Hydrology

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Hydrology Engineering

• Tarleton State University

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What is Hydrology?

• Study of Water
• Water Cycle
• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Precipitation
• Infiltration
• Run-off
• How humankind changes the water cycle

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Who Are Hydrologists?

• People pretty much like you.
• But what is the lady on the right doing?

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Why Study Hydrology?

• Rainbows are pretty
• But they dont happen often enough in Texas
• Number one issue for Texas for the coming decade
  is
• Where will we get the water?

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Surface Water Quality

• Waste Treatment Plants
• Surface Water Treatment
• Drinking water supplies
• Remediation
• Measurement of Water Quality
• Turbidity
• pH
• Oxygen content
• Pathogens
• bacteria

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What do Hydrologists Do?

• They use
• MATH
• SCIENCE
• METEOROLOGY
• LIMNOLOGY
• BIOLOGY
• GEOLOGY
• CHEMISTRY
• ENGINEERING
• HYDRAULICS
• HYDROLOGY
• TECHNOLOGY
• COMPUTERS

• To
• PROTECT WATER
• CLEAN WATER
• PREDICT WATER SUPPLIES
• COLLECT DATA
• INTERPRET DATA
• STUDY GROUNDWATER
• PREDICT WATER DEMAND
• PREDICT WATER SUPPLIES

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Where do we study?

• The Hydrology and Engineering Building
• The theatre style classroom is popular but we
  also have
• a computer lab
• a hydrology lab
• map lab
• design studio

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Hydrology Hydraulics Lab
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Ski Jump Spillway
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How do we study?

• Classroom
• Laboratory
• Field Trips
• Campus field trips
• Off campus field trips
• Conferences
• Guest speakers
• And, of course, homework

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But not for rafting. Do you see what is under
that foam?
WHITE WATER !
Is this turbine runner big, or what?
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Careers in Hydrology

• Consultants
• River Authorities
• Groundwater Districts Authorities
• Power Companies
• Large Developers
• Analytical Laboratories
• TWDB
• TNRCC

• USGS
• US Weather Service
• US Forest Service
• US COE
• US Bureau of Reclamation
• Peace Corps
• US EPA
• and the list continues

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Why a career in Hydrology?

• To provide
• Plentiful
• Clean water
• For
• Drinking
• Health
• Recreation
• And a better tomorrow

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Thank you.Please consider Hydrology at Tarleton
State University.

• Call
• Dr. Daniel Marble at [phone]
• or email
• marble_at_tarleton.edu

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Hydrology Bench with Rain
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Runoff from Rain