**U.S. Geological Survey Training Course SW1091**

**Sediment Data-Collection Techniques**

**Castle Rock and Vancouver, WA**

**March 19-23, 2007**

**[Agenda version 2/12/2007]{.underline}**

Course Coordinator: John R. Gray, Sediment Specialist, US Geological
Survey,

Office of Surface Water, Reston, VA (jrgray@usgs.gov)

**MONDAY, MARCH 19 --- CLASSROOM**

7:40 -- 7:55 Congregate in Rose Tree Restaurant/Conference Center

(coffee and tea served); hand in pre-test and student

information sheet

8:00 -- 8:30 Introduction to the course Gray

Instructor introductions

Scope, objectives, review week's agenda

Emphasis on USGS protocols

Sediment versus water quality

Data vs Sediment Information

Count of available PDF's and waders

Other housekeeping

8:30 -- 8:45 Safety Spicer

8:45 -- 9:15 Reasons for collecting sediment data Glysson

9:15 -- 10:15 Basic fluvial sediment concepts and Gray

relevant physical sedimentary properties

**BREAK**

10:30 -- 11:30 Design and function of suspended-sediment Glysson

and water-quality samplers

11:30 -- 12:30 Suspended-sediment sampling techniques Gray

12:30 -- 1:20 **MONDAY LUNCH -- CASTLE ROCK**

1:20 -- 1:30 Drive to bridge sampling site with PFD's

**MONDAY AFTERNOON -- BRIDGE SITE**

> **THE CLASS WILL BE DIVIDED INTO 5 GROUPS, AND ROTATE AMONG 5
> DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES**

Group 1: Sampling suspended sediment at a single Glysson

vertical (from a bridge box) using the

D-74 with an A-reel and student power

Group 2: Sampling suspended sediment in a cross- Gray/

section using A DH-59, EDI technique Uhrich

Group 3: Sampling suspended-sediment in a Freeman

cross-section using A DH-95,

EWI technique

Group 4: Sampling with a D-96 bag sampler Hale

at a single vertical

Group 5: Sampling suspended sediment at a single Spicer/

vertical using a P-61 sampler suspended TBD

from a hydraulically operated E-Reel

5:00 Return to Mt. St. Helens Motel

5:30 -- 7:00 Student introductions Students

> Special topics in sediment transport Group

in motel conference room

Discussion on days' activities Glysson

Toutle River Sediment Transport Spicer

DVD -- "Flow in Alluvial Channels" Gray

**TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 20 --- CLASSROOM**

8:00 -- 8:45 Relations between Total Suspended Solids Glysson

(TSS) and suspended-sediment concentrations

8:45 -- 9:15 USGS National Sediment Laboratory Quality Gooding/Gray

Assurance Program

9:15 -- 10:00 Preparation of double-blind samples Gooding

**BREAK**

10:15 -- 11:00 Bed-material samplers, sampling techniques Gray

11:00 -- 11:45 Bedload samplers and sampling techniques Glysson

11:45 -- 12:45 **TUESDAY LUNCH -- CASTLE ROCK**

12:45 -- 1:00 Drive to bridge sampling site with PFD's

**TUESDAY AFERNOON -- BRIDGE SITE**

12:45 -- 2:30 Group 1: Sampling with a BL-84 Glysson/

bedload sampler Spicer

Group 2: Sampling bed material using Hale/

a BM-54 sampler Freeman

3:00 -- 5:00 Introduction to computation of suspended- Freeman

sediment records, and manual computation

procedures

5:15 -- 6:30 Special topics in sediment transport in Group

motel conference room

Film on "Debris Flow, Mudflows and

Hyperconcentrated Flows"

**WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 21 --- CLASSROOM**

8:00 -- 8:15 Discussion of bridge sampling, and overview Glysson

of Wednesday activities

8:15 -- 9:15 Continuous measurement of turbidity Uhrich

9:15 -- 10:00 Design of sediment data-collection programs Glysson

**BREAK**

10:15 -- 11:15 Analyses of sediment (what does it all mean?) Glysson

11:30 -- 12:15 **WEDNESDAY LUNCH -- CASTLE ROCK**

12:15 -- 12:30 Drive to wading sampling site with waders and PFD's

12:30 -- 5:00 **ARRIVE AT WADING SECTION; THE CLASS,**

**DIVIDED INTO 5 GROUPS, WILL ROTATE**

**THROUGH 5 SITES AT 45-MINUTE**

**INTERVALS (every student will practice sampling)**

Group 1: Station 1: EDI sampling Glysson

Group 2: Station 2: EWI sampling Freeman

Group 3: Station 3: Bed material particle counts Major

Group 4: Station 4: Water-Quality Measurements TBD

Group 5: Station 5: Turbidity Measurements Uhrich

5:00 Depart for Mt. St. Helens Motel.

