Water
Water Secondary Core, a graduate area of curriculum concentration
Rowing rig on the Colorado River
Introduction
The water resources program in the graduate environmental studies (ENVS) program at CU-Boulder educates students and professionals about the range of issues and problems associated with the supply, use, and quality of water. Solutions to these problems will require a new breed of water resource specialists who can effectively integrate knowledge across a broad range of disciplines and a broad range of scales. A person specializing in water resources will have a working knowledge of physical hydrology, water law, aquatic ecology, policy, culture and history, and economics.
Why Study
Coming Soon: text on why water is important....
Curriculum
Methodology Course: 3 credit hours
Water Resource Courses: 9 credit hours from courses within the two concentration areas listed below, (1) Water and the Environment or (2) Water and Society.
Water and the Environment
- EBIO 5030 Limnology
- EBIO 5060 Landscape Ecology
- GEOG 5241 Land-Atmosphere Interactions
- GEOG 5251 Fluvial Geomorphology
- GEOG 5311 Watershed Biogeochemistry
- GEOG 5321 Snow Hydrology
- GEOG 5501 Western Water
- GEOG 5003 Geographic Information Systems
- GEOL 5080 Advanced Hydrogeology
- GEOL 5280 Aqueous Geochemistry
- CVEN 5834 Applied Stream Ecology
- CVEN 5424 Aquatic Organic Contaminants
- CVEN 5404 Env. Engineering Chemistry
Water and Society
- ECON 6555 Water Resource Dev. and Mgmt.
- ENVS 5810 Climate, Water & Env. Sustainability
- ENVS 5730 The Decision Process
- ENVS 5720 Problem Orientation
- GEOG 5501 Western Water
- ENVS 5710 Introduction to Policy Sciences
- LAWS 6112 Foundations of Nat'l Res. Law
- LAWS 6302 Water Resources
- LAWS 6318 Law and Economics
- LAWS 7202 Environmental Law
- LAWS 8302 Seminar in Adv. Water Resources
- CVEN 5393 Water Resource Dev. and Mgmt
Electives
remaining courses with advisor approval
CU Boulder Resources
Campus-wide Initiatives:
- Western Water Assessment
- Carbon, Climate and Society Initiative
Departments:
- ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES
- CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
- ECONOMICS
- EPO BIOLOGY
- GEOGRAPHY
- GEOLOGY
- LAW
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
Institutes/Centers:
- CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
- INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research)
- IBS (Institute of Social and Behavioral Sciences)
- CADWES (Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems)
- NRCL (Natural Resources Law Center)
Federal Agency Laboratories, Offices in Boulder/Ft. Collins/Denver:
- US Geological Survey, Water Resources Division
- USDA Forest Service
- Bureau of Reclamation
- US Fish and Wildlife Service
- EPA
- NOAA Office of Global Programs
- Climate and Societal Interactions
- Paleoclimate
- NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center
- NCAR
Faculty
Grad Students
- Announcements -
Tue Nov 17, 2009
Udall Scholarship Information Meeting
Thu Dec 17, 2009
ENVS Recognition Ceremony and Reception
Thu May 06, 2010
- Events -
Wed Jul 22, 2009
11:25 am
Summer Series In College Course Design
Mon Nov 30, 2009
12:00 pm
Tue Dec 01, 2009
02:00 pm
- News -
Nov 19, 2009
New Method to Measure Snow, Soil Moisture With GPS May Benefit Meteorologists, Farmers
Nov 17, 2009
El Niño Could Play a Role in Colorado’s Winter Weather, CU-NOAA Scientist Says
- Faculty Focus -
Tom Yulsman
Science writing, primarily about Earth systems (geology, paleontology, climate) as well as astronomy
