COURSES
Watershed Management - NATR 4240 Introduction to watersheds, effects of land management on erosion and water quality, and mitigation techniques to reduce adverse effects. An understanding of how water moves through the environment is necessary for effective resource management. This course introduces students to watershed concept and its implications with respect to land management. The course cover various hydrological processes, how they are quantified, land management practices, and the policies related to water quality and quantity. |
Modeling Environmental Change at multiple Scale – NATR 7560. This graduate level class teaches modeling fundamentals to solve environmental change problems at multiples scales driven by climate variability/change and land use/cover change. Problems are tackled at both temporal (event-based and continuous) and spatial (point scale to large watersheds) scales to predict streamflow and water quality and develop abatement strategies. We cover the concepts model calibration/validation, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, etc. The Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) serves as the main modeling platform. |
Watershed Hydrology – NATR 7550 This graduate level class covers the individual components of the hydrologic cycle in depth at watershed level. We study how these components interact with each other and how changes in landscape and management practices impact the hydrologic regimes, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The course content is broad enough to satisfy the needs of graduate students working on or having interest in any aspects of hydrology. |