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Hydrotopia: Water Resources Management in the West
Steven Burian, University of Utah
This is an interdisciplinary water management course. It is co-taught by an engineering instructor and an instructor from humanities. Students experience class sessions involving traditional lectures, guest speakers, position paper debates, and design charettes. Students are required to complete numerous in-class exercises, homework, three position papers, and a team project.

Subject: Environmental Science:Policy, Sustainability, Water Quality and Quantity, Environmental Science, Sociology, Political Science, Engineering, Geoscience, Business, Geoscience:Hydrology

Agroecology
Bruno Borsari, Winona State University
An introduction to the theory of agroecology and the current practices of sustainable agriculture. The components of farm management will be studied within the context of a complex ecosystem. Class time will be ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geography:Human/Cultural, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Policy

Hydrotopia: Toward a Hydraulic Society in the American West
Ed Barbanell, University of Utah
Interdisciplinary case study analysis of historical and emerging water issues in the western United States. Students learn the fundamental concepts and major issues related to water resources planning and ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Soils, Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Sustainability, Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Environmental Decision-Making, State Policy, Geography:Human/Cultural, Environmental Science:Policy:Local Policy

Hydrology - an (incomplete) introduction
Jan Seibert, University of Zurich
This Online Course is usually used as part of an introductury course in hydrology at the University of Zurich, where the online material complements traditional lectures and seminars. To support remote teaching in ...

Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology

Chemistry of Earth Systems
Jeff Niemitz, Dickinson College
The course covers thermodynamics and kinetics of earth systems as it relates to earth surface environments. Much of the course examines the geochemistry of the different "spheres" and the fluxes and mass ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry

CEGR 207 INTRODUCTION TO AQUIFER MECHANICS
Jiang Li, Morgan State University
This course covers theory and applications in the field of aquifer mechanics including property of sedimentary material, interaction between solid and steady/unsteady flow toward to a well within a confined, ...

Subject: Geoscience, Hydrology, Hydrology:Ground Water:Aquifer properties

ENV 170 The Fluid Earth
Tara Curtin, Hobart William Smith Colleges
This is an introductory course with no pre-requisites that uses the global water cycle to teach important geological concepts.

Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology, Geoscience

Geochemistry
John Ayers, Vanderbilt University
Application of chemistry to study the distribution and cycling of elements in the crust of the earth. Includes chemical bonding and crystallization, phase rules and phase diagrams, chemical equilibria, theories on ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry

Water Resources Engineering Design (CIEN 560)
Manoj Jha, North Carolina A & T State University
This is an upper level course for senior undergraduate and graduate students. The mode is fully lecture with a field trip and a design project. Students learn a series of design problems of water resources structures including open channel, reservoir storage, water supply system, and storm and sanitary sewer system.

Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology, Engineering

Grand Valley State University: Hydrospere For K-8 Teachers
Steve Mattox, Grand Valley State University
Introduction to how the hydrosphere works emphasizing a descriptive approach. Includes river, groundwater, glacial, ocean, and shoreline systems and human interaction with those systems. For Dr. Mattox's ...

Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology, Geoscience