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Pacaya Volcano Resource Information for volcano scientists
17 Oct 2012 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This is an attempt at providing fundamental information for scientists considering field experiments and observations at an active volcano with strombolian activity. It has a list of published work on Pacaya and a basic visual intro of the site. The user might be able to get an impression about...
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Tephra Impact Lab - Taupo Volcano
06 Dec 2011 | Contributor(s): Tom Wilson, Leah Michelle Courtland
This lab requires students to produce a pre-eruption tephra risk assessment for Taupo volcano, using Tephra2. It requires students to consider the eruptive history of Taupo volcano and a volcanic unrest scenario is provided, so that students must decide what magnitude and style of eruption is...
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Volcanic Hazard
21 Oct 2011 | Contributor(s): Michael Sheridan, Jorge Valentin Bajo
This is the introductory volcanology course lectures taught at UB in the 1990 to 2006 by MF Sheridan.LecturesVolcanic Hazards .pdfApplication of Titan2D .pdfCasita Disaster 1988 .pdfEvaluating Hazards for People and Property Located Near Active Volcanoes .pdfManagaing Volcanic Hazards in Latin...
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GVP Frequently Asked Questions
30 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Ed Venzke
http://www.volcano.si.edu/education/questions/What is a volcano?What is an eruption?How many active volcanoes are there in the world?What is the world's highest volcano?How long does an eruption last?Has volcanic activity been increasing?Why doesn't the Smithsonian post hazard alert levels for...
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Gigapan of Santa Ana Volcano
30 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Bettina Martinez-Hackert, Elisabeth Gallant
This is a gigapan image of the crater. gigapan Dr. Bettina Martinez-Hackert, Krista Ventura
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Stromboli online
29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Roberto Carniel
Stromboli online - Volcanoes of the World http://stromboli.net The primary goal of Stromboli online website is to enrich and stimulate the teaching of Earth Sciences by presenting images, movies, data, virtual field trips and other educational material in relation to volcanoes.Although there is...
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Titan2D Viewer
26 Jun 2011 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma
A viewer of the simulation results saved by Titan2D
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Tutorial for using Titan2D on VHub
25 Jun 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Sylvain Charbonnier
During this tutorial, we will go through a stock example and (1) learn how to enter the different input parameters for running a Titan2D simulation on Vhub, (2) run the simulation and (3) visualize the results using the freely available Paraview software.
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DEM converter for Titan2D
15 Apr 2011 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma
Convert a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) in ASCII format to a Titan2D readable format
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Mapping a 49 year old eruption of a basaltic cone: Pacaya Guatemala
27 Apr 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This presentation summarizes the 50 year eruption and the 3 dimensional map produced. The map, prepared as part of an MS thesis by Ruben Otoniel Matias Gomez, is under review as a Map and Chart Series publication by the GSA. The lecture summarizes the situation at Pacaya, and uses Matias' map as...
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GeoProMT v1.0 - Geospatial Project Management Tool
26 Apr 2011 | *Data Sets/Collections | Contributor(s): Chris S Renschler, Fernando Rios, Graham S Hayes, Jorge Valentin Bajo, Thomas W. Slomka, Michael Sheridan
The Geospatial Project Management Tool (GeoProMT) is a web-based tool for management of shared geo-spatial and multi-temporal data such as GIS data and remotely sensed images. Integral to the GeoProMT framework is role-based access control (RBAC), where data access permissions and data users are...
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Natural Hazards Tephra Fallout Lab
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...
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Alaska Volcanoes Guidebook for Teachers
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...
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Bubbles in Magmas
22 Feb 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Chuck B Connor, Leah Michelle Courtland
Chuck ConnorPeter LaFeminaC. Connor, P. LaFemina, Spreadsheets across the Curriculum: The Physical Volcanology Collection.
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eject model
01 Feb 2011 | Offline Tools | Contributor(s): Larry Garver Mastin
Eject is a user-friendly model that calculates the trajectories of blocks that are ballistically ejected from volcanic craters. It has also been used to calculate ballistic trajectories of other objects in other other settings, including missiles and bullets.Details are at:The attached zip...
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Titan2d user manual (spanish)
28 Jan 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Michael Sheridan
This is a translation of the Titan2D user manual by Teresita del Pilar Argoty.
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AshFall: A graduate course in volcanology with substantial meteorological content
26 Jan 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): William I Rose
Michigan Tech's AshFall course by William I. Rose.This series of lectures was put together in 2009 as the lecture part of a graduate level course which students did some evaluations of ashfall models, comparing their results with actual ashfall deposits, including the Grain size distributions...
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TITAN2D References
22 Jan 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Sarah Elizabeth Ogburn
Contains a list of references about TITAN2D, specifically a list of volcanoes and types of flows for which it has been used.
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PASI: Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America
11 Jan 2011 | Workshops | Contributor(s): William I Rose, Jose Luis Palma
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~raman/PASI2011The Open Vent Volcanoes PASI in Costa Rica gathered 60 scientists from 13 countries to build scientific networking in the transdisciplinary field of volcanology in January 2011. The accelerating application of field measurements and remote sensing to...
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TITAN2D User Guide, Release 2.0, 2007
07 Jan 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Abani Patra, E Bruce Pitman
This is a user guide for TITAN2D, Mass Flow Simulation Tool, created by the Geophysical Mass Flow Group (GMFG), University at Buffalo. Although this user guide describes the use of Titan2D via a python-built graphical user interface (GUI) that runs on linux machines (release 2.0, July 2007), this...