EU CHOICE 2-2

This EU focuses on natural mineral waters and thermal waters, whose specific characteristics make them unique resources in terms of exploitation, management, and protection of their deposits. Students will thus be trained in the specific technical and regulatory/health aspects governing the exploitation of these resources, in particular through presentations by professionals in the sector and a visit to an exploitation site. They will also learn about the management and protection of this type of aquifer so that they can 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 unit should enable students to acquire the skills necessary for collecting hydrometric data (in the broad sense) in the field and to know how to apply them to different types of case studies, in order to carry out an engineering/research project in hydrogeology.

This EU takes place in two stages:

• A first week spent entirely in the field in the Pyrénées-Orientales department;
• A second week spent indoors, reviewing, analyzing, and interpreting the data collected in the field.

During the^first week, the first three days are devoted to acquiring various technical skills in hydrometry (in the broad sense) in situ, so that students can then take charge during the last two days, when they will work on a case study to be solved by project group. They will then be divided between two experimental sites where the projects will be carried out. The topics will be presented in more detail at the beginning of the course so that the pre-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 proposed protocols the day before the experiments begin.

During the^second week, students will analyze the data they have collected on their field project and divide up the various analyses and interpretations of this data in order to produce a presentation and report integrating and summarizing all these results, which will be used to evaluate their work.

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