Interdisciplinary MS Program In Water ResourcesINTERDISCIPLINARY MS PROGRAM IN WATER RESOURCES

INTERDISCIPLINARY MS PROGRAM IN WATER RESOURCES

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Primary responsibility of student guidance and graduate program formulation resides with the sponsoring department and sponsoring major professor. Once accepted to a “home” department, each candidate will form a graduate committee that contains at least one member drawn from the Hydrologic Science Program faculty. The faculty representative on the candidates graduate committee shall aid in formulating course program design, academic performance criteria, and research objectives throughout the candidates’ tenure in the program.

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Departments and Degrees Involved in WARE

Several academic departments throughout the university work together to provide an interdisciplinary Master's degree program in water resources. The Masters’ degree offered through these affiliations is awarded as a major with each of the sponsoring departments graduate programs and is designated on the graduate transcript as: M.S. or M.A. in (Program Name)/Water Resources. This formal recognition of a water resources degree emphasis certifies that the student has completed an in-depth multidisciplinary course program in the broad area of water resources. The following is a list of participating departments:

• Agricultural Economics/Water Resources 
• Botany/Water Resources 
• Civil Engineering/Water Resources
• Economics/Water Resources
• Entomology/Water Resources
• Geographic Information Science & Technology/Water Resources
• Geography/Water Resources 
• Geology/Water Resource & Geophysics/Water Resources
• Geophysics/Water Resources
• Rangeland Ecology And Watershed Management/Water Resources 
• Soil Science/Water Resources 
• Zoology And Physiology/Water Resources 

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Steps to joining the program

You are encouraged to start by identifying potential degree programs and faculty members with whom you would like to work and contact them directly to further investigate your interests. Please visit the UW office of admissions for an overview in the process of applying for graduate studies

The steps to enroll in the program are to:

1. work with your committee to create a program of study that fulfills your overall degree requirements and those of the Water Resources program;
2. send the program of study through your degree channels and the Hydrologic Science Program director; and
3. fill out a Program Change form to add the 2nd major of Water Resources (select: "Add a major(s)," and use "other/unknonwn" in the Current Degree/Proposed Degre dropdowns).

Current students: It is not enough to just list the Water Resources option on your Program of Study form. You must also fill out a Program Change form to add Water Resources as a 2nd major.

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Curriculum

The academic program of study undertaken by the candidate must be designed to enhance the students background and expertise through formal graduate level course work in the areas of: (A) technical hydrology, (B) natural resources economics and/or law, and (C) water quality and a seminar. To ensure a minimum multidisciplinary character, the course program must contain:

1. Nine hours of course work with at least three hours from each of the aforementioned areas;
2. At least six of those credit hours must be from outside the student's sponsoring department; 
3. A one-credit hour seminar on water resources
4. Only Plan A masters degree programs, which require the writing of a thesis in the water resources area, are acceptable for the water resources degree option.

 

A. Technical Hydrology (3 credits)

CE	4800	Hydrology (3)
CE	5435	Environmental Transport Processes (3)
CE	5445	Hazardous Waste Site Remediation (3)
CE	5810	Ground Water Hydrology (3)
CE	5860	Soil Erosion and Conservation (3)
CE	5870	Water Resources Engineering (3)
CE	5880	Advanced Hydrology (3)
GEOG	4080	Management of Major River Basins (3)
GEOG	5030	Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport Modeling (3)
GEOG	5210	Topics in Geophysics (1-3)
GEOG	5215	Inverse Theory (3)
GEOG	5330	Mechanics of Sediment Transport, Erosion and Deposition (4)
GEOG	5340	Advanced Tectonics and Sedimentation (3)
GEOL	5444	Geohydrology (3)
GEOG	5450	Fluvial Geomorphology (3)
GEOG	5455	Remote Sensing of Rivers (4)
GEOL	5550	Numerical Methods in Ground Water Geology I (3)
GEOL	5570	Advanced Geohydrology (3)
REWM	4700	Watershed Management (3)
REWM	5250	Water Resources Seminar (1)
REWM	5280	Stream Habitat Management (3)
REWM	4285/5285	Wildland Hydrology (3)
REWM	5640p	Spatial Hydrology (1-4)
SOIL/MATH	5110	Modeling Flow Transport in Soil and Groundwater Systems (4)

 

B. Law & Natural Resource Economics(3 credits)

AGEC	4710	Natural Resources Law and Policy (3)
AGEC	4720	Water Resource Economics (3)
AGEC	5630	Advanced Natural Resources Economics (3)
ECON	4400	Environmental Economics (3)
ECON	4410	Natural Resources Economics (3)
ECON	5400	Advanced Resource & Environmental Economics (3)
LAW	6660	Environmental Law (3)
LAW	6860	Water Rights (3)

 

C. Water Quality (3 credits)

BOT	5740	Ecosystems Analysis (4)
CE	4410	Environmental Engineering Chemistry (3)
CE	4400	Design of Water Treatment Facilities (3)
CE	5410	Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment (3)
CE	5450	Advanced Physical/Chemical Water Treatment Processes (3)
GEOL	4490	Geochemistry (3)
GEOL	5450	Geochemical Modeling (3)
GEOL	5777	Geochemistry of Natural Waters (3)
REWM	4710/5710	Watershed Water Quality Management (3)
SOIL	5130	Chemistry of the Soil Environment (4)
ZOO	4440	Limnology (3)

 

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