Coastal Watershed Management

Coastal watersheds differ from others by their unique features, including proximity to the ocean, weather and rainfall patterns, subsurface features, and land covers. Land-use changes and competing needs for valuable water and land resources are especially more distinctive to such watersheds.

This book covers recent research relevant to coastal watersheds. It addresses the impact of a stream’s chemical, biological, and sediment pollutants on the quality of the receiving waters, such as estuaries, bays, and near-shore waters.

The contents of the book can be divided into three sections:

a) Overview of hydrological modelling

b) Water quality assessment>

c) Watershed management

This book differs from other hydrology books by dealing with coastal watersheds which are characterized by their unique features: including weather and rainfall patterns, subsurface characteristics, and land use and cover. In addition to academia, the book should be of interest to organizations concerned with watershed management, such as local and federal governments and environmental groups. Overall, the book is expected to satisfy a great need for understanding and managing critical areas in many parts of the world.

Aly I. El-Kadi

Dr. Aly I. El-Kadi is Associate Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics and Director of the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he has been based since 1989. Prior to that he was Associate Director for Research, in the Water Science Program, at Holcomb Research Institute, Research Scientist and Hydrologist, Holcomb Research Institute and Instructor at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt His recent research has included flooding the use of helium as an environmental tracer, watershed modeling and analysis, athe pplication and assessment of various types of groundwater models, modeling multiphase flow and transport of hydrocarbons, Numerical modeling flow and transport in field soils, databases and geographic information systems, bioremediation in tidal aquifers, contamination by agricultural and cesspool sources.

Ali Fares

Dr. Ali Fares is Associate Professor of Watershed Hydrology in the Watershed Hydrology Laboratory of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he has been teaching and performing research since 2002. Prior to that he was a resarch associate at the University of Florida, taught at Union University and Institute, Keiser College, and Warner Southern College, and served as research associate at Sentek. His current research is in watershed management, using a combination of experimental, theoretical and numerical modeling across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. He has published a number of papers and served as co-chair or co-organizer of several international conferences in the field.

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