Water Resources Science & Management Option Area

Entry Requirements

Coursework in the following is required for (M.S. and Ph.D.) admission to the Water Resources Science & Management Option Area.  Provisional admission for M.S. students may be granted to those who have completed the majority of this coursework, provided the remaining coursework is completed as deficiency requirements.

 Calculus (6 credits)

          Statistics (3 credits)

          Chemistry or Physics or Biology/Ecology (6 credits total)

Common Courses               

The following courses are required of both M.S. and Ph.D. students in all of the Water Resources Option Areas.

          WR 501 Water Resources Seminar (1 cr.)

          WR 506 Integrated Water Resources Methods (3 cr.)

          WR 507 Integrated Water Resources Projects (3 cr.) *Available spring 2009

A 500 (or 900 in LAW) level elective in either Engineering & Science or Law, Management & Policy Option Areas (3 cr. for Ph.D.)

Core Courses

M.S. students are required to take 6 credits, and Ph.D. students are required to take 9 credits from the following:

FOR 462               Watershed Science and Management (3 cr.)

    or

BAE 450                 Environmental Hydrology (3 cr.)

STAT 401               Statistical Analysis (3 cr.)

    or

GEOE 428               Geostatistics (3 cr.)

BAE 556                 Hydrologic Processes and Modeling (3 cr.)

HYDR J509              Quantitative Hydrogeology (3 cr.)

FISH 415                Limnology (3 cr.)

Electives for Science & Management Option Area[1]

As noted, one elective must be in either Engineering & Science or Law, Management & Policy Option Areas for PhD students.  A core course may be considered an elective course once the core requirements are satisfied.  Electives not listed below will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

CE 523                   Water Resources Systems (3 cr.)

CE 526                   Aquatic Habitat Modeling (3 cr.)

CE 533                   Water Quality Management (3 cr.)

GEOE 420                Erosion and Sediment Control (3 cr.)

GEOG 401                Climatology (3 cr.)

GEOG 505                Climate and Water Resources Change (3 cr.)

GEOG 509                Alpine Hydrology (3 cr.)

GEOG 518                Climate and Hydroclimate Modeling (3 cr.)

GEOG 524                GIS & Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology (3 cr.)

GEOG 584                Adv.Topics in Remote Sensing & Image Processing (3 cr.)

GEOL 410                 Techniques of Groundwater Study (3 cr.)

GEOL 421                 Environmental Geophysics (3 cr.)

GEOL 423                 Principles of Geochemistry (3 cr.)

GEOL 518                 Geomicrobiology (3 cr.)

GEOL 564                 Geochemistry of Natural Waters (3 cr.)

FISH 415                  Limnology (3 cr.)

FISH 430                  Riparian Ecology (3 cr.)

FISH 435                  Wetland Ecology & Management (3 cr.)

FISH 515                  Large River Fisheries (3 cr.)

FISH 530                  Stream Ecology (3 cr.)

FOR 515                   Physical Hydrology (3 cr.)

FOR 516                   Current Literature in the Hydrologic Effects of Forest

                              Management (3 cr.)

HYDR J509                Quantitative Hydrogeology (3 cr.)

HYDR J512                Environmental Hydrogeology (3 cr.)

HYDR 513                 Applied Hydrogeologic Concepts (3 cr.)

HYDR 514                 Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction (3 cr.)

HYDR WS 566            Groundwater Geochemistry (3 cr.)

HYDR 568                 Aquifer Test Design and Analysis (3 cr.)

HYDR 572                 Groundwater Management (3 cr.)

HYDR 576                 Fundamentals of Modeling Hydrogeologic Systs (3 cr.)

HYDR 577                 Computer Applications in Hydrogeology (3 cr.)

SOILS 415                Soil and Environmental Physics (3 cr.)

SOILS 528                Advanced Chemistry of Soil Environment (3 cr.)

STAT 507                 Experimental Design (3 cr.)

STAT 514                 Nonparametric Statistics (3 cr.)

STAT 519                 Multivariate Analysis (3 cr.)

WSU SOILS 514         Environmental Biophysics (2 cr.)

WSU SOILS 515         Environmental Biophysics Laboratory (1 cr.)

 Electives with prerequisites beyond those for Science & Management

          BAE 458                   Open Channel Hydraulics (3 cr.)

BAE 552                   Environmental Water Quality (3 cr.)

BAE 551                   Advanced Hydrology (3 cr.)

BAE 553                   Land Surface Hydrology (3 cr.)

BAE 555                   Natural Channel Flow (3 cr.)

BAE WS 556              Natural Systems for Wastewater Treatment (3 cr.)

BAE 558                   Fluid Dynamics of Porous Media (3 cr.)

BAE 559                   Irrigation System Design (3 cr.)

BAE WS 566              Constructed Wetlands for Pollution Control (3 cr.)

BAE WS 590              Adv Theory of Irrigation Water Requirements (3 cr.)

CE 402                     Applied Numerical Methods for Engineers (3 cr.)

CE 421/BAE451          Engineering Hydrology (3 cr.)

CE 521                     Sedimentation Engineering (3 cr.)

CE 520                     Fluid Dynamics (3 cr.)

CE 528                     Stochastic Hydrology (3 cr.)