Ground Water Modeling

• Obtain hands-on, practical experience in computer modeling.
• Experience the ground-water investigation process from computational analysis to final interpretation.
• Become better prepared for environmental employment.

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

A computer software with a user friendly graphic interface for building input parameters, running simulations and viewing results is required. One such software is Visual MODFLOW by Waterloo Hydrogeologic which provides MODFLOW and MODPATH support.

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
• 6. Aquifer Tests - Data Acquisition
• 7. Aquifer Tests - Computer Analysis
• 8. Flow Net Construction and Modeling

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