The Graduate Certificate of Hydrology is
designed to give students advanced training in hydrology, and leads to
professional certification with the American Institute of Hydrology
(AIH).
Course Requirements
Course requirements for this Certificate
include successful completion of one of three surface hydrology core
courses (4 credits total); one of two hydrogeology core courses (4
credits total); one of three water quality core courses (4 credits
total); an additional Category I course (4 credits total); and two
Category II courses (8 credits total), for 24 total credits.
CE 564, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling, 4 credits (Spring Term) CE 565, Advanced Hydrology, 4 credits (Fall Term) ESR 525, Watershed Hydrology, 4 credits (Fall Term)
Hydrogeology Specialty Area:
CE 569, Intro to Subsurface Flow and Contaminant Transport, 4 credits (Fall Term) G 543, Ground Water Geology, 4 credits (Fall Term)
Water Quality Specialty Area: BI 575, Limnology, 4 credits (Fall Term) CE 578, Water Quality Modeling, 4 credits (Fall Term) G 548, Chemical Hydrogeology, 4 credits (Winter Term)
Category I courses: (1 course required in addition to core courses)
Hydrology specialty area:
CE 561, Water Resources Systems Analysis, 4 credits (Winter Term)* CE 564, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling, 4 credits (Spring Term) CE 565, Advanced Hydrology, 4 credits (Fall Term) CE 566, Environmental Data Analysis, 4 credits (Fall Term) CE 567, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design, 4 credits (Spring Term) CE 572, Environmental Fluid Mechanics I , 4 credits (Fall Term) CE 573, Numerical Methods in Environmental and Water Res Engineering, 4 credits, (Spring Term) CE 576, Environmental Fluid Mechanics II, 4 credits, (Winter Term) ESR 525, Watershed Hydrology, 4 credits (Fall Term) GEOG 514, Hydrology (emphasizes hydrometerology), 4 credits (Fall Term)
Hydrogeology specialty areas:
CE 569, Introduction to Subsurface Flow and Contam Transport, 4 credits (Fall Term) CE 570, Numerical Modeling of Subsurface Flow and Contam Transport, 4 credits (Winter Term) G 541, Ground Water Modeling, 4 credits (Winter Term)* G 543, Ground Water Geology, 4 credits (Fall Term) G 544, Well Dynamics, 4 credits (Spring Term)* G 548, Chemical Hydrogeology, 4 credits (Winter Term)*
Water Quality Specialty Area:
BI 575, Limnology, 4 credits (Fall Term) BI 577, Limnology Laboratory, 4 credits (Fall Term) CE 578, Water Quality Modeling, 4 credits (Fall Term) ESR 524, Ecological Toxicology, 4 credits (Winter Term) ESR 526, Ecology of Streams and Rivers, 4 credits (Fall Term) G 545, Geochemistry, 4 credits (Spring Term)
Water Quality specialty areas: BI 523, Microbial Ecology, 4 credits (Winter Term) BI 545, Algal Physiology, 4 credits (Spring Term) CE 574, Unit Operations of Environmental Engineering, 4 credits (Fall Term) ESR 524, Wetland Ecology, 4 credits (Spring Term)
* Indicates an alternate year course offering
Courses
must be completed within seven years of the award of Graduate
Certificate, and a cumulative GPA of 3.000 must be attained in all
courses to be used for the Certificate. At least two thirds of the
credits for the Graduate Certificate or 15 credits, which ever is
larger, are required to be taken at Portland State University.
