Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/04
Outputs
The purpose of the project is to enhance water resource sustainability in the semi-arid region of the Southwestern United States. It is a major NSF project involving many universities, a number of federal and state agencies, private companies and individuals. Our part in the project had specifically two objectives: (1) to promote hydrology, water quality and watershed science and management education, and (2) to work on a research to evaluate soil and water salinity problems in the Hopi Reservation. To accomplish the first objective, we have worked in partnerships with the Institute for Tribal Environmental Program at NAU and K-12 Schools in Indian Reservations to develop and demonstrate water resources and water quality education. In the project, we trained teachers to incorporate the teaching of water and water quality in their science curriculum, and helped to stimulate students to have interest on learning about water and water quality problems in their areas of
residences. Week-long or shorter workshops, half-day training sessions and on-site demonstration of water and water quality parameters measurement and estimation techniques have been organized to the training of K-12 teachers and students. So far, we have trained more than 4000 students, 800 teachers, and 350 other professionals from five Native American tribes: Navajo, Hopi, White River Apache, Gila River Indian community and Tohono Oodham. We also developed and taught regular and one time courses related to this project. The developed courses are Environmental Hydrology, taught as Forestry and Geography course and Watershed Restoration listed as a Forestry course as well as one intensive summer course, Watershed Analysis and Management, we provided to Native American Professionals in 2002. To accomplish the second objective, we developed a strong collaboration with the Hopi Tribe to study soil salinity, soil physical characteristics as well as nutrient content and the productive
capability of Hopi tribal lands. The Hopi Tribe provided in kind contributions in the form of a hydrologist and soil and water sampling equipment. The outcome of this study is a 263-page document detailing the hydrologic and land capability of the Oraibi Wash watershed in the Hopi Reservation. We have also been involved in an extensive stream restoration study in the White River Apache Tribe. As a result of the latter study, we produced, published and presented many papers. We have seen that our activities have major effect on incorporating lessons on water resources education to high school curriculum, encourage students to aspire for higher education and become interested in water and other natural resources education. On the knowledge transfer side, we hope that we helped develop the knowledge-base for proper tribal water and watershed resources management and restoration.
Impacts
We have seen that our activities have major effect on incorporating lessons on water resources education in high school science curriculum, and in encouraging students to aspire for higher education and become interested in water and other natural resources education. On the knowledge transfer side, we hope that we helped develop some of the knowledge-base for proper tribal water and watershed resources management and restoration.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03
Outputs
The purpose of the project is to enhance water resource sustainability in the semi-arid region of the Southwestern United States. It is a major NSF project involving many universities, a number of federal and state agencies, private companies and individuals. Our part in the project has specifically two objectives: (1) to promote hydrology, water quality and watershed science and management education, and (2) do research to determine soil and water salinity problems in the Hopi Indian Reservation. To accomplish the first objective, we have worked in partnerships with the Institute for Tribal Environmental Program at NAU and K-12 Schools in Indian Reservations to develop and demonstrate water resources and water quality education. In the project, we have been training teachers to incorporate the teaching of water and water quality in their science curriculum, and to stimulate students to have interest on learning about water and water quality problems in their areas of
residences. Week-long or shorter workshops, half-day training sessions and on-site demonstration of water and water quality parameters measurement and estimation techniques have been organized to train K-12 teachers and students. So far, we have trained about 3000 students, 720 teachers, and 320 other professionals from the five Native American tribes of Navajo, Hopi, White River Apache, Gila River Indian community and Tohono Oodham tribes. We also developed and taught regular and one time courses related to this project. The developed courses are Environmental Hydrology, taught as Forestry and Geography course and Watershed Restoration listed as a Forestry course as well as one intensive summer course, Watershed Analysis and Management, we provided to Native American Professionals in 2002. To accomplish the second objective, we developed a strong collaboration with the Hopi Tribe to study soil salinity, soil physical characteristics as well as the nutrient content and the productive
capability of Hopi tribal lands. The Hopi Tribe provided in kind contributions in the form of a hydrologist and soil and water sampling equipment. The outcome of this study is a 263-page document detailing the hydrologic and land capability of the Oraibi Wash watershed in the Hopi Reservation. We have also been involved in an extensive stream restoration study in the White River Apache Tribe. As a result of the latter study, we produced, published and presented many papers as shown below. We have seen that our activities have major influence on incorporating lessons on water resources education on high school curriculum, encourage students to aspire for higher education and become interested in water and other natural resources education. On the knowledge transfer side, we hope that we helped develop the knowledge-base for proper tribal water and watershed resources management and restoration.
Impacts
The purpose of the project is to enhance water resource sustainability in the semi-arid region of the Southwestern United States.
Publications
- Tecle., A. 2004.Evapotranspiration estimates for Southwestern United States. Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest, 34.
- Leao, D., and A. Tecle. 2004. Predicting event based peak discharges resulting from thinning and wildfire for the Upper Rio de Flag Watershed, Flagstaff, Arizona. Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest, 34.
- Long, Jonathan W., A. Tecle and B.M. 2003. Burnette. Geological influences on recovery of riparian wetlands on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. Journal of Arizona Nevada Academy of Sciences 36(2).46-60.
- Long, Jonathan W., A. Tecle and B.M. Burnette. 2003. Cultural basis for restoring riparian wetlands of the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Ecological Restoration 8(1):4 [online] URL.
- Long, Jonathan W., A. Tecle and B.M. Burnette. 2003. Marsh development following passive restoration and upland erosion on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. Jour. of the American Water Resources association 39(6):1345-1359.
- Seymour, G., and A. Tecle. 2003. Impact of slash pile size and burning on soil physical characteristics in the ponderosa pine (pinus ponderosa) forest type. Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest, 33:53-64.
- Phillips, P., and A. Tecle. 2003. Variations in riparian area vegetation characteristics along the wet beaver and beaver creeks of north central Arizona. Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest, 33:23-30
- Poff, B., and A. Tecle. 2003. Soil water Impacts of Forest Treatment to Prevent Catastrophic Wildfires in a ponderosa pine forest ecosystem. Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest, 33:65-71.
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