Surface Water - Groundwater Interaction:
From Watershed Processes to Hyporheic Exchange
May 15-19, 2023

Welcome!
This is the home page for the short course on surface water-groundwater interaction. Lecture materials will be posted here before the course starts on May 15.

Instructors
Dr. Donald O. Rosenberry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, U.S.A.
Dr. Masaki Hayashi, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Lecture notes
Course schedule and outline (.pdf)
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Basic concepts of groundwater hydrology
Lecture 3: Physical setting
Computer exercise: TopoDrive
Lecture 4: Scale and heterogeneity
Lecture 5: Vadose zone hydrology
Lecture 6: Hillslope hydrology
Lecture 7: Physiography related to flow paths
Lecture 8: Fluvial and hyporheic processes
Lecture 9: Baseflow analysis
Computer exercise: Base flow separation
Lecture 10: Field measurement techniques
Lecture 11: Heat as a tracer
Computer exercise: 1DTempPro
Lecture 12: Lake water balance
Computer exercise: Water balance simulation

Data file for computer exercises
Digital recursive filter on Excel (.xlsx)
Marmot Creek flow data (.xlsx)
Shingobee Lake data set (.zip)
Lake water balance (.xlsx)

Computer software
TopoDrive (.zip file containing all program files)
Topodrive manual (.pdf)
1DTempPro (link to USGS site)

Recommended reading
Please download a zip file containing journal papers recommended for your reading.
In addition, a PDF copy of Rosenberry and Hayashi (2013) will be sent to you in an email.

Links to USGS Technical Documents
Ground water - surface water: A single resource
Water budgets: Foundations for effective water-resources and environmental management
Field techniques for estimating water fluxes between surface water and ground water
Heat as a tool for studying the movement of ground water near streams

Content for this page:  Dr. Masaki Hayashi

Coloardo School of Mines, Geology & Geological Engineering home page
University of Calgary, Geoscience home page