Teacher and students stood atop the high bank of Toro Creek one recent morning. "Measure everything we can about a cross-sectional view of the channel-floodplain system," Dr. Doug Smith said. Dr. Smith is co-director of the Watershed Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay. The students were in his Introduction to Geology and Hydrology class. – The Salinas Californian, Nov. 16, 2011