Water Science offers a two-semester water resource management curriculum for second year technical students or undergraduates in water resource management, water science, or environmental resource management programs. Water Science is divided into 6 major units. Each unit is divided into modules encompassing approximately a week’s worth of lectures and labs.

The lectures are presented as Microsoft © PowerPoint files with some supporting materials as Adobe PDF or Microsoft © Word documents.

Navigating Water Science
Choose a unit from the side navigation bar to view details of the topics covered within each module. Once you become familiar with each unit you can use the sidebar navigation to jump right into a module to view all of the lecture, laboratory and supporting materials available. A detailed outline of the entire Water Science curriculum is also available (42K PDF).

Water Science Units

• I. WATERSHED AND AQUATIC SCIENCE FUNDAMENTALS
• II. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
• III. DATA COLLECTION
• IV. DATA MANAGEMENT
• V. DATA ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION, AND PRESENTATION
• VI. MANAGEMENT POLICY AND OUTREACH

WOW Workshop News update 7/7/04

WOW module progress: update 7/7/05

Module		Last updated
1	watershed science and society	12/22/03
2/3	lake ecology	1/30/04
4/5	stream ecology	5/26/03
6	problem and objective formulation	12/22/03
7	watershed and landuse surveys	1/13/05
8/9	lake surveys	8: 12/22/03 9: 1/5/04
10/11	stream surveys	3/22/04
12	remote sensing and internet data sources	1/13/05
13	quality assurance and control	6/27/05
14	data types, sources and retrieval	5/5/05
15	spreadsheets and nonspatial databases	2/15/05
16	geographic information systems	10/29/04
17	elementary statistics	2/25/04
18	applications of regression	12/22/03
19	GIS / spatial analysis
20	data visualization and presentation
21	introduction to modeling	9/21/04
22	regulations and compliance monitoring	11/17/04
23	watershed management	10/18/04
24	lake restoration	12/22/03
25	stream restoration	2/9/04
26	community education and involvement	11/19/04
27	educating decision makers	7/6/04