Improvement of Field and Laboratory Instrumentation for Environmental Hydrogeology

水文学等环境科学与工程专业的本科环境教育应以实际应用为中心。学生必须了解关键的科学和工程问题，并熟练使用高科技工具解决多学科问题。该部门正在显着改善现有的领域和分析设施，提供这样的工具，从几个部门的本科生。 学院教授本科生环境课程与实验室组成部分，其中强调环境科学和工程的实践方面。该项目提供了改进现有学科实验室课程和开办新的多学科课程所需的实地设备，这些课程旨在培养学生整合传统学科知识的能力。 该设施由一个现场组成，现场配备有泵送/注入威尔斯井、监测威尔斯井和相关监测设备，如压力传感器、时域反射仪、张力计、吸力蒸渗仪、Wellmac测井系统和伽马/电阻率/温度组合探头。实地实验涉及水流、水资源评价、水化学和水质以及地球物理方法。以下课程使用现场和实验室设施：水文地质学，地下水文学，水化学，包气带监测方法，包气带水文学，地下水资源评价，测井和环境监测。

Undergraduate environmental education for students majoring in hydrology, other environmental science and engineering disciplines should be centered around practical applications. Students must understand the critical scientific and engineering issues and become proficient in solving multidisciplinary problems using high-technology tools. The department is significantly improving existing field and analytical facilities to provide such tools to undergraduate students from several departments. Faculty have taught undergraduate environmental courses with laboratory components, in which the practical aspects of environmental science and engineering were emphasized. This project provides for the field equipment needed to improve the current disciplinary laboratory courses and to initiate new multidisciplinary courses that aim to develop in students the ability to integrate knowledge across traditional disciplines. The facility consists of a field site equipped with pumping/injecting wells, monitoring wells, and related monitoring equipment such as pressure transducers, a time domain reflectometry unit, tensiometers, suction lysimeters, a Wellmac logging system, and combination gamma/resistivity/temperature probe. Field experiments deal with water flow, water resources evaluation, water chemistry and quality, and geophysical methods. The following courses are using the field and laboratory facilities: hydrogeology, subsurface hydrology, water chemistry, vadose zone monitoring methods, vadose zone hydrology, groundwater resources evaluation, well logging, and environmental monitoring.