EU CHOICE 2-2

This course focuses on natural mineral waters and thermal waters, whose unique properties and characteristics make them special resources in terms of the 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, particularly through presentations by industry professionals and a visit to an exploitation site. They will also gain an understanding of the management and protection of this type of aquifer so that they can propose field study protocols to characterize and protect these resources, thereby acquiring hydrogeological expertise specific to this type of aquifer.

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This course unit is designed to enable students to acquire the skills necessary for collecting hydrometric data (in the broadest sense) in the field and to apply those skills to various types of case studies, with the goal of carrying out an engineering or research project in hydrogeology.

This learning unit consists of two parts:

• A first week spent entirely in the field in the Pyrénées-Orientales department;
• A second week spent in the classroom, dedicated to compiling, 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 the field, so that students can then take the lead during the last two days, when they will work on a case study to be solved in project groups. They will then be divided among two experimental sites where the projects will be carried out. The topics will be presented in greater detail at the beginning of the internship so that the pre-defined groups can propose an experimental protocol to be conducted on-site, enabling them to solve their problem. The supervising team will approve the proposed protocols the day before the experiments begin.

During the^second week, students will analyze the data they collected during their fieldwork project and divide up the various analyses and interpretations of that data among themselves in order to prepare a presentation and a report that integrates and summarizes all of these results, which will be used to evaluate their work.

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