HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES GRADUATE GROUP
COURSES
The sortable full list of courses, when they are taught, and what specific course requirements in HSGG are met with those can found online.
The following is an abbreviated (and less frequently updated) list of HSGG course offerings, actual course listings may vary, and not every course is offered each term. For current course offerings, please refer to the online UC Davis General Catalog or the online Schedule of Classes.
UPPER DIVISION
Fall
HYD 141 (4 units)- Physical Hydrology (instructor retired; now taught as ESM 100, see below)
HYD 144 (4 units)- Groundwater Hydrology
HYD 147 (3 units)- Runoff, Erosion, Water Quality Tahoe Basin
ABT 150 (4 units)- Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
ABT 165 (2 units)- Irrigation Practices for an Urban EnvironmentATM 115 (3 units)- Hydroclimatology
ATM 116 (4 units)- Climate Change
ATM 133 (4 units)- Biometeorology
ECI 100 (4 units)- Fluid Mechanics for Civil and Environmental Engineering (rec'd for HSGG prereq.)
ECI 114 (4 units)- Probabilistic Systems Analysis for Civil Engineers (offered winter also)
ECI 141 (3 units)- Engineering Hydraulics (offered spring quarter also)
ENG 103 (4 units)- Fluid Mechanics
ESM 100 (4 units)- Principles of Hydrologic Sciences
ESP 155 (4 units)- Wetland Ecology (not currently offered)
GEL 140 (4 units)- Introduction to Process Geomorphology
SSC 100 (5 units)- Principles of Soil Science
SSC 107 (5 units)- Soil Physics
SSC 118 (4 units)- Soils in Land Use and the Environment
WFC 120 (3 units)- Biology and Conservation of Fishes
Winter
HYD 103N (4 units)- Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals (not currently offered; use ECI 100 as alternative)
HYD 142 (4 units)- Systems Hydrology
HYD 143 (3 units)- Hydrological Processes in Ecosystems
HYD 145 (6 units)- Water Science and Design
HYD 146 (5 units)- Hydrogeology and Contaminant Transport (instructor retired, awaiting replacement)
HYD 150 (3 units)- Water Law
HYD 151 (4 units)- Field Methods in Hydrology (has no instructors, unlikely to be taught in the foreseeable future)
HYD 182 (4 units)- Environmental Analysis using GIS *
ABT 181N (4 units)- Concepts and Methods in Geographic Information System (not always offered)
ECI 100 (4 units)- Fluid Mechanics for Civil and Environmental Engineering (rec'd for HSGG prereq.)
ECI 114 (4 units)- Probabilistic Systems Analysis for Civil Engineers
ECI 140B (4 units)- Chemical Principles for Environmental Engineers
ECI 144 (5 units)- Groundwater Systems Design w/ Lab
ECI 146 (4 units)- Water Resources Simulation
ECI 148A (4 units)- Water Quality management
ENG 103 (4 units)- Fluid Mechanics
ESM 141 (4 units)- Role of Fire in Natural Ecosystems
ESM 185 (4 units)- Aerial Photo Interpretation and Remote Sensing
ESM 186 (3 units)- Environmental Remote Sensing
ESM 186L (2 units)- Environmental Remote Sensing LabGEL 109 (2 units)- Earth History: Sediments and Strata
PLS 162 (3 units)- Urban Ecology
SSC 102 (3 units)- Environmental Soil Chemistry (Parikh)
Spring
HYD 110 (4 units)- Irrigation Systems and Water Management
HYD 118 (4 units)- Evapotranspiration Measurement and Modeling
HYD 124 (4 units)- Plant-Water-Soil Relationships
HYD 134 (6 units)- Aqueous Geochemistry
ABT 150 (4 units)- Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
EBS 145 (4 units)- Irrigation and Drainage Systems
