Week 1	Evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, stream flow
Week 2	Water resources in the Central Valley.  Underflow, baseflow, hydrograph separation, baseflow recession, gaining and losing streams, stream gauging, flood frequency curves
Week 3	Levee and reservoir construction and capacities, 100 year flood, assessing flood danger, Web access to river and flood data
Week 4	Density, porosity, effective porosity, porosity of sediments and rocks, specific yield, Darcy's law, hydraulic conductivity, intrinsic permeability
Week 5	Confined and unconfined aquifers, water table, capillarity and capillary fringe, storage, specific yield, compressibility, leakage, homogeneity, heterogeneity and isotropy
Week 6	Energy of a fluid, total hydraulic head, pressure head and elevation head   First midterm exam: Friday, October 5th
Week 7	Hydraulic head with variable density, horizontal and vertical gradient, flow refraction
Week 8	Specific discharge, average linear flow velocity, equations of groundwater flow, steady-state flow in confined and unconfined aquifers, flow lines and flow nets
Week 9	Flow net workshop; Theis solution
Week 10	Neuman-Witherspoon solution for unconfined; aquifer; Thiem equation, well interference, image wells
Week 11	Theis solution, estimating transmissivity, hydraulic conductivity and storativity from field data
Week 12	Second midterm exam: Wednesday, Nov. 14 Theis solution, continued
Week 13	Cooper-Jacob time and distance drawdown methods to determine transmissivity, hydraulic conducitivity and storativity No class on Friday- Happy Thanksgiving
Week 14	Water chemistry, Piper and Stiff diagrams
Week 15	Hydrogeologic boundaries, recharge/discharge areas, flow patterns in homogenous aquifers, transient flow, springs and lakes, fracture flow, saltwater intrusion, effects of underlying geology on hydrogeologic terrain.
Final Exam	Practice tests:   2005 final exam 2006 final exam 2008 final exam 2009 final exam 2010 final exam Final exam: Friday, December 14th, 8:00 - 10:00 Note new day and time!!

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