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    Interdisciplinary MS Program In Water ResourcesINTERDISCIPLINARY MS PROGRAM IN WATER RESOURCES

    INTERDISCIPLINARY MS PROGRAM IN WATER RESOURCES


    Researches in water

    The WARE program is an interdisciplinary MS "slash" program.  Students who enroll in the program are pursuing graduate studies in a range of departments at the University of Wyoming.  WARE is a dual degree program that encourages students to pursue interdisciplinary academic options while completing their MS research.

    The educational underpinnings of this program include the following:

    • The purpose of the program is to develop cross-disciplinary education and perspectives regarding water resources.
    • Training is to be consistent with the rigor expected of professionals with water resource expertise.
    • The cross-disciplinary major program is flexible to meet the individual professional objectives of students.

    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.


    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 
    • Entomology/Water Resources 
    • Geography/Water Resources 
    • Geology/Water Resource & Geophysics/Water Resources 
    • Rangeland Ecology And Watershed Management / Water Resources 
    • Soil Science/Water Resources 
    • Zoology And Physiology/Water Resources 

    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 change of status form to add the 2nd major of Water Resources.

    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 change of status form to add Water Resources as a 2nd major.


    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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    Email: wrese@uwyo.edu

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