GEOL 5800 - Principles of Hydrogeology

Principles governing occurrence, movement, and recovery of water in soil and aquifers. Hydrologic cycle, water budget, hydrology of agriculture, watershed studies, water chemistry, and pollution.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Graduate students are expected to demonstrate superior levels of comprehension and synthesis relative to the undergraduates.
Graduate students will submit one additional class assignment that is designed only for graduate students.
Experience acid mine drainage problem and solutions: field-trip to Little Raccoon Creek reclamation site in SE Ohio.
Learn basic aquifer tests: basic well hydraulics, interpretation of pumping test data for confined, leaky-confined, unconfined aquifers using Thiem, Theis, Cooper-Jacob, Neuman, Hantush methods.
Learn basic hydrogeologic investigations: piezometers, hydraulic head measurements, main equations of flow and flow-net solutions.
Learn basic principles of ground-water flow: porosity, Darcy’s experimental law, hydraulic gradient and groundwater flow direction, hydraulic conductivity and intrinsic permeability.
Learn components of basin hydrologic cycle: precipitation, evaporation, evapotranspiration, runoff, infiltration, stream flow, surface water-groundwater interaction, runoff/streamflow estimation, and flood prediction.
Learn geochemistry of natural water systems: measuring ion concentration, cation/anion balances, water quality standards, carbonate equilibria, sulphide oxidation and carbonate buffering.
Learn hydrologic cycle: occurrence of water, the geologic work of water, the freshwater issues around the world, simple water-balance calculations.
Learn relationship between geology and groundwater: aquifers, transmissivity and storage of aquifers of different geologic settings.
Understand introductory contaminant hydrogeology: introduction to families of contaminants, environmental risks, and restoration.