New Year 2011

Happy New Year, Good Luck and Success!

The year 2010 has just left following by the year 2011. Still, there're something new to be considered and also something old to be continued. This year, I spent my special time alone in the room and busy with Internet for the full night.

On the other hand, I've been here for almost three months, where I have to be only for 3 years to complete a rigid research work for my dissertation. During the passing month, I did mostly on revision (papers and report) concerning the research area. Therefore, there're still many thing to do in term of reading or revision to seek for appropriate research methodology to conduct this research. I have proposed and prepared a tentative research topic "The Impact of Rapid Urbanization to Hydrogeological System in Siem Reap, Ancient City of Cambodia". Accordingly, three main objectives have be determined:

• Understanding groundwater flow systems
• Modeling the solute transport (from landfill area)
• Producing groundwater vulnerability map

For these designed objectives, it is basically depend on some tools of computer applications. Therefore, I've intended to applying FEFlow and ArcGIS for simulating and visualizing the research. The modeling will be adapted for the first two objectives where Finite Element Method (FEM) would be chosen corresponding to FEFlow program. Consequently, it is essential to have good ability in code writing in transforming from conceptual model to mathematical model and inteprert it into computer language. Up to now, my basic understanding in mathematical formulas and algorithm is very poor. Need to be study more!!!!!!!!!

Moreover, the groundwater vulnerability is also a hot issue to be studied in Siem Reap in case this city have been mostly relying on groundwater resources as main source for the water suply. The idea of this research is to identify the zone of vulnerable groundwater contamination. Hence, some methods (such as DRASTIC) will be needed combining with some tools (in this case ArcGIS) to produce valuable map. As reason, selecting appropriate method and deep understanding ArcGIS are needed to achieve the third objective.

New year, new idea and perception, still there're something to continue and be considerably finished!

Happy New Year, good luck and success!