FOR 796: Modeling Groundwater Flow Using Visual MODFLOW

Professor: Laura Lautz, 207 Marshall Hall
Email: lklautz@esf.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Class Meeting Time/Location: 135 Baker, 1:50pm - 4:50pm

Textbook: Applied Groundwater Modeling: Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport, by Mary P. Anderson and William W. Woessner
Supplementary Reading: Compilation of Readings for Sale in the SUNY ESF Copy Center

Getting Course Materials On-line :
All course materials, including lectures, readings and homeworks, are now available through the Blackboard system.

You can access Blackboard at http://blackboard.syr.edu. You will need your SU NetID and Password.

Course Schedule and Supplemental Materials (for Spring 2006, as example):

Wednesday, January 18
Course Overview
Syllabus
Introduction to Groundwater Hydrology
Homework #1

Wednesday, January 25
Introduction to Groundwater Modeling and the Modeling Protocol
Homework #2
Morrissey, D. 2000. Ground Water Modeling and Automated Computer Design. Ground Water, 38(6):801.

Wednesday, February 1
Creating a Conceptual Model and Grid Design
Getting Started with Visual MODFLOW
Homework #3
Site Map for HW3
Elevation Data for HW3

Wednesday, February 8
Grid Design, Layer Types and More Visual MODFLOW
Homework #4
Anderson, MP. 1983. Ground-water Modeling - The Emperor has No Clothes. Ground Water, 21(6):666-669.

Wednesday, February 15
Boundary Conditions
Homework #5

Wednesday, February 22
Transient Model Simulations
Homework #6

Wednesday, March 1
Model Calibration
Homework #7
Site map

Wednesday, March 8
Model Validation and Sensitivity Analysis
Homework #8

Wednesday, March 22
Class canceled - Northeastern GSA Conference

Wednesday, March 29
Particle Tracking using MODPATH
Homework #9

Wednesday, April 5
Presentations on Journal Articles (see HW9)

Wednesday, April 12
Solute Transport with MT3D
In Class Problem

Wednesday, April 19
Open House for the Modeling Project, 1:50pm - 4:50pm
If you have a laptop with Visual MODFLOW, please bring it to class.

Wednesday, April 26
Course evaluations in Marshall 208

Announcements:
Project Presentations will be on Monday, May 8th, from 1:30pm to approx. 4:00pm (~13 min each, with 2 min for questions)
Project Write-ups and your Final Exam are due by 5pm on Wednesday, May 10th

Final Exam Information:

   Problem Description
   Site Map
   Site Map - Zoomed In
   Observation Well Data