The course also seeks to provide professional development opportunities for experienced modelers. While there are numerous seminars and training courses targeted at beginning and intermediate modelers, very few are offered on advanced topics. Other techniques and software for model calibration are also described in lectures. Analysis of uncertainty is a neglected topic in groundwater modeling, partly because practical ways of assessing uncertainty have not been available.
Most stochastic simulators use simple analytic models that are usually one dimensional.
With the newest PC computers, the processing power is now sufficient to apply these stochastic techniques to real-world groundwater modeling problems. There are several optimization models available now and Groundwater Vistas supports many of them. Your time will be evenly split between lecture and hands-on use of the software. Instructors James Rumbaugh is a national leader in the field of groundwater modeling and has performed modeling studies in the US, Caribbean, and Europe. He is the Chairman of the ASTM task group funded by U.S. EPA to develop standards for groundwater modeling practice and is now the Chairman of Subcommittee D18.21 on Groundwater and Vadose Zone Investigations.