"Most of the papers ... were presented by colleagues and former students as part of a special symposium in honor of the career of M. Gordon Wolman at the Spring 1995 American Geophysical Union meeting in Baltimore"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references.

Conservation principles and the initiation of channelized surface flows / Terence R. Smith and George E. Merchant -- Microtopography of hillslopes and initiation of channels by Horton overland flow / Thomas Dunne, Kelin X. Whipple, and Brian F. Aubry -- Geomorphically effective floods / John E. Costa and Jim E. O'Connor -- Valley morphology and boundary conditions influencing spatial patterns of flood flow / Andrew J. Miller -- Morphology and processes of valley floors in mountain streams, western Cascades, Oregon / G.E. Grant and F.J. Swanson -- Relative scales of time and effectiveness of watershed processes in a tropical montane rain forest of Puerto Rico / F.N. Scatena -- Contribution of heavy rainfall to rainfall erosivity, runoff, and sediment transport in the wet tropics of Australia / Bofu Yu -- Magnitude, frequency, and special factors affecting channel form and processes in the seasonal tropics / Avijit Gupta -- Rivers and the art of stream restoration / Robert Newbury -- Effective discharge and the design of channel maintenance flows for gravel-bed rivers / E.D. Andrews and James M. Nankervis -- Managing bedload sediment in regulated rivers: examples from California, U.S.A. / G. Mathias Kondolf -- Regulated streamflow, fine-grained deposits, and effective discharge in canyons with abundant debris fans / John C. Schmidt and David M. Rubin -- Hydrologic factors in regeneration of Fremont cottonwood along the Fremont River, Utah / Benjamin L. Everitt -- Fluvial processes on an urbanizing alluvial fan: Eilat, Israel / A.P. Schick -- Spatial controls on patterns of land-use induced stream disturbance at the drainage-basin scale--an example from gravel-bed streams of the Ozark Plateaus, Missouri / Robert B. Jacobson.