Course Fees
There are 2 separate fees for this course:
- Course Tuition Fee - payable via Student Service Centre
- Special Fee ($40.00) - payable to EOAS Administrative Office
Instructors
Roger Beckie
Lecture Topics
- Overview of Field Site and Field Techniques
- geology of field site
- review of methods of determining porous medium properties
- interpretation of tidal signals in aquifers
- introduction to piezocone penetration technology
Exercise 1: Geologic description of sediment core from field site
Exercise 2: Correlation between core data and cone penetrometer data
- Flow System Characterization
- measurement of hydraulic head in piezometers
- characterization of temporal changes in hydraulic head
- demonstration of piezocone test
Exercise 3: Prepare potentiometric surface maps for site and interpret directions of groundwater flow
Exercise 4: Estimation of hydraulic properties from tidal signals
Exercise 5: Hydrogeologic properties from piezocone tests
- Water Quality Sampling
- field protocols
- demonstration of sampling equipment
- introduction to specific depty K-BAT and UBC K-sampler
- water quality determinations (pH, conductance, chloride, dissolved oxygen)
- sampling for isotopic analysis
Exercise 6: Mapping spatial variations in water quality above and through a saline water wedge
Exercise 7: Aqueous geochemical modeling of pore waters at field site
- Infiltation Through Soil Profile
Exercise 8: Estimation of steady state infiltration rates
- Measurement and Sampling Procedures for Westbay Multiport System
- demonstration of measurement/sampling procedures
Exercise 9: Characterization of vertical flow components at field site
- Hydraulic Response Tests
- methodology for single boreholes tests
- piezocone pore pressure dissipation tests
- step drawdown tests for well efficiency
- methodology for pumping tests
Exercise 10: Characterization of aquifer properties using slug/bail tests
Exercise 11: Estimation of specific capacity of pumping well
Exercise 12: Characterization of aquifer properties using pumping tests
Exercise 13: Characterization of aquifer properties from recovery data
Exercise 14: Characterization of aquifer properties from CPT and UBC K-sampler
Exercise 15: Assessment of scale-dependence of parameter estimates (lab, piezocone, single borehole, cross-borehole)
Exercise 16: Development of a calibrated numerical simulation model of pumping test
- Geophysical Surveys
- demonstration of ground penetrating radar survey
- demonstration of EM-31 and downhole cone resistivity survey
Exercise 17: Interpretation of resistivity data collected on site
- Site Hydrogeologic Model
Exercise 18: Development of a large-scale simulation model of the groundwater flow system at the field site
- Preparation of Hydrogeological Report
Exercise 19: Students will prepare a comprehensive report summarizing the groundwater hydrology of the field site.
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