5:45 -- 7:00 Discussion on special problems in measuring Gray/all

fluvial sediment, and 10-minute off-the-floor

presentation by students

**THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 22 --- CLASSROOM**

8:00 -- 8:45 Turbidity data issues Anderson

8:45 -- 9:30 The Good, Bad, and Ugly on Turbidity Data Downing

9:30 -- 10:00 A turbidity\>\>suspended-sediment concentration Gray

and suspended-sediment discharge protocol

**BREAK**

10:30 -- 11:15 Progress in other Sediment Surrogate Gray

Measurement Techniques

11:15 -- 12:00 The LISST Technology Agrawal/

> Pottsmith

12:00 -- 12:45 **THURSDAY LUNCH -- CASTLE ROCK**

12:45 -- 1:30 Demonstration of the Graphical Constituent Freeman

Loading Analysis System (GCLAS)

1:30 Drive up the Spirit Lake Highway to view All

the May 18, 1980 avalanche deposit, debris dam,

visit the Mt. St. Helens Cold Water Visitor Center

4:00 Depart for Hoffstadt Lodge, Spirit Lake Highway

4:30 Arrive Hoffstadt Lodge

4:45 Film, "1980 Mt. St. Helens Eruption"

5:45 Pizza dinner at Hoffstadt Lodge during presentation

> by George on experiences during the May 18, 1980
>
> eruption of Mt. St. Helens

6:30 Depart for Mt. St. Helens Motel

7:00 Arrive motel; pack and box up shipping materials All

**FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 23 --- DEPART CASTLE ROCK FOR CVO**

6:55 Vans depart Castle Rock for Cascades

Volcano Observatory (CVO), Vancouver, WA

8:00 Arrive CVO Sediment Laboratory

8:10 -- 9:10 CVO Sediment Laboratory

\- Tour of the Lab Arlene/

> \- Laboratory Data Management System Dan

(LIMS) for sediment laboratories

9:10 -- 9:30 CVO Conference Room

> Summary of analyses from suspended- Glysson

sediment samples collected by students

**BREAK**

9:45 -- 10:45 Sediment data-management tools Skach

\- Sediment Lab Analytical Request (SLAR)

> \- QWBatch format
>
> \- QWDX system for lab\>\>WSC data transfer

10:45-11:15 Final Discussion and Wrap-Up Gray

11:15 Vans depart for Portland, OR, airport

11:40 Vans arrive at Portland, OR, airport

Students disperse to the Four Winds

On flights departing at 1:00 p.m. or later

Safe Trip Home!

**USGS INSTRUCTORS**

C. Anderson <chauncey@usgs.gov> (503) 251-3205 Portland, OR

L. Freeman <lfreeman@usgs.gov> (831) 883-2293 Marina, CA

G.D. Glysson <gglysson@usgs.gov> (703) 648-5019 Reston, VA

D.J. Gooding <dgooding@usgs.gov> (360) 993-8917 Vancouver, WA

J.R. Gray <jrgray@usgs.gov> (703) 648-5318 Reston, VA

T. W. Hale <thale@usgs.gov> (360) 993-8918 Vancouver, WA

J. Major <jmajor@usgs.gov> (360) 993-8927 Vancouver, WA

K. Skach <kaskach@usgs.gov> (503) 251-3285 Portland, OR

K.R. Spicer <krspicer@usgs.gov> (360) 993-8944 Vancouver, WA

M. Uhrich <mauhrich@usgs.gov> (503) 251-3292 Portland, OR

**GUEST INSTRUCTORS**

J. Downing, D&A Instruments, Port Townshend, WA

> (http://www.d-a-instruments.com/)

Yogi Agrawal and Charles Pottsmith, Sequoia Scientific, Inc., Bellevue,
WA

(http://www.sequoiasci.com/default.aspx?SectionName=home)