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, how we approach and conduct it in the field executing procedures and how we synthesize the subsurface.

Soil classifications and sediment descriptions are procedural, and they are the easy part. Lithology alone is not geology. And while "hydrostratigraphy" has merit for regional investigations using some large data sets of well drillers logs, differentiating aquifers (coarse-grained deposits) from aquitards (fine-grained deposits) on a site-specific basis is erroneous because it does not reveal lateral and vertical subsurface geologic relationships, leaving critical uncertainties (chances are, you know this already). The challenge is synthesizing the subsurface geology by deciphering depositional environments, and then translating the sedimentary sequence and relationships onto our soil boring logs.

Recognizing depositional processes can be daunting, but add in erosional contacts and secondary weathering impacts and it's no wonder our industry has struggled to create reliable soil boring logs that reveal the geology and subsurface relationships. Although the regional geology provides a basis for the general stratigraphic framework, there's no universal model that we can apply to unravel site-specific subsurface complexities and whether we are willing to admit it or not, there's no short cut merely using mapping tools or mapping methods.

The 12 field strategies taught in this training give us a path to understand sedimentary sequences and subsurface relationships at different sites. Participants are empowered with a spectrum of strategies that fit their particular site and project.

There's too much at stake to risk substandard remediation results when our sites deserve more than just procedural soil descriptions. Learn to read the story the sediments are telling so you can begin Taking the Mystery Out of the Subsurface ®.

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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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