Hydrologic Sciences and Policy - BS - Policy Emphasis

Environmental Studies (ES) trains and prepares students to be world-class leaders in multidisciplinary analysis, problem solving for environmental health and sustainability, and transformative social change in the 21st century. The program is highly interdisciplinary, and as a student in the program you’ll be able to explore a wide variety of environmental topics, drawing on concepts, theories, and research methods from the natural and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. You’ll be encouraged to generate innovative ideas through research, and you’ll gain the scholarly background and practical skills needed to envision solutions to pressing environmental challenges and to become an agent for change for a healthy and just environment. The main focus of the Hydrologic Sciences and Policy major is to provide you with the scientific training needed to understand and solve complex hydrologic problems at local, regional, and global levels. The goal of the curriculum is to provide a rigorous framework so you can examine the hydrologic process in our environment. Although the major is housed within Environmental Studies, the curriculum for this degree is offered cooperatively by the departments of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology; Chemistry and Biochemistry; Geography; and Earth Science. Lower-division courses concentrate on the physical and natural sciences. In the upper division, you’ll complete a core group of hydrology courses and then select one of the following three emphases: biology and ecology, physical and chemical sciences, or policy.

• Government

• International corporations

• Nonprofit organizations

• Environmental Sciences, Hydrology and Engineering

• Biology, Ecology, Wildlife, Conservation, and Marine Sciences

• Environmental and Water Law and Policy

• Ventura Country Flood Control District

• GSI Water Solutions, Inc.

• U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

• When it was created in 1994, ours was the first undergraduate degree in hydrology offered in the western United States

• 40% of our majors graduate with a double major and/or at least one minor

• We provide over $40,000 a year in department scholarships

• We offer experiential education opportunties such as academic internships, studying abroad, environmental field projects, and undergraduate research opportunities with ES faculty

• Climate change

• Water policy

• Environmental justice

• Interdisciplinary

• Environmental Leadership Incubator (ELI)

• UC Education Abroad Program (EAP)

• Ecosystem and Habitat Resotration (UCSB Cheadle Center)

• UCSB Earth Research Institute

• UCSB Sustainability

• Environmental Studies and Bren School of Environmental Science and Management Fellowship Program

Dept Website: www.es.ucsb.edu

Hydrologic Policy Info: https://es.ucsb.edu/degrees

Department Scholarships: https://es.ucsb.edu/scholarships