Memos
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 21 January 2011
Week 1: Jan 3 - Jan 7
- Learned the outline of the course, our groups, and traveling information
- Everyone in the group agreed on working on their biographies
- A group meeting hasn't been set up yet
To Do:
- Work on website and biographies
- Contact Xiomara (RD contact)
- Set up a group meeting
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 21 January 2011
Week 2: Jan 10 - Jan 14
- Website finished
- Biographies finished and translated
- Contacted Xiomara and introduced ourselves
To Do:
- Work on making the website more complete
- Set up a group meeting
- Gather data
Click to download pdf file of Memo 2
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 31 January 2011
Week 3: Jan 17 - Jan 21
- Received data from Xiomara
- First meeting with Dr. Nelson (assigned to be every Thursday at 1:30pm)
- Spreadsheets finished for starting working on GIS
- We were assigned to be in charge of the t-shirt design
To Do:
- Start on GIS
- Work on report
Click to download pdf file of Memo 3
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 31 January 2011
Week 4: Jan 24 - Jan 28
- Started working with GIS
- Wrote questions to Xiomara about the data she sent us for better understanding. These are the questions we asked.
- Que significa CE? conductividad electrica? cierto?
- Que significa NE?
- Que significa NP?
- Como las coordenadas globales se relaciones a las coordinadas de cada punto tomando en los pozos (me refiero a los puntos X, Y, Z)?
- Queremos saber que coordenadas son las coordenadas zero. Asi de esa manera podemos poner la informacion en un mapa.
- Necesitamos saber si la profundidad en los datos tomados fueron tomados desde la superficie si fueron tomados desde el nivel de agua subterranea.
- Necesitamos saber tambien cuales fueron las fechas en que se tomaron las profundidades del agua y las del CE.
- Queremos saber si la informacion en los datos de calidad en cuanto al CE son un promedio de muchas tomas o son una toma?
- Queremos tambien preguntarte si tienes mas informacion. De esa manera se podria asumir mucho menos en las calculaciones
- Tienes informacion del bombeo de agua? Al saber eso tambien se puede estimar cuanta sal puede introducirse.
To Do:
- Work on report
- Decide the best way to manage the data
Click to download pdf file of Memo 4
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 2 March 2011
Week 5: Jan 31 - Feb 4
- Finished Scope of Work
- Class presentation
- Started planning for video conference
To Do:
- Video Conference with Dominican Republic
- Prioritize questions and presentation
Click to download pdf file of Memo 5
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 2 March 2011
Week 6: Feb 7 - Feb 11
- Made presentation for video conference
- Asked questions in video cnoference
- Received new data
To Do:
- Revise data
- Delineate watershed
Click to download pdf file of Memo 6
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 2 March 2011
Week 7: Feb 14 - Feb 18
- Delineated watershed in WMS
- Will use watershed to determine boundaries in GMS
To Do:
- Start putting together a groundwater model
- Set up boundaries for GMS
Click to download pdf file of Memo 7
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 2 March 2011
Week 8: Feb 21 - Feb 25
- Looked through new data to see what we had
- Imported DEM and soil type shape file into GMS
- Coordinates for flow stations from google maps
To Do:
- Set up a conceptual model
- Finalize T-shirt plans
Click to download pdf file of Memo 8
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 2 March 2011
Week 9: Feb 28 - Mar 4
- Enter elevations and head for rivers
- Set up polygons for recharge and horizontal conductivity
- Turned conceptual model into a MODFLOW model
- Ran MODFLOW and developed head contours
To Do:
- Import observation data for wells
- Find coordinates for flow stations
- Figure out tutorials and what information to present to Xiomara
Click to download pdf file of Memo 9
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 10 March 2011
Week 10: Mar 7 - Mar 11
- Started preparing our model for SEAWAT
- Outlined what information we wanted to teach Xiomara on GMS and Archydro in GIS
- Started working on tutorial for GMS
To Do:
- Run our model in SEAWAT
- Create tutorial on how to organize information and use Archydro
- Create a tutorial on how to create models in GMA, limitations of models, and what information would make the models more effective
Click to download pdf file of Memo 10
To: Dr. Jim Nelson
From: GW1 Team
Date: 19 March 2011
Week 11: Mar 14 - Mar 18
- Wrote tutorial for GMS
- Wrote tutorial for ArcHydro in ArcGIS
- Started translating tutorials to Spanish
To Do:
- Go to the Dominican Republic
- Talk with Xiomara and Jenni and find out what part of our project will be most useful for them
- Help Xiomara and Jenni become proficient in software that can help them in their job
Click to download pdf file of Memo 11
Zacatecas
- Santa Elena (Karsten, Ed, Jared)
- Guadalupe (Erik, Robert, Ashley, Shar)
- Camino Real (Suzie, Keelan, Rebecca)
- El Carmen (John, Yub, Sklyer)
- La Luz (Ryan, Brad, Lisa, Elizabeth)