Outreach module — Flooding risk in low-lying landscapes

I have put together an outreach module that describes some of the risks of flooding in low-lying landscapes. The module runs in Matlab, either within a licensed environment, or with the Matlab Runtime Environment (which is available to anyone).

Accompanying the GUI is a worksheet that steps through all the aspects of the GUI and attempts to demonstrate the principles of flooding in deltas without detailing the math or physics behind the model. My hope is that it will be helpful to High School educators in their course work.

So far, I have only written a worksheet targeted at 9-12th graders, but plan to write two more (one for younger students, and one for more advanced undergraduate/graduate students) worksheets in the near future.

Below is a demonstration of the GUI. The full information for the module (including the source code) is on my GitHub here. The project website is here.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No.145068 and NSF EAR-1427177. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.