TRACER HYDROLOGY.

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This course is primarily focused on the applications of chemical tracers to study the interaction between precipitation, surface water, and groundwater. The first part covers the basics of water fluxes and naturally occurring and artificial tracers such as stable and radioactive isotopes, noble gases, fluorescent nanoparticles, ions, and DNA. The second part is oriented towards the assimilation of chemical tracer information to enhance hydrological metrics, conceptual model development, and numerical modeling. Prerequisite: ENVR 1301 , or GEOL 1301 , or cons. inst.