ECI 145 (4 units)- Hydraulic Structure Design
ECI 155 (4 units)- Water Resources Engineering Planning
ENG 103 (4 units)- Fluid Mechanics
ENH 160 (3 units)- Restoration Ecology
ESM 108 (3 units)- Environmental Monitoring
ESM 121 (5 units)- Water Science and Management
ESP 151 (4 units)- Limnology (with section specifically for graduate students)
ESP 151L (3 units)- Limnology Laboratory (with section specifically for graduate students)
ESP 169 (3 units)- Water Policy and Politics
ETX 180 (4 units)- Chemistry and Toxicology of Metals
GEL 136 (5 units)- Ecogeomorphology of Rivers & Streams *
HIS 178 (3 units)- Water in the West: Environment & POlitics in America's Arid Lands
Summer
ESP 152 (3 units)- Coastal Oceanography
GRADUATE LEVEL
Fall
HYD 201A (3 units)- Hydrologic Sciences Core Survey
HYD 245 (3 units)- Climate Change, Water and Society (CCWAS) core course
HYD 254/298 (3 units)- Ecohydraulics **
HYD 273 (3 units)- Introduction to Geostatistics ** (not currently offered)
ATM 230 Atmospheric Turbulence
CHE 240 (3 units)- Advanced Analytical Chemistry
EBS 242 (3 units)- Hydrology and Sustainability of Irrigated Lands **
ECI 267 (3 units)- Water Resources Management
ECI 271 (4 units)- Inverse Problems *
ECI 275 (4 units)- Hydrological Time Series Analysis **
ECI 279 (4 units)- Advanced Fluid Mechanics
ECI 277A (4 units)- Computational River Mechanics
ECI 278 (3 units)- Hydrodynamics (aka Geophysical Fluid Dynamics) *
ECI 289I (4 units)- Contaminant Transport (Morales)
SSC 211 (3 units)- Advanced Soil Microbiology
Winter
HYD 201B (1 unit)- Hydrologic Sciences Core Seminar
HYD 242 (3 units)- Hydrology and Sustainability of Irrigated Lands *
HYD 285 (4 units)- Global Groundwater-Agriculture Nexus
EBS 241 (3 units)- Precision Irrigation Systems and Management
ECI 240 (4 units)- Water Quality *
ECI 244A (4 units)- Life Cycle Assessment **
ECI 249 (4 units)- Probabilistic Design nd Optimization *
ECI 273 (3 units)- Water Resource System Engineering **
ECI 276 (3 units)- Watershed Hydrology
GEO 200CN (4 units)- Quantitative Geography (spatial data analysis with R)
SSC 222 (3 units)- Global Carbon Cycle*
Spring
HYD/EBS 205 (4 units)- Continuum Mechanics of Natural Systems *
HYD 210 (3 units)- Vadose Zone Modeling (not currently offered)
HYD 243 (4 units)- Water Resources Planning & Management (not offered in 2024 due to sabbatical leave)
HYD 252 (4 units)- Hillslope Geomorphology and Sediment Budgets (rarely offered, only upon strong demand)
HYD 264 (3 units)- Modeling of Hydrologic Processes (not currently offered)
HYD 269 (3 units)- Numerical Modeling of Groundwater Systems ** (not currently offered)
HYD 274 (3 units)- Practice of Groundwater Flow & Transport Modeling **
HYD 286 (3 units)- Topics in Advanced Remote Sensing Applications *
HYD 298 (2 units)- River Basin Biogeochemistry (check with the instructor for next academic year offered)
HYD 298 (2 units)- Aqueous Geochemistry (check with the instructor for next academic year offered)
ECI 261 (4 units)- Colloids in Soil and Water (check with the instructor for next academic year offered)
ECI 270 (3 units)- Advanced Water Resources Management (check with the instructor for next academic year offered)
SSC 219 (4 units)- Ecosystem Biogeochemistry (offered spring 2023 - check w/ Hernandez for future years)
* = odd years only
** = even years only
(?) = may be offered every year, consult with instructor