EEES
6450
Instructor Class
Dr. Jamie Martin-Hayden Place: Bowman-Oddy 3045
Office: BO-3034 Meets: Every Other Fall Semester
Telephone: x2634
Course Objective: To gain
experience with performing hydrogeological investigations by performing various
components of hydrogeological investigations, developing mathematical models
that describe the hydraulics, and using the models to perform analyses, assessments
and predictions. Prerequisite:
Hydrogeology (or other course in groundwater fundamentals)
Suggested Texts:
Applied
Hydrogeology, Applied
Hydrogeology, 3rd. ed. by C.W. Fetter, Macmillan College Publishing, Inc.
(or other introductory hydrogeology text)
Physical
and Chemical Hydrogeology, Second edition. P.A. Domenico and F.S. Schwartz,
John Wiley & Sons Inc. (an advanced text)
ASTM
standards (Handouts and Library)
Grading:
· Weekly
reading and homework exercises 20%
· Quizzes
on lecture, reading, and homework 10%
· 2
Tests 15% each (Weeks 5 and 10)
· Final
project 25% (due April 20)
· Final
Exam 15% (Wednesday, May 9, 10:15-12:15)
Course Schedule:
Week Topic
1 Review of
the fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media
2 Geology,
hydrogeology and Conceptual models; introduction to project site
3 Mathematics
of groundwater flow and 3-D Darcy’s law
4 The flow
equation
5 Solutions to
the flow equation and finite difference modeling
6 Soil
characterization and borehole logging
7 Hydrogeological
characterization and applications
8 Monitoring
well design and installation
9 Monitoring
well hydraulic testing
10 Monitoring
well sampling
11 Applying site
characterization to model development
12 Calibration
of model to site specific data
13 Testing of
model sensitivity to boundary conditions and
14 Analysis,
prediction, and presentation of results