recirculate water. I call them fluvial geomorphic sandboxes.
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Making It Happen Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
4-H and Youth Development Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service Natural Resource Ecology and Management EPA funding State funding for Cooperative Extension
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History OSU Trailer #1 built – 1995? Texas Utah Alabama
Colorado? Kansas Game and Fish OSU Trailer #1 built – 1995? OSU Trailers 2,3, and 4 – 1999 OSU Trailers 5 and 6 – 2008 Texas Utah Alabama
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Newest Versions
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Current Lessons and Venues
The importance of riparian vegetation Why stream channels meander Floodplains Sediment fate County Extension Educators – outdoor classrooms, county fairs School Teachers Other agency professionals
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Riparian Vegetation
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Upstream Flooding Problem?
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Limitations Dyes for simulating contaminants Runoff Flooding
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Understanding Streams NREM-9208
Streams transport water and sediment Destructive Energy Riparian trees brush etc Meandering Flooding
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Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Streams Management Program
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Oklahoma Conservation Commission
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Future Engineers?
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Piping Plover Habitat
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Kingfisher
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Oklahoma Floodplain Managers ?
Observe it in use Add on your comments Attend a training Schedule it for your events Innovate new lessons
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Trailer Locations Cherokee Stillwater Arapaho Okmulgee Ada
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Initial Point of Contact Your County Extension Office
A full listing of educators who are certified to use a stream trailer: Northwest , Trailer #5 Tommy Puffinberger, Alfalfa County Cooperative Extension, Cherokee, OK Northeast, Trailer #2 Rick Clovis, Creek Nation / Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Okmulgee, OK Southeast, Trailer #3 Justin McDaniel, Pontotoc County Cooperative Extension, Ada, OK Southwest, Trailer #4 Ron Wright, Custer County Cooperative Extension, Arapaho, OK Central, Trailers #1 and #6 Marley Beem, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, OSU, Stillwater, OK
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Outdoor Demonstration
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