HYDROGEOSCIENCES

Students completing this track will gain knowledge and skills in measurement and modeling of primary hydrologic processes taking place at the atmosphere-surface interface (precipitation, energy balance), related to overland flows and sediment transport, and to vadose zone and groundwater flow and contaminant transport. Students will acquire experience in hydrologic site characterization and monitoring methods. Entering students should have basic quantitative skills (physics, math and statistics) and completed courses in introductory hydrology, geology and chemistry. Some of the hydrogeosciences courses are:

• Groundwater Flow Modeling
• Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering
• Open Channel Hydraulics
• Vadose Zone Hydrology
• Environmental Measurements in Natural Systems
• Ecohydrology
• Environmental Systems Modeling
• Subsurface Contaminant Transport Modeling
• Laminar Viscous Flows
• Computational Methods of Viscous Fluid Dynamics
• Unsaturated Flow & Transport
• Ground Water Assessment & Remediation
• Probabilistic Methods in Engineering Systems
• Environmental Geophysics