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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