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 565 Hydrologic Processes and Modeling (3 cr.) or Biol515 Plant Environmental Biophysics (3 cr.) and Biol436 Lab (1 cr.)
- HYDR 509 Quantitative Hydrogeology (3 cr.)
- FISH 415 Limnology (3 cr.)
Electives for Science & Management Option Area
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 518 Climate and Hydroclimate Modeling (3 cr.)
- GEOG 524 GIS & Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology (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 510 Advanced Fisheries 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 550 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 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.)
Course descriptions: http://www.registrar.uidaho.edu/catalogs/catalogs.html