WR 581A1 - GIS Water Resource Applications

Prerequisite

Written consent of instructor, graduate standing.

Description

Students will be exposed to GIS applications focusing on water resources. They will assess online data sources, learn how to download and pre-process digital data, and analyze water information. Students will learn through demonstrations, lectures, discussion sessions and hands-on labs. Students will demonstrate their understanding of class concepts through the development of a project that will include developing a GIS database and conducting analysis from techniques learned in class.

Colorado State University is transitioning from RamCT (WebCT platform) to RamCT Blackboard. This course is part of the RamCT Blackboard Pilot project being conducted in Spring 2012. Read more about the pilot project »

This course can be applied towards:

• Rangeland Ecosystem Science (M.S.)
• Water Resources Certificate

Textbooks and Materials

NOTE: You will be using ArcGIS 10 for this class. An Education Edition of ArcGIS with extensions will be sent to you - so you will need to supply your mailing address to the instructor prior to the start of class. System requirements can be found at: resources.arcgis.com/content/arcgis-desktop-system-requirements. ArcGIS 10 can be run on a Mac ONLY if you have Boot Camp or some other third party software that allows you to run Windows natively.

Instructors

Melinda Laituri
(970) 491-0292
Melinda.Laituri@colostate.edu

Melinda Laituri received her PhD from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona in 1993 in geography. Her dissertation research focused on environmental equity and groundwater resources in the American Southwest and the US-Mexico border.

Dr. Laituri is currently at Colorado State University in the Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship Department. She works with Native American tribes on water resource management strategies that utilize cultural and eco-physical data in research models.

Other research work focuses on the role of the Internet and geospatial technologies of disaster management and cross-cultural environmental histories of river basin management. Dr. Laituri has taught GIS for the past twenty years and her students have developed several online demonstration projects: gisedu.colostate.edu.