The Watershed Methods eManual is an online manual of watershed-based ecosystem laboratory activities and procedures created for use in undergraduate and advanced high school courses. Funding for the project was provided through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Appalachian College Association, and a National Science Foundation grant (Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program, DUE #0410577). The authors represent faculty from the 6 institutions collaborating on the CAWS project plus others who have contributed.

	Lab Exercise	Authors
Soils, Litter and Root Studies
1.	Soil Respiration	Dr. Jeffrey A. Simmons
2.	Measuring Litterfall Flux	Dr. Jeffrey A. Simmons
3.	Leaf Litter Decomposition	Dr. Karen Kuers and Dr. Jeffrey A. Simmons
4.	Nitrogen Mineralization	Dr. Jeffrey A. Simmons
5.	Root Esterase Assay	Dr. Mark Lassiter
6.	Describing Fungal Communities using Biolog^TM	Dr. Bob Pohlad & Brian Owen
7.	Soil Fungi Colony Analysis	Dr. Bob Pohlad & Brian Owen
8.	Characterizing Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities	Dr. Greg Turner
Wildlife Studies
9.	Mark, Release, Recapture for Freshwater and Box Turtles	Dr. Richard Moyer & Audrey McMillian
10.	Drift Fences and Pitfall Traps	Dr. Richard Moyer & Audrey McMillian
Stream Studies
11.	Stream Leaf Packs and Macroinvertebrates	Dr. Carolyn Thomas
12.	Stream Meiofauna	Dr. Carolyn Thomas
13.	Stream Chemistry with Vernier Electrodes	Dr. Mark Lassiter & Emily Blackwell
14.	Rolling Down the River: Sediment Loads in Streams	Dr. Jeffrey A. Simmons
Forest Inventory Techniques
15.	Measuring Tree Basal Area	Dr. Karen Kuers
16.	Measuring Tree Heights	Dr. Karen Kuers
17.	Measuring Tree Stem Density	Dr. Karen Kuers
18.	Estimating Coarse Woody Debris	Dr. Karen Kuers
19.	Calculating Species Importance Values	Dr. Karen Kuers
Ecosystem Ecology
20.	Acid Deposition	Dr. Jeffrey A. Simmons
21.	The Watershed Approach	Dr. Jeffrey A. Simmons

Last updated 15 July 2007

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