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For more information, visit the Hydrology, Water Resources and Environmental Fluid Mechanics Website linked from the title above.
The graduate program in Water Resources Engineering leads to the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. Students studying toward the M.S. degree can pursue a thesis or a course work option of 30 semester hours. The Ph.D. degree requires additional course work beyond M.S. degree as well as a dissertation.
Faculty
John Crimaldi, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University. Interaction of fluid mechanics with biological systems and ecosystem dynamics; scalar transport, structure of passive and reactive chemical plumes; turbulent processes in benthic boundary layers.
Vijay Gupta, Professor, Ph.D., University of Arizona. Multiscale hydrologic processes in space and time, statistical hydrology, hydrometeorology, high and low flows in river basins, hydroclimatology, river networks.
Roseanna Neupauer, Associate Professor, Ph.D. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Groundwater Hydrology and Contaminant transport, Probabilistic Approaches for Contaminant Source Identification, Wavelet Representations of Hydrogeologic Heterogeneity.
Harihar Rajaram, Professor, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fundamental research in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena relevant to environmental, hydrologic and geological problems. Transport phenomena in porous media, stochastic transport theories, large-scale numerical computation, coupled processes.
Kenneth Strzepek, Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Water resource planning and management, river basin planning, modeling of agricultural, environmental, and water resource systems; advanced decision support in water resource systems.
Balaji Rajagopalan, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Utah State University. Hydro-climate modeling, stochastic hydrology, nonparametric techniques for spatial data analyses, times series analysis and forecasting.
Thomas Chase, Professor, Ph.D., Ecology/Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University. Climate modeling, feedbacks and climate change, Interactions between biosphere, atmosphere and hydrological cycle, Climate regulation
Areas of Study
- Surface and Subsurface Hydrology
- Water Resource Modeling, Planning, and Management
- Groundwater Hydrology and Contaminant Transport
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Transport in Porous and Fractured Media
- Stochastic Hydrology and Hydroclimatology
- Before taking graduate courses the following minimum undergraduate course requirements must be satisfied:
- Two semesters of Physics
- Four semesters of Calculus (through differential equations and linear algebra)
- Statics
- Fluid Mechanics
Transfer Credits
For the Master of Science program the Department will accept up to 9 hours graduate credit from other institutions toward the minimum course requirements if not used toward another degree.
For the Doctoral program up to 15 semester hours of 5000 level or above course work may be transferred from another institution and applied towards the 30 hours minimum course work requirement. For a student who has obtained his/her M.S. degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder, up to 21 semester hours of 5000 level or above course work may be transferred.
Facilities
The Water Resources program maintains the Environmental Flows and Transport Processes Laboratory. This laboratory contains state-of-the-art facilities and instrumentation for investigating environmental fluid mechanics, transport processes in porous media and reactive transport phenomena. Facilities include two recirculating turbulent water flumes; instrumentation includes a laser-Doppler anemometer, an acoustic-Doppler anemometer, three lasers, laser-induced fluorescence equipment, and high-resolution digital image acquisition systems. High-performance Computing facilities are available for modeling environmental flow and transport processes and Hydrologic systems.
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