Welcome!
This is the home page for the short course on groundwater hydrology. Lecture materials will be posted here before the course starts on June 13.
Please note that there are a few computer exercises during the course. You will need to bring your computer running on Windows OS (or Windows emulator on other OS) with the data files and software (below), and Microsoft Excel.
Please contact Dr. Tomoyoshi Hirota for questions regarding course logistics.
Instructor
Dr. Masaki Hayashi, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Lecture notes
Course schedule and outline (.pdf)
Lecture 1: Foundamentals of groundwater hydrology
Lecture 2: Vadose zone processes
Lecture 3: Groundwater-surface water interaction
Lecture 4: Baseflow analysis
Computer exercise instructions
Exercise 1: TopoDrive
Exercise 2: Baseflow sepration
Data file for computer exercises
Automated baseflow separation
Computer software
TopoDrive (.zip file containing all program files)
Topodrive manual (.pdf)
Homework assignments
Assignment 1: TopoDrive
Assignment 2: Baseflow sepration
Assingment 3: Calculation problems
Recommended reading
PDF copy of key papers can be downloaded from this link.
Content for this page: Dr. Masaki Hayashi
Kyusu University, Bioproduction Environmental Sciences home page
University of Calgary, Geoscience home page