Training Premise

Soil boring logs are only useful when they are accurate and complete. We geoscientists appreciate it when soil boring logs provide meaningful geologic information while helping to achieve our project objectives. But the fundamentals for translating the story the sediments are telling onto soil boring logs remain a challenge.

This training begins with the steps to (1) classify soil according to the USCS and (2) make sediment descriptions that are accurate and complete. The training experience also includes field strategies for (3) building the stratigraphic framework, (4) creating soil borings that reveal the sedimentary sequence, and (5) unraveling hydrogeologic complexities.

We foster a holistic hydrogeologic approach that not only considers the nature of depositional processes, but also post-depositional alterations such as weathering. This paradigm enables a powerful perspective which helps professionals create soil boring logs that relate to any sedimentary sequence and apply to any type of subsurface project.

Designed Specifically for You

We design each training event specifically for the audience using a pre-course questionnaire. Each participant gets the chance to provide input and goals. Plus, management also gets a pre-course survey to help us ensure company objectives are met and that the training maximizes effectiveness.

What Do You Learn?

The strength of this training experience is the process we teach for changing how we think about the subsurface and how we approach it in the field to execute procedures and synthesize the subsurface.

Soil classifications and sediment descriptions are procedural, and they are the easy part. Lithology alone is not geology. The challenge is synthesizing the subsurface, deciphering depositional environments, and then translating the sedimentary sequence onto our soil boring logs.

Once we understand HOW the sediments were deposited, WHY they were deposited, and WHAT the resulting site stratigraphy tells us, then we are on the way to understanding subsurface relationships and Taking the Mystery Out of the Subsurface.

The field procedures we teach allow us to (1) speak the same technical language, (2) perform with consistency, (3) improve accuracy, (4) measure QA/QC and (5) develop our own efficiencies.

What is the difference between the online version and the in-person version of
Taking the Mystery Out of the Subsurface?    find out here

Training Logistics and Pricing

The training experience is one day from 9:00AM to 5:00PM. We ask for a 5-week lead time. Some Saturdays work for training.

Instruction is provided solely by Dan Kelleher, co-founder of Midwest GeoSciences Group. An option for your staff to lead a discussion is available too.

Your responsibility is to provide a classroom, food, and projection set up. A mic is generally not necessary for training <15 people. We provide a course notebook, soil samples, exercises, tutorials, and supporting supplies. A certificate is generated for each participant by Midwest GeoSciences Group.

Price: $7,700.00 USD.

Discounted Price: $4,800.00, first come, first served.

When you schedule the training on the dates and locations below, you're eligible to get discounted pricing. Or if two sessions can be scheduled in the same week and same proximity (<100 miles apart); call for status. Phone: 763.607.0092.

Maximum Attendance: 15 staff
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What You Get

We bring established and effective training in the form of lectures, exercises, and tutorials to you. Also included:

• Course Notebook for each participant, printed black and white.
  • 50+ pages summarizing procedures and strategies
  • 100+ pages of selected PPT course module slides
  • Appendices of examples, resources, and tutorial activities
    
    
• USCS Calibrated Baseline Soil Kit with Tutorial (one per course)
  
  
• Exercise Handouts
  • Hand-On Exercise Sheets for Soil Classification Practice
  • Written Exercise Materials for Soil Classification vs. Stratigraphy Session
  • Exercise Sheets: The Merits and Mis-Use of Hydrostratigraphy
  • Tutorial Materials for Soil Boring Log Practice
  • Tutorial Materials for Sedimentary Structure Recognition Practice
  • Field Guide for Soil and Stratigraphic Analysis ^©
    
    
• Lists of Resources (based on pre-course survey)
  
  
• Subsurface Investigation Field Evaluation Sheet
  
  
• Final Exam
  
  
• Course Completion Certificate
  
  
• Follow Up Coaching
  
  

Optional Add Ons

(1)
Second Day Field Component.
There are many variables that impact the ability to add a second day of training staff in the field. Call for pricing: 763.607.0092

(2)
Color Notebook.
Notebooks are printed in black and white with high-resolution. B/W notebook printing is standard in order to keep the training price as low as possible. However color notebooks allow participants to appreciate the effects of soil color and secondary alterations from weathering zones that are depicted throughout the notebook.
Color Notebook Printing: $89.00 each.

We help people's career blossom and watch how projects and businesses grow from our training experiences. It's our privilege to serve you. Thank you for this privilege to contribute to your company and staff success.

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