Water Resource Management Emphasis

The water resource management emphasis blends a general natural resources background with courses in water quantity and quality, soils, agriculture, geology, fisheries management, and land use planning to provide a background focusing on water resource management at the watershed scale. Employment is typically with federal, state, and county agencies.

• Watersheds are studied by land use cover and GIS mapping technologies in relationship to field monitoring of lakes and streams. Engineering and biological techniques of water management are demonstrated.
• Graduates are employed in various capacities with the USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, U. S. Geological Survey, state department of natural resources, and county soil and water conservation districts.
• Students are commonly hired while in school under the Student Career Employment Program (SCEP) of federal agencies to provide early career experience and eventual permanent employment.

 

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