GLY 4822: Groundwater Geology

Please check with the department or registrar for future course offerings by other faculty.

Who takes this course?

  • Students interested in learning and applying groundwater flow concepts.
  • Students from geological sciences and other departments considering groundwater-related careers or research.

Textbooks

  • Fitts, Groundwater Science.  Recommended.
  • Freeze and Cherry, Groundwater (Download the free pdf from this link).  This is an excellent, classic, and free textbook and provides enough background for the course; however, it is written at a more challenging level than the Fitts textbook and is >40 years old.

Topics

  • Darcy’s Law and the basics of groundwater flow.
  • Hydraulic Conductivity and Hydraulic Head
  • Geologic Information for Groundwater Studies
  • Geology of Groundwater and Florida’s Hydrogeology
  • Storage and Groundwater Flow Equations
  • Potentiometric surface maps and Groundwater/surface water
  • Recharge and Groundwater Flow Patterns
  • Flow to Wells
  • Freshwater/Saltwater Mixing and Groundwater Modeling
  • Groundwater Contamination