Educational program

8D05203 - Hydrology

Field of education

8D05 Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

Direction of personnel training

8D052 Environment

Group of educational programs

8D05 Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

EP purpose

Purpose of the educational program - training of highly qualified specialists capable of innovation in the field of hydrological science, education, practice based on an in-depth study of the theoretical and methodological foundations of hydrological science, as well as the systematic use of knowledge and methodology of related scientific fields and digital technologies.

The implementation of the educational program is aimed at shaping the personality of a specialist capable of

- able to create a new conceptual knowledge, developing science;

- reasonably present it to specialists in the context of scientific discussions, including international, in the working language of a scientific event,

- successfully carry out research, management and expert activities in priority areas of hydrological science and practice.

Language of education

Kazakh, Russian, English

Volume of the credits

180 academic credits

The awarded academic degree

PhD in the educational program "8D05203 - Hydrology"

Educational outcome

Upon completion of this educational program, doctoral students are expected to be able to:

1. conduct pedagogical activities in the basic educational programs of higher education, to train and prepare students in various disciplines in the field of hydrological science, earth science and related disciplines in the form of conducting classroom studies, laboratory research, and field practice by using information technology;

2. collect, process, analyze and systematize the hydrological database, as well as scientific and technical information on the research topic, select and justify methods and means for the production of hydrological products;

3. plan and develop programs of research and technical development in the field of hydrology, hydrological processes, prepare tasks for conducting field research, survey and scientific work by using modern computer and GIS technologies;

4. establish scientific relations with foreign partners for joint research, the results of which are published in high-rated journals; apply modern methods of scientific research in the hydrometeorology field;

5. conduct scientific and hydrological expertise of projects to solve scientific, technical and engineering problems of enterprises of natural, economic and water management complexes;

6. apply mathematical and numerical methods to modeling hydrological processes, master the methods of geoinformation modeling using data from remote sensing of the Earth and a digital model of the relief (surface);

7. evaluate, recommend the results of research based on hydrological, hydraulic and mathematical models of hydrological processes, phenomena and objects for the rational and sustainable use of the country's water resources.

8. to justify and explain the causes of regional manifestations in current changes in dangerous hydrological phenomena such as floods, spring flooding, low runoff, surface water in the regions in order to prevent them in the future;

9. calculate, analyze the modern perspective (forecast) state of water resources, the regime and quality of water in natural reservoirs, as a source of water supply for industries, population of the country.

10. create, develop methods for organizing and conducting experiments, propose new methods and means of water resources management in order to optimize water supply scenarios of natural and economic systems, analyze trends in the dynamics of changes in the hydrochemical composition of river waters;

11. monitoring the operational obtaining of hydrological information and jointly takes measures to address the emerging hydrological hazard and the overall risk situation.

12. demonstrate the ability to work in a team; differ personal and leadership qualities necessary for participation in the work of Kazakhstan and international research teams in solving scientific and educational tasks, to conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the state of the hydrological regime of water bodies.

For applicants

https://welcome.kaznu.kz/ru/education_programs/doctorate/speciality/1665

Academic activity

Academic activity of the EP is carried out:

- within the framework of existing regulatory documents and methodological recommendations in the field of higher education in the field of hydrology science;

- as a result of the implementation of regulatory documents regulating the educational and methodological process at the university;

- generalization and dissemination of new normative legal acts concerning methodological work;

- current and long-term planning of the educational and methodological work of the university; coordination of the educational and methodological complex of the discipline (EMCD) of the department for compliance with regulatory legal acts, the working curriculum and the educational program;

- monitoring the provision of the educational process with teaching materials, documenting the results;

- development of teaching materials; development and implementation of the working curriculum.

Scientific activity

For the implementation of the educational program, the faculty has a material and technical base, laboratories:

- an educational and laboratory hydrological center, which includes: an educational laboratory for hydrometry, an archiving center for hydrological information; GIS technology room,

- laboratories of the Scientific Research Institute of Ecology problems,

-Distance Learning Center.

Scientific directions of the Meteorology and hydrology department:

- the effects of urban areas on the elements of the hydrological regime;

- modeling of hydrological processes; hydrological mapping in GIS environment;

- space monitoring of water bodies,

- assessment and forecast of quantitative characteristics of flood and flood hazards;

- water resources management.

International activity

The academic mobility of doctoral candidates is carried out within the framework of interuniversity agreements / joint projects: a tripartite agreement / contract of the PhD student, sending and receiving high school for internal academic mobility and an invitation for external academic mobility. Doctoral students passed research internships at leading and prestigious foreign universities: University of Lincoln (UK), Aberystwyth University (Wales), University of Reading (England), University of Marburg (Germany), University of Greifswald (Germany), Kiel University (Germany), Valencia Technical University (Spain), University Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (France), University of Oulu (Finland), Jordan University of Science and Technology (Jordan), Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Russia), Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia).

Lecturers of the educational program undergo internships, educational courses abroad to exchange experience, gain new competencies, and improve educational skills.

Quality assurance (Accreditation, rating, work with employers)

International accreditation, national accreditation

This educational program has passed the international accreditation of the agency ACQUIN, the validity period of accreditation is up to September 30, 2023. According to the rating of educational programs among universities of Kazakhstan IAAR (Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating) and IQAA (Independent Agency for Quality Assurance in Education ) takes the first places.

Employers are:

1) subdivisions of the RSE "Kazhydromet";

2) subdivisions of the State Institution "Kazmudflowprotection";

3) Institute of Geography and Water Security of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan,

4) Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

5) Committee for Water Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

6) "Institute Kazhydroproject ",

7) academic and research institutes related to the study of the hydrosphere and surface water resources and its interaction with the ocean;

8) organizations, institutions and enterprises related to the change in water resources and their transformation;

9) design, survey, research institutes, bureaus, firms, etc. various forms of ownership, depending in their activities on the state of water bodies;

10) bodies of nature protection and environmental management;

11) institutions of higher education.