About independent river restoration research at Berkeley
All students who enroll in Restoration of Rivers and Streams and Hydrology for Planners undertake a substantial independent term project involving original research. Students peer review each other’s term projects, receive critical review of revised second drafts from the instructor, and revise again before submitting their final drafts. In addition, students make oral presentations of their projects to the Berkeley River Restoration Symposium or California Watershed Symposium, held on a Saturday and typically drawing an audience of 50- 100, consisting of fellow students, guest lecturers, other interested professionals, local creek groups, and members of the public.

The term projects are all archived in the permanent collection of the Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA) at the University of California, searchable by author, title, or keyword in the catalog, where they constitute one of the largest collections of restoration-related studies currently available for any region with over 290 original restoration related studies (including 78 post-project appraisals). Since 2003, most of these papers are also available on-line with over 7,000 downloads as of January 2006. Students undertake river-restoration-related research in other courses and other departments as well, with many theses and dissertations addressing restoration-related topics each year. In the future, we hope to have all these listed on this webpage as well for easy reference.

Cross-section survey of Arroyo Viejo Creek (Oakland, CA), by Mary Cousins and Rune Storesund, 2005.