Central America Hydro-Engineering

International Challenges In Water Resources

Students will become partners with fellow BYU undergraduate and graduate students, as well as engineers from our partnering national hydrologic services (equivalent to USGS from the US) from different Central America/Caribbean countries, in applying water resources models methods and application development to critical problems faced by their country. This coming year we plan to help them generally with the integration of the Group on Earth Observations Global Water Sustainability (GEOGLOWS) hydrologic data into their decision making. We will be working in close collaborations with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in implementing their Hydrologic Status and Outlook (HydroSOS) and Early Warning for All initiatives as general guidance for GEOGLOWS integration. You will also learn the social impact cycle as taught in BYU’s Ballard Center for Social Impact and using those principles help design and implement customized services for the country or countries you are assigned. Courses will focus on distance collaboration with international partners to develop an approach to GEOGLOWS implementation to satisfy specific challenges.

The objective of this program is to provide students with opportunities to expand on the technical foundation learned through traditional classroom experiences and curriculum to develop the skills that will be necessary to practice and compete in a global environment.

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