Preamble
The Department of Water Resources Management and Agrometeorology came into existence in 1988 with the creation of the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. The Department started Postgraduate Degree programmes in 1995.
7.4.2 Philosophy
The Postgraduates Degree Programmes in the Department of Water Resources Management and Agrometeorology are designed to produce high level Teachers, Researchers and Professionals that are satisfactorily equipped with analytical and technical skills necessary for the adequate performance of their jobs as academic and professionals.
7.4.3 Objectives
The programme intends to train students to enable them accomplish the following
(i) Handle the problems of water resources in the area of distribution and availability, management and mode of extraction for domestic agricultural and industrial uses. It will also provide the training required in the sustainable development of drainage basins.
(ii) Handle the problems of climate as it affects Agricultural practices including specific effects on Animal Production, Food Crop Production, Forestry and Aquaculture Production. Furthermore it will provide the training needed for understanding current environmental problems on land, ocean and atmosphere.
7.4.4 M.Sc. Programme
Areas of specialization at the M.Sc level are:
Agrometeorology
Water resources
Agrohydrology
Hydrometeorology
STRUCTURE
The programme consists of thesis, seminar, core and elective courses. The core are the departmental key courses that cut across the areas of specialization mentioned above while the electives are courses in the specific area of specialization of a candidate.
The structure is as given below:
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Courses |
Units |
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College courses (compulsory) Core Courses Electives Thesis Research (WMA 799) Seminar (WMA 798) |
10 12 7 6 2
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Minimum total number of units for the Award of M.Sc. Degree: 36 Units
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Course Code |
Course Title |
Abbreviation |
Unit |
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University Course |
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CSC 801 |
Use of Computer in Research |
USEOCOMP |
4 |
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College Courses |
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FRM 814 |
Advanced Remote Sensing and Photogrametry |
ADRESEPH |
3 |
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WMA 817 |
Advanced Methods of Water Quality Assessment & Pollution Control |
WMATQASS |
3 |
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Core Courses |
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WMA 801 |
Analytical Framework for Agrometeorological Drainage System |
AFAGROMD |
3 |
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WMA 802 |
Micrometeorology |
MICROMET |
3 |
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WMA 803 |
Agro-Hydrology |
AGROHYDR |
3 |
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WMA 804 |
Analytical Cartography |
ANALCART |
3 |
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WMA 897 |
Seminar I |
SEMINARI |
1 |
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WMA 898 |
Seminar II |
SEMINAII |
1 |
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WMA 899 |
Dissertation |
DISSERTN |
6 |
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Electives |
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WMA 805 |
Tropical Weather Disturbance and Forecasting |
TROWEDIS |
3 |
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WMA 806 |
Agrometeorological Modeling and Yield Production |
AGRMODEL |
3 |
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WMA 807 |
Advanced Agricultural Watershed Management and Analysis |
AGRWATMA |
3 |
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WMA 808 |
Water and Agriculture in the Tropics |
WATAGRIC |
3 |
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WMA 809 |
Hydraulics |
HYDRAULI |
3 |
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WMA 810 |
Hygrometry |
HYDROMET |
3 |
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WMA 811 |
Surface Water Evaluation and Monitoring |
SWATREMO |
3 |
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WMA 812 |
Water Resources Modeling |
WRESMODE |
3 |
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WMA 813 |
Management of Water Resources Systems |
MGTWARES |
3 |
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WMA 814 |
Hydrological Processes and Analysis |
HYDPROAN |
3 |
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WMA 815 |
Irrigation Engineering Design |
IRIGENGD |
3 |
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WMA 816 |
Principles and Drainage Design |
PRDRDESG |
3 |
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WMA 817 |
Advanced Methods of Water Quality Assessment & Pollution Control |
WMATQASS |
3 |
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WMA 818 |
Field Trip |
FIEDTRIP |
3 |
7.4.5 Ph.D Programmes
The Ph.D Programmes are designed to produce high level Teachers, Researchers and Professionals in the following areas of specialization:
Agrometeorology
Water Resources
Agrohydrology
Hydrometeorology
7.4.6 Synopses for M.Sc. Courses
WMA 801 – Analytical Framework for Agro-meterological and Drainage Studies. (3 Units)
Developing hypothesis and objectives, Research design, measurement and data collection, interpolation of missing data applications of probability distribution in hydro-meteorological events/processes: Non-parametric tests, analysis of variance. Multivariate analysis: multiple correlation and regression, principal component factor and techniques of time series analysis; stochastic processes.
