The Water Resources Certificate Program prepares students for related careers in environmental science and management. Protecting the long-term ecologic health of our rivers and streams is an important national goal, yet our society has ever-increasing demands for inexpensive supplies of high-quality water. The program provides a common curriculum to meet the educational needs of the next generation of environmental scientists and managers. Many of the courses provide hands-on experiences in an outdoor setting to learn about water resources. The purpose of the program is to train students to manage our scarce water resources for the maximum benefit of the world's population, while at the same time preserving the ecologic integrity of our aquatic resources.
Allison Lauricella Academic Advisor and Student Services Coordinator Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, 1-214 Allison.Lauricella@uga.edu (706) 542-8964 Jenny Yearwood, Program Coordinator Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources yearwood@uga.edu (706) 542–0947 water.uga.edu
15 hours
There are TWO requirements for the Undergraduate Certificate in Water Resources. An enrolled undergraduate student must complete three credit hours in five of the following six categories: Water Resource Foundations Water Quality Foundations Hydrologic Processes Biological Interactions Management, Economics, and Policy Applications
The second requirement is the completion of six water resources seminars. Attendance at each seminar must be documented by providing a one-paragraph summary of the presentation to Jenny Yearwood via email at yearwood@uga.edu. A list of current seminars can be found on our calendar, water.uga.edu. A maximum of three (of the six) seminars can be taken online. Online seminars change throughout the year as Ms. Yearwood posts them to the website.
| ATSC(GEOG) 3110 | Climatology | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG)(ENGR) 4112/6112 | Atmospheric Dynamics | 3 |
| ATSC 4114/6114 | Atmospheric Dynamics II | 3 |
| CRSS(WASR) 1020 | Introduction to Water Resources | 3 |
| CRSS 2010 | Crop Science | 3 |
| CRSS 2010L | Crop Science Laboratory | 1 |
| CRSS(FANR) 3060 | Soils and Hydrology | 3 |
| AND CRSS(FANR) 3060L | Soils and Hydrology Laboratory | 1 |
| CRSS 3540 | Soil Morphology and Interpretation | 1-3 |
| CRSS 3920 | Environmental Soil Science Internship | 3 |
| EHSC 3910 | Internship in Environmental Health Science | 3 |
| ENVE 4550/6550 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 |
| GEOG 1125 | Resources, Society, and the Environment | 3 |
| GEOG 4040/6040 | Global Environmental Change Past and Present | 3 |
| GEOG 4060/6060 | Field Methods: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 3 |
| GEOL 3020-3020L | Surficial and Near-Surficial Processes | 4 |
| GEOL 3030 | Elementary Oceanography | 3 |
| GEOL 4640/6640 | Geochemical and Geophysical Surveys | 3 |
| LAND 3530 | Planning, Design, and Analysis | 3 |
| WASR 4500/6500 | Quantitative Methods in Hydrology | 3 |
| BIOL 1103 | Concepts in Biology | 3 |
| CRSS(FANR) 3060 | Soils and Hydrology | 3 |
| AND CRSS(FANR) 3060L | Soils and Hydrology Laboratory | 1 |
| CRSS(HORT)(ECOL) 4590/6590 | Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition | 3 |
| CRSS(HORT) 4590L/6590L | Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition Laboratory | 1 |
| CRSS 4600/6600 | Soil Physics | 3 |
| CRSS 4600L/6600L | Soil Physics Laboratory | 1 |
| ECOL 3520 | Applied Field Ecology | 4 |
| EHSC 4400 | Environmental Issues in the Developing World | 3 |
| ENGR 3160 | Fluid Mechanics | 3 |
| ENVE 4550/6550 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 |
| FISH(ECOL)(MARS)(WILD) 4300/6300 | Environmental Biology of Fishes | 3 |
| FORS 3010 | Dendrology | 2 |
| AND FORS 3010L | Dendrology Laboratory | 1 |
| GEOL 3020-3020L | Surficial and Near-Surficial Processes | 4 |
| GEOL 4130/6130 | Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry | 3 |
| GEOL 4670/6670 | Environmental Instrumental Analysis | 3 |
