GLY 410
HYDROGEOLOGY
Geology Department-SUNY College
at
Cortland
Schedule of
Assignments and Activities
Lecture/Laboratory:
Lecture: Monday,
4:25-6:10P
Laboratory: Field Trips,
Guest
Lectures, Associated Exercises, Associated
Lectures: Tuesday,
2:50-5:25; the
laboratory session on Tuesday will be a combination of field trips,
guest speakers, laboratory exercises or lectures as deemed
appropriate by the instructor.
Course
Description: This course
will center
upon the source, distribution, movement and potential sensitivity of
surface,
vadose zone (unsaturated zone), and groundwater in a geologic and
geomorphic
context. Topics will be distributed
approximately
equally between surface water hydrology, catchment or watershed
hydrology,
vadose zone hydrology, groundwater hydrology (both regolith and
fracture flow)
and groundwater modeling. This course
will prepare the student for further work in hydrologic modeling and
water
quality modeling, for employment in government and consulting positions
and
entrance into graduate programs in the hydrologic sciences,
environmental and
geologic sciences, all of which increasingly require knowledge in
hydrology as
a part of the core of the geosciences.
Required
Texts/Other Resources:
a) Hornberger,
Raffensperger, Wiberg and Eshleman. 1998. Elements of Physical
Hydrology. (in bookstore)
b) Kappel,
Sherwood and
Johnston. 1996. Hydrogeology of the Tully Valley and Characterization
of
Mudboil Activity, Onon.
Resources Investigations Report
96-4043 (provided)
c) Miller,
T.S., et al.
1998. Hydrogeology and Simulation of Groundwater
Flow in a
Glacial-Aquifer System at
Instructor and
Office
Hours:
Dr. C.P. Cirmo, 341 Bowers Hall, 753-2924, cirmoc@cortland.edu .
General office hours will be posted during the first week of classes. Meetings can be arranged for other times at
the convenience of the student and instructor, and are highly
encouraged.. Since I have been away for 15 months and do not know
many of you, please stop in to chat so we can get acquainted and
discuss your goals with the course and with the department.
Grading Criteria:
Three Lecture Exams
50% (15% for Exam
1, 15% for exam 2 and 20% for the final exam)
Problem Sets/Homework
30%
Quizzes
20%
Attendance
Policy: See Student
Handbook for
Official attendance policy. Students are
expected to be present at all lectures and field trips unless otherwise
discussed and agreed upon with the instructor.
On
this web site, the student can find the “Course
Schedule of
Assignments” which
contains a day-to-day listing of topics and related
activities/assignments/readings etc. It is important that you get completely
familiar with this site. The slides used
in the course will also be available on this site, for each lecture
session.
Lecture Topics: ( a tentative list)
1. Hydrology,
Water and
the Watershed
2. Units,
Conversions and
General Quantitation
3. Catchment
Hydrology, Water Budgets, Watershed Delineation
4. Atmospheric
Water
5. Runoff,
Stream
Discharge and Channel Hydraulics, Hydrograph Analysis
6. Soil
Moisture and Vadose
Zone Characteristics
7. Groundwater
Mechanics
and Hydraulics
8. Groundwater
Hydrology,
Flow and Wells
9. Spatial
Hydrology and
the Watershed Catchment
These topics
will
correspond roughly with the Chapters in Hornberger et al. 1998, as
assigned. The problem sets assigned from
some of those chapters, along with stand-alone exercises, will assist
in the
understanding required.
Laboratory: The purpose
of the
laboratory exercises is to give the student hands-on experience with
understanding the sources, distribution and fate of water in a typical
water
supply, as well as to use the
Field
Trips/Laboratory
Trips/Project Work (examples):
Cortland
Hoxie Gorge
Stream Gaging
Tully Landslide
Geologic
Consulting Firm
If you are a
student with a disability and wish to request accommodations, please
contact
the Office of Student Disability Services located in B-40 Van Hoesen Hall 0r call 607-753-2066 for an
appointment. Information regarding your
disability will be
treated in a confidential manner.
Because many accommodations require early planning, requests for
accommodations should be made as early as possible.