Course hours: MWF, 2:00–3:10
Course location: E&MS D250
Laboratory hours: Tues 8:30–11:30 am or Wed 11:00 am–2:00 pm
please choose one of these sessions and stick with it for the quarter
Laboratory location: E&MS D250 (and occasionally in the field; see schedule)

Field trip: Scott Creek (Waddell Creek?):  Saturday 2/16, 0800 - 1700 (more or less…)
Saturday 2/23 is a rain date, so please keep this open as well
Lab on Campus Hydrogeology - Week 5 - will also take us into the field)

Assignments: nine lab exercises, eight problem sets, critical "issue" paper

Paper: <5 pages, due at the beginning of class, Friday, 3/14

Exams (both closed-book):

Midterm - Wednesday, 2/13, 2:00–3:10 (regular time)
Final - cumulative, Tuesday 3/18, 8:00-11:00 am

Grades/Evaluations are to be based on the tests, labs, class participation, and assignments:

25% Labs
25% Problems sets and paper
15% Midterm
25% Final
10% Class participation/demonstration of PMA and ROV

Required text: Fetter, 2001, Applied Hydrogeology, 4th edition

Supplementary reading: Freeze and Cherry, 1979, Groundwater (on reserve in Science Library), other assignments in reader or handed out or posted online. [Be sure to complete the supplemental reading for maximum comprehension and benefit!]

Notes about reading and assignments:

Please complete reading prior to class discussion, ask questions in class, visit during office hours. Labs and problem sets normally due one week after being handed out. Late assignments may be accepted, but points will be deducted. Chronic lateness is not acceptable. All work turned in for grading should be neat and easy to read. Copy calculations to a new page for clarity, if needed. Working together is great (even encouraged), but the work you turn in should be your own. All plots are to be generated using a computer (Excel or Kaleidagraph recommended – see instructor, TA, and/or your colleagues for help).

We will discuss critical “issue” paper later in class – be on the lookout for a good topic. The topic can be a resource debate; a controversy over contamination and clean-up; changes to current local, state or federal laws that affect groundwater; or a scientific development. Your paper should include a quantitative assessment of your topic. Be ready to present in class!

