Baylor Geosciences Hosts Girl Scouts

Baylor Geosciences hosted 13 girl scouts ranging in age from 2^nd to 8^th grade on Saturday, September 27^th .  We focused on two areas of geoscience: oceanography and river processes with our wave tank, coral reef tank, stream table model and topographic maps. Oceanography activities included measuring wave properties and observing types of breakers, identifying ocean organisms and their ecologies in reef tank and in hand sample, and investigating water chemistry of the reef tank.  Our stream table model allowed students to observe and predict river migration, identify areas of erosion and deposition on meander bends, and predict safe locations in the river valley for home construction.  In conjunction with local and regional topographic maps, students identified stream elevations and flow direction the location of floodplains. Graduate students Bhooma Parthasarathy, Will Rizza, April Cerami, and undergraduate Sara Vladisavljevich assisted.