Water and people in a changing world Theme 2: population dynamics WAT-E2090; Spring 2017 https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/view.php?id=15015

Content Revision of the first week Thematic lecture: global population Group work Introduction to Individual project work Break 15min Hands-on training (U351 – opposite to last week’s session) Wrap up & intro to home assignment

Practicalities All the information and assignments are in MyCourses Questions, suggestions, worries?

Within the first week… We explored the distribution of global water resources in terms of precipitation and runoff Precipitation is easy to understand, but what does runoff really mean? Discuss in pairs / group of three: What was interesting? What was unclear? Was the home assignment too easy or too difficult; if, why?

Today’s theme… [click image to access to prezi presentation]

Project work Each student has selected a large river basin OR another geographical area make a small research project related to the themes of the course Individual project work, but supported by a peer-group Partly build on home assignments Need to presented to the peer-group Kick-off now…

Select area / river basin Selection open still at MyCourses If you want to change, still possible within one week from now

Research project You define your own research questions, with the help of us You can use the work from home assignments Aim to make a coherent story with nice illustrations on the topic(s) covered within the course Help and support: within Thursday workshops, after lectures, individual appointment (agree by email) 23.5 Presentations of the project (3 hrs / group)

Workload & grading

NEXT: hands-on training Today’s theme: population dynamic from year 1800 to 2050 … type of data: NetCDF – widely used data for raster data with multiple timesteps … analyses: timestep and zonal analysis with Matlab … graphs: bar and scatter plots … illustration: how to enhance vector graphics with Illustrator?

Contact information: matti.kummu@aalto.fi matias.heino@aalto.fi https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/view.php?id=15015