Terrestrial Hydrology is the study of the physical, chemical and biological processes controlling the cycling of water through the land (soils, groundwater, rivers and lakes). Hydrologic research at Boston University encompasses a broad range of topics across a wide range of scales, including the study of large scale water balance modeling for climate studies, plot-scale plant-soil-atmosphere interactions, catchment-scale geochemical and isotopic cycles, and pore scale soil-water interactions. We employ field, laboratory, modeling and remote sensing methods.
Our department offers both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the graduate level, as well as B.A. degrees in both Earth Sciences and in Environmental Earth Sciences at the undergraduate level.
The department also participates in a new Terrestrial Biogeosciences Ph.D. certificate program offered jointly by the departments of Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment, and Biology.
ES514 Dynamic Landsurface Hydrology
ES576 Aquatic Geochemistry
ES648 Terrestrial Biogeochemistry
ES683 Geodynamics II: Fluids and Fluid Transport
ES701 Quantitative Methods I: Mechanics of Earth Materials
ES702 Quantitative Methods II: Analysis and Modeling of Geologic Processes
ES771 Isotope Earth Sciences
Note: A complete list of our departmental course offerings is available here.