Groundwater Research Within the Estancia Basin, New Mexico

A013 GROUNDWATER RESEARCH WITHIN THE ESTANCIA BASIN NEW MEXICO Introduction and Background 1 The Colorado School of Mines Geophysics Summer Field Camp (GPGN 486) is a required course for the Mines undergraduates; however this unique opportunity to apply course theory with practical academic investigation has also attracted graduate students and students visiting from other schools for more than 50 years. Traditionally the course has been taught in Colorado and consists of a week of geologic mapping two weeks of geophysical data acquisition and a week of data processing with interpreting before a final presentation. In the fall of 2002 the