Además de mis cursos en hidrología, enseño también la clase Caos, Complejidad y Cristiandad como un seminario para estudiantes de primer año y para el público en general en el UC Davis Experimental College.
Una breve descripción de mis cursos regulares es como sigue:
HYD 141. Physical Hydrology (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour.
Prerequisite: Physics 9B, Mathematics 21B; course
100 recommended. Introduction to the processes that
constitute the hydrologic cycle. Special emphasis
on a quantitative description of the following processes:
precipitation, infiltration, evaporation, transpiration,
surface runoff, and groundwater runoff.—I.
HYD 142. Systems Hydrology (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour.
Prerequisite: course 141 or Civil and Environmental
Engineering 142. General course considering hydrologic
processes from a systems or statistical model perspective.
General probability concepts are applied to frequency,
time series and spatial data analysis. Linear systems
are also considered in conjunction with Kalman filter
techniques.—II.
HYD 264.
Modeling of Hydrologic Processes (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 141
or the equivalent and Statistics 102 or the equivalent.
Techniques used to model the spatio-temporal structure
of rainfall and runoff are introduced. Procedures
studied include those based on stochastic point
processes, chaos theory, fractal geometry, and fractional
noises. Offered in alternate years. —III.
HYD 273. Introduction to
Geostatistics (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Statistics
130A and 130B, or the equivalent. Statistical treatment
of spatial data with emphasis on hydrologic problems.
Topics include theory of random functions, variogram
analysis, Kriging, co-Kriging, indicator geostatistics,
and stochastic simulation of spatial variability.
Demonstration and use of interactive geostatistical
software included. Offered in alternate years.—I.
HYD 275. Analysis of Spatial Processes
(3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Statistics
102 or the equivalent; course 273 or Statistics
273A recommended. Characterization of homogeneous
random fields; extremes and spectral parameters;
geometry of excursions, local averaging; scale of
fluctuation; non-Gaussian and irregular random fields;
geostatistical applications. Offered in alternate
years. —III.
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