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Water Resources (Minor)

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The interdisciplinary, interdepartmental graduate minor in water resources is designed for students majoring in the many disciplines of natural resources, science, engineering, technology, and social sciences that are relevant to water resources. The minor exposes students to water resources courses and faculty members within and outside their major fields of study.

The graduate minor in water resources (WR) requires successful completion (“B-” or better in each individual WR course, GPA of 3.0 or better across all WR courses counted toward the minor) of at least 9 credits of WR courses chosen from the lists below. At least 3 of the 9 credits (for M.S. students) or 6 of the 9 credits (for Ph.D. students) must be from outside the student’s major department. For M.S. students (not Ph.D. students), up to 3 credits at the 400-level may be included if these credits are from outside the student’s major department. For students earning an M.S. before enrolling in a Ph.D. program, courses taken to satisfy a WR minor in the M.S. program can not be counted toward a WR minor in the subsequent Ph.D. program. However, WR courses taken during the M.S. program may count toward a WR minor in the subsequent Ph.D. program if the M.S. program did not include a WR minor.

Plan Requirements

  • At least 3 (MS) or 6 (PhD) credit hours must be from outside major
Required Courses9
See "Focus Areas" listed below
Total Hours9

Minor Focus Areas

Hydrological and Meteorological Aspects of Water Resources

Select three of the following courses:9
502Instrumentation for Hydrologic Applications3
576Watershed Monitoring and Assessment3
577Wetlands Design and Restoration3
581Open Channel Hydraulics for Natural Systems3
583Stream Corridor 3 Es: Ecohydraulics, Engineering and Ethics3
584Introduction to Fluvial Geomorphology3
BAE/SSC 771Theory Of Drainage--Saturated Flow3
䷡584Hydraulics Of Ground Water3
䷡586Engineering Hydrology3
䷡607Water Resource and Environmental Engineering Seminar1
FOR 420/520/NR 420/520Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology4
ѷ455Micrometeorology3
ѷ481Geomorphology: Earth's Dynamic Surface3
ѷ485Introduction to Hydrogeology3
ѷ585Physical Hydrogeology3
ѷ715Dynamics of Mesoscale Precipitation System3
SSC 470/570Wetland Soils3
511Soil Physics4

Water Quality Aspects of Water Resources

Select three of the following courses:9
473Introduction to Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling3
BAE/SSC 573Introduction to Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling3
ѷ760Biogeochemistry3
ѷ763Isotope Geochemistry3
ѷ785Chemical Hydrogeology3
442Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry3
521Soil Chemistry3

Biological and Ecological Aspects of Water Resources

Select three of the following courses:9
BAE 472/572Irrigation and Drainage3
574DRAINMOD: Theory and Application3
575Design of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices3
578Agricultural Waste Management3
580Introduction to Land and Water Engineering3
䷡484Water Supply and Waste Water Systems3
䷡571Physical Principles of Environmental Engineering3
䷡574Chemical Principles of Environmental Engineering3
ᷡ575Advances in Pollution Prevention: Environmental Management for the Future3
CS/HS/SSC/TOX 725Pesticide Chemistry1
CS/HS/SSC/TOX 727Pesticide Behavior and Fate In the Environment2
521Wetland Science and Management3
562Environmental Applications Of Soil Science3

Legal, Institutional, and Economic Aspects of Water Resources

Select three of the following courses:9
515Environmental and Resource Policy3
460Practice of Environmental Technology3
430Site Planning3
460Renewable Natural Resource Management and Policy3
571Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy3
484Environmental Impact Assessment4
ʴ550Environmental Policy3

Director

  • Josh Heitman

Professors

  • Aziz Amoozegar
  • Sankar Arumugam
  • Francois Birgand
  • Michael Burchell
  • JoAnn Burkholder
  • Greg Cope
  • David Genereux
  • William F Hunt
  • Detlef Knappe
  • Richard McLaughlin
  • Deanna Osmond
  • Michael Vepraskas
  • Mohamed Youssef

Associate Professors

  • Karl Wegmann

Assistant Professors

  • Celso Castro-Bolinaga
  • Chad Poole

Extension

  • Barbara Doll

Emeritus Faculty

  • Damian Shea