SELECTED COURSES AT UNR

GEOL/NRES 784 Vadose Zone Hydrology

This graduate level course focuses on the flow and transport of water and solutes in unsaturated porous media. The course involves training on numerical simulators (HYDRUS-1D and HYDRUS-2D) to solve complex problems of water and solute transport.  The course requires a pre-requisite of ERS 422 Soil Physics or equivalent

GEOL 702Z and NRES 701D Hydrologic Field Methods

Graduate level course focusing on field skill training in both ground and surface water methods.  Field experience includes 48 hour aquifer testing, slug testing, watershed modeling and stream gauging, geochemical sampling of both ground and surface water as well as hands-on and demonstration activities dependent upon public and private utility activity. It is recommended that this course be taken after the Hydrologic Science Core classes have been taken to gain the most benefit.

 GEOL/NRES 782 Hydrology/Hydrogeology Seminar

This course is required of all second year and later Hydrologic Sciences students and focuses on presentation and writing skills.  Oral presentations on important papers in the Hydrologic Sciences are included as are presentation of student research projects.  The course concludes with a formal debate on a hydrologic issue of current interest.

GEOL 701 Evaporation and Land Surface Energy Budgets

This seminar course will focus on evaporation and transpiration theory, analysis and measurement from complex land surfaces.  The concepts of a land surface energy budget will first be introduced to partition available radiation into latent, sensible, soil heat flux and advective flux. Beginning with the fundamentals of heat transport (sensible and latent) into the turbulent atmosphere, we will explore modern advances in the theoretical understanding of transfer across soil and vegetation boundaries into the atmospheric boundary layer.  Measurement methods will be reviewed and students will have the opportunity to obtain and analyze energy budget data from a variety of complex terrains.  Remote sensing and up-scaling methods for evaporation and transpiration will also be presented and discussed.

WEEK 1 READINGS: Brutseart and Parlange, 1998, Roderick and Farquhar, 2000, Salvucci_2004

WEEK 2 READINGS: Priestley_and_Taylor_1972, Eichinger1996

WEEK 3 READINGS: Seneviratne_2006, Brutsaertetal_1990, Crago_Brutsaert_1992

WEEK 5 READINGS: Hobbins et al 2001,  Brutseart and Striker 1979

WEEK 8 READINGS: Marksand Dozier 1992a,

WEEK 11 READINGS: Morton, 1983a, Morton 1983b, Morton 1991a, Morton 1991b