Hydrogeology

ENSC2418

  • Requisites: This course is available to students in the Biological Sciences Technology Environmental Monitoring and Assessment program. Prerequisites: ENSC2312.
  • Course Equivalencies:
  • Open Studies: Not Available
  • Credits: 3.00

This course will examine the movement and storage of water on the earth's surface (hydrology) and the subsurface (hydrogeology). The hydrology part of this course will address how the major components of hydrological cycle impact the water balance and distribution of water resources within a watershed basin and impact the geomorphic processes such as erosion and sedimentation. The hydrogeology part of the course will address the interactions of geologic materials with water, and how such interactions affect groundwater movement, pumping rates of groundwater for domestic and industrial uses, and movement of pollutants through the subsurface environment. Topics will include groundwater terminology, aquifer properties and pumping tests, groundwater flow mapping, sampling techniques, groundwater chemistry and quality, sources of groundwater contamination, instrumentation and an introduction to software used in groundwater studies.

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