Abstract:
Technological explosion, population expansion, urban sprawl, changing patterns of land and water use and increasing emphasis on environmental quality control are presenting vast new challenges to natural resource scientists and land managers. To successfully meet these challenges, colleges and universities need to produce graduates with new kinds of training and skills. Land managers of the future must have a wide understanding and have a technical training much better than ever before. Familiarity with the computer, for example, is no longer so much an advantage as a neccessity. Similarly, skill in interpreting remote satellite data for land management purposes may be required in the very near future. Accordingly, the Department of Watershed Management in the College of Agriculture of the University of Arizona has an extensive program of upgrading its curriculum and improving teaching methods. The purpose of this paper is to describe a teaching-research facility which provides an innovation in instruction techniques for one facet of the program.
Keywords:
watershed management, hydrologic data system
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