Hydrology and Water Resources
Overview: Hydrology is a branch of geoscience concerned with the origin, distribution, movement, and properties of waters of the earth. This includes fluid flow and transport of contaminants in the subsurface environment. Past and present research focuses on a broad spectrum of hydrologic problems. These range from quantifying snow distribution and melt, rainfall and infiltration processes, floods, droughts, terminal lake responses, soil erosion, and groundwater/surface water exchanges. Additionally, modeling tools have been developed and/or applied to investigate stream water quality, groundwater contamination characterization and remediation, and complete watershed responses. Water Resources Engineering draws on principles from hydrology, fluid mechanics, hydraulics, environmental engineering, economics, ecology, political science, and other disciplines in the design and operation of projects and nonstructural methods for water resources planning and management. Research in this area focuses on simulation and optimization modeling and hydroinformatics to improve the planning, design, and operation of water systems over different spatial scales (e.g., individual users or transboundary river basins).
Required Courses
Note that with approval from the graduate committee, required courses can be waived if the student has successfully completed an equivalent course at Utah State University or elsewhere.
Technical Electives
Fall
- CEE 5410CEE 5410/6410 Water Resource Systems Analysis
- CEE 5500CEE 5500/6500 Open Channel Hydraulics
- CEE 5540CEE 5540/6540 Hydraulic Structures Design
- CEE 5655CEE 5655/6655 Green Infrastructure
- CEE 6006CEE 6006 Agricultural Water Management
- CEE 6110CEE 6110 Hydroinformatics
- CEE 6610CEE 6610 Environmental Quality Analysis
- CEE 6730CEE 6730 Environmental Chemistry of Organic Contaminants
- CEE 6740CEE 6740 Surface Water Quality Modeling
- CEE 6930 Advanced Hydrology through CUAHSI Virtual University
- CEE 6930CEE 6930 Hydrologic Field Methods
- WATS 6050WATS 6050 Aquatic Ecosystems and Water Resources Systems Modeling
- WATS 4500/6500WATS 4500 Limnology: Ecology of Inland Waters
Spring
- CEE 5003CEE 5003/6003 Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces
- CEE 5190CEE 5190/6190 GIS for Civil Engineers
- CEE 5450CEE 5450/6450 Hydrologic Modeling
- CEE 5470CEE 5470/6470 Sedimentation Engineering
- CEE 5550CEE 5550/6550 Hydraulics of Closed Conduits
- CEE 5620CEE 5620 Aquatic Chemistry
- CEE 6580CEE 6580 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
- CEE 6640CEE 6640 Physical and Chemical Environmental Process Engineering
- CEE 6600CEE 6600 Environmental Chemistry of Inorganic Contaminants
- WATS 4930WATS 4930/6920 Advanced GIS and Spatial Analysis
- WATS 6150WATS 6150 Fluvial Geomorphology
- WATS 6840WATS 6840 Fluvial Hydraulics and Ecohydraulics