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JLJ7310 | Isotope Techniques in Hydrogeology | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | Level of Course | Third Cycle | Status | Elective | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Practical | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Esra HATİPOĞLU TEMİZEL | Co-Lecturer | None | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | To show the students, how to use environmental isotopes at groundwater and thermal spring problems. |
Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | PO - 1 : | describe stable isotopes and radioisotopes in water | 1,3,13 | 1,3 | PO - 2 : | make sampling water for environmental isotopic analysis | 4,11 | 1,3 | PO - 3 : | interpreate about stable isotopes and tritium in precipitation | 1,4,11 | 1,3 | PO - 4 : | interpreate the deltaD-delta18O relation in precipitation | 13,14 | 1,3 | PO - 5 : | use isotopic techniques in interaction on surface water with groundwater | 4,7,14 | 1,3 | PO - 6 : | use isotopic techniques to solve in water-rock interaction problems | 1,4,14 | 1,3 | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | |
Definitions, basic terms
Environmental isotopes in water
Stable isotopes and radioisotopes
Isotope fractionation
Water sampling methods for environmental isotopic analysis
Stable isotopes and tritium in precipitation
Global meteoric water line (The delta D- delta O-18 relation )
Determination of dating and origin of groundwater with isotopic techniques
Usage of isotopic techniques in interaction on surface water with groundwater |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | Definitions, Basic terms (isotope, stable isotope, radioisotope, radioactive decay) | | Week 2 | Environmental isotopes in water
Stable isotopes
Radioisotopes | | Week 3 | Isotope fractionation
Standards used stable isotope anlaysis | | Week 4 | Water sampling methods for environmental isotopic analysis
| | Week 5 | Stable isotopes in precipitation (oxygen-18, deuterium)
Tritium in precipitation | | Week 6 | Processes in hydrologic cycle (evaporation, precipitation-condensation, infiltration)
Stable isotope ratio for evaporation | | Week 7 | Isotope ratio for precipitation-condensation
Factors of isotopic composition of the precipitation-condensation | | Week 8 | Isotopic composition of the groundwater and the factors effect the isotopic composition | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | Week 10 | Global meteoric water line (Delta D-Delta O-18 relation) | | Week 11 | Isotope techniques for determination origin and age of groundwater
| | Week 12 | Usege of deuterium,O-18 and S-34 isotope ratio | | Week 13 | Usage of isotopic techniques in interaction on surface water with groundwater | | Week 14 | Usage of isotopic techniques in interaction on groundwater with rocks | | Week 15 | Applications | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | |
1 | Clark, I.D., Fritz, P,1997; Environmental Isotopes in Hydrogeology, Lewis Publishers, New York) | | |
1 | Balderer, W., 1999; Applications of Isotope Techniques in Hydrogeology, İTU, (Seminer Notları), İstanbul | | 2 | Fritz, P., Fontes, J.C, ( Eds.), 1980; Handbook of Environmentl Isotope Geochemistry, Elsevier Scentific Publishing Company, New York | | 3 | Payne, B, R, (Ed.), Guidebook on Nuclear Techniques in Hydrology, Tecnical Report Series No:91, IAEA, Vienna | | 4 | Gültekin, F., 2005; Hidroleolojide İzotop Teknikleri (Hazırlanmış ders notu) | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 2 | 30 | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 6 10 13 15 | | 5 10 10 10 | 20 | End-of-term exam | 17 | | 2 | 50 | |
Student Work Load and its Distribution | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 1 | 8 | 8 | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ödev | 4 | 8 | 32 | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 3 | 14 | 42 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | Diğer 1 | 2 | 14 | 28 | Diğer 2 | 2 | 14 | 28 | Total work load | | | 226 |
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