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Calendar for Fall Quarter, 2009
Note: New material is being
added and updated each week. Dates and specific topics are subject to change.
The PPT lectures are saved here as pdf files to make them accessible to all computers. Clicking on the lectures will download them to your desktop. These lectures are provided for study only. Images and graphics used come from the instructor, as well as several other sources and should not be used for other purposes without permission of the appropriate author. Most computers come with Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, but if you don't have it you can download it for free here.
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Week
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Monday |
Wednesday | Friday |
Weekly ppts |
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1 |
Introduction What are hazards, disasters and catastrophes? |
Science, Politics and Society Risk Assessment |
Scientific Method Plate Tectonics - the root of hazards from below |
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2
9/28 |
Plate Tectonics Faults and How Earthquakes Work |
Measuring Quakes - Magnitude and Intensity | Locating Quakes - Intraplate Quakes and the Pacific NW | Tectonics (see link above) |
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3
10/5 |
No Class
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Earthquake Hazards (including Tsunami) | Psycology of Disasters Guest Speaker: Helen Taylor, BC Psychology |
Tsunami (see next week's ppt) Psycology of disasters (Helen Taylor) |
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4
10/12 |
Earthquake Forecasting | Earthquake Preparation | Exam 1 | Tsunami (cont.) |
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5
10/19 |
Magma, Rocks and Volcanic Eruptions | Volcanic Eruptions and their products Home Earthquake Hazard Assesment Due |
Volcanic Hazards (including video) |
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6
10/26 |
Volcanic Hazards and Volcano Types Supervolcanoes - Video |
Volcanic Monitoring and Mitigation Washington Volcanoes |
Rampaging Monsters, Mythology and Natural Disasters - A Special Lecture for Halloween |
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7
11/2 |
Hydrologic Cycle & the Science of Floods
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2009 Green River/Howard Hansen Dam Flooding Guest Speaker: Carol Dunn - King County Emergency Services Meet in Libary Media Center (L126) |
Flood Hazards and Mitigation
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Rivers, Watersheds and Surface Runoff Flood Effects and Mitigation (including lecture continued on Monday 11/9) |
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8
11/9 |
Flood Mitigation Tornados Windstorms and Extreme Weather in the Pacific NW Guest Speaker: Kent Short - BC Meteorology
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No Class
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Exam 2 |
Extreme Weather in the PNW (Kent Short) |
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9
11/16 |
The Atmosphere - the source of aereal distruction Hurricane Science |
Flu Pandemics: Past and Present Guest Speaker: Jeff Novack - BC Microbiology Hurricanes, Coastal Impacts and Aftermath of Disasters |
Hurricanes, Coastal Impacts and Aftermath of Disasters |
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10
11/23 |
Hurricane Effects and Mitigation |
Mass Wasting - Why Hillslopes Fail |
No Class Thanksgiving Holiday |
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11
11/30 |
Mass Wasting Mitigation |
Mass Extinctions & Impacts and Near Earth Objects |
Climate Change and the Future |
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12
12/7 |
Final Exam 11:30-1:20 |
Geology 106 Homepage / Science Division / Bellevue College Home Page
Monday, November 9, 2009