Field Methods in Hydrology

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Offered summers (2 weeks); NMT students should register for this course in the spring semester.Instrumentation and methodologies used in hydrological investigations in a field setting. Course topics may range across a variety of physical and chemical hydrological techniques in vadose, groundwater and surface hydrology. Examples of potential topical areas include, but are not limited to, aquifer, lake and stream sample collection, storage and analysis, aquifer and watershed characterization; discharge measurements and tracer tests; land surface-atmosphere flux; groundwater geophysics measurements; and hydrologic field campaigns.