WMA 802 – Micrometeorology (3 Units)
Physical phenomena near the soil-atmosphere including solar and thermal radiation, diffusion, turbulence and profile relationships: the transport of heat, matter and momentum within and above plant canopies and combination equations for evaporation, transpiration, carbon dioxide balance and photosynthesis, concept of water use efficiency advertent and inadvertent modification of plant climatic environment.
WMA 803 – Agro-hydrology (3 Units)
Role of watershed management for arable land use in the tropics. Soil classification and hydrologic soil groups. Water in the unsaturated zone (capillary rise, percolation, and depth to water table). Soil moisture content, soil water potential, soil moisture characteristics, soil-water-plant relationship, crop water requirements, Measuring devices (gravimetric methods, electrical resistance methods, neutron probes, etc.) Land evaluation and introduction to irrigation techniques. Basic concepts on morphological calculations. Effect of water diversions in rivers and degradation of rivers after dam constructions. Geo-hydrological investigations and mapping.
WMA 804 – Analytical Cartography (3 Units)
Exploration of selected problems in cartography: extraction and mapping of information from synoptic charts, topographical and geological maps. Computer mapping and advanced map production techniques; cribbing methods representation and selection of statistical measures of agro-meteorological and drainage phenomena.
WMA 805 – Tropical Weather Disturbances and Forecasting (3 Units)
Problems in Tropical meteorology; Tropical weather features, analysis and forecasting, characteristics of Tropical cyclone, formation, structure, maturity and decay. Tropical hurricane track prediction, cloud and precipitation processes. Development and forecasts of thunderstorm, predicting of weather from local signs, baroclinic in stability (Eady model), barotropic in stability, Rossby Waves.
WMA 806 – Agro-meteorological Modelling and Crop Yield Prediction (3 Units)
A critical evaluation of crop and agro-meteorological models developed for prediction of crop production and agricultural operations, method for climatological analysis and classification. Physiological and correlative approaches to modeling the impact of meteorological variability on crop yield. Layout of Agro-meterorological station and installation for on-farm research. Yield predictions under conditions of uncertainty.
WMA 807 – Advanced Agricultural Watershed Management and Analysis (3 Units)
Watershed characteristics, Hydrology and shelterbelt: ecosystem approach to watershed management, problems arising from the utilization of drainage basins and their implications. Methods of integrated watershed development: Quantitative analysis of drainage basin characteristics.
WMA 808 – Water and Agriculture in the Tropics (3 Units)
Water in relation to plant growth and yield, the atmosphere-soil-plant water system, rainfall characteristics, the implications of the nature of tropical rainfall, water balance studies and their application to agriculture, role of Agriculture techniques in crop-water relations: application of crop water requirements to design and operation of irrigation projects.
WMA 809 – Hydraulics (3 Units)
Open channel hydraulics: Basic principles of the fluid mechanics applied to an open channel flow. Schematisation of the flow and geometry of an open channel. Uniform flow: definition, formulation and use. Gradually varied flow: use of the principles of conservation of energy and momentum: critical flow: classification of flow profiles; rapidly varied flow: unsteady flow in open channels. Flow in Alluvial channels: Stream form and classification qualitative response to channel stabilization and dredging.
WMA 810 – Hydrometry (3 Units)
Water level or stage; Discharge: Procedures to calculate stream discharge; Sediments; bed material sampling, bed load and suspended load measurement, establishment of rating curves.
WMA 811 – Surface Water Resources Evaluation and Monitoring (3 Units)
Quantitative evaluation of surface water resources, problems of water pollution, Multipurpose drainage basin management, spatial aspects of water supply planning, open channel flow, turbulent and laminar flow, choice of dam sites and safety consideration of slopes, Drainage characteristics of Nigerian rivers.
WMA 812 – Water Resources Modelling (3 Units)
Description of Network, network design, system analysis and design theory and techniques for network design. Criteria for the use of data for modeling – accuracy, time intervals and error detection and correction. Classification of models; Terminology, model technique (physical models, analogue and mathematical models), model-prototype relationship and limitations. Deterministic and stochastic principles, lumped non-linear models. Introduction to stochastic processes, random events, stationarity, time series analysis. Markovian processes and filtering. Hydrological forecasting: Forecast methods, short-term forecast, on-line systems, application to floods, low flow and water temperature.
WMA 813 – Management of Water Resources System (3 Units)
Water demands and Resources, Water Resources Management. Quality requirements and standards for different types of water use; Estimation of water use. Economics of water resources planning, cost-benefit analysis and rate of turnover criteria, Systems Analysis: Analysis of linear Input-Output systems, identification of objectives economic benefits, application of systems analysis to problems of water resources engineering and environmental management. Optimisation methods (Linear, dynamic programming, simulation, sensitivity analysis etc). Hydrological data for design purposes.
