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Status Update: GWB @ Clemson. (Progress Update Since Dec. Annual Report) Data collection in watershed and analysis of data is ongoing Installed a new weather station at the site that will collect additional data for improved evaporation estimates in the dry season
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Status Update: GWB @ Clemson (Progress Update Since Dec. Annual Report) • Data collection in watershed and analysis of data is ongoing • Installed a new weather station at the site that will collect additional data for improved evaporation estimates in the dry season • Developed a new inversion package for EM1DFM (GIF, UBC) that allows for a small number of layers with moving boundaries to improve aquifer imaging • Currently identifying locations for drilling new wells, FES is interviewing drillers • Trip being planned for FES staff (Chiranjit Guha, head geologist) to observe Clemson’s field camp in June to assist in developing formal field training plan for NGOs/students in India (tentatively scheduled for Dec/Jan) • Student Sudershan Gangrade (student intern in 2009) joins the project, will pursue MS research at Clemson on EMI responses in soils. To spend June-August working with farmers in Salri • Scheduling next field trip for Matz/Moysey in August with focus on working with farmers on dry-season irrigation program, drilling, and pumping tests (final trip is tentatively planned for Dec/Jan to follow up with farmers and close project) • Matz presents paper “Evaluating a water balance model for small dams using field data collected in rural India” at 2010 Clemson Hydrogeology Symposium • Moysey submits invited abstract “The importance of stakeholders in community-based geophysics programs” for SEG Annual Meeting • Matz tentatively scheduled to graduate in August, 2010 (thesis in progress)