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Watershed Science

Course Code:
ENV 340
Course Group(s):
Degree Applicable, DMRS: Analysis and Planning Track, ENST: Environment & Society Cluster, ENVS: Ecosystem Processes, ENVS: Upper Division Science Electives, FOR: Forestry Minor Electives, FWSW - Wildlife Concentration: Ecology Elective, GIS: Minor Electives, HHAE: Ecosystem Processes Cluster, Integrative Studies: ECOR Program Options, Integrative Studies: ENST Program Options, Integrative Studies: ENVS Program Options, Integrative Studies: FOR Program Options, Integrative Studies: FW Program Options, Integrative Studies: NRCM Program Options, Integrative Studies: PACM Program Options, LA ELECTIVE, LA ELECTIVE - UD
Active Term:
Spring
Course Description:

Watershed science is a field of study with a focus on the quantity and quality of water moving through a watershed.   In this course, students will learn how a watershed as a basic ecosystem unit provides a useful framework for the study and analysis of watershed patterns and processes.  Students will learn how watershed science integrates climate, geology, hydrology, geomorphology, soil science, ecosystem process, and land cover.   Important topics include hydrological processes and their alterations; calculation of water budgets; the origin, transport and fate of sediment and nutrients; and river and stream dynamics.  Students will learn how these scientific underpinnings inform policy related to integrated watershed protection and restoration.  Related topics will include the US EPA TMDL process, and best management practices and low impact development.  Problem sets will reinforce critical watershed concepts through the application of mathematical skills to watershed analyses.  LAS

Credit:
3
Prerequisites:

QP-R and (BIO 210 or ENV 110 or FOR 101) 

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