Teaching
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WATERSHED HYDROLOGY In this course, we take a detailed look at the hydrologic cycle, with a focus on the occurrence, movement, distribution, storage, exploration and management of water at the catchment scale. Topics covered include catchment water budgets, precipitation, evaporation, surface runoff, groundwater flow and connections to biogeochemistry. The focus is on developing both a qualitative understanding of hydrological processes and the ability to acquire and analyze hydrologic data. |
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FOREST HYDROLOGY This course will focus on hydrology, as it applies to forested watersheds. This includes understanding the physical processes governing how water moves between reservoirs and how we gain an understanding of these processes through research and observation. In this class, we will focus our discussion of hydrology on its implications for forested watersheds and how our management of forested systems can impact the hydrologic cycle. |
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SURFACE-GROUND WATER INTERACTION In this course we will cover how to quantify fluxes of water between streams and groundwater systems and how those fluxes affect surface and ground water chemistry. Focus will be on basic theory, current understanding and field techniques. The course will include a significant field work component and techniques will include in-stream dye tracing, heat transport modeling and pore water chemical analyses. Instruction for each technique will be through overview lectures on the topic, review of the current literature and in-depth field experiments. Students should have previous coursework in introductory hydrology or hydrogeology. |
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MODELING GROUNDWATER FLOW USING This course will cover the fundamentals of water movement in the subsurface, including properties of aquifers and governing equations of groundwater flow. We will then examine how MODFLOW, a widely used USGS groundwater flow model, applies these concepts to simulate the movement of water and solutes in the subsurface. Our discussion of modeling will include conceptual model development, selection of boundary conditions, model calibration and sensitivity analysis. Case studies will be used to illustrate the various applications of groundwater modeling. The course will include instruction on how to build a groundwater flow model using the Visual MODFLOW software package. |
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FIELD HYDROLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI'S BRANSON GEOLOGY FIELD CAMP Summer Students conduct a complete hydrogeological investigation of a reach and adjacent meadow along Red Canyon Creek. The investigations include installing wells and piezometers, logging soil borings, measuring hydraulic conductivity via bail tests, mapping the water table and groundwater flow paths, measuring groundwater chemistry, and conducting in-stream tracer tests to measure stream discharge rates. |
