Water Infrastructure For Human Settlements Track Electives

Instructor(s): Richard Hooper
Days: Tuesday/Thursday
Time: 3:00-4:15pm
School: School of Engineering (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Concentration: Water Science
Description: Mathematical models of water resource and environmental systems are presented in combination with optimization procedures, decision theory, and environmental applied statistics to generate an integrated approach to the planning, design, and management of complex water resources systems. Water resources systems applications are formulated as decision problems where an optimal solution is sought, yet cost, safety, environment, and technology appear as competing constraints. Applications include regional water quality management; siting treatment plants; reservoir system operations; and design, irrigation, flood control, and watershed planning.

Instructor(s): David Gute
Day(s): Wednesday
Time: 12:00-2:30pm
School: School of Engineering (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Concentration: Water Science
Description: Emphasis is placed on participants understanding the biology of water and health. Participant will demonstrate knowledge of the central role of water in health, including adequate hydration. Detailed coverage of selected prototypic or model disease which include Schistosomiasis, Cryptosporidiosis, cholera, and others. Participant will become familiar with widespread chemical agents and their interactions with pathogens. Participants will demonstrate a familiarity with the appropriate methods of assessing the occurrence of water borne disease. Participants will become knowledge about the principal methods of controlling the propagation of water-born disease. Participants will become knowledgeable social and institutional factors influencing sanitation and water treatment decision and the subsequent impacts on a variety of health indices.

Instructor(s): Alexandra Thorn
Day(s): Friday
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm
School: Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Concentration: TBD
Description: Many problems in agriculture, food and nutrition are inherently geographic in nature. For example, livestock production is increasingly concentrated in large feeding operations, leading to new spatial patterns of water and air pollution or foodborne illness. Spatial clustering is equally important for food consumption, nutrition and public health, as in hunger hotspots, food deserts and disease corridors. This course will equip students with the skills needed to capture, analyze and communicate spatial data in geographic information systems (GIS), using a variety of examples from agriculture, food and nutrition.

Instructor(s): James F. Limbrunner
Day(s): Monday
Time: 6:00-8:45pm
School: School of Engineering (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Concentration: Water Infrastructure Policy and Planning
Description: Processes and land surface characteristics that affect stormwater flows, including land-use intensification influence on flooding, geomorphic stability, and nonpoint source pollution. Design of mitigation measures based on drainage and detention, as well as land-use planning, low impact development, best management practices, and green infrastructure.

Instructor(s): Scott Horsley
Day(s): Friday
Time: 9:00-11:30am
School: School of Arts and Sciences (Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning)
Concentration: Water Infrastructure Policy and Planning
Description: Presents a comprehensive approach to water resources management through the integration of environmental science and policy. Intended for students with or without technical backgrounds. Course examines groundwater, lake, riverine, wetland, and coastal management issues and relies heavily on practical case studies to illustrate successful methods.

Instructor(s): Christine Cousineau
Day(s): Wednesday
Time: 6:00-9:00pm
School: School of Arts and Sciences (Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning)
Concentration: Water Infrastructure Policy and Planning
Description: The course applies sustainable design principles to selected urban sites with the objective of creating meaningful places of residence, work, shopping and entertainment for current and future communities. Student teams select a site and work on its redevelopment. Students learn to do urban design analysis, research relevant history, demographics, and the market environment, develop a program of uses, propose a design using SketchUp, apply LEED for Neighborhood Development criteria, present their project to the class, and produce a final planning report. Lectures, readings and assigned papers are designed to inform the planning and design process.

Instructor(s): David Wirth
Day(s): Wednesday
Time: 10:00am-1:00pm
School: The Fletcher School
Concentration:
Description: This course addresses the nature, content, and structure of international environmental law. The course commences with an introduction to international environmental problems, together with basic principles of international law and environmental regulation. Specific topics include global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, and exports of hazardous substances. Other topics may include marine pollution, transboundary pollution, trade and environment, and development and environment. The course evaluates the role of international and non-governmental organizations; the interrelationship between international legal process and domestic law; and the negotiation, conclusion, and implementation of international environmental agreements.

