Geological Disaster Prevention fall 2005

Reading Assignments       PowerPoint Instructions       Poster Instructions

  Undergrad Evaluation Forms
Guest Lecturers     Graduate PowerPoint presentations      Graduate Posters

week

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

29-Aug

Introduction to Geohazards

Jon Procter
NZ Volcanic Hazard

Breakout groups: Hurricane Katrina
video

5-Sep

Labor Day

no classes

Earthquakes

Breakout groups: Hurricane Katrina
Set goals and assignments

12-Sep

Dr. Michel Bruneau    Earthquakes and Structures

Volcanic Hazards I

USGS Hazards

PP Presentations:
Earthquake Case Studies
(Laity, Shaffer, Dosen)

19-Sep

Volcanic Hazards II
Case Studies


PP Presentations:

Volcano Case Studies
(Bardo, Hanson, Makey)                             

Brett Burkett

Volcanic Debris Avalanche Hazards

26-Sep

Brett Burkett

Landslide Hazards
Michele Shular (Library)
Montserrat  Video

PP Presentations:

Tsunami Cae Studies
(Allen, Warren, McClarren)

3-Oct

Debris Flows

PP Presentations:        
 Debris flows/Landslides
(Williams, Krueger, Black)

10-Oct

River Floods I

River Floods II

 Breakout Groups - Hurricane Katrina
Plan presentations;
Submit Progress Reports

17-Oct

Tsunami

PP Presentations:
Severe Storms
 (Somerville, Meyn, Lougen)

Dr. Chris Renschler
Modeling erosion following forest fires

24-Oct

Becky Williams          Cotopaxi lahars at Latacunga

Adam Stinton                        Field mapping exercise
at Ellicott Creek
Free time for addition field mapping, data plotting and analysis outside of class

31-Oct

Yucca Mountain HLRW  1
Problem Introduction
Probability I

Yucca Mountain HLRW 2
Probability II
PVHA 1996

Posters: Earthquakes
(McClarren, Hanson, Williams)

7-Nov

Dr. Ernest Sternberg     Planning for Disasters
Yucca Mountain HLRW  3 Tectonics
Posters: Volcanoes
(Shaffer, Black, Krueger)

14-Nov

Group 1-3 Presentations: Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina
Group 4, Group 5, Group 6 

Dr. Jason Briner
Hazards from Global Climate Change

21-Nov

Dr. Paul Reitan
Mega Disasters

Thanksgiving Recess
no classes    

Thanksgiving Recess
no classes

28-Nov
Posters: Severe Storms
(Bardo, Allen, Laity)
Ellicot Map Report Due
 Group 3 PPT Katrina
Yucca Mountain HLR W  4 Dikes and Conduits
Posters: Landslides
(Meyn, Makey, Somerville)
Katrina Report Due

-Dec

 Yucca Mountain HLRW 5

Yucca Mountain HLRW Debate
Posters: Coastal Erosion
(Lougen, Warren, Dosen)
Undergrad Katrina paper due

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