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Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching Materials:Activities
Emad Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The module offers background content on the fundamentals of remote sensing, but also integrates a set of existing online tools for visualization and analysis of satellite observations. Specifically, students are ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Problem Set
Subject: Engineering, Geoscience, Environmental Science
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Modeling River Long Profiles part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
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 ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience, Geology, Geology:Geomorphology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review
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Put out the Fire! Exploring the Effects of Fire-Fighting Foams on Microorganisms using Statistics and Plots part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Tess Weathers, Chabot College, Engineering
Objective Analyze a subset of data from a published research paper using MATLAB. This will focus on data manipulation in MATLAB, including reading in text files, for, if, and while statements, statistics, and plot ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Engineering, Biology, Environmental Science
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Procrustes Skull Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Emily Dosmar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyze the distribution of a set of shapes. The goal of this assignment is to compare different skull types to a reference skull to determine ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Engineering, Biology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Calculating and using Unit Hydrograph using Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Negin Hayatbini, University of California-Irvine; Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
We are using the concept of Unit Hydrograph to understand the behavior of a watershed following a rain event and to calculate the runoff following any rainfall event.

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14), General Public, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Engineering, Environmental Science, Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Physico-chemical Oceanographic data analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Most Israt Jahan Mili, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
This activity is a part of the course that can be used for either physical oceanography (CTD data profiling) or chemical oceanography lab exercise. This is included with the real-time field sampling data that was ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

The rate of change in porosity as a result of mineral precipitation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
Aida Farough
In this activity we calculate the rate of change in porosity resulting from mineral precipitation at hydrothermal conditions. Key words: hydraulic properties, water rock interactions, porosity, mineral ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Geophysics:Computer Modeling, Geoscience:Hydrology, Geoscience, Geology:Geophysics

Computational Course for Geology Majors - Seismology Component Outline part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Clark Wilson, The University of Texas at Austin
Lecture and programming assignment topics for a new lower division computation course for Geology majors. Proposed seismology component, to last several weeks in a semester-long course.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology

Creating Modules for Health Sciences in a Precalculus Course part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Ahlam Tannouri, Morgan State University
Goal: development of a set a modules intended to introduce Data Science in a precalculus course mainly for Health Science.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Chemistry, Engineering, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Health Sciences, Biology