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1. 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...

2. 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...

3. 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...

4. 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

5. 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...

6. Natural Hazards Tephra Fallout Lab

   04 Mar 2011 | | 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...

7. Alaska Volcanoes Guidebook for Teachers

   02 Mar 2011 | | 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...

8. Bubbles in Magmas

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

   Chuck ConnorPeter LaFeminaC. Connor, P. LaFemina, Spreadsheets across the Curriculum: The Physical Volcanology Collection.

9. AshFall: A graduate course in volcanology with substantial meteorological content

   26 Jan 2011 | | 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...