ADVANCES IN THE TRAINING ON WATER RESOURCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CARABOBO

Abstract

This article deals with advances in the training on water resources at the University of Carabobo (UC), Venezuela, carried out by a research unit belonging to the UC Engineering Faculty renamed as Center of Hydrological and Environmental Research (CIHAM UC, in Spanish) from 2007 to the present. CIHAM-UC operated as Center of Hydraulic Research (CIH-UC, in Spanish) since 1971. CIHAM-UC is focused on six research lines: 1) Integrated Management of Watersheds: Monitoring and Environmental Management. 2)  Modeling of hydrological and environmental variables. 3) Environmental Risk Assessment: Vulnerability and Adaptability. 4) Environment, 5) Extreme Hydrological Process Modeling: Droughts and Floods. 6) Climate change. The main CIHAM-UC’s scientific products have consisted of academic projects, theses, scientific articles and books to support undergraduate and graduate programs at UC, to enhance the impact of the UC Engineering Faculty in the economic and social environment of the region and the country.