Water Resources Planning and Management

Description

(Interdepartmental Area)

An intra-university masters-level minor with emphasis on water resources planning and management. Each student will be required to complete: 1) a major in one of the departments with approval to offer option as a minor or specialization; 2) 9 hours of water resources-related courses from departments outside the student’s major field (6 hours of which must be from those courses marked with a “+”) and approved by the Water Resources Advisory Committee; and 3) a thesis oriented toward water resources planning and management, or under special circumstances, an alternative to a thesis which first must be approved.

The masters degree will be granted in one of the disciplines. The student must be formally registered in one of the departments with approval to offer the option as a minor or specialization. The recommended masters degree option is I (thesis) but other options may be approved. The minor or specialization can be noted on the student’s final transcript, for example, civil engineering (water resources planning and management).

Departments with Approval to Offer Option as a Minor or Specialization:

Agricultural Economics, Agronomy/Horticulture, Animal Science, Biological Sciences, Biological Systems Engineering, Civil Engineering, Community and Regional Planning, Geography, Geosciences, Mathematics, Political Science, School of Natural Resources, and Sociology.

A Water Resources Advisory Committee coordinates the interdisciplinary aspects of the minor/specialization. The Director of the Nebraska Water Center/Environmental Programs in the School of Natural Resource Sciences serves as chair with one member from each participating department. Approval of individual student program of studies, degree option, and thesis topics (if applicable) will have the concurrence of the student’s major department and the chair of the advisory committee. One member of the student’s examining committee will be appointed from the Water Resources Advisory Committee. This member cannot be from the student’s major department.

Examples of courses in water resources to comprise the 9-hour minor or specialization are listed below according to departments. Course descriptions and prerequisites are contained in the appropriate departmental listings. Courses below, and courses other than those listed below, may be included as part of the 9-hour minor or specialization with concurrence of the Advisory Committee chair and the student’s major department representative to the Advisory Committee.

Courses may require technical prerequisites; check bulletin listings for details. Students may take courses cross listed in an outside department to meet minor or specialization requirements.

Offered in the Department of Agricultural Economics
856. Environmental Law
857. Water Law+
865. Resource & Environmental Economics II

Offered in the Department of Agronomy/Horticulture
808. Microclimate: The Biological Environment
825. Turfgrass Science & Culture
850. Climate & Society
855. Soil Chemistry & Mineralogy
861. Soil Physics (NRES, GEOL 861; SOIL, WATS 461)
875. Water Quality Strategy+ (CIVE, CRPL, GEOL, MSYM, NRES, POLS, SOCI 875; SOIL, WATS 475)
920. Pesticide Dissipation in Soils & Plants
961. Advanced Soil Physics

Offered in the School of Biological Sciences
859. Limnology
860. Advanced Limnology+
873. Freshwater Algae
885. Aquatic Insects

Offered by the Department of Biological Systems Engineering
853. Irrigation & Drainage Systems Engineering
855. Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Engineering
941. Agricultural Waste Management
954. Turbulent Transfer in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

Offered in the Department of Civil Engineering
821. Hazardous Waste Management
822. Hazardous Waste Treatment
823. Physical/Chemical Treatment Processes in Environmental Engineering
824. Solid Waste Management Engineering
826. Design of Water Treatment Facilities
827. Design of Wastewater Treatment & Disposal Facilities
828. Quantitative Methods in Environmental Engineering
829. Biological Waste Treatment
830. Fundamentals of Water Quality Modeling
852. Water Resources Development+
853. Hydrology+
854. Hydraulic Engineering
855. Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Engineering (BSEN 855)
856. Surface Water Hydrology
858. Groundwater Engineering
875. Water Quality Strategy+
915. Water Resources Engineering
916. Interdisciplinary Seminar in Engineering: Economic & Legal Aspects of Water Resources Systems+ (LAW 774G)
921. Advanced Topics in Hazardous Waste Treatment
926. Advanced Topics in Water Treatment
927. Advanced Topics in Wastewater Treatment
929. Industrial Waste Laboratory
930. Advanced & Industrial Wastewater Treatment
952. Water Resources Planning+
954. Advanced Hydraulics
955. Solute Movement in Soils (AGRO, AGEN 955; GEOL 985)
958. Groundwater Mechanics
959. Groundwater Modeling

Offered in the Department of Community and Regional Planning
870. Environmental Planning & Policy
872. Environmental Survey & Analysis
875. Water Quality Strategy+

Offered in the Department of Geography
812. Intro to Geographic Information Systems
818. Intro to Remote Sensing
819. Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture & Natural Resources
820. Remote Sensing III: Digital Image Analysis
822. Advanced Techniques in Geographic Information Systems
881. Water Resources Seminar+

Offered in the Department of Geosciences
815. Water Resources Seminar+
850. Climate & Society
851. Severe Storms Meteorology-Climatology
852. Synoptic Meteorology
853. Physical Climatology
854. Regional Climatology
861. Soil Physics
868. Satellite Meteorology
875. Water Quality Strategy+
888. Groundwater Geology+
889. Hydrogeology
953. Seminar in Meteorology & Climatology
954. Seminar in Climatic Change
987. Seminar in Hydrogeology

Offered in the School of Natural Resources
808. Microclimate: The Biological Environment (AGRO, GEOG, HORT, MSYM, NRES 808)
810. Landscape Ecology
815. Water Resources Seminar+ (AGRO, GEOG 881; GEOL 815)
817. Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture
852. Climate & Society (AGRO, GEOG 850)
859. Limnology+ (BIOS 859)
866. Advanced Limnology (BIOS 860)
863. Fisheries Science+
864. Fisheries Biology (BIOS 862)
868. Wetlands+
875. Water Quality Strategy+
889. Icthyology (BIOS 891)
907. Agricultural Climatology
908. Solar Radiation Interactions at the Earth’s Surface
954. Turbulent Transfer in the Atmospheric Layer (BSEN 958)