Environmental Tracers in Hydrology

Catalog description

Environmental and artificial tracers in hydrology. Environmental tracer topics may include: atomic structure and abundances of environmental isotopes. Stable isotope fractionation. Mass spectrometry. Applications of the stable isotopes of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon to meteorology and hydrology. Radioactive decay and radionuclide production. Applications of tritium, 3He, 14C, 36Cl , and other radionuclides. Application of Cl, Br, and CFCs to hydrologic problems; and carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus isotopes for nutrient cycling in soils and freshwater systems. Artificial tracer topics may include: fluorescent and salt tracers, drifting particles, and dissolved gas tracers. Planning and execution of tracer experiments and the analysis and interpretation of tracer data with solute transport equations, convolution integral methods, and end-member mixing analysis.