If you need assistance, please let me know by e-mail or leave a phone message (7-3305)
My office (213 Leonard) hours are 12:15- 1 Tuesday, and Monday and Wednesday early afternoon; please let me know if you would like to meet at a different time.

Thursday Field Trips:
Field sites – The Nature Conservancy’s Glacial Ridge Project site near Crookston MN and the UND Emerado Observatory
August 28 – Judicial Ditch 66 - hydric soils, soil description and logging, catena recognition, install level logger to estimate ET

Sept. 4  - Judicial Ditch 66 -  methods of well installation (well points and borehole wells), water level measurement

Sept. 11  - Judicial Ditch 66 - install water level data loggers, level line surveying, 3-point problem, soil water sampler installation, slug tests

Sept. 18 - Judicial Ditch 66 - vadose zone instrumentation (disk infiltrometry, TDR survey, tension measurement, soil water sampling, conductivity)

Sept. 25 - Judicial Ditch 66 - follow-up on vadose equipment, water level measurements, put in exploratory hole in proposed wetland basin

Oct. 2 – Judicial Ditch 66 - electrical resistivity soundings and water sampling

Oct. 9 – Emerado field site pump test 

Oct. 16 – make final measurements, download and take in equipment, programming dataloggers?
 

Grades and Some Course Policies:
Grades for the course will be based on field performance and reports, promptness in putting field data on line, creativity in your work, and possible Wednesday quizzes. Here's a list of required reports and their approximate weight:

(1) Description of soils and ET estimation in the JD 66 basin (20%)
(2) Estimating groundwater -surface water interaction at JD 66 ridge (includes borehole, well descriptions, slug test analysis, flow net analysis, and, tentatively, nitrate transport) (30%)
(3) Electrical resistivity soundings & interpretation (20%)
(4) Pump test analysis (30%)

Due dates will depend on how the field work goes. The reports should be typed, thorough, well-written, and succinct (good, too). (Use a style that is appropriate for a consultant writing for a client - one who is paying you to do the work.) Although you may confer and work together with one another on reports, each student must turn in their own original report. Photocopies and exact duplicates of graphs, tables, text, etc. will be returned without a grade. A grade of A and/or graduate credit will require some independent work. All work and reports must be turned in prior to November 26. No incompletes will be issued.

note: SEM student fees cover most of the costs for transportation and supplies