GIS in Water Resources, Fall 2002, Term Project Presentations

Water Quality ─ Tues Nov 19

 Final Report Linked?

Cindy Lancaster	Erosion patterns in Austin streams	Yes
Qianru Zeng	Geochemistry of Austin streams	No
Beatriz Garcia-Fresca	Potential Recharge to Groundwater from Mains Leakage in Austin	Yes
Tony Vessa	BASINS: Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources	Yes
Britt Kepple	Nutrient pollution in the Indian River watershed, Florida	Yes
Blaine Linkous	Effluent discharge into the Kanawa River, West Virginia	Yes
Samantha Hon	Impaired surface water segments in Texas	Yes
Masatsugu Takamatsu	Lib Hydro Modeling in Arc Hydro	Yes

Water Resources ─ Thurs Nov 21

 Final Report Linked?

Jose Guerena	Water resources of Hermosillo, Sonora, México	Yes
Pamela Kearfott	Water for Senegal	Yes
Marla Knebl	Snow Characteristics Over Alaska	Yes
Jennifer Sorenson	The Red River Flood of 1997 in Grand Forks, North Dakota	Yes
Meghan Strand	Depth-Duration-Frequency Maps for Texas	Yes
Sergio Martinez	Maximum daily precipitation for Aguascalientes, México	Yes
Larry Teng	Drainage analysis using DEM’s from different sources	Yes
Pierre Gueudet	LIDAR and flood mapping in Brownsville and Matamoros	Yes
Dan Obenour	Developing an Arc Hydro Dataset	Yes

Marine and Coastal Systems ─ Tues Nov 26

 Final Report Linked?

Kelly Fellows	Seagrass conservation in Texas coastal waters	Yes
Meg Fencil	Modeling Dispersal and Predator-Prey Interactions of Invasive Species	Yes
Kathryn Benson	Winyah Bay, South Carolina, Under Two Different Flow Conditions	Yes
Anna Kunkel	Suspended sediments in South San Francisco Bay	Yes
Zsuzsanna Iwanicka	Evaluating nitrogen and phosphorus land surface loads for the Nueces Bay	Yes
Haiyan Yang	Beachfront development at Jamaica Beach, Galveston Bay	Yes
Elizabeth Reining	GPS Measurement of the Shoreline of Lake Travis	Yes
Kiersten Madden	Weddell World: Dive paths of Weddell seals	Yes

Geology and Groundwater ─ Tues Dec 3

 Final Report Linked?

Marcus Gary	Hydrogeology of the Zacatón Cave system, Mexico	Yes
Suzanne Pierce	Groundwater Resources in the Cuatrocienegas Basin, Coahuila, Mexico	Yes
Lloyd Hemphill	Characterization of the groundwater resources of the Leona Aquifer	Yes
Katie Kier	Groundwater resources of the Queen City Aquifer	Yes
Elizabeth Roller	Radiogenic Isotopic Analysis of Late to Post Tectonic Granites in the Llano Uplift, Central Texas	Yes
Brook Riley	GIS-based documentation of Late Cretaceous-Paleogene magmatism in southeastern Arizona	Yes
Jamey Jones	The Precambrian record of Southern Colorado	Yes
Michael Boyce	Direction of Lava Flows on a Volcano on Venus (see “Report”)	Yes

Spatial Analysis ─ Thurs Dec 5

 Final Report Linked?

Jayanthi Rajamani	Siting Obnoxious Facilities using a GIS-DSS	Yes
Pithon Vithayasricharoen	Database Development for Load Zones in Texas	Yes
Anna Okala	Spatial analysis of neighborhood accessibility	Yes
Uarporn Nopmongcol	Plume rise modeling during forest fires	Yes
Brian Carrico	Topographic Analysis of City of Austin Parks	Yes

Presentation Suggestions

• You must have your material presented on Powerpoint slides.
• Make sure each slide has a title prominently displayed.
• I need to have your file sent to me via email, posted on your web site (and notify me by email), or delivered on a diskette or zip disk to my office in ECJ 8.612 by 11AM on the day of the class in which you are presenting so that your slides can be set up on the course web site. You can bring a diskette or zip disk with your files on it to class as a backup but do not assume that you can just show up to class at the last minute with your slides and get them loaded then onto the class computer. It just takes too much time to get things organized if we do that.
• You will have 8 minutes for your talk and you must not go over time or you will be cut off
• Don’t spend too much time on the introduction, one or two slides is enough and then get to the heart of what you want to say
• Think of the one concept or image or idea that you want your audience to take away from your talk and arrange all your material around that
• There is not time to say everything important, only what is most important
• Use pictures and diagrams wherever possible, they are more effective than words on slides
• For slides with just words on them
• Have a maximum of five bulleted points, four is better than five.
• For each bulleted point, have a maximum of 10 words, preferably 5 or 6 words, less is better than more
• Highlight in color the one or two key words in each bulleted phrase
• Its ok, especially for the presentations made before Thanksgiving, to say that this is a “work in progress”.
• The final term paper in html must be posted on your web page by 5PM on Friday 6 December.
• Its ok to be nervous, it means you are focused!
• Good luck!! I’m sure your talk will be great!