Monitoring Algal Blooms with Landsat (OLI)
Andrew Fischer, university of tasmania
Algal blooms are caused by an aggregation of either microscopic phytoplankton or macro algae. They can produce toxic or harmful effects on humans and or the ecosystem. The purpose of this activity is to teach ...

Modeling a voltage divider
Michele McColgan, Siena College
This is a homework assignment in a course in electronics for sophomore-level physics students on the topic of voltage dividers. At the start of the semester, students receive a kit of electronic components ...

Modeling River Long Profiles
Andrew Darling, Colorado State University
This project or multi-lab activity is designed to teach students about modeling landscape change caused by rivers over large time and spatial scales (e.g., the incision of Grand Canyon). Basic working knowledge of ...

Population Dynamics: Bacterial Growth Curves Provide Data to Calculate Growth Rates and Carrying Capacity
Anne Walter, Saint Olaf College
Bacterial growth rates are monitored by OD and OD converted to cell population density from a standard curve derived from plate counts. The resulting data are used to fit a logistic model solved at discrete time ...

Choice of geophone layout in a simple near-surface seismics setting
Alain Plattner, California State University-Fresno
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Click to watch Alain Plattner discuss his activity or watch the full webinar.We use MATLAB functions ...

Modeling an Neuron Action Potential in Matlab
Marjorie Hubbard, North Carolina School of Science and Math
This lab activity is designed to teach students (1) to transform the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) membrane model into a programmable set of equations (2) To create a working membrane patch model in MATLAB using HH kinetics ...

Conservation Equation Model
Gregory Hancock, College of William and Mary
Numerical models are widely used to simulate systems ranging from climate to traffic jams, yet a high percentage of college-level students have little awareness of how they are constructed and their limitations. ...

The More The Merrier in The Math of Population Ecology
Victor Padron, Normandale Community College
This is a teaching module, directed to undergraduate students in applied mathematics, that derives a mathematical model of population ecology describing the role of dispersal in the survival of a population in ...

Using MATLAB to understand distributions: Pokémon GO
Benjamin Bratton, Vanderbilt University
This problem set will help teach students how to describe real world distributions. Data science skills that will be covered include measures of central tendency and spread, transformations of distributions, ...

Curve Fitting Exercise in MATLAB
Wendy Thomas, University of Washington-Seattle Campus
In this activity, students program using MATLAB to compare the fit of several models to an experimental data set. The activity is designed to teach students with limited MATLAB experience how to write code to fit ...