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You can choose any research problem or applied problem as a project topic that to address requires you to do spatial analysis and put the skills you developed in WATS 4930/6920 to task. Most graduate students choose a topic related to their own research, but some use this assignment as an excuse to tackle something specifically not part of their research. Undergraduates sometimes have their own ideas for projects they bring to the table and pursue, but often choose from a list of ‘canned topics’ that evolves each year. Any student is welcome to propose their own topic or choose from options below, in which we pair you up with an adviser who helps you.

This year’s ‘canned’ topics include (list will grow):

• Prioritizing eroding bluffs for stabilization, Minnesota River Basin - Peter Wilcock promises lots of personal attention in helping you with this project.

• City of Logan, GIS-Based Story Maps - Talk to Joe Wheaton and Chuck Shaw. Multiple options:

• • City Building Information (e.g. where to go for specific services)
  • Trail Information
  • Parks Information
  • Golf Course Information (e.g. visual representation of each hole)
  • Local points of interest information, including hotels and restaurants

• Riparian Condition Modelling in Watersheds of Columbia River Basin - Contact Joe Wheaton & **Wally Macfarlane

• River Styles of the Logan River Watershed for Logan River Task Force - Contact Joe Wheaton & Gary O’Brien

• Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT) simulations of selected Watersheds and/or States in Western US - Contact Joe Wheaton & Wally Macfarlane

• Fluvial Geomorphology Research - Contact Patrick Belmont

• Develop an Atlas of park resources along Yampa & Green Rivers in Dinosaur National Park - Contact Joe Wheaton & **Wally Macfarlane

• Build map-back bone to a statewide Citizen Science Beaver Monitoring Program run by USU Extension - Contact Joe Wheaton & Wally Macfarlane

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