Hydrogeology Requirements

Students pursuing an advanced degree with specialization in hydrology should have completed an undergraduate program comparable to that of Washington State University. Originally, this will require the student to have completed, or to take without graduate credit, course work having a content analogous to that in:

Geol 206 (3) Field Petrology
Geol 340 (4) Geologic Structures
Geol 350 (4) Mineralogy & Crystallography
Geol 308 (3) Geology Field Camp
Geol 320 (3) Sedimentary Petrology & Sedimentation
Geol 475 (3) Groundwater
CE 315 (3) Mechanics of Fluid
Math 315 (3) Differential Equations

Required Courses, M.S.:

Geol 569 (2) Field Methods in Hydrogeology
Geol 577
(3) Advanced Groundwater Hydraulics
Geol 579
(V) Groundwater Geochemistry

Two of the following:
Geol 428 (3) Geostatistics
Geol 521
(3) Clastic Depositional Systems
Geol 570
(V) Advanced Topics in Hydrogeology (Organic Contaminants)
Geol 584 (3) Principles of Isotope Geochemistry
CE 576 (3) Dynamics of Groundwater Contamination


Required Courses, Ph.D.:

Students pursuing the Ph.D. degree should have completed all of the courses listed under the requirements of the M.S. program and, in addition, are expected to take:

CE 550 (3) Intermediate Fluid Mechanics

Additional Courses:
Depending upon the individual student's major interest within the ground-water discipline, additional studies will be selected from the following list:

Geol 480 (3) Introductory Geochemistry
Geol 505
(4) Geophysics
Geol 520
(3) Advanced Topics in Sedimentary Rocks
Geol 523 (3) Advanced Topics in Stratigraphy
Geol 525 (3) Carbonate Depositional Systems
Geol 540 (3) Tectonics
Geol 541 (3) Structural Analysis
Geol 552 (3) X-ray Analysis in Geology
CE 515 (3) Environmental Measurements
CE 540 (3) Instrumental Analysis of Environmental Contaminants
CE 560 (3) Advanced Hydrology
CE 576 (3) Dynamics of Groundwater Contamination
CE 584 (2) Engineering Aspects of Aquatic Biology
Chem 527 (2) Environmental Chemistry
Math 441 (3) Applied Math II
Math 448 (3) Numerical Analysis
SoilS 513 (2) Advanced Soil Physics
SoilS 521 (3) Advanced Soil Chemistry
SoilS 537 (3) Soil Biochemistry
SoilS 551 (3) Advanced Pedology