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Quake Prevention Beats Quake Relief | TIME.com
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The 100 Most Influential People. Person of the Year 2015. Top of the World. A Year In Space. Your California Privacy Rights. The Money We Give to Quake Victims Could Be Better Spent Before Disaster Hits. When an earthquake strikes a poor country, the international community is quick to send aid. But some of that money would do more good before disaster hits. Sept 06, 2013. The 2010 quake in Chile caused damage, but relatively few deaths. When a massive earthquake strikes like the 2010 Haiti. Disaster str...
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Double warning time for volcanic lahars | The Pale Blue Dot
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The Pale Blue Dot. Curriculum Vitae / Resume. My Research and Publications. Double warning time for volcanic lahars. August 10, 2015. Real-time rainfall data can be used to potentially double warning times for rain-triggered lahars on the slopes of Tungurahua Volcano, compared existing ground-based detection methods. A recent Tungurahua eruption at night. Source: Dr. Carlos Costales Terán, Wikimedia Commons. The city of Baños lies approximately 8 km north of the summit of the volcano and is a very popula...
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Review: The world without us | The Pale Blue Dot
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The Pale Blue Dot. Curriculum Vitae / Resume. My Research and Publications. Review: The world without us. August 9, 2015. What would happen to the world if every single human being disappeared right now? How would mother nature respond and will Homo sapien leave a lasting legacy on the earth? Alan Weisman entertains this grand thought experiment with scientific rigour and beautifully elegant prose in. The World Without Us. In a nutshell human extinction, maybe unsurprisingly, will be good for the planet.
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Sustainable development using earthquake resistant bamboo houses | The Pale Blue Dot
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The Pale Blue Dot. Curriculum Vitae / Resume. My Research and Publications. Sustainable development using earthquake resistant bamboo houses. July 19, 2015. By Dalmeet Singh Chawla. Governments should pay more attention to the role that bamboo and rattan. Can play in building more sustainable and greener economies, a pressure group has told a UN meeting. In New York, United States earlier this month. Modern bamboo houses are more flexible in an earthquake, as they flex and absorb some of the energy.
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Science Communication | The Pale Blue Dot
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The Pale Blue Dot. Curriculum Vitae / Resume. My Research and Publications. I believe that we as scientists have a responsibility to communicate our science to non-scientists. I also believe that we need to inspire and enthuse young people to become more curious about science and the world around them. To this end, I run outreach activities focused on tectonics and building stability during earthquakes. I have also volunteered my time to teach children about fossils, rocks and Earth history. RocSoc, Univ...
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Book review | The Pale Blue Dot
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The Pale Blue Dot. Curriculum Vitae / Resume. My Research and Publications. Category Archives: Book review. Review: Krakatoa – The day the world exploded. September 20, 2015. In 1883 the Indonesian island volcano of Krakatoa erupted in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions ever witnessed by man. The eruption vaporised the island and its inhabitants, created a tsunami and resulted in over 36,000 deaths. Krakatoa: The day the world exploded. T H Lindeman, Captain of. What I love about this book is tha...
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Quote: Professor Roger Bilham | The Pale Blue Dot
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The Pale Blue Dot. Curriculum Vitae / Resume. My Research and Publications. Quote: Professor Roger Bilham. August 14, 2015. 8220;The mitigation of earthquake risk requires the knowledge of hazards to be delivered to the people that need it! Double warning time for volcanic lahars. The public misunderstanding of the geological subsurface. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new posts via email.
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Will we lose our crops to climate change? | The Pale Blue Dot
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The Pale Blue Dot. Curriculum Vitae / Resume. My Research and Publications. Will we lose our crops to climate change? July 22, 2015. With the World’s population now past 7 billion and projected to increase to 9 billion by 2050, stress on the food production system is at an all time high. To make matters worse it appears that our crop yields may fall victim to the effects of climate change. Crop yields to drop by 25 percent towards the second half of the century. The study shows that we will see, on avera...
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Agriculture | The Pale Blue Dot
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The Pale Blue Dot. Curriculum Vitae / Resume. My Research and Publications. Food insecurity follows floods in Sri Lanka. August 30, 2016. Food shortages brought on by extreme weather events have resulted in almost a quarter of Sri Lanka’s 21 million people becoming malnourished, says a World Food Programme (WFP) document. The increased frequency of natural disasters. Such as drought and flash floods further compounds food. And nutrition insecurity, says the document. Population lives in poverty. After th...
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Science Communication | The Pale Blue Dot
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The Pale Blue Dot. Curriculum Vitae / Resume. My Research and Publications. Category Archives: Science Communication. The public misunderstanding of the geological subsurface. August 17, 2015. This is really really important and relevant to all areas of natural and environmental hazards. Professor Iain Stewart goes over some of the problems in science communication and the public misunderstanding of the geological subsurface. 8220;We need to find a way to connect people to the subsurface.”. Is Professor ...
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