WMA 814 – Hydrological Processes and Analysis (3 Units)
Introduction: Hydrological cycle and the terminology precipitation: Forms of precipitation and accuracy of measurement Intensity – duration and depth – duration relationships. Evaporation: Evaporation from open water, intercepted water and bare soil, transpiration, and evapotranspiration. Determination by measurements. (Pans, Lysimeters etc). Infiltration, factors governing infiltration, surface runoff: Depression storage, overland flow, surface detention, discharge floods. Analysis of flood hydrograph, flood routing and analysis of low flow and droughts. Solid Matter Transport, sampling techniques, sediment yield, sediment properties (suspended and bed load).
WMA 815 – Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (3 Units)
Selection of irrigation system: Types of irrigation systems: surface, sprinkler, trickler on drip, subsurface. Comparison of irrigation system. Design and layout of canals; irrigation structures; design of diversion weirs and intakes; types of diversion weirs and their location. Design of service reservoirs; functions of service reservoirs, Subsurface drainage: Determination of drainage spacing by steady state drainage formula and no-steady state drainage formula. Dams: design and materials. Design of gravity dams, earth and rock fill dams.
WMA 816 – Drainage Principles and Design (3 Units)
Drainage theory, soil water potentials, darcy’s law; homogeneity design equations and their engineering investigation. Design and specifications of surface and subsurface drains for water logging and salinity control in agricultural soils. Reclamation of saline and sandy soils.
WMA 817 – Methods of Water Quality Assessment and Pollution Control (3 Units)
Water chemistry and water biology: Composition and characteristics of surface and ground water, biochemical cycles, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sulphur, main chemical water quality parameters. Surface water quality: Factors affecting water quality and pollution by human, industrial and agricultural wastes. Water quality criteria. Stratification and eutrophication in lakes and reservoirs, thermal stratification and self-purification. Groundwater quality; processes for determining groundwater quality, sources of groundwater pollution and effects on groundwater quality, artificial groundwater recharge, groundwater quality monitoring and sampling techniques.
FRM 814 – Advanced Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry (3 Units)
Basic Photogrammetry and practical use of aerial photographs, instruments in aerial photo interpretation of aerial photographs and radar imagery; aspects of remote sensing including: Infrared, passive microwave, multi-spatial imageries. Application of remote sensing to Agriculture, forestry, hydrology watershed management and wildlife management.
7.4.7 Postgraduate Teaching Staff
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SN |
NAME |
RANK |
QUALIFICATION |
AREA OF SPECIALISATION |
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1. |
Ufoegbune G. |
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department |
B. Sc. (Nigeria) M.Tech (FUT Minna) Ph.D (Abeokuta) |
Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing Application |
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2. |
Martins, O. |
Professor |
B.Sc,, M.Sc. (Bochum) Ph.D (Hamburg) |
Water Resources Management |
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3. |
N. J. Bello |
Professor |
B.Sc. (Ibadan) M.Sc. Ph.D. (Ilorin) Cert.Agroclimatology. (Reading U.K.), IPGC Crop-Weather (Bet Dagan, Israel) |
Theoretical and applied Climatology |
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4. |
Idowu O.A |
Senior Lecturer |
B.Sc.(Ibadan) M.Sc. (Ife) Ph.D (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
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Hydrogeology and Water Resources Management |
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5. |
Awomeso, J. A. |
Senior lecturer |
B.Sc. DAU Ph.D (Besancon, France) |
Hydrogeology and Water Resources Engineering |
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6. |
Adejuwon J. O |
Senior Lecturer |
B.Sc. (Ado-Ekiti) M.Sc.(Port- Harcourt) PGD Marketing. (Port Harcourt) AMNIM ;ADM,ANIM PhD (Ile-Ife) |
Climatology and Agrometeorology |
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7. |
Oluwasanya G |
Lecturer I |
B.Sc. (Abeokuta) M.Sc (Wageningen) PhD(Cranfield) |
Water Resources Management |
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8. |
Amori. A A |
Lectuer I |
B.Sc. (Lagos) M.Sc; Ph.D (Ibadan) |
Hydrology, Resourcse Evaluation and Mapping Techniques |
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9. |
Ojekunle Z.O |
Lectuer I |
B. Sc (Ife), M. Sc., PhD (Tianjin, China) |
Water resources management and environmental planning |
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10. |
Eruola A. O |
Lectuer I |
B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D (Abeokuta) |
Hydrology/Agrometeorology |