The hydrogeology curriculum is supported by various teaching/research labs, field equipment, and an experimental well-field used in teaching methods of aquifer characterization.

The well-field is located on the Main Campus of Kent State University, close to the University Stadium Arena. It consists of three production wells equipped with submersible pumps, and five 2"-diameter observation wells completed in two different aquifers. Two of the production wells are completed in a semiconfined bedrock sandstone aquifer found under the glacial till formations, while the third production well is completed in a phreatic aquifer of the glacial sediments.

The labs include a number of desk-top computers and mainframe terminals, with an unlimited access to the departmental network, Internet, GeoRef and Library Reference Catalog, University IBM 3090/200S mainframe, VAX 780 and Hewlett-Packard 360's and to the Cray supercomputer.

The field equipment includes water bailers and samplers, portable well-pump, ground water flow meter, kits for various chemical analyses, truck-mounted drill rig, rock drill and soil augers, gamma-ray logger, resistivity units, and other geophysical equipment, e.g.: magnetometer, spinner magnetometer, gravimeter, seismographs, VLF electromagnetic system, magnetic susceptibility system.

The geochemical labs include ICP plasma spectrometer, AA graphite furnace spectrophotometer, total organic carbon analyzer, colorimetric spectrophotometers, liquid ion chromatograph, scanning electron microscope, atomic-force microscope with tapping-mode capability, scanning tunneling microscope, energy dispersive X-ray unit with powder and single crystal cameras, fluorescence microscopy system, luminoscope, X-radiography unit, gamma-ray spectrometer, automated temperature-controlled potentiostat, sedigraph, etc. Other instrumentation include: slope meter, compression/tension tester, soil direct shear tester, Los Angeles abrasion machine, seismic analyzer, acoustic emission system.