1. Water and people in a changing world
Theme 2: population dynamics
WAT-E2090; Spring 2017

2. Content
Revision of the first week Thematic lecture: global population Group work Introduction to Individual project work Break 15min Hands-on training (U351 – opposite to last week’s session) Wrap up & intro to home assignment

3. Practicalities
All the information and assignments are in MyCourses Questions, suggestions, worries?

4. Within the first week…
We explored the distribution of global water resources in terms of precipitation and runoff
Precipitation is easy to understand, but what does runoff really mean?
Discuss in pairs / group of three:
What was interesting?
What was unclear?
Was the home assignment too easy or too difficult; if, why?

5. Today’s theme…
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6. Project work
Each student has selected a large river basin OR another geographical area
make a small research project related to the themes of the course
Individual project work, but supported by a peer-group
Partly build on home assignments
Need to presented to the peer-group
Kick-off now…

7. Select area / river basin
Selection open still at MyCourses
If you want to change, still possible within one week from now

8. Research project
You define your own research questions, with the help of us
You can use the work from home assignments
Aim to make a coherent story with nice illustrations on the topic(s) covered within the course
Help and support: within Thursday workshops, after lectures, individual appointment (agree by )
23.5 Presentations of the project (3 hrs / group)

9. Workload & grading

10. NEXT: hands-on training
Today’s theme: population dynamic from year to 2050
… type of data: NetCDF – widely used data for raster data with multiple timesteps
… analyses: timestep and zonal analysis with Matlab
… graphs: bar and scatter plots
… illustration: how to enhance vector graphics with Illustrator?

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