course brochure - Politecnico di Torino

is a senior scientist in the
Geohydrology Section of the
Kansas Geological Survey
at the University of Kansas,
where he has worked since
1986.
Dr. Butler also serves as an
associate of the KU Center for
East Asian Studies and as a courtesy professor in
the KU Department of Geology. He has previously
held visiting scientist positions in the Center of
Applied Geoscience at the University of Tubingen
(Germany) and in the Geohydrology Department of
Sandia National Laboratory. Butler has also been a
graduate researcher in the Institute of Geology of the
State Seismological Bureau in Beijing, China.
Butler earned a B.S. in geology from the College of
William and Mary, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in applied
hydrogeology from Stanford University. His research
interests include the development of field methods
for site characterization and the assessment of
hydrologic processes in stream-aquifer systems.
Butler is the author of the book The Design,
Performance, and Analysis of Slug Tests, as well as
numerous scientific papers on various aspects of
applied hydrogeology. In 2007 he was appointed the
Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer by the National
Ground Water Association. He has served as an
associate editor for Water Resources Research and
the Journal of Hydrology, and is currently serving on
the editorial board of Ground Water.
Rajandrea Sethi
is Associate Professor at
DIATI, Politecnico di Torino. His research activities
deal with the characterization of groundwater
systems, the modelling of flow and transport in
aquifer systems, and the design of groundwater
remediation projects.
He is involved in the
monitoring of MOSE Project to protect Venice
Lagoon from high tides and is the coordinator of a
research unit in the framework of the EU funded
project AQUAREHAB on the use of nanoscale iron
for groundwater remediation.
Registration
RECENT ADVANCES IN
HYDRAULIC
CHARACTERIZATION
OF POROUS MEDIA:
FROM CONCEPTS
TO THE FIELD
The course has no admission fee, however students
are requested to register, as a maximum number of
50 participants will be accepted.
Ph.D. students from Politecnico should register via
Portale della Didattica of Scudo. External students
can register by sending an email to:
•Tiziana Tosco
DIATI – Politecnico di Torino
C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino – Italy
E-mail: [email protected]
•Francesca Messina
DIATI – Politecnico di Torino
C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino – Italy
E-mail: [email protected]
All lectures will be given in English.
Further information can be found at:
http://www.polito.it/groundwater/corsi/butler.html
James Butler
(University of Kansas)
&
Rajandrea Sethi
Course location
The course will be hold at the Politecnico’s
Multifunction Centre at LINGOTTO, Via Nizza 230,
10126, Torino.
The course location is connected with Porta Nuova
and Porta Susa Train Station with the underground
(take the tube line METRO towards LINGOTTO and
get out at the stop LINGOTTO).
(DIATI – Politecnico di Torino)
Graduate School in Natural and Built Environment
&
DIATI – Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Ambiente, del
Tettirotio e delle Infreastrutture
Politecnico di Torino
James J. Butler, Jr.,
DIATI
An excellence course
coordinated by
Politecnico di Torino
Lecturers: J. J. Butler, R. Sethi
Torino - March 27-30, 2012
Course Program
Tuesday 27th March 2012
Room AULA MAGNA LINGOTTO
9.30-10.00
Registration
10.00-13.00
The Pumping Test
Lunch break
14.30-17.30
The Slug Test
Wednesday 28th March 2012
Room AULA MAGNA LINGOTTO
8.30–10.00
Introduction to HighResolution Characterization
Methods
10.00–13.00
The New Generation of
High-Resolution
Characterization Methods I
Lunch break
14.30–16.00
Direct-Push Characterization
Methods
Thursday 29th March 2012
Room AULA MAGNA LINGOTTO
8.30–13.00
The New Generation of
High-Resolution
Characterization Methods II
Lunch break
14.30–16.00
Characterization via Passive
Monitoring of Water Levels
Friday 30th March 2012
Room 208 LINGOTTO
8:30–13:00
Pumping Tests - Some
Recent Advances
The Pumping Test (Butler)
Introductory overview. The key elements of test
design. Identification of governing mechanisms:
diagnostic plots and derivative methods. The
impact of the real world. Aquifer heterogeneities
(how much can we learn about it?). Better
utilizing of recovery data. Field examples.
The Slug Test (Butler)
Introductory overview. The key elements of test
design and performance. The realities of the
field. Additional complications: highly permeable
aquifers and aquitards. New analysis strategies.
Field examples.
High-Resolution Characterization
Methods (Butler)
Introduction. The state of the practice: multilevel slug tests, flowmeter surveys, dipole flow
tests and other methods. Some critical
limitations. A way forward.
•The New Generation of High-Resolution
Characterization Methods I
•The New Generation of High-Resolution
Characterization Methods II
The New Generation of High-Resolution
Characterization Methods I (Butler)
Direct-Push Characterization Methods
Introduction to Direct-Push methods. Conepenetrometer and electrical-conductivity
profiling: overview and field examples.
Direct-Push Slug Tests: overview, initiation
methods, linear well losses - the “Hydraulic
Conductivity” of the well, field examples.
Direct-Push Injection Logging: overview,
discontinuous profiling, continuous profiling (the
upper bound and field examples), estimation of
K.
Direct-Push Permeameter: overview, the
theoretical advantages, the impact of highly
stratified formations, the realities of the field, field
demonstrations in Kansas and Germany.
The New Generation of High-Resolution
Characterization Methods II (Butler)
Direct-Push Characterization Methods - HighResolution K (HRK) Tool: overview, tool
integration, estimation of K, MADE site field
demonstration, the tool of the future.
Hydraulic Tomography: overview, key issues,
GEMS field demonstration, Worth the Effort?
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: overview, from
porosity to K, GEMS field demonstration
Characterization via Passive Monitoring of
Water Levels (Butler)
Exploiting water-level responses to Natural Stimuli
Fluctuations in Barometric Pressure: introductory,
overview, the barometric response function, getting
more from the water-level response (assessment
of well construction characteristics, aquitard
characterization), Western Kansas examples.
Other Natural Stimuli: stream-stage fluctuations,
evapotranspirative consumption of groundwater,
Western Kansas examples.
Pumping Tests - Some Recent Advances
(Butler and Sethi)
Dual-Well Step tests. Introduction. Simultaneous
determination of well and aquifer parameters in a
single test.
Application of pumping-test analysis methods to
passive monitoring data: introductory overview,
Western Kansas Examples.