Instructor(s): Helen Suh
Day(s): Monday
Time: 3:00-5:45pm
School: School of Engineering (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Concentration: Water Science
Description: Use of publicly available environmental and health data for in-depth analysis of environmental health topics such as air pollution, exposure disparities, water quality, and contaminant source contributions, with knowledge of contaminant fate and transport, statistics, and data visualization.

Instructors: Aggeliki Barberopoulou and Sumeeta Srinivasan
Days/Times:

• Monday: 1:30-4:00pm
• Tuesday/Thursday: 12:00-1:15pm

School: TBD
Concentration:
Description: Introduces Geographical Information Systems (GIS) theory, methods and their applications. Topics include GIS data structures, geodesy, cartography and spatial analysis using rasters and vectors. Includes extensive laboratory exercises that apply concepts presented in the lectures using ArcGIS. The course will include a final project using GIS to apply student interests.

Instructor(s): Shafiqul Islam
Day(s): Monday
Time: 3:00-5:45pm
School: School of Engineering
Concentration:
Description: Approaches that leverage tools and techniques from complexity science with negotiation theory for use in solving practical problems with societal relevance. Systems thinking, policy relevance and effective implementation within the context of nonlinearity, uncertainty, and unpredictability associated with coupled natural, engineered, and human systems. Integration of numbers and narratives to create actionable technological solutions with a problem-driven strategy.

Instructor(s): Scott Horsley
Day(s): TBD
Time: TBD
School: School of Engineering (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Concentration: Water Science
Description: The course is designed to present a comprehensive approach to site planning and development that incorporates low-impact development approaches and techniques. Also known as green infrastructure, low-impact development is a conservation-based site planning and design process that sets aside critical open space buffers, reduces impervious surfaces and concentrates development into appropriate “building envelopes”. It also includes a broad range of best management practices including green roofs, bioretention, rain gardens, vegetated swales, constructed wetlands, infiltration systems and alternative wastewater management systems.

Instructor(s): James Limbrunner
Day(s): TBD
Time: TBD
School: School of Engineering (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Concentration: Water Science
Description: Design of rivers and stream channels including lined aqueducts, stilling basins, water surface elevation control, and sediment stability. Influence of engineered works on natural processes such as sediment transport, wildlife migration, and flood attenuation. Stream restoration methods including nature-like riverbed and riverbank design, and aquatic organism passage design.

Instructor(s): Amy Laura Cahn
Day(s): TBD
Time: TBD
School: School of Arts and Sciences (Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning)
Concentration: Water Infrastructure Policy and Planning
Description: Examination of climate change problem from perspective of scientific evidence, policy responses and media coverage. Sources of greenhouse gas emissions and a wide range of mitigation and adaptation measures are explored and assessed. Overview of climate change solutions being taken or planned by governments, communities, and institutions (both for profit and non-profit) and for major systems, e.g. transportation, buildings, and energy.

Instructor(s): Rebecca Shakespeare
Day(s): TBD
Time: TBD
School: School of Arts and Sciences (Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning)
Concentration: Water Infrastructure Policy and Planning
Description: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) theory, methods and their applications. Topics include GIS data structures, geodesy, cartography and spatial analysis using rasters and vectors. Includes extensive laboratory exercises that apply concepts presented in the lectures using ArcGIS. The course will include a final project using GIS to apply student interests.

Instructor(s): Alexandra Thorn
Day(s): TBD
Time: TBD
School: Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Concentration:
Description: Many problems in agriculture, food and nutrition are inherently geographic in nature. For example, livestock production is increasingly concentrated in large feeding operations, leading to new spatial patterns of water and air pollution or foodborne illness. Spatial clustering is equally important for food consumption, nutrition and public health, as in hunger hotspots, food deserts and disease corridors. This course will equip students with the skills needed to capture, analyze and communicate spatial data in geographic information systems (GIS), using a variety of examples from agriculture, food and nutrition.