Groundwater measurement demonstration

HOMEWORK #4 IS DUE TODAY AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS

Outline:
Water level recorders
Well construction video

Textbook reading:
none.

Other reading:
none.

Related web links:
none.

Assignment 5: Groundwater & Sediment Measurement

We are working around campus to gain exposure to a variety of measurement and monitoring methods associated with subsurface sediment, groundwater, and land-atmosphere interactions.

Outline:
Hands-on activities
Total-station surveying
Well water level measurments
Well water quality sampling
Sediment coring with: hand auger, slide hammer corer, Geoprobe

UC Davis weather station systems
radiometers
evaporation pan
wind speed anemometers
wind direction
sunshine hours measurement
CIMIS weather station
Dry versus wet atmospheric deposition
Bowen ratio method for determining ET
Lysimeters


Homework: Due 03/08/08 (2 weeks)
hyd151asgn5.pdf
You do not need to use the full report format on this homework. Use a simplified report format but continue to show all calculations, graphs, maps, etc as clearly as possible.