| HORT 4990/6990 | Current Issues in Horticulture | 1 |
| MARS 4100/6100 | Geological and Physical Oceanography | 3 |
| MARS(MIBO) 4620/6620 | Microbial Ecology | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG) 3120-3120L | Weather Analysis and Forecasting | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG) 4120/6120 | Synoptic Meteorology and Climatology | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG) 4150/6150 | Physical Climatology | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG) 4160/6160 | Applied Climatology in the Urban Environment | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG) 4170/6170 | Mesoscale and Radar Meteorology/Climatology | 3 |
| CVLE 3420 | Introduction to Soil Mechanics | 3 |
| CVLE 3450L | Civil Engineering Laboratory – Soils | 1 |
| CRSS(GEOL) 4540/6540-4540L/6540L | Pedology | 4 |
| CRSS(MIBO) 4610/6610-4610L/6610L | Soil Microbiology | 4 |
| EHSC 4090 | Emerging Technologies: Bioremediation | 3 |
| ENVE 4550/6550 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 |
| GEOG 4040/6040 | Global Environmental Change Past and Present | 3 |
| GEOG 4300/6300 | Data Science in Geography | 3 |
| GEOL 3020-3020L | Surficial and Near-Surficial Processes | 4 |
| GEOL 4270/6270 | Geology Field School | 6 |
| HORT(CRSS) 4440/6440-4440L/6440L | Environmental Physiology | 4 |
| LAND 3330 | Landscape Engineering Processes and Materials | 3 |
| MARS 4100/6100 | Geological and Physical Oceanography | 3 |
| WASR 4500/6500 | Quantitative Methods in Hydrology | 3 |
| WILD(FISH) 3000W | Introduction to Fish and Wildlife Management | 2 |
| ANTH 3150 | Water Worlds | 3 |
| BCHE(ENVE) 4490/6490 | Environmental Engineering Remediation Design | 3 |
| CRSS 3050 | Introduction to Water Quality | 4 |
| CRSS(WASR) 4660/6660 | Hydrogeochemical Characterization of Environmental Field Sites | 3 |
| ECOL 4000/6000 | Population and Community Ecology | 3 |
| ECOL 4010/6010 | Ecosystem Ecology | 3 |
| ECOL 4050/6050-4050L/6050L | Ichthyology | 4 |
| ECOL(FANR) 4220/6220 | Restoration Ecology | 3 |
| ECOL(EHSC)(FISH) 4600/6600 | Ecotoxicology | 3 |
| ECOL 4940 | Internship in Ecology | 2-4 |
| EHSC 4350-4350L | Environmental Chemistry | 3 |
| EHSC 4490 | Environmental Toxicology | 3 |
| EHSC 4610 | Water Pollution and Human Health | 3 |
| ENVE 4550/6550 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 |
| FISH(ECOL)(MARS)(WILD) 4300/6300 | Environmental Biology of Fishes | 3 |
| FISH(ECOL)(MARS)(WILD) 4550/6550-4550L/6550L | Sustainable Aquaculture | 4 |
| FISH 4650L/6650L | Georgia Fishes Field Study | 4 |
| FORS 3010 | Dendrology | 2 |
| AND FORS 3010L | Dendrology Laboratory | 1 |
| GEOG(ATSC) 1112 | Introduction to Weather and Climate | 3 |
| GEOG(ATSC) 1112L | Introduction to Weather and Climate Laboratory | 1 |
| GEOL 4020-4020L | Internal Earth Processes | 3 |
| GEOL 4220/6220 | Hydrogeology | 3 |
| MARS 3450 | Marine Biology | 3 |
| MARS 3450L | Marine Biology Laboratory | 1 |
| MARS 4100/6100 | Geological and Physical Oceanography | 3 |
| MARS 4200/6200 | Biological and Chemical Oceanography | 3 |
| MIBO 3000-3000L | Introductory Applied Microbiology | 4 |
| MIBO 3500 | Introductory Microbiology | 3 |
| PRTM 3310 | Humans, Nature, and Environmental Awareness | 3 |
| WASR(FORS) 4000/6000-4000L/6000L | Forest Soil Management | 4 |
| WASR(CRSS)(ECOL)(ENGR)(GEOG)(GEOL) 4700L/6700L | Hydrology, Geology, and Soils of Georgia | 3 |
| AAEC 4980 | Agribusiness Management | 3 |
| APTC(EHSC) 3080 | Introduction to Environmental Sciences and Engineering | 3 |
| CRSS 3050 | Introduction to Water Quality | 4 |
| ECOL 3530 | Conservation Biology | 3 |
| ECOL(FANR) 4220/6220 | Restoration Ecology | 3 |
| EETH 4000 | Environmental Ethics Seminar | 1 |
| EHSC 4100-4100L | Industrial Hygiene | 3 |
| EHSC 4150 | Solid and Hazardous Waste Management | 3 |
| ENVM(EHSC) 4250/6250 | Environmental and Public Health Law | 3 |
| EHSC(FDST)(MIBO) 4310-4310L | Environmental Microbiology | 4 |
| ENGR 3920 | Cooperative Work Experience II | 3 |
| ENVE 3510 | Modeling, Statistical Analysis, and Uncertainty | 3 |
