GEOL 5811 - Advanced Hydrogeology

Groundwater flow modeling, contamination, and remediation; loadings and reactive transport of nonpoint source pollutants and management in watersheds; flow and geochemical evolution of water in carbonate terrain; isotopes, climate change, and global hydrologic cycle.

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.
Aquifer tests: interpretation of aquifer test data and modeling.
Basic environmental isotope hydrology: water, solute, and gas isotopes, interpreting source, mixing, and biogeochemical evolution of water, global hydrology, and karst hydrogeology.
Contamination and remediation of water resources, types of contamination, in situ chemical oxidation, reactive barriers, best management plans, environmental controlled-release systems, and multi-porous media.
Flow and reactive mass transport in saturated media: advection, dispersion, reaction, reaction diffusion, MODFLOW.