As part of the college’s attempts to serve its community, the Physics Department organized a training course entitled “ Exploring Underground Water” on Monday, 09/08/1437 at the Hall of Ceremonies in collaboration with the Deanship of Community Service and Continuing Education. The workshop was presented by Dr. Mahmoud Jaballah Abdul-Mawjood, Assistant professor at the Physics Department, and the target audience included the Department of Agriculture, the Underground Unit and the Municipality of Hawtet Sedeir. This course aimed at the introduction of ways of exploring underground water using satellite images and field geophysical measurements, and it centered on the following elements: • Introduction to underground water. • Types of water-bearing permeable rocks. • Types of underground reserves. • Satellite and Remote Sensing Images. • Near Surface Geophysical Measurements. • Open discussion The course began with explanation of the distribution of water ratio on the earth surface, then the presenter elaborated on the different types of water-bearing permeable rocks and underground water reserves throughout the Kingdom such as the main reserves of Wajid, Sack, Tabouk, Mingour, Darma and Jouf in addition to the secondary reserves of Hufuf, sakaka and Jouf. Several power point slides showing the satellite images of drainage basins and topography with the water current in addition to the thermal data satellite and radar images were subsequently presented. Also, samples of field measurements using geophysical methods were demonstrated. These methods included: • Electric resistivity method. • Domain electromagnetic method.
