FIELD METHODS IN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCES
Summer 2008

Regional landscape history and environmental change (Northern Illinois Site)

• Local and regional Quaternary geology
• Surficial geologic mapping
• Core drilling
• Stratigraphic section/soil classification
• Regional context of soils and soil mapping
• Climate history and change

Field methods in hydrogeology (Illinois State University field site)

• Water table contour maps
• Aquifer testing
• Local and regional hydrogeologic framework
• Drilling and well installation

Field methods in surface water and vadose zone hydrology

• Stream flow
• Stream dye tracer test
• Measuring soil tension and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity

Water quality

• Groundwater and surface water sampling techniques
• Field measurement of water quality parameters
• Field analysis of water chemistry
• Inorganic water analysis
• Organic water analysis
• Microbiology of water

Environmental geophysics

• Seismic reflection
• Resistivity
• Conductivity
• Ground penetrating radar

Field Trips

• Drinking and waste water plants
• Lake Calumet (Superfund site)
• Quaternary deposits of northern Illinois

Professors

NIU Melissa Lenczewski Jay Stravers Mike Konen Phil Carpenter

ISU Steve Van der Hoven Eric Peterson

For more information:

Melissa Lenczewski
Northern Illinois University
Geology and Environmental Geosciences
DeKalb, IL 60115

Phone: 815-753-7937
Fax: 815-753-1945
Email: melissa@geol.niu.edu

Application deadline date: April 1, 2008
Cost: $2500 to $2800 depending on housing

Download course applications: (You will need to fill out both)

NIU application
ISU/NIU Geology Application