Courses

This course is designed to present the basic aspects of water quality, quantity, and policy to the students to help them make informed decisions on how to manage the social science issues related to water supply, demand, and sustainable water management within the U.S. and globally.

Nonpoint source pollution processes including transport mechanisms and contaminant fate; design of best management practices for abating nonpoint source pollution.

This one hour course will equip students with the tools necessary to examine the fundamental principles of water quality, with particular emphasis on nutrients and the watershed-level approach. The student will collect a freshwater sample from a lake, river, stream, or pond to determine local water quality. The sample will be submitted to the local USDA extension office and obtain a certified water quality report (fee required).

This course is an advanced study of the processes used to monitor, measure, and manage water quality for municipal, commercial, or industrial use. The use of technology to enhance water quality management processes is also investigated.

This course is an advanced study of the processes used to monitor, measure, and manage water quality for municipal, commercial, or industrial use. The use of technology to enhance water quality management processes is also investigated.

The course focuses on statistical hydrology, climate, dendrohydrology (tree rings) and glaciers. The classroom lectures and in-class labs include the use of statistical software to analyze hydrologic datasets, the use of remote imagery to evaluate glacier recession, application of empirical equations to estimate glacier mass loss, evaluation of hydrologic (streamflow, snowpack) and climatic datasets, developing skeleton plots and cross dating tree-ring data, and seminars.

This course analyzes within a geographical perspective, the formation, use, conservation, and management of water resources. The students will develop a working knowledge of the hydrologic, water quality, legal, economic, political, and societal factors that determine water availability, hazards, use, demand, and allocation.

Water use, problems of water supply, water resource management, water quality (present and potential pollution problems and solutions), and water conflicts around the world. Topics will be explored through a study of the historical context, the physical process, environmental risks, and future issues.

Mechanics of steady and unsteady flow in closed and open conduits, hydrology, water supply, and wastewater disposal. Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: AEM 264 or CHE 304

Quantitative hydrology, precipitation, hydrograph analysis, reservoir and stream routing; groundwater, Darcy equation, well equation, well design; probability concepts in design; water law; dams; reservoirs; spillways; open channel and pipe network hydraulics; pumps; urban stormwater drainage; flood damage mitigation.