GEOL 5830 - Field Hydrology

Introduction to collection, analysis, and interpretation of hydrological field data.

Requisites: Permission required
Credit Hours: 5
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 40.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Aquifer test, monitoring well installation, slug testing, soil, water and vapor sampling, surveying, measuring gradients, pump and slug tests, AquiferTest or other aquifer testing programs.
Contaminant treatment systems.
Flow and chemistry of natural waters, measurements of precipitation, evapotranspiration, infiltration, runoff, streamflow, oxygen sag in rivers below wastewater plants, lake chemistry, groundwater chemistry, PHREEQCI or other geochemistry pro.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -Introduction to ArcView.
Geophysics, seismic data analysis, with program FIRSTPIX© and analysis of resistivity and conductivity data with Program RESIX©.
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.
Tropical wetland assessment (flow, GPS, heads, chemical loads).
Unsaturated zone hydrology, soil gas sampling and analyses, soil venting (tests of unsaturated zone), data analysis with HYPERVENTILATE or other programs, and modeling with CESOIL or other programs.