Aquifer Tests - Data Acquisition

• Obtain hands-on, practical experience of field data acquisition using appropriate instrumentation.
• Experience the ground-water investigation process from field data collection to hand and computational data analysis and final interpretation.
• Become better prepared for environmental employment.

This is the sixth of nine one-week exercises designed for a senior-level undergraduate lecture/lab hydrogeology course.

This activity is originally conducted on an aquifer in fractured metamorphic schist, but it can be adapted to aquifer bedrock types in your area.

The following equipment is required:

• Pressure transducers
• Levelhead water level indicators
• Integrated data logger (optional)
• Steel tapes (optional)

The author is seeking feedback from companies that hire students that have gone through the course that this activity is from to see if this training provides a positive impact on job performance.

The activity is from the following article:

• Lee, 1998, Hands-On Laboratory Exercises for an Undergraduate Hydrogeology Course.Journal of Geoscience Education v. 46, p. 433. Contact the author to request furthur details and copies of the laboratory exercises.

See the other eight related activities derived from this article:

• 1. Water Quality Acquisition
• 2. Water Quality Assessment: Computer Analysis
• 3. Stream Discharge Measurement
• 4. Three Point Problems in Ground Water
• 5. Laboratory Permeability Measurement
• 7. Aquifer Tests - Computer Analysis
• 8. Flow Net Construction and Modeling
• 9. Ground Water Modeling

Please contact Ming-Kuo Lee at leeming@mail.auburn.edu with questions or suggestions