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Every year, a course entitled GIS in Water Resources is taught by David R. Maidment in the Dept of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. The course home page, lecture notes, readings and exercises can be accessed online by clicking on the respective links at the top of the page. The material in the first module is freely available, while that in succeeding modules is protected by a course intranet for the students registered in the course. Beginning in Fall 1998, this course was offered online by the Center for Lifelong Engineering Education of the University of Texas at Austin, and the Fall 1999 version of this course will similarly be offered online from August through December 1999. More information about the Fall 1999 Online GIS in Water Resources course can be obtained from http://www.utexas.edu/academic/ces/othercourse/gis_water.html During the past year, Dr Maidment has also been cooperating with ESRI to create a Spatial Hydrology Using ArcView online course as part of ESRI's Virtual Campus. This course is a slimmed down version of the graduate GIS in Water Resources course which is suitable for studying at any time.
Each student in the GIS in Water Resources course writes an html term paper summarizing a piece of original investigation in the use of GIS to study water or related environmental issues. The following is a list of student project reports from the class of Fall 1998. They provide some insight into the nature and scope of analyses to which GIS can be applied. The papers are classified into five categories as follows:
Term Projects
Biological and Ecological Systems,
Heather Alexander: GIS Analysis of Emergent Vegetation in the Nueces Salt Marsh
Scott Applebaum: Geographic Information Systems in Fisheries Oceanography
Oliver Gomez: Change Detection of Vegetation Using Landsat Imagery
Jennifer Lipton: A North American Analog of the Talamancan Biological Corridor of Costa Rica
Database Development and Terrain Analysis
Kim Davis: Trinity River Basin: Preparation for TMDL Planning
Jona Finndis Jonsdottir: Digital delineation of watershed drainage areas
David Mason: Spatial Water Rights Database for the Guadalupe Basin
Richard Gu: New Tool Development for Water Modeling
Mary Lear: Translation of High Resolution Flow Direction Data to an Arbitrary Low Resolution Mesh
Surface Water Modeling
Esteban Azagra-Camino: Rainfall Runoff in the Guadalupe River Basin
Jerry Perales: GIS-Based Infiltration Modeling
Ann Dennis: Surface Water Modeling in South Texas
Shiva Niazi: Subsurface Water Modeling in South Texas
David Favazza: Creating GIS-Based Internet Applications
Paul Valdez: Irrigation in the Guadalupe and San Antonio Basins
Groundwater Modeling and Route Evaluation
Christine Otto: ELEMENTARY ROUTING: Savannah, Georgia to Amarillo, Texas
Stephanie Sue: Using ArcView GIS to Delineate a Hurricane/Flood Evacuation Route for Mustang Island, Texas
Julie Kim: Spatial Analysis of the Marcus Hook Refinery
Chun-Yi Chiang: Evaluate Pesticide Pollution Potential in the Groundwater of Harris County
Cengiz Vur: Application of GIS in Petroleum Geology
Seung Yi: Spatial Distribution of Groundwater Contaminant Concentration Data
Air, Water and Soil Resources
Neil Deeds: Mass Loading of Agrichemicals into the Platte river in Nebraska
Katherine Osborne: Water Quality Master Planning, City of Austin
Craig Niedermeier: Soil Erosion Modeling Using GIS
Ed Gelsone: GIS Analysis of Military Training Areas at Ft Hood
Todd Schram: Energy Production Potential of Wind Resources in Texas
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These materials may be used for study, research, and education, but
please credit the authors and the Center for Research in Water Resources,
The University of Texas at Austin. All commercial rights reserved. Copyright
1999 Center for Research in Water Resources.
