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Physical Hydrogeology (Geo Sci 463) Fall 2015 SYLLABUS

Class hour: M,W 10:00-10:50; 11:00-11:50 at Lapham 262

Instructor: Prof. Weon Shik Han Email: hanw@uwm.edu Office: Lapham 348; Tel: 414-229-2493 Office hour: F 10:00 to 11:00

T.A.: Kyungdoe Han Email: jpgraham@uwm.edu Office: Lapham 349 Office hour: T:12:00 to 2:00 W:12:00 to 2:00

Textbooks • Primary textbook: Groundwater Hydrology, 3rd Edition by David. K. Todd and Larry W.

Mays • Supplementary textbook:

- Fundamentals of Groundwater by Schwartz and Zhang (2003) - Ground water by Freeze and Cherry (1979)

Course Objective

This course covers the fundamental understanding of groundwater resources/transports, aquifer properties, and well hydraulics. The first half of the course will cover the concepts and theories (Darcy's law) of groundwater flow with introducing aquifer properties and well hydraulics. The second half of the course features practical aspects in the groundwater flows such as topography-driven groundwater flow, groundwater quality, sea-water intrusion, the introduction to the groundwater modeling, and contaminant transport. Course Grading Class participant: 10%; Midterm: 30%; Final exam: 35%; Homework: 25% • Exams (Midterm 30%+ Final 35%=65%): There will be two exams (midterm and final).

These exams consist of multiple-choice questions, short and long answers. The exam material will be taken directly from the lectures and homework assignment.

• Homework (25%): Total 8 to 10 assignments covering lecture materials will hand out during the semester. There will be a penalty in late submission.

• Class participant (10%): The grade will be based upon your attendance. Once in a while, the seminar will be announced in the class if any invited lecturers give presentations related to “Physical Hydrogeology” in a colloquium series of geology department, school of fresh water or other department. If the schedule is allowed, it is encouraged to attend these lectures.

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Course Schedule 10:00 to 10:50 11:00 to 11:50 HW Handout

3-Sep W Hydrologic Cycle Fluid Potentials8-Sep M Darcy's Law Darcy's Law & Darcy's Law Lab HW1

10-Sep W Hydraulic Conductivity Hydraulic Conductivity15-Sep M Potentiometric Surface Homework 1 Exercise HW217-Sep W Aquifer Transmissivity & Storage Aquifer Transmissivity & Storage22-Sep M Vector/Calculs/Laplace's Equation Vector/Calculs/Laplace's Equation/Flow Net24-Sep W Homework 2 Exercise Homework 2 Exercise HW329-Sep M Flow Net Flow Net

1-Oct W Steady-State Well Hydraulic Transient Well Hydraulic HW46-Oct M Transient Well Hydraulic Homework 3 Exercise8-Oct W Homework 3 Exercise Homework 3 Exercise

13-Oct M Slug Test Homework 4 Exercise15-Oct W Midterm Review Midterm Review20-Oct M Midterm Midterm22-Oct W Midterm Review Midterm Review27-Oct M Slug Test Drawdown29-Oct W Groundwater Modeling Lab 5. Simulation Method (Groundwater Vista) HW53-Nov M Unsaturated Flow Unsaturated Flow5-Nov W Unsaturated Flow/Regional Flow Homework 5 Exercise HW6

10-Nov M Well Construction12-Nov W Head Fluctuation/Groundwater Chemistry17-Nov M Field Trip Field Trip19-Nov W Contaminant Hydrology Contaminant Hydrology24-Nov M Contaminant Hydrology/Salt Water Intrusion Environmental Tracers HW726-Nov W Thanksgiving Thanksgiving

1-Dec M Advanced topics: Hydrogeophys3-Dec W Question session HW88-Dec M Video (Civil Action) Video (Civil Action)

10-Dec W AGU Conference AGU ConferenceDec 15 to 20 Final Week Final Week

The schedule can be changed! There will be a couple of guest seminars during the class or geoscience seminar scheduled at 3:30 to 4:30 pm in Lapham N 101 Course Policy • Academic Integrity: Plagiarism will not be tolerated in this class and students involved will

receive a zero grade. Severer cases will be submitted to the University for further scrutiny. The scope and disciplines of student academic misconducts are specified in Chapter UWS 14 and UWM implementation provisions (Faculty Document 1686) and http://www4.uwm.edu/secu/SyllabusLinks.pdf. UWM Disciplinary Guidelines can be found in the Office of the Dean of Students, Mellencamp Hall, Rm118.

• Finality of Grade: All grades, once released on D2L or PAWS, are final except in cases of clerical error.

• Late penalty: 10% deduction of your score you would receive with an on-time submission per each full day from the deadline. No score after seven full days from the deadline.

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• Special Accommodation: Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of disability, religion, or other civic duty should contact Instructor privately as early as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. A student should notify Instructor, within the first three weeks of the beginning of class, of the specific days or dates on which he or she will request relief from an examination or academic requirement for a religious observance. The student notification will be kept confidential.

• Make-ups will be allowed at the discretion of Instructor when a pre-approval has been obtained or in case of emergency with written proof

• Other unspecified matters will be handled according to the University policies listed on http://www4.uwm.edu/secu/SyllabusLinks.pdf