Team 23 West Texas

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Team 23 (West Texas)

• Penny Rainey Marcia Talkmitt
• Jeff Brazil Russ Russell

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The purpose of this project is to create and use
mathematical models to develop an understanding
of the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer.
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Module Content - Topic

• The depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer.
• The only water resource of the southern high
• plains of Texas.

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Module Content - Tools

• Excel
• Model the strata of the Aquifer
• Stella
• Model the flow input and output through the
  Aquifer
• Mathmatica
• Notebook for Physical Science fluid dynamics

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Module Content - Components

• Technology
• Create models
• Apply ideas
• Environmental Science
• Conservation

• Biology / Chemistry
• Water (Universal)
• Physics
• Fluid Dynamics
• Math
• Geometric relationships
• Statistics

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Timeline of Module

• Winter
• Construct basic models of the Aquifer
• Spring
• Research and statistical analysis
• Proposed conservation plans
• Summer
• Apply plans to model

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Team 23 (West Texas)

• Penny Rainey Marcia Talkmitt
• Jeff Brazil Russ Russell