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1 Overview of the OSU Stream Hydrology Trailer Program
Marley Beem Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management September 2009

2 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.

3 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

4 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

5 Newest Versions

6 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

7 Riparian Vegetation

8 Upstream Flooding Problem?

9 Limitations Dyes for simulating contaminants Runoff Flooding

10 Understanding Streams NREM-9208
Streams transport water and sediment Destructive Energy Riparian trees brush etc Meandering Flooding

11 Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Streams Management Program

12 Oklahoma Conservation Commission

13 Future Engineers?

14 Piping Plover Habitat

15 Kingfisher

16 Oklahoma Floodplain Managers ?
Observe it in use Add on your comments Attend a training Schedule it for your events Innovate new lessons

17 Trailer Locations Cherokee Stillwater Arapaho Okmulgee Ada

18 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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20 Outdoor Demonstration


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