Advanced Hydrogeology (ERTH90034)

Intended learning outcomes

• This subject aims to equip students with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise appropriate for post-graduate research in the field; equip students with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise enabling them to take their place as professional geologists in industry or government organisations;
• determine the distribution, movement and quality of groundwater using conventional and emerging approaches/technologies;
• evaluate groundwater flow, storage, recharge and discharge, in the context of resource management, by applying appropriate tests;
• assess chemical and biogeochemical factors affecting the composition and evolution of groundwater chemistry;
• apply knowledge obtained from the course to addressing problems of importance to the minerals and/or water resources industry (e.g. mine tailings dams, contaminant plume mitigation, etc.).