Building bridges between field and laboratory studies in an undergraduate groundwater course

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-236

  Noll, Mark R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Field based; Hydrogeology; Laboratory

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; TEACHING;

EID: 0038638431     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-51.2.231     Document Type: Article

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