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DATA COLLECTION

The data collection sheets are designed to be collated into a small field size notebook. Additional field note sheets and a stratigraphic description sheet have also been created. Covers such as a pressboard data binder can be used to create a simple and flexible field notebook from these pages with unlimited flexibility.

EQUIPMENT

A. Developed In–house: Equipment not readily available or available for considerable cost are described with simple plans for construction.

  • Lake bottom flux monitor
  • Portable micrometeorological towers
  • Ring infiltrometer
  • Soil drying oven

B. Commercially Available: Use of specific company names and products does not constitute an endorsement of the product. These are given as examples used for many field seasons with reliable performance.

  • Barometer/altimeter (Kestral)
  • Laptop computer
  • Data logger (Campbell Scientific 10X)
  • Distance tape measure
  • Electric tape
  • Flow meter (Marsh-McBriney Model 2000 flow meter)
  • Mini piezometer
  • pH test strips
  • Specific conductance meter
  • Thermometer
  • Tree corers
facilities at iugfs

The Judson Mead Geologic Field Station of Indiana University is in the Tobacco Root Mountains, 40 miles southeast of Butte, Montana, and 65 miles west of Bozeman.

The heart of the Field Station is the Charles F. Deiss Lodge, the focus for meals, recreation, study, and evening work sessions.

The Willow Creek Watershed in the eastern Tobacco Root Mountains is an outdoor laboratory for teaching, research, and applied investigations.

EXERCISE MODULES

  • Acid mine drainage
  • Infiltration rates
  • Ground water contouring
  • Neotectonics and seismic risk assessment
  • Pump tests
  • Rapid bio-assessment
  • Slug tests
  • Watershed definition and characterization
  • Watershed budgets