| ENVE 4435/6435 | Natural Resources Engineering | 3 |
| ENVE 4470/6470 | Environmental Engineering Unit Operations | 3 |
| ENVE 4550/6550 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 |
| ENVE 4720 | Urban Infrastructure Planning and Development | 3 |
| ENVM 3060 | Principles of Resource Economics | 3 |
| ENVM 3650 | Environmental Economics | 3 |
| ENVM(EHSC) 4250/6250 | Environmental and Public Health Law | 3 |
| ENVM 4380 | Environmental Management and Sustainable Business Practices | 3 |
| ENVM 4660 | Environmental Valuation: Methods and Applications | 3 |
| ENVM 4800/6800 | Water Resource Economics and Management | 3 |
| ENVM(AAEC) 4930/6930 | Environmental Law and Governmental Regulation | 3 |
| FANR 1500 | Fundamentals of Sustainability | 3 |
| FANR 3300-3300D | Economics of Renewable Resources | 2 |
| FANR 3400-3400D | Society and Natural Resources | 2 |
| FANR 3800 | Spatial Analysis of Natural Resources | 2 |
| AND FANR 3800L | Spatial Analysis of Natural Resources Laboratory | 1 |
| FANR 4020/6020 | Sustainable Development | 3 |
| FANR 4502S | Senior Project in Natural Resources II | 3 |
| FISH 4200/6200 | Aquatic Biology | 3 |
| GEOG 3010 | General Geomorphology | 3 |
| GEOG 3620 | Globalization and the Making of the Modern World | 3 |
| GEOG 3990 | Internship in Geography | 3 |
| GEOG 4350/6350-4350L/6350L | Remote Sensing of Environment | 3 |
| GEOL 4010-4010L | Life and Ecologies of the Past | 3 |
| JURI(FANR)(ECOL) 4810/6810 | Natural Resources Law | 3 |
| LAND 3040 | Landscape Architecture Design Studio IV | 4 |
| LAND 3340 | Applied Landscape Engineering | 2 |
| LAND 4360 | Advanced Landscape Ecology | 3 |
| MARS 4100/6100 | Geological and Physical Oceanography | 3 |
| WASR(FORS) 4110/6110-4110L/6110L | Forest Hydrology | 4 |
| AENG(ATSC) 4111/6111 | Atmospheric Thermodynamics | 3 |
| ATSC 4116/6116-4116L/6116L | Introduction to Data Assimilation | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG) 4120/6120 | Synoptic Meteorology and Climatology | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG) 4140/6140 | Satellite Meteorology and Climatology | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG) 4150/6150 | Physical Climatology | 3 |
| ATSC(GEOG) 4170/6170 | Mesoscale and Radar Meteorology/Climatology | 3 |
| CRSS 3050 | Introduction to Water Quality | 4 |
| CRSS(GEOL) 4540/6540-4540L/6540L | Pedology | 4 |
| CRSS 4670/6670 | Environmental Soil Chemistry | 3 |
| ECOL 4000/6000 | Population and Community Ecology | 3 |
| ECOL 4010/6010 | Ecosystem Ecology | 3 |
| ECON 4150 | Environmental Economics | 3 |
| EHSC 4080 | Environmental Air Quality | 3 |
| EHSC 4150 | Solid and Hazardous Waste Management | 3 |
| EHSC(FDST)(MIBO) 4310-4310L | Environmental Microbiology | 4 |
| ENGR 3160 | Fluid Mechanics | 3 |
| ENGR 4460 | Design of Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems | 3 |
| ENGR 4920 | Engineering Design Project | 4 |
| ENVE 3510 | Modeling, Statistical Analysis, and Uncertainty | 3 |
| ENVE 4410/6410 | Open Channel Hydraulics | 3 |
| ENVE 4470/6470 | Environmental Engineering Unit Operations | 3 |
| ENVE 4550/6550 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 |
| ENVM 2060 | Green Economics | 3 |
| ENVM(AAEC) 4930/6930 | Environmental Law and Governmental Regulation | 3 |
| FANR 3400-3400D | Society and Natural Resources | 2 |
| FANR 4502S | Senior Project in Natural Resources II | 3 |
| FANR 4800W/6800W | Renewable Resources Policy | 2 |
| GEOG 3290 | Mountain Geography | 3 |
| GEOG 4020/6020 | Fluvial Geomorphology | 3 |
| GEOG 4300/6300 | Data Science in Geography | 3 |
| GEOG 4350/6350-4350L/6350L | Remote Sensing of Environment | 3 |
| GEOG 4370/6370-4370L/6370L | Geographic Information Science | 3 |
| GEOG 4911/6911 | Collaborative Research in Atmospheric Sciences | 3 |
| GEOL 4620/6620 | Exploration Geophysics | 3 |
| GEOL 4640/6640 | Geochemical and Geophysical Surveys | 3 |
| HORT(CRSS) 4440/6440-4440L/6440L | Environmental Physiology | 4 |
| JURI(FANR)(ECOL) 4810/6810 | Natural Resources Law | 3 |
| MARS 3100 | Oceans in Peril | 3 |