Water Resource Management
Doctoral student Katie Coluccio is working to understand the spatial distribution and quantity of groundwater seepage into Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere, through the lake bed.
Qualifications
Overview
Managing the world's precious water resources requires professionals to have multidisciplinary knowledge and an integrated approach, involving ecological, political, hydrological and planning skills.
Water Resource Management students learn how to develop innovative and effective methods for the sustainable management of this critical resource in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally.
- Postgraduate students benefit from the teaching and research conducted by the Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management, a research centre co-based at UC and Lincoln University | Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki.
Students will need to have either a bachelor's degree from an Aotearoa New Zealand university with relevance to Water Resource Management, or have evidence of their ability to underake advanced level academic study. Alternatively, students can apply based on significant professional practise in the field.
Postgraduate study can bring many career benefits eg, specialist skills and enhanced knowledge, entry into specific occupations, higher starting salary/progression rates, research capability/achievement, and evidence of high academic attainment/self-discipline.
Contact us
Te Kura Aronukurangi | School of Earth and Environment
Phone +64 3 369 0655
Email earthandenvironment@canterbury.ac.nz
Location
Level 2, Beatrice Tinsley building – see campus maps
Postal address
Te Kaupeka Pūtaiao | Faculty of Science
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
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