HSAC Curriculum – UF Water Institute

The Hydrologic Sciences Academic Concentration (HSAC) is available to both Masters and Ph.D. degree students. The programs require students to complete a core curriculum in Hydrologic Sciences, which comprises courses in the following six Topics: (1) Subsurface Hydrology; (2) Surface Hydrology; (3) Hydrologic Chemistry; (4) Hydrologic Ecology; (5) Hydrologic Analysis & Techniques; and (6) Hydrologic Policy & Management.

Graduate students are required to complete 12 credit hours by taking one subsurface hydrology course from Topic 1 and one surface hydrology course from Topic 2, and at least one course in two of the four remaining Topics. Courses may be transferred in from non-UF Master’s programs via the petition process. Transfer credit must be approved by the University of Florida before being considered as a course for the concentration. A minimum of 50% of the courses for the concentration must be taken at the University of Florida to satisfy concentration requirements. Undergraduate courses will not be used to satisfy requirements for the concentration.

HSAC courses are listed and categorized in the table below. Although some courses may be listed in multiple topic areas, no course can simultaneously count toward more than one topic area in a student’s plan of study. The set of courses selected for a student’s plan of study must be from at least 2 different departments.

*Course offered online

Topic 1

Subsurface Hydrology

ABE 6265	Vadose Zone Water and Solute Transport Modeling*
CWR 5125	Groundwater Flow 1
CWR 6537	Contaminant Subsurface Hydrology

GLY 5247	Surface and Groundwater Interactions*
GLY 5827	Groundwater Geology*
SWS 5605C	Environmental Soil Physics*

Topic 2

Surface Hydrology

ABE 6017	Stochastic Modeling in Ecology and Hydrology
ABE 6254	Simulation of Agricultural Watersheds*
AOM 6736	Principles and Issues in Environmental Hydrology*
CGN 6905	Special Problems in Civil Engineering (Urban Stormwater System Design)*
CWR 5235	Open Channel Hydraulics
CWR 6116	Advanced Surface Hydrology*
EGM 5816	Intermediate Fluid Dynamics
ENV 6416	Advanced Stormwater Control*

ENV 6508	Wetland Hydrology*
EOC 6196	Littoral Processes
GEO 6282	Fluvial Morphology and Processes
OCP 6050	Physical Oceanography
OCP 6295	Estuarine and Shelf Hydrodynamics 1
SWS 6932	Topics in Soils (Landscape Hydrology)
SWS 6932	Conservation Hydrology

Topic 3

Hydrologic Chemistry

ABE 6266	Nanotechnology in Water Research*
CWR 6252	Environmental Biochemistry of Trace Metals*
EES 6208	Principles of Water Chemistry 1*
ENV 6435	Advanced Water Treatment Process Design*
ENV 6437	Advanced Wastewater System Design
ENV 6438	Advanced Potable Water Systems Design*
ENV 6439	Activated Carbon: Environmental Design and Application

GLY 5245	Hydrogeochemistry
SWS 5115	Environmental Nutrient Management*
SWS 5224	Environmental Biogeochemistry*
SWS 5248	Wetlands and Water Quality*
SWS 5406	Soil and Water Chemistry
SWS 6448	Biogeochemistry of Wetlands and Aquatic Systems*
SWS 6456	Advanced Biogeochemistry

Topic 4

Hydrologic Biology

EES 5305C	Ecology and General Systems
ENV 6932	Coastal Systems
FAS 5203C	Biology of Fishes
FAS 5276C	Field Ecology of Aquatic Organisms
FAS 6154	Marine Adaptations: Environmental Physiology
FAS 6171	Applied Phycology

FAS 6932	Freshwater Ecology*
FNR 6564	Ecohydrology
PCB 5307C	Limnology
SWS 5248	Wetlands and Water Quality*
SWS 5308	Ecology of Waterborne Pathogens*

Topic 5

Hydrologic Analysis & Techniques

ABE 5646	Biological and Agricultural Systems Simulation
ABE 5648	Modeling Coupled Natural-Human Systems*
ABE 5707C	Agricultural Waste Management
ABE 6017	Stochastic Modeling in Ecology and Hydrology*
ABE 6035	Advanced Remote Sensing: Science and Sensors
ABE 6037C	Remote Sensing in Hydrology
ABE 6252	Advanced Soil and Water Management Engineering*
ABE 6840	Data Diagnostics: Detecting and Characterizing Deterministic Structure in Time Series Data
ABE 6933	Special Topics in Agricultural and Biological Engineering: STAT/MACHINE LEARNING*
CWR 6126	Variable-Density Groundwater Flow

EES 6309	Wetland Treatment Systems*
ENV 6511	Biological Wastewater Treatment*
EOC 6850	Numerical Simulation Techniques in Coastal and Ocean Engineering
EOC 6934	Advanced Topics in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering: Hydro Models Estuarine & Coast*
GIS 5306	Geographic Information Systems Applications in Environmental Systems
GLY 6826	Hydrogeologic Modeling
MET 6752	Spatial Analysis of Atmospheric Data using GIS
OCP 6168	Data Analysis Techniques for Coastal and Ocean Engineers
SWS 5721	GIS in Land Resource Management*

Topic 6

Hydrologic Policy & Management

AEB 6453	Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
AEB 7453	Natural Resource Economics
CPO 6795	Environmental Politics
CPO 6796	Water Politics
EES 6051	Advanced Environmental Planning and Design
ENV 5075	Environmental Policy
ENV 6441	Water Resources Planning and Management
FNR 6669	Policy & Economics of Natural Resources*
INR 6352	International Environmental Relations
LAA 6382	Ecological and Environmental Policy

LAW 6460	Land Use Planning and Control
LAW 6470	Environmental Law
LAW 6472	Natural Resources Law
LAW 6930	Water Law
PUP 6006	Policy Evaluation
SWS 5208	Sustainable Agricultural and Urban Land Management*
SWS 5246	Water Resource Sustainability*
URP 6421	Environmental Land Use Planning and Management
URP 6429	Natural Resources Planning and Management