UE CHOIX 2-2

This course focuses on natural mineral waters and thermal waters, whose specific characteristics make them special resources in terms of exploitation, management and protection of their deposits. Students will be trained in the specific technical and regulatory/health aspects of exploiting these resources, notably through presentations by industry professionals and a visit to an exploitation site. They will also be made aware of the management and protection of this type of aquifer, so as 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 enable students to acquire the skills needed to collect hydrometric data (in the broadest sense) in the field and apply them to different types of case study, in order to carry out an engineering/research project in hydrogeology.

This UE is divided into two parts:

• A first week entirely in the field in the Pyrénées Orientales department;
• A second week was spent in the classroom, processing, analyzing and interpreting the data acquired in the field.

During the^1st week, the first 3 days are devoted to acquiring the various technical skills in hydrometry (in the broadest sense) in situ, so that the students can then become "project managers" during the last 2 days, when they will work on a case study to be solved by project groups. They will then be assigned to 2 experimental sites, where the projects to be carried out will be defined. The subjects will be presented in greater detail at the beginning of the course, so that the groups can propose an experimental protocol to be carried out in situ, enabling them to solve their problem. The supervisory team will validate the proposed protocols the day before the experiments begin.

During the^2nd week, the students will go through the data acquired on their field-project, and will share out the various analyses and interpretations of this data in order to propose a presentation and a report integrating and synthesizing all these results, which will serve to evaluate their work.

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