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Why forecasting eruptions is not enough: Exploring the complexities of volcanic risk management at Galeras volcano, Colombia

31 Mar 2011 | Contributor(s): Jacqui Rachel Wilmshurst

This is a presentation given by Dr. Jacqui Wilmshurst (University of Sheffield) in March 28, 2011, during her visit to the Center for Geohazards Studies at the University of Buffalo.To watch or download this presentation in movie format, click hereOutlineBackground to the Galeras...

Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program Database

25 Mar 2011 | Contributor(s): Paul Kimberly

For more than three decades the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) has compiled descriptions of both ongoing and past volcanism around the world in order to better understand the full range of Earth's eruptive activity, building its database the Volcano Reference File (VRF). To make...

This Dynamic Planet

16 Mar 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Paul Kimberly

This Dynamic Planet is a 1 x 1.5 m wall map accompanied by an interactive web version ( http://mineralsciences.si.edu/tdpmap/index.htm ). It is designed to show Earth's most prominent features when viewed from a distance, and more detailed features upon closer inspection. The back of the map...

PubVolc

14 Mar 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Sonja Mae Melander

http://www.pubvolc.net/ PubVolc provides a new way for all members of the volcanology community to share their published research. PubVolc is free and is available to anyone with access to the internet, allowing poorly-resourced volcanologists to keep up-to-date with the latest volcanology...

Eruption! A Volcanic Crisis Simulation

13 Mar 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Marcus I Bursik

www.dartmouth.edu/~renshaw/eruption/ Eruption! is a web-based simulation of a twenty-five day period of volcanic activity leading up to a volcanic crisis, a situation in which lives are endangered. The immediate goal of the simulation is to highlight the hazards associated with volcanic eruptions...

NASA Archive of Iceland Eyjafjallajokull Volcano Imagery

11 Mar 2011 | *Data Sets/Collections | Contributor(s): Matt Jones

Archive of NASA imagery for Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano, roughly from 2010-04-15 to 2010-05-26. http://science.larc.nasa.gov/asap/research-ash.html Text by Rob Gutro, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md

Tephra2: Student Version

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21 Feb 2011 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Leah Michelle Courtland, Chuck B Connor, Laura Connor, Costanza Bonadonna

The Tephra2 ash dispersion model run via a GUI designed for student use.

Natural Hazards Tephra Fallout Lab

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04 Mar 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Leah Michelle Courtland

This lab walks students through using the tephra2 education graphical user interface (gui) to investigate tephra fallout at Colima volcano. By the end of this lab, students should be able to:•understand that every volcanic event is different and so produces a unique deposit•convert from units of...

Alaska Volcanoes Guidebook for Teachers

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02 Mar 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Jennifer Nicole Adleman

USGS GIP 99 Alaska Volcanoes Guidebook for Teachers http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/99/ Alaska's volcanoes, like its abundant glaciers, charismatic wildlife, and wild expanses inspire and ignite scientific curiosity and generate an ever-growing source of questions for students in Alaska and throughout...

Website about the Montserrat volcano and its eruptions since 1995

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01 Mar 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Bob Thompson

This strictly educational website montserratvolcano.org is NOTHING AT ALL TO DO with the official website of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory. I started it in 2007/8 as somewhere the island residents could go to, if they wanted more detail, many more pictures and a much more "chatty" style of...

SciNews: A new resource for incorporating current events into the classroom

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28 Feb 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Erin Nicole DiMaggio

SciNews Website:http://sese.asu.edu/teacher-resources The purpose of SciNews is to provide middle and high school teachers timely, pre-packaged lessons on a science current event (such as an oil spill, earthquake, or shuttle launch) that are short (~15 min), easy to implement, and align to state...

The Chaiten eruption, Chile, May 2008: field observations.

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28 Feb 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): David Pyle

A short summary presentation of rapid-response fieldwork following the 2008 eruption of Chaiten, southern Chile. This short presentation was given in September 2009, and has been updated with appropriate citation to work published since then.F Alfano, C Bonadonna, ACM Volentik, CB Connor, SFL...

Abstracts from the UK community meeting on the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, April 2010.

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28 Feb 2011 | Miscellaneous | Contributor(s): David Pyle

This is the meeting abstract volume from a rapidly assembled UK community-wide meeting to discuss the Eyjafjallajökull eruption and its consequences. The meeting was supported by the UK National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO; Natural Hazards theme, http://comet.nerc.ac.uk) and the...

Surface Deformation

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22 Feb 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Chuck B Connor, Leah Michelle Courtland