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Summary
Summary
For professors and students of natural hazards or courses in earthquakes and volcanoes, Edward A. Keller and Robert H. Blodgett's treatment of fundamental scientific concepts addresses societal interactions and Earth processes.
Author Notes
Edward A. Keller
Ed Keller is a professor, researcher, writer, and most importantly, mentor and teacher to undergraduate and graduate students. Currently, Dr. keller's students are working on earthquake hazards, how waves of sediment move through a river system following disturbance, and geologic controld on habitat to endangered southern steelhead trout. He was born and raised in California (Bachelor's degree in Geology and Mathematics from California State University at Fresno, Master's degree in Geology from University of California at Davis), it was while pursuing his Ph.D. in Geology from Purdue University in 1973 that Ed wrote the first edition of Environmental Geology , the text that became the foundation of the environmental geology curriculum. Ed joined the faculty of the University of California Santa Barbara in 1976 and has been there since, serving multiple times as the chair of both the Environmental Studies and Hydrologic Science programs. In that time he has been the author on over 100 articles, including seminal works on fluvial processes and tectonic geomorphology. Ed's academic honors include the Don J. Easterbrook Distinguished Scientist Award, Geological Society of America (2004), Quatercentenary Fellowship from Cambridge University, England (2000), two Outstanding Alumnus Awards from Purdue University (1994, 1996), A Distinguished Alumnus Award from California State University at Fresno (1998), the Outstanding Outreach Award from Southern California Earthquake Center (1999).
Ed and his wife Valery, who brings clarity to his writing, love walks on the beach at sunset and when the night herons guard moonlight sand at Arrroyo Burro Beach in Santa Barbara.
Robert H. Blodgett
Bob Blodgett is Professor of Geology at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, where he teaches natural hazards and disasters, environmental, physical, and historical geology, as well as environmental science, and manages the college's Edwards Aquifer monitoring well and is physical sciences safety coordinator. Bob has nearly 25 years of teaching experience, including positions on the faculties of Ohio State University and Dickinson College.
He is a Licensed Professional Geoscientist and worked for six years in the state of Texas Public Drinking Water Program leading a team of scientists evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water to contamination, and for two years at the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology conducting environmental assessments of abandoned mined lands. His research on terrestrial sedimentary processes resulted in published papers on braided streams, ancient soils, and fossil burrows.
Bob has practical experience planning for and responding to natural hazards. While in the Air Force he served as the disaster preparedness officer for the remote Indian Mountain Air Force Station in Alaska, and for the underground Cheyenne Mountain Command post of the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs.
He traces his interest in natural hazards back to Alma Petrini, his second grade teacher in Detroit, whose lesson on volcanoes and earthquakes came alive with stories and pictures of her trips to Paricutin and Pompeii, and to lava samples that Gordon Macdonald, then director of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, sent him for his class project. These experiences led to a life-long interest in geology including three degrees, a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an M.S. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Bob and his partner Jeff, who helps him focus on the important things in life, enjoy traveling, exploring new restaurants, and making a home with their dog Mona.
Table of Contents
First Draft Revised Outline for Natural Hazards 2e |
1 Introduction to Natural Hazards |
Case History Nevado del Ruiz, Columbia |
Importance Role of history |
Geologic cycles |
Five fundamental concepts |
Natural service functions |
Global change |
Case Study |
Human Population through History |
Case Study |
The Magnitude |
Frequency Concept |
2 Earthquakes |
Case History |
Earthquakes of Early 2001 |
Introduction and measurement Processes |
Ground motion |
Regions at risk Effects |
Linkages with other hazards volcanoes, landslides, liquefaction, tsunamis, subsidence, fire, disease |
Natural service functions |
Human interactions |
Forecasts, predictions, and warnings |
Mitigation Perception and adjustments |
Case Study |
Earthquakes in Canada (modified from existing Survivor Story) |
Case Study |
New Madrid, Missouri 1811-1812 |
Survivor Story |
Professional Profile |
Andrea Donnellan, Earthquake Forecaster |
3 Tsunamis |
Introduction |
Processes types of water waves, currents, seiches |
Regions at risk Effects |
Linkages with other hazards earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, impacts |
Natural service functions |
Human interactions |
Detection and warnings |
Mitigation Perception and adjustments |
Case Study |
Volcanic Landslides and Tsunamis |
Case Study |
Indonesian Tsunami of 2004 |
Case Study (one or two additional) 1700 |
Tsunami in Pacific Northwest, 1958 |
Tsunami in Lituya Bay, AK, or Mitigation and Preparedness in Japan |
Survivor Story |
Tsunami in the Lowest Country on Earth Professional |
Profile [a researcher (Kerry Sieh at Cal Tech or Jose Barrero at USC), a Pacific Tsunami |
Warning Center staff member, or an educator (Lori Dengler at Humboldt State)] |
4 Volcanoes |
Case History |
Mt. Unzem, 1991 |
Introduction types and features |
Regions at risk Effects |
Linkages with other hazards earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, climate change, fire, subsidence |
Natural service functions |
Human interactions |
Forecasts and warnings |
Mitigation Perception and adjustments |
Case Study |
Yellowstone Caldera Supervolcano |
Case Study |
Volcanic Ash and Aviation |
Professional Profile |
Chris Eisinger, Studying Active |
Volcanoes Survivor Story |
A Close Call with Mount St. Helens |
5 Flooding |
Case History replace with Mid-Atlantic States floods of 2006 |
Introduction rivers and fluvial processes |
Processes Regions at risk Effects |
Linkages with other hazards landslides, storms, glaciers, tsunamis, fire, climate change |
Natural service functions |
Human interactions |
Forecasts and warnings |
Mitigation Perception and adjustments |
Case Study |
Alluvial Fan |
Flooding on the Ventura River |
Case Study |
Magnitude and Frequency of Floods |
Case Study |
Flash Floods of Eastern Ohio |
Survivor Story |
Flash Flood |
Professional Profile (Ana Barros, Harvard or Eve Gruntfest at Colorado) |
6 Mass Wasting |
Case History |
Portuguese Bend, California |
Introduction types (falls, slides, flows) and processes |
Regions at risk Effects |
Linkages with other hazards earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, storms, flooding, fire |
Natural service functions |
Human interactions |
Forecasts and warnings |
Mitigation Perception and adjustments |
Case Study |
La Conchita: Southern California |
Landslide Disaster of 2005 |
Lessons Learned |
Case Study |
Snow Avalanche |
Forecasting and Control |
Survivor Story |
Landslide Professional Pr |