http://www.mines.edu/~epoeter/598/

GEGN 598 --- Ground Water Model Calibration and Evaluation
a Colorado School of Mines course
Spring 2008 Thursday 10-10:50 AM

Professor:
Eileen Poeter
epoeter@mines.edu
303-273-3829
fax 303-384-2037
Office BH 121B
Office Hours for Eileen

PDF describing class format

PDF describing approach for critical reading

Hill, M.C. and Tiedeman, C.R., 2007, Effective groundwater model calibration, with analysis of sensitivities, predictions, and uncertainty: Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, 455 p. Available for puchase at Amazon for $74.70 which is $15.25 less than Wiley.

Poeter, Eileen P. and Mary C. Hill, 2007, MMA, A Computer Code for Multi-Model Analysis (link is to pdf file), U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 6-E3.
Associated code is available at http://water.usgs.gov/software/ground_water.html

January 10, Planning and organization

January 17, Hill and Tiedeman Chapter 1, pages 1-17. Treat each subsection (e.g. 1.2.3) as a distinct entity for your notes and discussion

January 24, Poeter and Hill 1997. Hill and Tiedeman Chapter 2, pages 18-25.

January 31, Poeter and Anderson 2005.

February 7, MMA manual 2007 Chapters 1 and 2 (pages 1-33). There is considerable redundancy to last weeks reading. You need not submit a statement and questions on every section. Instead, submit a summary on the essence of what you would like to discuss and develop a concise group of core questions. You may find the old format useful while you are reading to produce notes for formulating your summary.

February 14, read Hill and Tiedeman Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 sections 1, 2, and 3. Pages 260-283. It is pretty general until section 3 of chapter 11. If you feel the need to go back to early chapter nuts and bolts to support that, please do so.

February 21, read Hill and Tiedeman Chapter 11 sections 4, 5 and 6. Pages 284-305. Again if you feel the need to go back to early chapter nuts and bolts to figure out what is said please do so. In addition we had some individual assignments

February 28, read Hill and Tiedeman Chapter 11 sections 7 and 8, and Chapter 12. Pages 306-328. The plan for Feb 28:

March 6 we will, read Hill and Tiedeman Chapter 13. Pages 329-336.
Technical Reading                   

March 13 Sping Break

Remaining plan

March 20 Chapter 4 Information from fit independent stats (41-60)
                  Chapter 5 Parameter estimation (67-80)
                  Remaining questions from March 6

March 27 Chapter 6 Evaluating model fit (93-113)
                  Chapter 7 Evaluating parameter values and parameter uncertainty (124-145)

April 3 Poeter will be away … work together on next week's material … Apr 10's topic might be the most time consuming thus the placement of it during this 2 week gap

April 10 Chapter 8 Evaluating predictions, data needs and prediction uncertainty (158-193)
               Chapter 14 Guidelines 13 and 14 - Prediction Uncertainty (337-344)

April 17 Regularization (Erich and Clint) and Chapter 9 Calibrating transient and transport models, recalibrating models (213-228)

April 24 Chapter 15 Using and testing guidelines (345-373)

MAY 1 attend presentation of Magirl who is interviewing fro a faculty position (10AM BH241)