Geophysical Equipment for Hydrogeology, Environmental Geology and Geophysics Field Courses

水文地质学、环境地质学和地球物理学野外课程的地球物理设备

• 批准号: 9750526
• 负责人: Laurie Brown
• 金额: $ 4.05万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-06-01 至 2000-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9750526&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Geophysical; Equipment; Hydrogeology; Environmental; Geology

The Geosciences Department recognizes the importance of hands-on, field-oriented experiences for undergraduates, especially in the high employment area of environmental consulting. To this end, the university is increasing its capabilities in shallow field geophysics for undergraduate students in geophysics, hydrogeology, and environmental geology courses. A field laboratory is being developed on campus complete with one pumping well, four observations wells, and numerous buried objects for geophysical targets. Existing geophysical equipment allows for investigations of seismic refraction, gravity, and magnetism, but to ensure coverage and experience in the tools most commonly used in the environmental industry, the university is providing additional equipment for electromagnetic, very-low-frequency, ground-penetrating radar and seismic reflection techniques. This equipment is used extensively in five undergraduate courses (two in geophysics, two in hydrogeology, and one in environmental geology) and as the backbone for a new course at the beginning level in Environmental Field Methods. This new course provides field experience at an early level for geology students as well as students from other environmentally oriented programs on campus. The geophysical data are combined with hydrogeologic and environmental data, using the common field site as a laboratory. The extensive geophysical and hydrogeologic data collected from the site are archived on CD-ROM using the method of dynamic digital maps and are made available to the geologic community. In addition, the site, a unique teaching tool for field geophysics and hydrogeology, and the entire range of field equipment, are made available to interested professors and students in the region. *

地球科学系认识到本科生的动手实践，面向现场的体验的重要性，尤其是在环境咨询的高工作领域。 为此，大学正在提高其在地球物理学，水文地质学和环境地质学课程的本科生浅层地球物理学方面的能力。 校园正在开发一个现场实验室，其中包括一个抽水井，四个观测井以及许多用于地球物理目标的埋入物体。 现有的地球物理设备可以调查地震折射，重力和磁性，但为了确保在环境行业最常用的工具中的覆盖范围和经验，该大学正在为电磁，极低的频率，地面降低雷达和地震反射技术提供其他设备。 该设备在五个本科课程中广泛使用（两项地球物理学，两个用于水文地质学，环保地质学），是在环境领域方法开始的新课程中的骨干。 该新课程为地质学生以及校园其他以环保计划的学生以及来自其他环保计划的学生提供了现场经验。 地球物理数据与水文地质和环境数据相结合，使用公共场地作为实验室。 使用动态数字地图的方法在CD-ROM上存档了从网站收集的广泛的地球物理和水文地质数据，并可以向地质社区提供。 此外，该网站是用于现场地球物理学和水文学的独特教学工具，以及整个现场设备，可供该地区感兴趣的教授和学生提供。 *