Terrestrial Hydrology (ESPMC130, CIVENG103, GEOG136) -A quantitative introduction to the hydrology of the terrestrial environment including lower atmosphere, watersheds, lakes, and streams. All aspects of the hydrologic cycle, including precipitation, infiltration, evapotranspiration, overland flow, streamflow, and groundwater flow. Chemistry and dating of groundwater and surface water. Development of quantitative insights through problem solving and use of simple models. This course requires one field experiment and several group computer lab assignments.
Remote Sensing of the Environment (ESPM172, CIVENG172) - The course will introduce junior/senior undergraduate students to the basic physical concepts of remote sensing as they relate to different earth surface processes. It will introduce students to a variety of recently developed ground, airborne, and satellite instruments and their applications to monitor and analyze environmental processes. These include active (e.g., Lidar), and passive (radiometers) sensors, optical (e.g., Landsat, MODIS), microwave (e.g., SMAP), and gravitational (e.g., GRACE) satellites.
Data Assimilation and Artificial Intelligence in Hydrology (ESPM207) -The hydrologic community has experienced a surge of data in recent years. This class will discuss methods to handle such wealth of data and their uncertainties. We will particularly discuss methods for data assimilation as well as machine learning methods and applications. The focus will be on hydrology processes, but the covered concepts can be applied to other topics of Earth system processes. Basic statistics and physics knowledge, basic computing skills. However, this class has no formal coding skills requirements and students will be given the opportunity to learn these skills.
Introduction to Environmental Science (ESPM 15) - Introduction to the science underlying biological and physical environmental problems, including water and air quality, global change, energy, ecosystem services, introduced and endangered species, water supply, solid waste, human population, and interaction of technical, social, and political approaches to environmental management.