Course Catalogue.

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Better visualize subsurface materials and associated investigations
• More efficiently utilize public information such as drill hole databases and mapping
• Better utilize and design geophysical surveys and drilling
• Better oversee inference of strata, structures, and properties
• More efficiently support activities such as groundwater modelling and subsurface installations

Description
This course is on accounting for geological materials that host underground structures, foundations, waste disposal, groundwater, geothermal, fossil fuels, mineral resources, and geological research. Topics will include survey design, data compilation such as drill hole databases, data acquisition such as geophysical surveys, inference of strata and structures, specification of properties, heterogeneity, and uncertainty for sediments and rocks, as well as applications to energy, mineral, and water resources, engineering, waste disposal, and research.

Course Outline

• Introduction to geology, geological surveys, and subsurface geology
• Mapping
• Land surface surveys
• Geophysical and geochemical surveys
• Data compilation and acquisition
• Inferences
• Low-resolution geological mapping
• High-resolution geological mapping
• Information products
• Applications in resources, engineering, and research
• Summary

Who Should Attend

Engineers, geoscientists, and information managers who are involved in subsurface investigation, design, and utilization, including those who deal with:

Underground structures • foundations • slope stability • groundwater • oil and gas • geothermal • waste disposal • mineral resources