Week 7: Lake Bathymetry

Also this week

• Midterm 1 is next week, on Weeks 1–7: read the study guide now — opens Tuesday of Week 8 at 8:00 am.

Presentation Slides

• Tuesday — Lake Bathymetry, Part A — A lake with no outlet: the Great Salt Lake's level as its water balance, how lake bottoms are measured, the USGS lake-bottom DEM, two vertical datums, and elevation-area-volume curves.
• Thursday — Lake Bathymetry, Part B — One model, many runs: ModelBuilder iterators, %Value% in expressions and output names, Collect Values and Merge, and Lab 6 — Lake Depth Explorer at Lake Powell.

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In-Class Practice

• Read the USGS Lake Table (Excel) (graded, 5 points) — done in class Tuesday; upload the workbook by 9:30 am, fifteen minutes after class.
• Three Lake Levels (graded, 5 points) — done in class Thursday; upload a screen capture by 9:30 am, fifteen minutes after class.

Self-check quizzes — not graded; open them on a phone or laptop as often as you like:

• Lake Bathymetry — Five questions on a terminal lake's level, measuring the bottom, vertical datums, and what one foot of level does to area.
• Lake Depth Explorer — Five questions on iterators, %Value% in expressions and output names, collecting a loop's outputs, and the Lake Powell datum trap.

Lab Assignment

Lab 6 — Lake Depth Explorer

Due Saturday at 11:59 pm as one PDF report on Learning Suite — 50 points.

Reading Quiz

No reading quiz this week.

Note

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