EU CHOICE 2-2

This course focuses on natural mineral waters and thermal waters whose specificities and characteristics make them particular resources in terms of exploitation, management and protection of their deposits. The students will be trained to the technical and regulatory/health aspects specific to the exploitation of these resources, in particular thanks to the interventions of professionals of the sector and to the visit of an exploitation site. They will also be made aware of the management and protection of this type of aquifer in order to be able to propose study protocols to be implemented in situ to characterize and protect these resources and thus acquire hydrogeological expertise for this type of aquifer.

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This course is designed to provide students with the necessary skills to collect hydrometric data (in the broadest sense) in the field and to apply them to different types of case studies in order to conduct an engineering/research project in hydrogeology.

This EU is divided into two parts:

• A first week entirely realized on the field in the department of Pyrenees Orientales;
• A second week in the classroom, in order to analyze and interpret the data acquired in the field.

During the^first week, the first 3 days are devoted to the acquisition of various technical skills in hydrometry (in the broad sense) in situ, so that the students are then "project managers" during the last 2 days during which they will work on a case study to be solved by project groups. They will then be divided on 2 experimental sites on which the projects to be carried out will be declined. The subjects will be presented in more detail at the beginning of the course so that the previously defined groups can propose an experimental protocol to be carried out in situ, enabling them to solve their problem. The supervisory team will validate the envisaged protocols the day before the experiments start.

During the^second week, the students will analyze their data acquired on their field-project, and will share the different analyses and interpretations of these data in order to propose a presentation and a report integrating and synthesizing all these results, which will be used to evaluate their work.

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