Nebraska Water (map/poster)

Nebraska Water (map/poster)

The Eleventh Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics January 30–February 1, 2009 POSTER ABSTRACTS

Streamflow Depletion Investigations in the Republican River Basin: Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas

Water is a critical resource in the Great Plains. This study examines the changes in long-term mean annual streamflow in the Republican River basin. In the past decades this basin, shared by three states, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, displayed decreased streamflow volumes as the river enters Kansas across the Nebraska-Kansas border compared to values preceding the 1950s. A recent lawsuit fil...

Cyanobacteria, The Nebraska Experience

N agencies and public health organizations collaboratively addressed cyanobacteria issues for the first time after two dogs died within hours of drinking water from a small private lake south of Omaha on May 4, 2004. A water sample and a necropsy revealed that the dog deaths were due to high concentrations of the cyanobacteria toxin Microcystin LR. Meetings were held between the Nebraska Depart...

Concept Maps and Knowledge Building Discourse: a User Interface Prototypes for the next Generation Learning Tools

This paper presents an idea of a poster with an interactive installation. The aim of the poster is to open discussion about the possibilities to combine the principles of concept map and knowledge building discourse techniques in a way that will benefit meaningful learning. The poster will include four design proposals and prototypes with the possibility to try out how a combination of concept ...