Guest Scientist: Dr. Arthur Lerner Lam | Nov 2000 November 11, 2000 Welcome/Introduction to “Natural Disasters” PowerPoint Presentation and HTML version This presentation introduces today’s topic and gives examples of what can be done in the classroom....
SPECIAL NOTE: MAYA IS ONE OF THE FEATURED SCIENTISTS IN THE NEW 3-D IMAX FILM “ALIENS OF THE DEEP.” FOR MORE INFORMATION:http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/aliensofthedeep/ We were also joined by Dr. Jon Rice, who spent much of the summer of 2004 as...
Originally presented 27 Oct 2012) Dr. Heather Savage studies earthquake and fault mechanisms with special interest in earthquake triggering and fault damage zones. Understanding the stress on faults during slips is essential to developing a full mechanical model...
Originally presented 10 Mar 2012 Most of the volcanic eruptions that occur on earth are located far from view, on the bottom of the ocean, where seafloor spreading occurs, along a vast mountain chain known as the Mid-Ocean Ridge. Due to the extreme difficulty of...
Originally presented 20 Nov 2004 Guest Scientists: Art Lerner-Lam and Steve Goldstein 2004 has been an exciting year for seismologists, volcanologists, geophysicists, and Earth Science teachers and students! The same week at the end of September and beginning of...
with Suzanne Straub Oct 24, 2020Supported by NSF EAR 19-21624 Susanne’s slide showIntroductory slide show Magmas that are rich in silica- and volatiles (H2O, CO2, S) produce the most explosive eruptions on Earth. Most of these magmas erupt in volcanic arcs, which are...
19 Dec 2020 Suzanne Straub The logarithmic volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of explosive volcanic eruptions is measured on a scale 0 to 7. While smaller eruptions like the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980 (VEI ~5.0) rarely affect the global climate, the VEI = 7...
with Dr. Susanne StraubSupported by NSF Grant EAR 18-36032 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1836032&HistoricalAwards=false Earth is a dynamic planet that became and remained habitable through continuous exchange of materials between the Earth’s...
“Glacier Dynamics and Changes in Ice Flow”with Meredith Nettles Originally presented 22 Apr 2012 What really happens at the bottom of a glacier as it flows toward the sea? Meredith Nettles’s research focuses on tomographic imaging of the Earth’s upper mantle and...