Exercise for Background for Article

You have approximately 1 hour to put together a 7-slide presentation on one of the topics below, which all deal with the Lower Mississippi River. The seven slides should incorporate the following:

Title slide
Background
Thesis statement
3 main points
Conclusions

Each of you will have one of the following topics:

Historical geology of the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico.
Flood routing in the Lower Mississippi River, including the Old River Control Structure and the Bonnet Carre Spillway.
Nutrients, eutrophication, and the Dead Zone: Following the process from start to finish.
Wetlands and wetland loss on the Lower Mississippi River.
Industry in South Louisiana: Is it really Cancer Alley? What are the concerns?
Ports in South Louisiana: Characteristics and importance.
Lake Pontchartrain, an estuary: Why is it important? Metals in the Lower Mississippi River: Processes and concerns.
What is the field of geostatistics? variogram?

The article is [here.] Read it and come to class with two questions about it.