Dr. Lensyl Urbano

Groundwater/surface water interactions in the Mississippi Embayment

• Can systematic variations in groundwater discharge along the length of a stream affect stream geomorphology and landscape evolution?

Global warming and fresh groundwater resources of small islands

• How much of an effect will sea-level rise and climatic change due to global warming have on the rate of salt-water intrusion beneath small islands?

Groundwater age dating and the origin of freshwater in the southwestern Murray Basin,  Australia

• Can paleo-hydrologic models of groundwater flow and aging help explain the presence of fresh groundwater in the arid Murray basin.

Groundwater and lacustrine paleoclimatic records

• Do fluctuations in the groundwater system bias lacrustrine deposition in arid climates?

Variable density groundwater flow model with solute transport and free surface

• Adapting the model SECO_FL3D for solute transport, groundwater age dating, and variable density flow.

Effect of tsunami inundation on saltwater intrusion on small islands

• Model investigation of the potential effects of saltwater seepage from tsunami inundation on small islands
  

Chertman

• A model to simulate the composition of lithic raw material assemblages from paleolithic archeological sites using a random agent.

Interactive 3d Models

• Creating and adapting interactive, 3d models for the visualization of Earth Science concepts.

MovieClassroom

• A website that permits students and faculty to create Earth Science themed movies.
  

Lenticular clouds over Okivinuk Lake, Alaska, USA

Geog 1010 - Weather and Climate

• Geography 1010 is the study of atmospheric processes and the geographic distribution of radiation, moisture, pressure, and circulation interacting to create weather systems and storms; ocean influences, sun-earth relationships, global climate patterns; human interaction with the atmosphere.

• Useful 3d (VPython) models of Earth science demonstrations
  

Geog 1020 - Landforms and surface processes

• Geography 1020 is the study of agents and processes of landform development, and of the origin, nature, and distribution of specific types of landforms on earth, including those formed by tectonic and volcanic activity, running water, moving ice, wind, waves, and ocean currents.

Geol 4/6211 - Physical Hydrogeology

• An introduction to the physics of groundwater flow and transport.

Geog 4/6211 - Climatology

Geol 7010 - Introduction to Modeling in the Earth Sciences

• Only accessible from the U of Memphis campus
  

1) 3d VPython models for Earth science demonstrations

1. Coriolis	2. Seasons	3. Atmospheric stability
4. Phase changes in water	5. Crystal vibrations with temperature	6. Gas temperature and radiation wavelengths

• Includes student multimedia presentations.

2) Weather Log

Website (written in PHP) that allows students keep a daily log of the weather.

• Software: weatherlog.zip
  
• Website  -   (try it yourself)
  

3) The MovieClassroom

• Website (written in PHP) for the creation of captioned movies that can be displayed in a standard web browser.
• Now accessable from anywhere.