1. Introduction
The Department of Hydrology was established in 1984 in the Faculty of Geology and Geography, Hanoi University (HU). At this time, the Department included 4 lecturers: Nguyen Van Tuan, Nguyen Thi Nga (joined HU since 1979 in Dept. of Geography), Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan and Nguyen Thanh Son (joined HU since 1983 in Dept. of Oceanorology) and 1 researcher: Dang Quy Phuong (joined HU since 1981 in Dept. of Geomorphology).
The Department of Hydrology launched its first enrollment for 10 students of cohort K30 (1985 – 1990). The program was continued with cohort K32 (1987 – 1992) of 04 students, and K36 (1991 – 1995) of 10 students. Starting from cohort K39 (1994), the Department has offered undergrate program every year with the increasing number of students. Since 2004, the Department has offered the graduate program (Master and PhD).
2. General goal:
The goal of our program is to train students in hydrology with political qualities, ethics, knowledge and capacity for professional practice in the field of hydrology, natural resources and environment. Specifically, the program has been designed to help students acquire basic and specialized knowledge, train professional skills, develop the ability to work independently and team work, design research and solve problems in the hydrology, natural resources and environment. In addition, students will be fully trained in foreign languages, able to continue to develop graduate programs in the country and abroad.
Specific objectives:
Students after graduation in hydrology will be able to perform specific tasks such as:
- Ability to implement hydrological forecasting and prediction
- Ability to compute hydrography in order to serve water resource planning, irrigation planning, landslide calculation, river management, river bed erosion calculation, infrastructure design and construction for special projects such as hydropower, irrigation works.
- Ability to use models for hydrological simulations, analysis, and evaluatio
- Ability to organize the implementation of the field survey, hydrographic survey.
3. Research
Fields of Interest
Water resources assessment; Water resources planning and management; River variability; Modeling in hydraulics and hydrology; Assessing the impacts of climate change and natural calamity prevention; Natural hazard prediction: flood, erosion, flash flood.
Number of Scientific Projects at different levels:
National level: 14; Provincial level: 14; Projects of Ministry of Science and Technology: 2; Projects of World Bank: 3; Project of Sweden Embassy: 01; VNU – Ministry level: 26; University level: 14.
Number of Scientific Publications on National and International Journals: 123
Published Books:
General Hydrology Vol I, II (1991); Hydrogeology (1991); Hydrological Calculation(2004), Hydrologic Forecast (2001), Water Resources Caculation (2001), River Dynamic (2003) Hydrography (2001); Mathematical Models of Hydrology (2003) Hydrometry (2003) Water Resources of Vietnam (2005) Introduction to Hydrology (2005)
Translated Text Books: 13