Date	Presentation/Lab topic(s)	Readings/Problem sets
Week 1: M 1/7 - F 1/9 First class: W 1/9	1. Introduction, motivation, overview, terminology	Fetter 1.1-1.10, 2.1-2.9 Freeze & Cherry 1.1-1.3 Editorials on career preparation
First class: F 1/6	no lab meeting during first week of classes
	2. Terminology, water and soil properties	Fetter 3.1-3.3, 6.1-6.2 Freeze & Cherry 2.5 Nelson, 1997 (units) + conversion table Hand out PS #1
Week 2 M 1/14 - F 1/18	3. Darcy's Law, potential and head, aquifers	Fetter 3.4-3.6, 4.1-4.3, 4.5-4.6 Freeze & Cherry 2.1-2.3
T 1/15 or W 1/16	Lab 1: Darcy's law and soil properties	Fetter 3.4-3.5, 4.6
	4. Water table, aquifer properties, measuring head, flow in aquifers	Fetter 3.7-3.9, 3.11-3.12 Freeze & Cherry 2.4, 2.7-2.8,2.10 Saines, 1981 Hand in PS #1, hand out PS #2
Week 3 T 1/22 - F 1/25 Jan No class M 1/21	5. Limitations of Darcy’s law and the REV, flow refraction, flownets, conservation of mass equations	Fetter 4.7-4.12 Freeze & Cherry 2.11-2.12, 5.1 DWR, Fractured aquifers
T 1/22 Jan or W 1/23	Lab 2: Flow nets and seepage	Fetter 4.9-4.12
		Hand in PS #2, hand out PS #3
Week 4: T 1/28 - F 2/1	6. Well construction, hydraulics, and testing	Fetter 5.1-5.5, 10.4 Freeze & Cherry 8.2 (p.312-314), 8.3, 8.6 DWR, groundwater wells
T 1/29 or W 1/30	Lab 3: Aquifer test analysis - by hand	Fetter 5.1-5.9
	7. Multiple pumping wells, boundaries, determination of aquifer properties, single well tests	Fetter 5.6-5.10 Freeze & Cherry 8.5-8.6 Reader: Rovey and Cherkauer, 1995 Hand in PS #3, hand out PS #4
Week 5: M 2/4 - F 2/8	8. Capture zone analysis, confined vs. unconfined 1-D equations, regional groundwater flow	Fetter 10.10, 4.13-4.14, 7.1-7.7 Freeze & Cherry 6.1-6.3
T 2/5 or W 2/6 ON-CAMPUS FIELD TRIP	Lab 4: Campus (karst) hydrogeology	Fetter 8.3.4 Freeze & Cherry, 11.4 (p. 513-515) Johnson et al., 1989
	9. Effective stress, subsidence, groundwater modeling	Fetter 3.10, 13.1-13.4 Freeze & Cherry 2.9, 8.8, 8.10, 10.1 Bredehoeft and Hall, 1995 Hand in PS #4, hand out PS #5
Week 6: M 2/11 - F 2/15	10. Unsaturated properties, flow, and infiltration	Fetter 6.1-6.7 Freeze & Cherry 6.4, 8.1-8.2 Deming, 2002: 6.1-6.2
T 2/12 or W 2/13	Lab 5: Aquifer test analysis - by computer (Kresge)	Fetter 5.1-5.9, 5.6, 5.9-5.10
Wednesday, 2/13	MIDTERM EXAMINATION 2:00-3:10, D250	covers material discussed through (and including) Week 5, closed book
		Hand in PS #5, hand out PS #6
SATURDAY 2/16 OFF-CAMPUS FIELD TRIP	Lab 6: Scott Creek/Waddell Creek 9 am - 5 pm, details to follow…	Lee and Cherry, 1978
Week 7 T 2/19 - F 2/22 No class M 1/21	11. Unsaturated zone monitoring, groundwater chemistry	Fetter 10.5, 9.1-9.8, 9.13-9.14 Freeze & Cherry 3.1-3.3, 3.5
No lab meetings this week...	Work up results from Labs 5+6
	12. Groundwater solute transport	Fetter 10.6 Freeze & Cherry 2.13, 3.4, 9.2 Wood, 1996 Hand in PS #6, hand out PS #7
Week 8 T 2/25   - F 2/29	13. Groundwater contamination,well head protection	Fetter 10.1-01.4, 10.7 Freeze & Cherry 9.1, 9.3-9.5 Stanley, 1998; Andrews, 1998
T 2/26 or W 2/27	Lab 7: Groundwater modeling exercise I (Kresge)	Fetter 13.1-13.4, 13.6-13.8 Bredehoeft and Hall, 1995
	14. Groundwater remediation	Fetter 10.8-10.9 Bredehoeft, 1994; Dasch et al., 1997; Nyer and Suthersan, 1996; Nyer and Fierro, 1998 Hand in PS #7, hand out PS #8
Week 9 M 3/3 - F 3/7	15. Salt water intrusion	Fetter 4.4; 8.7-8.9 Freeze & Cherry 8.13 Reader: USGS, SW intrusion
T 3/4 or W 3/5	Lab 8: Break-through experiment	Fetter 10.6
	16. Groundwater management, groundwater law	Fetter 11.1-11.11 Freeze & Cherry 8.10-8.11 Dragonetti, 1998; Bredehoeft et al., 1982; DWR handouts Hand in PS #8, hand out PS #9
Week 10 M 3/10 - F 3/14	17. Special topics in groundwater (I): geology, basins, and convection	Fetter 8.1-8.4, 8.10 Freeze & Cherry 4.1-4.6, 11.3
T 3/11 or W 3/12	Lab 9: Groundwater modeling II (Kresge)	Fetter 13.1-13.4, 13.6-13.8
	18. Special topics in groundwater (II): ores and oil	Freeze & Cherry 11.2 and 11.5 Fetter, 12.4 Hand in PS #9
Week 11 M 3/17	19. Student presentations and review
Thursday 3/18 0800-1100	FINAL EXAMINATION	Cumulative, closed book