{"id":8,"date":"2019-10-18T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:42:03","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Foldable Aquifer Project.&nbsp; Please feel free to explore, download, and build these paper aquifer models.&nbsp; Let us know how you are using them.&nbsp; We are always interested in improving our tools to help people conceptualize and quantify groundwater flow.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\nBasics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/10\/27\/example-foldable-aquifer-model\/\">Example Aquifer &#8211; The basics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/porosity-and-grain-packing\/\">Porosity and Grain Packing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/groundwater-storage\/\">Groundwater Storage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hydraulic Head<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2020\/02\/21\/hydraulic-head-across-aquifers-easy\/\">Hydraulic Head Across Aquifers<\/a> (Easy)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/hydraulic-head-across-aquifers\/\">Hydraulic Head Across Aquifers<\/a> (Hard)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/three-point-problem\/\">Three Point Problem<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Darcy&#8217;s Law<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/darcy-columns\/\">Darcy Columns<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/average-linear-velocity-of-groundwater\/\">Average Linear Velocity of Groundwater<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/darcys-law-and-radial-coordinates\/\">Darcy\u2019s Law and Radial Coordinates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/groundwater-flow-between-wells\/\">Groundwater Flow Between Wells<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hydraulic Conductivity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/heterogeneity-and-wells\/\">Heterogeneity and Wells<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/effective-hydraulic-conductivity-the-basics\/\">Effective Hydraulic Conductivity: The basics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/classic-transmissivity-problem\/\">Classic Transmissivity Problem<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Well Hydraulics <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/quantifying-hydraulic-conductivity-slug-test\/\">Quantifying Hydraulic Conductivity: Slug Test<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/steady-state-pumping-thiem-equation\/\">Steady State Pumping: Thiem Equation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/pumping-near-a-constant-head-boundary\/\">Pumping near a constant head boundary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/pumping-near-a-no-flow-boundary\/\">Pumping near a no flow boundary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/image-well-and-max-pumping-rate\/\">Image well and max pumping rate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/impact-on-wetland-from-groundwater-withdrawal\/\">Impact on wetland from groundwater withdrawal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>*I am working on posting solutions to the above problems.  If you would like to access these solutions please feel free to e-mail me and I can send you the password to the solutions pages.  As I have stated before, this is a bit of a &#8220;side show&#8221;, which I am working on nights and weekends.  It is going to take me some time to get all solutions posted.  Thanks for your patience,   &#8211; Chris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>**In the process of working on this project we have become aware of several other paper folding geology project that are really cool.  You can check them out on the links below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fault-analysis-group.ucd.ie\/papermodels\/papermodels.htm\">Structural Geology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/caves\/karst-topography-model.htm\">Karst Topography Paper Model<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/media\/files\/3d-paper-models-0\">USGS Paper Models<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in seeing how these paper models have been used in the classroom you can check out a paper written by some of our current users: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fenvs.2022.876853\/full\">Groundwater origami: Folding paper models to visualize groundwater flow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc\/4.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This work is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Foldable Aquifer Project.&nbsp; Please feel free to explore, download, and build these paper aquifer models.&nbsp; Let us know how you are using them.&nbsp; We are always interested in improving our tools to help people conceptualize and quantify groundwater flow. 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