Opportunities for the graduate student to do practical work concerning water and water budgets. Graduate students work with problems concerning storage of water, stream measurement, evaporation, infiltration and migration, aquifer testing, tracer studies, mine drainage, and domestic use. The course will include a number of trips to actual sites of meteorologic, geologic, or oceanographic significance where materials and processes can be studied. A journal of site descriptions and a report on a specific site or process will be required. This is a field course designed for the student to learn various mapping procedures and the use of mapping instruments.
Problems involve the determination of distance, direction, and evaluation.
Plane table surveying and map making in the field are emphasized. The course deals with selected readings in the student s area of interest in earth science. It is designed to exemplify a sense of earth science problems and to develop abilities of critical appraisal. The organization of research in an area selected by the student with the approval of the instructor. This research is in depth and may be on a micro scale or on a macro scale.