SCHEDULE AND COURSE CONTENT

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Fundamentals of Environmental Measurements and Sampling
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T 1/20
(1 Lecture) Organization meeting: Discuss course objectives, course format and hand out material for the first section of the course.

Th 1/22 - T 1/27
(2 Lectures) Introduction to Measurement Science - Measurement precision and accuracy. Sensing footprint, volume of measurement. Sampling design and sampling errors, uncertainty reduction, spatial and temporal variability, sampling network design, consideration of information costs. Concept of sensor pairing, mismatching, etc.

T 1/27 - Th 1/29
(1 Lecture, Lab)
Amine Dahmani Introduction to Sample Acquisition - Direct-push techniques for sediment, pore water and soil gas sampling. Surface water and atmospheric sample acquisition techniques.

-Soil Sampling (Hand Augers, Drilling Rigs, Direct-Push Technologies, i.e., Geoprobe)

-Water Sampling (Porewater/Groundwater and Surfacewater)

-Air Sampling (Ambient & Point Source Sampling) (presented by Mike Trahiotis, ERI)

T 2/3
(1 Lecture) Revisited: Introduction to Measurement Science.

Th 2/5 - Th 2/12
(2 Lectures, Lab)
John Fikiet Introduction to Electronics - Basic introduction to electronic components, voltage and current measurements, A/D converters, power requirements, power consumption calculations, batteries, storage capacity, solar panels, etc. (John Fikiet).

T 2/17 - Th 2/19
(1 Lecture, Lab) Data Handling and Sensing Technologies - Data Logging, Data transfer, storage, and sensing technologies--basic data logger programming, data downloading, telemetry, basic overview of sensor types. How to measure (sense) volume, temperature, pressure, mass and radiation.

T 2/24 - Th 2/26
(1 Lecture, Lab) Water Content and Potential Measurement - gravimetric, neutron probe, time domain reflectometry, tensiometers, measurement of soil water characteristic curve by sensor pairing (Prof. Or).

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Surface and Subsurface Hydrologic Characterization and Measurements:
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T 3/2 - Th 3/4
(1 Lecture, Lab) Groundwater Level Measurement Methods - Water level measurement techniques, application of pressure transducer data logging, pneumatic slug testing to determine hydraulic conductivity, (Prof. Robbins).

T 3/9 - Th 3/11 No Classes----Spring Break!----No Classes

T 3/16 - Th 3/18
(1 Lecture, Lab) Geophysical Methods for Subsurface Characterization: electrical resistivity and ground penetrating radar methods (Prof. Liu).

T 3/24 - Th 3/26
(1 Lecture, Lab) Sampling Network Design Considering Spatial Variability - (Prof. Bagtzoglou).

T 3/30 - Th 4/1
(1 Lecture, Lab) Measurements of Water Fluxes in the Vadose Zone: concepts of flux measurements, transport properties, infiltration experiments (Prof. Or).

T 4/6 - Th 4/8
(1 Lecture, Lab) Surface Water Measurements: exploration of various methods for measuring the fluxes of water and sediment in surface waters, and the factors affecting these measurements (Prof. Ogden).

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Surface and Subsurface Bio-Geochemical Sampling & Measurement:
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T 4/13 - Th 4/15 Fate of Aquatic Contaminants: Use of conservative tracers to measure physical characteristics of stream flow and environmental decay rates of reactive aquatic contaminants (Prof. MacKay).

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Atmospheric and Micrometeorological Measurement Methods:
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T 4/20 - Th 4/22 Aerosol and Emission Monitoring and Measurements (Prof. Holmén).

T 4/27 - Th 4/29 Radar Remote Sensing for Rainfall Estimation (Prof. Anagnostou).

Future/Replacement Labs (Demonstration Lab) Micrometeorological Measurements (Prof. Yang) Gaseous Diffusion and Soil Efflux (Prof. Or)